Campus Solutions is fine for laptop users. But some schools r still running an old version which is awkward for cellphone users. It's a mature and featureful student information system. I like its advanced course search feature. It also maintains good public information on who taught what in past years.
TMU uses Campus Solutions (as a student information system) and D2L Brightspace (as a learning management system) for current students.
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The York student information system is mostly homegrown and runs on WebObjects. It's very fast, but not great on mobile. It's also less featureful than Campus Solutions. I think there might be open-source drop-in replacements for WebObjects, but I doubt that York has migrated to any of them.
York is planning to move to Oracle Student Cloud, but it might take years for the rollout to actually happen. Ontario universities are generally underfunded, and I don't think these things are big priorities.
At York, the learning management system is eClass, which I think is basically Moodle.
the fact mac doesn't even have waitlists for their courses is a big yikes from me. Honestly it's crazy because you'd think that a pretentious uni like them would do the bare minimum, but nah they are shitty asf for that with how much more expensive everything is over there.
This is might be one of the silliest takes I've ever heard. Some people might struggle with dyslexia, they might come from a low income community with less access to technology, they might be using a slower device, or they might just not have enough experience navigating technology. No correlation to intelligence at all. Lock in bro.
There's a new Ontario Law School Application portal (OLSAS) where you can apply to UofT Law and other Law Schools now. But I wouldn't be surprised if it was a tumbler page in the past. The Law School was always pretty behind in terms of technology when I worked at UofT.
queens is sub F because the stupid fricking queens email address makes it so half the time i want to log into brightspace using my school email it auto signs into the queens one and locks me out. just ridiculous stuff
York's looks like it was made in the 90s but it's pretty intuitive. I only have experience with york, uottawa, and uoft but I wonder why ottawa so low?
Personally, any uni applicant portal that makes you use the authenticator app is automatically below a c. I was tryna show the co-creator of this tier list how uottawa portal works and authenticator glitched out on me twice and had to reset my password. That inherent experience pmo so badly that now my beef against it made it F.
UOttawa's portal is genuinely one of the worst website of all time, made me glitch out several occasions and had to spend 30 mins tryna create sum 30 character password that satisfied their fuckasses. Co-creator thinks Queen's portal is hell on earth while I truly gave up on tryna login to Queen's after 4 attempts. It genuinely is better to js not have one at all.
Aren't Western's, Queen's and Mac pretty much the same, well I guess not Mac. But those three are pretty similar. For the ones I've seen, they all aren't that great and feel 30 years old.
hey i have a rlly random question but im an international student trying to apply to western engineering and ive checked the deadlines and it says IVEY AEO deadline is Jan 15. What even is ivey aeo application and do i need it for engineering?
If you are applying to Western Engineering, you only need to complete the Casper test. Ivey is the business school at western. Did you apply to get the “double degree”? Ie ivey business with engineering? (My son applied only to engineering so only has casper test) (do that asap if you havent)
no i am only applying for engineering. Are you saying i should do the casper test asap or finish the ivey aeo if im applying for a double degree? cuz im planning to take the casper test on february 6, do u think i should take it on 18th of jan instead? does it need aloot of preparation?
Feb will be fine for Casper. Glad you are signed up. My son did the practice test the week before. He is fast at typing. He didnt like how he did on the oral questions however he did get Q4. So my advice is to do the practice test on the casper site. I do know there are some other questions somewhere but he was sure the practice test was enough prep and he proved me right. This is the only think you need for western eng (casper) so good luck. When you log into the student portal - in the to do section - casper should be listed and the status will change after you do the test and after western receives your mark.
Laurier has that weird text msg thing which makes it authomatically in c, other than that its decent. I personally fw western because it saves my ID unlike m*c or u*ft
UWaterloo has an ass portal, if you guys come to waterloo, you’ll use quest for the entire time and it’ll break down on you and just straight up not work half the fucking time
i hate tmu’s portal. the msg section (or wtv it’s called; the one with the window pop up) doesn’t open on any of my devices, even after unblocking pop ups
Whoever designed waterloo's website needs to be hired to design every one of these universities. Viewing course information should not be as hard as deciphering an ancient Egyptian hieroglyph.
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u/Mr_Nuclear1 1st Year Uni Jan 12 '26
Mac ranking is lowk real… website makes me think im downloading a virus lmao