Wednesday June 29, 2011

There isn't anything special about today; well, other than enjoying my favorite part of online class tonight and getting some late night homework done. It's great that I can go hang out with friends after a long day of meetings at work and then come home to finish off some much needed homework.
I'm currently making a listing of all the questions with their answers to last week's "Know Your Audience" discussion board. Because, they way Black Board has their discussion boards set up is with out a doubt the worst forum set up I have EVER seen, and I mean that. For several reasons.
1. They have it to were you can only see one post at a time. Which is terrible is you're trying to follow a conversation or go over old comments for assignments *wink wink
2. Unless I'm blind, I don't see -a way to leave the current thread and return to the discussion board. Forcing me to click on the the Discussion board button over and over.
3. The navigation buttons between threads and reply are also terrible. They get confusing at times and far inferior to just letting me go back to the board and look at all the threads from scratch. Because, most of the time I'm not wanting to go from thread to thread in a linear way, but jump from thread to thread trying to get my information.
But this is just the discussion board feature.... the rest of Black Board is also pretty much junk as far as I can tell. A lot of my teachers make an effort not to talk down on it, but half the time I catch most of them saying something negative or having technical issues with it. But enough about me complaining about Black Board and back to my homework.