On-campus I-drive raises issues with some students
Drew Baugher
Issue date: 5/1/09 Section: Campus
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According to Lake Land College business instructor Cheryl Staley, the I-drive is an ideal way to get assignments to students. Staley, who has been using the drive for about nine years, believes that it puts the responsibility back on the students. "Don't print it if you don't want it," is her standing on the matter, which forces the students to get the notes and assignments on their own time.
Other aspects Staley appreciates about the I-drive is that it is quick and easy for the instructor to update, and the assignments and notes can be taken down after they are no longer in use. Since the I-drive was started on Lake Land's campus before Blackboard, the Internet-based system Lake Land uses for online classes, many teachers have just stayed with that system, but that poses an issue with some students.
Lake Land student Jay Nottingham thinks, "The I-drive is a good idea, but if you forget to get an assignment then you can't access it from home." After forgetting to print off assignments before leaving campus, Nottingham shares that opinion with many students on campus.
By putting the notes and assignments on Blackboard, students could access that information from anywhere with Internet access. Lake Land student Isaac Smith agrees, "It would be nice to get that information from home."
Smith also finds that I-drive process a little confusing because there are "so many folders," that he finds it difficult to navigate and find the class he's looking for. However, Staley has had little student confusion in her experience except for when the I-drive first started.
Even though many students are calling for teachers to use the easily accessible Blackboard, many teachers like the I-drive system that they use now and don't plan on changing their ways. Staley view on the matter is, simply, "I like it."
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