Saturday, 20 June 2026

Post exam verification

I must admit I wasn't looking forward to the post exam verification meeting for the S283 Planetary Science module as requested last week but it went well, I think. Just 15 minutes long and not really any difficult questions. It helped that the person conducting the interview was an experienced Staff Tutor who was very good at putting me at my ease.

I attempted to download iCMA44 for MST124 on Thursday morning and this came up. Not good news. 

I've raised this with my tutor, the forums, my wife, a random bloke on Facebook, the OU IT Helpdesk/Chocolate teapot, and anyone else who will listen. Hopefully something will come of it.

It hasn't been a good couple of days for the IT department in general, if this is anything to go by.








I had two maths tutorials on Thursday evening, both at the same time, so I attended one live and listened to the recording of the other. The live one was facilitated by a tutor I have had a couple of times before. A very good speaker and quite irreverent in places. The other one was by a tutor I haven't had before. They were a bit softly softly but that's not a bad thing. Integration by substitution and by parts is not the easiest subject to teach.