Sorry for the Danish post i hope you can translate it.

The Ministry warns that Microsoft programs can create problems for written exams for students with Mac computers.

Users who have updated the programs to the latest version may experience the programs running slowly, freezing and crashing. This means that the examinees are delayed in their work and that parts of the answers risk being lost, write the Agency for Education and Quality and the Agency for IT and Learning in a notice to schools.

    • Decq@lemmy.world
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      6 months ago

      It sounds insane to me they would use a suite where they have no control over its state… Can’t they at least block the updates? Just imagine you’re a student and your success depends on the incompetence of others

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        6 months ago

        your success depends on the incompetence of others

        This is an excellent lesson to learn in school since it happens a lot in life.

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    6 months ago

    Why are they using Word in an exam in the first palace? Like, to write an essay? Our non-pen-and-paper exams were all using some web platform that worked pretty well.

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      5 months ago

      It’s mostly for students with issues that puts them at a bigger disadvantage to those that are “normal” when writing with a pen. Learning difficulties and motor function issues and differences alike. I used a word processor in exams towards the end of college due to learning difficulties and a subconscious grip that would ache my hand with overuse of a pen that slowed me down compared to others by a lot.

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        5 months ago

        This is not true. At least not here in Denmark. Computers are ackctually required

        You can even see in the picture above that everyone has a pc

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          5 months ago

          Can a school lend you a computer if you don’t have one of your own? Or only have a shared stationary one?

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            5 months ago

            It’s Denmark, everyone can afford a laptop, even if it is difficult for someone the government pays you $900 USD a month to study.