The AUC Unofficial Website Review
AUCExplicit is a relatively new (student launched project) /website hosted on a remote server(outside of AUC).
It is open only to AUC students, and they have to register using their AUC email and choose a username/screen name to login. Faculty and staff can also register.
Amongst it’s various features is that you can review and rate courses like the Facebook groups ( students rate professors) only anonymously as the screening names conceal identity .. and it can be seen as one of the new ways of digital communication on campus.
Also the website aims at being an archive of all the past exams, and all the material that is passed down from one generation to another. So there would be no longer leakage of material if students apt to use this way of digital storage. And one can imagine freshmen guided to this website will be no longer “freshmen” from the start, as they can actually chart their course the easy path…
“I wore unto a doctor”, says a student (an arabic literal term meaning collapsed) “i didn’t know she was one of those hard professors.. had I been warned from the start or had this medium been available to tell me, things would have worked out differently…”
The website not only aims at replacing Facebook groups or be a way of digital proximity between students, but as one of the web authors stated, it could be seen serving the professors as well as they collaborate and upload their content up there. It could grow into a teaching tool where professors can learn from each other as their content is available.. and thus in a sense it could be a way of uniting departments as they archive all their works.
Another DAR? I suppose…
What is meant by the coined term “Explicit”?
“Explicit is in the sense that there are no moderation on the opinions being expressed.” Expressed one of its moderators.. “Holding an anonymous identity helps” he elaborated. It is true, on the registration page in AUC Explicit website, it advises new registers to choose a name that would conceal their identity as the name remains with them and it that would enhance their freedom of expression …Although there would be moderation on posting inappropriate content as the call for moderators page reveals…
Will this evolve to be the new medium of communication @ AUC?
what will school officials say?
Only Time Will Tell…
