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Microsoft word update messes up exams in Denmark (www.dr.dk)

submitted 5 months ago by cosmicrookie@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

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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.

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[–] pastermil@sh.itjust.works 0 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I know it sounds crazy, but a better free alternative exists.

[–] axby@lemmy.ca 0 points 5 months ago (1 children)

What do you recommend? I love LibreOffice on Windows and Linux, and it still works well on macOS but the GUI seems weird on it, the buttons are really large. I still use it but my partner is put off by it.

[–] maeries@feddit.de 0 points 5 months ago

Honestly Markdown is perfectly fine 99% of the time. It also has many advantages by just being much simpler

[–] arandomthought@sh.itjust.works 0 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] MrScottyTay@sh.itjust.works 0 points 5 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] cosmicrookie@lemmy.world 0 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

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

[–] EngineerGaming@feddit.nl 0 points 5 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] uranos@sh.itjust.works 1 points 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.