My UNISA

[w1z4rd]

/sigh (need to get my economics assignment uploaded)

Service Temporarily Unavailable

The server is temporarily unable to service your request due to maintenance downtime or capacity problems. Please try again later.

Apache/2.2.14 (Ubuntu) Server at my.unisa.ac.za Port 80

https://my.unisa.ac.za/portal/


:/

 

[Kornhub]

Try later at night.

 

[Sinbad]

Apparently there's an assignment due today

Useless fckers.

 

[Cool E]

/sigh (need to get my economics assignment uploaded)


https://my.unisa.ac.za/portal/


:/

lot of students were submitting their assigments yesterday and today. Maybe try later at night before 00:00

 

[DrewChan]

Those feels

 

[Fuma]

People never learn (me included). Do not wait till last day to submit your assisgnment

 

[w1z4rd]

Apparently there's an assignment due today

Useless fckers.

I have so many other commitments. A contracted job, my own company, charity group community services portfolio, political education course (which is extensive) and running a local ward. I totally procrastinate on my UNISA stuff until the last day.

 

[Sinbad]

Not you. The unisa it people.

 

[w1z4rd]

Not you. The unisa it people.

Yeah, ok. They could make a better system that is elastic for times of stress :/

 

[DrewChan]

Although today DOES count as a submission day - the site SHOULD be available, I completely forgot an assignment a while back - sigh

 

[Kornhub]

They usually extend the submission period when stuff like this happens.

 

[thestaggy]

Not you. The unisa it people.

In fairness they warn you not to leave it late. Can't blame them when they explicitly tell you to get things in early.

 

[Wall]

Hand deliver it :-/

 

[Sinbad]

In fairness they warn you not to leave it late. Can't blame them when they explicitly tell you to get things in early.

I don't care. Deadline is deadline (I submitted mine yesterday btw). Their infrastructure should be scalable to cope with peak demand. Human nature being what it is...

 

[w1z4rd]

In fairness they warn you not to leave it late. Can't blame them when they explicitly tell you to get things in early.

Thats not fairness. Thats like saying its fair for Eskom to complain about us using more electricity because they havent planned correctly for the right capacity.

 

[AthenianOwl]

People never learn (me included). Do not wait till last day to submit your assisgnment

I know it's not a good habit but I never got in trouble because of it before.

 

[Sinbad]

NOTE:myUnisa service interruption (Monday 11 March 2013)

Please note that there may be intermittent interruption of service availability on myUnisa on Monday 11 March 2013. Students who have assignments due on 11 March, will be accommodated. We apologize for the inconvenience

 

[thestaggy]

Thats not fairness. Thats like saying its fair for Eskom to complain about us using more electricity because they havent planned correctly for the right capacity.

If you are going to procrastinate as you have already admitted to doing, it is your fault if you leave your assignment until the due date and you can't get through. Quite simple. Could UNISA do a lot of things better? Yes. BUT, where they have identified a shortfall (server overload in the days approaching assignments deadlines) they have warned their students about it.

 

[Sinbad]

If you are going to procrastinate as you have already admitted to doing, it is your fault if you leave your assignment until the due date and you can't get through. Quite simple. Could UNISA do a lot of things better? Yes. BUT, where they have identified a shortfall (server overload in the days approaching assignments deadlines) they have warned their students about it.

I call bull. I'll tell you why - my.unisa has been creaking under the strain ever since I registered this year. Repeated errors on the assignment pages... DOG slow responses all round.
This isn't a load related issue - there's an underlying problem that the load may have exacerbated. Anyway, not all modules have assignments due on the same day - they are pretty spread out.

 

[thestaggy]

I call bull. I'll tell you why - my.unisa has been creaking under the strain ever since I registered this year. Repeated errors on the assignment pages... DOG slow responses all round.
This isn't a load related issue - there's an underlying problem that the load may have exacerbated. Anyway, not all modules have assignments due on the same day - they are pretty spread out.

All I am saying is that while they are not perfect they tell you in EVERY tutorial letter they hand out that you should not leave assignment submissions until the last moment so you can avoid any potential service issues.