Blackboard Blues

Thursday, January 06, 2005

Nobody said programming was going to be easy

But the inability of Blackboard to support any sort of customization out of the box is mindboggling.

Apparently, if you didn't see it customized in the demo, it can't be customized at all.

Today's two examples come from the fun world of "assessments".

Do I really need a javascript reminder before every quiz? Even if there's no point value to it?

Why must the point value display for every quiz?

Why can't I modify the assessment.css file directly on a hosted installation?

How come there's no option between display all the questions and display each question on its own page -- say, how about a set of nested pages, all combining for one timer?

Remember: The programmers working on buzzword compliance weren't working on developing a better learning environment!

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