I'm in college, right, and the University just switched all of our online class information (like homework assignments, online quizzes, grade access, etc) to an application called WebCT. Only, it sucks. Down almost constantly. It uses several perl scripts to run it, but looks like it was intended for one class, and was bodgered and grew into what it is today. I know it uses a database on the backend, but I've never seen it, nor know what the schema looks like.

So my question is this. Can I somehow, without stepping on toes, advise the creators on what is wrong, so that it may be fixed? How would one go about doing such a thing (advising, not fixing. I can fix it with enough time :))? I just thought I'd ask, as I'm very frustrated with this thing ( I just took the hardest online quiz I've ever taken, scored 100%, and the system lost the record. doh. )

Thanks in advance, and pity to those whom share my plight.

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E-Bitch
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In reply to Seeking advice to fix an app that I have no control over by E-Bitch

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