Jul 14 2007
Impressions and feedback from recent Glow pilot phase.
I said earlier that I was taking part in the latest national pilot of GLOW, the national intranet being developed for all scottish schools. The pilot finished at the end of term and I didn’t have a chance to complete my evaluation form before going on holiday. I submitted my feedback this week and have attached a copy here.
Glow is getting a lot of attention just now but I am afraid that I am not keen on having the current version as shown in the pilot released nationally. For one thing, functionality such as navigation gives me (a glow mentor) a headache and I dread the prospect of helping my school (and probably my entire cluster) find their way around the system as it stands.
Components such web parts and Glow mail are not sufficiently intuitive and fail to behave consistantly across different browsers and operating systems. If you read the attachment, you’ll also find that I tried hard to be helpful in reporting bugs and was less than impressed with the quality of feedback issued by the helpdesk.
Sorry to be so negative when others are “glowing” in their praise but I really don’t want to see this launched nationally until it has been made a lot simpler for the average classroom teacher.
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