AppShed Issues / KS3 Programming

[Gongalong]

Hi folks,

 

Is anyone else using AppShed? We’ve only just started to use it in anger, and we’ve had outages of the site the last couple of days. I’m going to contact their support, but curious as to whether anyone else has used it for longer and had similar experiences?

 

(I contacted their support some weeks ago re. their Unify app, and they weren't very helpful.)

 

What are other schools using for KS3 programming?

 

Thanks

[fiza]

Our IT Teachers/Students have been using for the last few years. Never had any problems. Not sure if they have used it in the last few days though.

[Gongalong]

The three outages we've had have been around 10am for the last three consecutive days, including today, which have all coincided with the classes that wanted to use it. Needless to say it's meant chaos for the poor teacher.

 

The first time it happened I put their home and login page into PRTG's web sensor, so it picked up the second and third outage (around 20 minutes a time).

[Gongalong]

There's another outage currently, since 2:30pm.