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My school has recently switched from a branded variant of Blackboard, to Desire2Learn which bills itself as open, etc. From a student perspective, the usability is not much different.

One "feature" that drives me insane is it creates zips on the server side every time you download a file (e.g., lecture slides, PDFs) even if the download is only one file. Effectively blocks one from using it on an iPad.



There are apps (such as Filer) that make opening zip files relatively painless on the iPad.

That being said, using a site that zips everything sounds really annoying.


iPad can't open zip files?!


There's nothing to prevent it, but none of the built in apps handle such file types.

There is plenty of support via third party apps.




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