Nestor is about as stable as a soufflé in an earthquake
Due to problems with Nestor (the digital learning environment at the RUG), ten exams were canceled on Monday afternoon and thousands of students were left confused and angry. The Groninger Student Union (GSb) is furious, with Chair Marius Jongman calling the technical failure ‘unacceptable’.
Due to a server overload, Nestor was out for more than an hour on Monday. The system could not handle the large amount of simultaneous registrations and completely shut down, reports the GIC.
In previous weeks the same issue has occurred several times during exams, after which they were delayed or postponed. The Groninger Student Union (GSb) is furious that this has now happened again. “This is the basis of online education and even that is not going well. How should this continue if the university also wants to focus on online education after the corona crisis? ” Jongman said.
As a result of the outage, many students were left confused, says Jongman. “It creates a lot of stress when you cannot access all the necessary information during an exam week or when you don’t even know if you can take your exam”, he said.
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