Well I officially hate Rosetta Stone. Not only because I used it to take my language courses. I was helping set it up and it has a REALLY annoying system called SMS or Student Management System. Basically this is what it does. It helps a teacher set up a class by using one computer as a server. The class schedual then gets transmitted over LAN to other computers that has the programming on it. In doing so it helps make a nice, clean, set-up. Well obviously, this might be great for a public school, but since my little sister who is taking it at home has to use the program, it is an entire different matter. After the installation of the program, it was denying logging in. Saying the server wasn't connecting. Seeing the SMS option, I explored to see what it was. After watching 30 minutes of a stupid tutorial on how to set up SMS (the tutorial was designed for people who had NO SKILL WHATSOEVER with computers.....Which made for ANNOYINGNESS!!!!). I set up the SMS server to how it was supposed to be. Well....After taking 20 mins to set up the stupid server, we try again. Still...No connection to server. Now it is really starting to be annoying. Going into the programming of it, I find this small option....An option to be a stand-alone program. After seeing that, it really gets me mad for all the annoying, and worthless work I did... So now, I am really annoyed at Rosetta Stone...They should have set it up to be independent other than being set up by SMS originally. Sigh...I feel so sorry for all those teachers who DO have to watch that tutorial for their classes though. Probably shot the computer afterwards....
Well, thats about it.
-Ryan
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Thats why I quit the first year, I'm doing f. language's at home.