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August 31, 2005

Browser Problem Fixed

Hi Everyone-

We have fixed the browser problem. We have added a scroll bar to all of the pop-up windows. You should now see a scroll bar in the pop-up window if your screen is too small for the full window to display. Hopefully this will finally fix the problem for everyone.

Please go ahead and make sure that you have submitted the following items for Week 1 by this coming Sunday:

(1) Demography Questionnaire
(2) Math Anxiety Questionnaire
(3) Week 1 Dilemma
(4) Week 1 Lecture Evaluation

Please send me email if you are still having problems.

August 30, 2005

Submitting Week 1 Evaluation

Hi Everyone-

Update 2: We have added scroll bars to all of the popup menus. This should solve the problem of not being able to see the bottom of the popup menus. We are pretty sure that this is an IE browser problem coupled with low resolution on the screens being used. Wait until tonight and try to submit your Week 1 Lecture Evaluations again. If it doesn't work, let me know what browser you are using.

Update: It appears the problem is around the IE browser. Are we suprised, it's a Microsoft product. We are working out the details. It may be a day or so, so don't panic.
Tarynn

As we work out the kinks in the system, don't panic. A couple of people have said that they cannot submit the Week 1 evaluation because the submit button doesn't appear. It seems that this is a problem with the IE browser on some machines. I am running IE v6.0 on my machine and I do get the submit button. We are not sure if it is the browser or if it is the size of the window on the computer being used at the time. There are two possible fixes for this problem while we work out the details at this end.

(1) Wait until you are on campus or another location where you can use a larger window monitor and submit your evaluation then or

(2) Use a different browser. VCU now uses Firefox as its standard browser and Thunderbird (except if you are forced to use Lotus Notes) as its mail reader

(3) Firefox and Thunderbird are available as a free download for both the Mac and the PC. Both are available at VCU Firefox and Thunderbird Download

(4) For those of you using a Mac, the Safari browser also works fine.

Any of these should work until we can debug the problem.

August 29, 2005

Problems With Dilemma Submission

Some of you have indicated that you are having problems submitting the Weekly Dilemma. The problem appears to be that the window does not contain a scroll bar or allow you to scroll down to depress the submit button at the bottom of the page. We have tested this window out on IE and Firefox browsers. Please let me know what browser and version you are using so that we can fix the problem. Thank you for letting me know about the problem. In the meantime, if you continue to have this problem, please submit your response via email with the header "Week 1 Dilemma" and that way I will know it is your response to the Week 1 Dilemma question.