Blackboard

I need a minute to rant about my blackboard experience. I should be doing my homework, but I have plenty of time to blog right now because I cannot even access the site where all of my course information is being held.

For those of you who do not know what blackboard is let me explain. It is something that ASU (and many other universities and colleges) use to communicate with students. I have all of the classes that I am enrolled in on it, each with it's own page. On that page is the syllabus, list of assignments, rubrics, discussion boards to communicate with other students in the class, and places to submit your assignments.

Obviously this is something important that I need to access. Well this school year, they decided to "upgrade" the system. They have been having issues since the week before school started with this. It is constantly saying that blackboard is temporarily unavailable. So frustrating when you are trying to do homework! It has only worked a handful of times for me. Well I have an assignment due by midnight tonight for one of my classes. I also have lots of other stuff I need to be working on for other classes if I don't want to get behind. Well it is down. Again. They sent out an email earlier today saying they were sorry for all of the problems but it should be working agian soon. NOT. Just sending an email doe snot make it all better!

Get your act together blackboard! I have homework to do!