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A College Proffie Uses Free Will to Strike Down The Evil CMS Police.

Terry WAS unhappy...

Last week I got a notice that our department was having a meeting. I made the note and yesterday I strolled into a large new computer classroom to see just 4 of my colleagues. (There are 17 of us total.)

In the first minutes I discovered that the meeting was NOT a departmental meeting; it was a meeting for departmental faculty who were NOT using the standard course management software.

I listened for 4 minutes and then raised my hand. "I have my own class portal for the students," I said. 

I went up to the front computer, entered the web address for one of my classes (they're all linked from my official college homepage), and up it came.

Syllabus and handouts in a sidebar. Discussion questions for all 15 weeks. Login info for students, instructions for responding to all the posted readings, even links to some supplemental texts and links to the official texts. (I made it on Blogger, by the way.)

"Why aren't you using the department's software," the chair said.

"Free will," I said.

I got let out early and went and went to have two cinnamon buns at the student-less cafeteria.