NOUN RECORDS MASS FAILURE IN THE ON GOING EXAMINATIONS AFTER CANCELLING TMA FOR ITS STUDENTS

If I didn’t know better as a student of National Open University of Nigeria, I would say that the school has lost its core essence on why it was established. Noun is said to be an online/distance learning institution but in two months now the students have not been able to access the school portal ,and this has caused a major scare and unrest in the hearts of students nationwide, leading to most students not being able to get proper information, complete their course registration, pay their fees or even solve and submit their Tutor Marked assignments (TMA).
On Saturday the 1st of October 2016, students woke up nationwide to realize that the school’s website was down, and a larger percentage concluded that it was a minimal problem and it would be rectified shortly because it happens occasionally, unknown to the students that it will remain the same till date. Not only that the TMA Portal has been down too and students cannot login to do their online tests.
The grading and final results for each course is a combination of the Tutor Marked Assignment which is 30 marks, and exams which is 70 marks. but the management has decided to scrap the Tutor Marked Assignment this semester without following due process or giving proper notice before exams started.
All these happened before exams for both returning students and freshers started their exams and up till now the management has not released a statement to reasonable explanation has been provided neither is there any positive steps to tackle the problem.
Not only that, the computer based exams started on the 23rd of November for both 100 level and 200 level students and so far mass failure has been recorded nationwide with only a handful scoring 50 and above in their exams. There have also been complains of malfunctioning computers and incomplete questions having no solutions in them but still yet no staff is giving any response to it and no official is saying anything about
We the students nationwide are saying enough is enough with all the maltreatment and negligence of the above mentioned complaints by the school officials and authorities from the headquarters. below are our demands;
1. We demand and official statement to know what went wrong with our portal and the solution that will be made to address it.
2. We demand to know the plans concerning its students this semester concerning the Tutor Marked Assignment and exam grading.
3. Will our exams be graded over 100 this semester after most of us has submitted all or part of our Tutor Marked Assignments ?
These are our demands and we request they be properly addressed by the authorities at the headquarters in Abuja

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The management should look into this problem and rectify this issue because this problem is really affecting the students national wide