Stop Checking Your Grades on BearFacts
[Granted, this is a problem that no one could possibly have seen coming, so it's completely understandable that we would run into some difficulties because of the inability to prepare in advance for this completely surprising problem.] From Cal Professor Blogger Brad DeLong:

An interesting email telling me why I can't submit my students' "egrades":

Date: Tue, 24 May 2005 23:18:20 -0700
To: Brad DeLong
From: Bear Facts Team
Subject: Re: Technical Issues
The system is heavily overloaded at egrades time. Response times are made slow by a heavy influx of students checking their grades, and the processor never gets a chance to recover because they just keep pounding on the system, making response times worse.

A system critical to the university's smooth functioning at a critical time. High demand not a surprise.

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