lohan.me » Studies http://lohan.me Tue, 11 Aug 2009 21:34:19 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 en hourly 1 More Unisa registration woes http://lohan.me/lohan/my-life/studies/more-unisa-registration-woes http://lohan.me/lohan/my-life/studies/more-unisa-registration-woes#comments Mon, 09 Feb 2009 13:26:40 +0000 Lohan http://lohan.me/?p=489 Just got off the phone with Unisa, I discovered they only registered one of my five first semester courses and they sent an email telling my why the others weren’t registered. To add to the joke Unisa’s  registration process (which is becoming a bit of a joke to me), guess (a) where they sent it to, and (b) when I activated my mylife account given that (c) it takes at least two weeks to process web registrations and (d) I had to wait two days for my activation email to arrive.

In short, they mail me at my mylife.unisa.ac.za account to tell me I cannot register for some courses, when one can only activate that account at least two weeks after you’ve registered. On top of this, this is after spending best part of a morning going down to Unisa in Florida to get my curriculum validated by a student advisor. Lets hope some facetime at the Unisaplex can sort this out…

]]> http://lohan.me/lohan/my-life/studies/more-unisa-registration-woes/feed 1 Unisa and mylife.unisa.ac.za account madness! http://lohan.me/lohan/my-life/studies/unisa-and-mylifeunisaacza-account-madness http://lohan.me/lohan/my-life/studies/unisa-and-mylifeunisaacza-account-madness#comments Sun, 08 Feb 2009 19:31:27 +0000 Lohan http://lohan.me/?p=487 Unisa and Microsoft made a deal whereby all student accounts will be hosted on their Exchange Labs site. Since you are likely one of those GTD-type people who cannot stand the joy of checking yet another email account, there is an option to forward all mails to another email address. Fantastic — if it was enabled! I for one cannot find this option anywhere. Another way of getting out of this hellhole is to suck your @mylife.absa.ac.za mail from another service, such as GMail. To do this, use the following settings:

E-mail address: Enter 4234...@mylife.unisa.ac.za, use your own student number!
Enter the email password for the account
Incoming server: pop-eu.exchangelabs.com
Encryption: SSL
Port: 995

And you’re done. While I like their idea of using a single communications platform (cheap etc), I don’t like the idea of being forced into a solution that doesn’t fit my email routine. Hopefully this will help others who feels the same way.

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