18Nov/097
[en] The things I hate about fronter
I keep having problems when I try to use my school's Virtual Learning System based on fronter, so I thought instead of getting pissed off all the time I might just write all my non likes in here. Maybe, a very distant maybe, some fronter developer stumbles upon them and decides they're worthy to take into consideration. So here I go:
- HTML Frames? Come on! Where am I? In the 90s?
- No "Remember my username and password" option? Why? You think I want to waste my fingers inputting my credentials? I have important things to type, like chat.
- Where's the unified search? Ok, I'll live without that. Where's the file search? None?! What do you think I'm doing in my spare time? Indexing my teachers' presentation documents and required reading?
- Can I haz calendar export for my calendar? No? Thank you, I loooove having to remember everything.
- News news news.... where's Google Reader? Shit, your RSS feeds don't work there, actually they don't work anywhere.
- Ok, I had this message from my teacher on the classroom wall, but that was a while ago. Where's the archive? No archive? Great, I'll just have to copy-paste everything all the time and keep my own archive.
- Class cancelled. Where's the warning email? No email.
Ahaaa... I have to go to school to find out or keep logging in all the time. - I forgot the date for the school party. Need to go to the news archive. Which is.... in wonderland. I wonder if Alice is on Facebook, maybe she can help....?!
- Browsing through the file archive .... shit, it's 7 pm already? Thank you fronter for making me wait for you to reload the page every time I click a folder on the explorer tab on the left!
- Java? Why do you require Java? You're not using it for anything? Let's all require things. I require some common sense from someone selling a VLE for $$, I want that VLE to work.
- Social social social... is dead. Fronter, why do you make it hard to socialize with other students in the school? Why can't I browse classes to find the girl from last Friday's party?
- I am having a presentation next week. Fronter can you help me send a message to the common student room? What do you mean you can't? There's no common student room? We shouldn't communicate with people out of our class, why? Fronter, don't you tell me to shut up, how'bout I shut up this Firefox tab. See ya', ain't gonna miss ya'!
Stay tuned. There will be more to come (unfortunately). In the meantime, what problems do you have with fronter?
November 19th, 2009 - 10:35
I think you need some more training as most of the above can be done, If of course you have sufficient access rights and privileges, which forms pary of the security to protect our children.
November 19th, 2009 - 10:36
I think you need some more training as most of the above can be done, If of course you have sufficient access rights and privileges, which forms part of the security to protect our children.
November 19th, 2009 - 12:03
As a fellow user of the program I can only agree on above. And add that the forum part is beyond ridicules…
I reckon they went for user hostile rather than user friendly. Once you manage to find it (and not many do) you then discover, that there is no auto-generated author on any of the posts, meaning that you unintentionally post anonymously. I believe to have seen my share of different forums, never have I ever come across anything quite as bad and useless as the part on Fronter. Of course if nobody uses the forum there is no maintenance nor upgrades needed. So if that was the goal, they hit a home run…
October 6th, 2010 - 02:10
I, too, have found that the security model doesn’t match anything I have every come across before. The default is wide open and then you close it off. Duh!
What about transferring files from one year to the next and moving the students data across? Nope, got to ask the administrator to do that.
What about the actual links and buttons? Do they look like links or buttons or just text entry fields? Such a cluttered interface.
Folks, heads up. Fronter.com is not a panacea. It has its use but not other than a means of glorified FTP and document store. I do not have time as a teacher to update each pupil’s files on there and then try to locate where someone else may have put things into certain folders/directories or whatever it is that it is being called as this month’s hot shot technical term.
Ah, feel better now. Good luck with this..!
November 4th, 2010 - 20:50
dude – thats so true ffs teachers say frontor’s so cool;; PFFT the fuck it is, the damn thing doesnt show me when the coursework’s due and even when it does it goes all ‘denied access – ask user’… damn thing sucks poop -.-
January 22nd, 2011 - 13:44
I am in yr 7 and cant find any of the work or documents my teachers have left therefore keep getting bloody detentions and none of my friends know how to use it i completely agree with whoever said aboutvthe clutteredness of it accidently click and it could take you ANYWHERE
July 3rd, 2011 - 11:31
fronter sucks ass!!!!!!!!!!!! it actually needs to die already
so get this I’m in Year 11 and i needed to get something off fronter which i need for my college interview ,so i try and login a couple of times and keeps not letting me in.