Mamarati

I think I’m just not going to hold it in this semester. I’m going to just go ahead and make all my complaints known here and then when I graduate, I’m going to bundle them all up and send it to the Blackboard folks and let them do what they will.

Design is not an easy thing. I understand this. But since I’m on the outside looking in, I get to vent. Ha.

I really wish that you could override your professor’s preferences for the look and feel of a course. I would rather set my own colors, fonts, spacing and other preferences.

I would also like it if the message boards had different views available. I think that the view I’d like, where it’s kind of like a big FARK thread — all on one page — kind of works but if you read it like that I believe it doesn’t count you as “attending” the class or whatever. Like it can’t count your page views in the same way. Which, of course, would be ridiculously stupid, since I am indeed reading all the posts.

Also, in the message boards if you click into a thread you have the option to go to the “next thread.” Unless the thread you’re in has a reply. If you click “next post,” then the “next thread” option goes away and you can only see the replies and then when you’re at the last reply in that thread, you have to hit “OK” to go allllll the way back to the discussion list to see ALLLLLLLLL the discussions. Click. Click… Clickity Click. I’m going to have carpal tunnel syndrome when this is all over. If you click on the link of the replies, however, it will leave the “next thread” link. I don’t understand why. I mean, I would assume using the navigation links would be preferable. But no.

Oh, and speaking of the discussion list… the messages are jammed so close together and the “unread posts” number is so far from the titles of the threads… so I can’t easily see which threads I need to click click click click into. It would help if there were alternating highlights / colors on the titles so you can see what lines go where.

Also, the message composition window takes about a hundred years to load every time. And I’m on a very fast connection with a very fast computer. I feel sorry for anyone out in the sticks on dial-up or on an old machine.

I think that’s all the complaining I have to do today.