Ask any person in school. They number one thing they will say what kills their liking of the class is the overuse of the one website that literally puts the dying in studying.
Blackboard.
Literally where dreams go and die.
Blackboard is what your nightmares are made of.
Blackboard is that one roommate that eats your food and then openly denies that they did.
Blackboard sucks.
And here’s why.
1. It’s literally ALWAYS. DOWN.
Like for real. If the stuff doesn’t work, why use it? Having to wait until either last possible second to finish homework or have to have the deadline pushed back because of it
2. Once you turn something in… you can’t fix it
Literally happened to me the other week. I literally called I.T. (and put on hold for a half hour) and had to email my professor to have her open it again to fix my paper.
#shouldn’thaveto
3. If not all your professors use blackboard… = pointless
How about everybody be on the same page? When you check your grades, it’s absolutely ridiculous to make sure you’re doing good, and checking for what you need to do is absolutely hard AF to do… Because you’re bouncing from paper copy to electronic copy.
4. It’s too much work
Multiple tries = cannot figure out what part of the question you missed.
“Wait… What section is the assignment need to be turned into…?”- Every student at least once a month. Too many things to remember and let’s be honest… College students are the most busy and therefore cannot put 100% effort into everything at once.
5. I.T. doesn’t help you out when it gets confusing
Please call us during x hours (AKA when you’re at work/school) or leave a message and we’ll get back to you after the assignment was due and the thing we do doesn’t help you.
Really.
6. Making us do math to get our grades = the worst
Okay, math is not everybody’s strong suit, and making us calculate percent and then transfer that into a letter grade is not what anybody wants.
7. Professors that aren’t organized are what make us frustrated
How about surfing through three hundred documents to find the one document that you have to use for the assignment. How about not.
8. Having to sign into blackboard to go to another site to do your homework assigned
Really. Assign it on blackboard… Or don’t even use blackboard.
Literally the worst thing anyone ever has to deal with. College is already stressful enough, but adding something as botchy as blackboard is something that can be avoided and is a nuisance.
#rantover.
