It goes beyond the retarded amount of whitespace they put in the page (I prefer a little extra whitespace (however this was supposed to entail a highly thought-out set of content as a pre-condition, which I hadn't even realized could be a failure until now, but that's not even what I'm talking about here).
The menus are poorly labeled, some of the menus have similar, but slightly different, information in each (where information frequently overlaps and you wonder if you're in the wrong menu), the website will lag a lot, and it's hard to even describe what they did with parts of the user interface.
I'll do my best to describe the fuckery going on in the UI; this is going to be confusing because it is confusing. When you go into one of the course units there's, what looks like, a hamburger menu to the left - but it's permanently there and doesn't retract to the left of the screen. This menu contains poorly labels sections of the unit that do not makes sense ?due to arbitrary splitting up of information followed by non-descript follow-up quizzes? I cannot tell when the fuck they were doing with this part of the webpage, and if you saw the phrasing and questions in the quizzes it would further make your head spin.
Then there's the main section of the course content to the right of the above menu which is packed with a nonsense amount of whitespace. Again, it's hard to describe exactly what's wrong here, so I'll have to start listing things in no particular order:
- there is a "minimize" and "close" button in the lower right corner of the screen. Now, why in the fuck is there a minimize button inside a webpage? If you click "minimize" it reveals that the page you're looking at is actually (for some reason) over laying the screen you were just in, and it (overly) shrinks the page you were looking at to reveal the previous webpage you were on, which contains no useful information, especially while viewing the page that's now "minimized" (this isn't even a conventional meaning of the word "minimize" in computing, if that's even a meaning in usage). And again, the webpage is shrunk so small it's hard to even read what's on the page. And the font is larger than it needs to be.
- they have links to shit they say is extra content, but then they'll ask about them in the quizzes, and they're LONG reads spanning 12 pages sometimes
- assuming the course is written properly, the best I can justify some of the writing is that it's overly abstract. They talk about things in an abstract way, then ask concrete examples later that are so far from any wording used that it should confuse anyone trying to read it and understand it. It also seems like they're asking about arbitrary specifics about the abstract ideas. I do not understand how this is helpful - it's 100% confusing and confusing only. Simple word possessor skills that I learned in 6th grade would trump whatever they're trying to do here.
- the formatting. the formatting of the text is so bad that I have to believe they purposely took something that was good and piped it into other formats. For example, things that should be in a bulleted list are in sentence form, and it doesn't stop there; the sentences are simply the bullet points one after another; they're sentences with information from would-be bullet points spread out throughout other sentences that make for a very low-quality read. I could not write like they wrote here if I tried.
Anyways, I have to keep a second monitor available to take these quizzes and look up shit that they're talking about while saving the shit written on the webpage just to make it through basic tasks they ask me to do.
I've run out of time to carry on, but I got the bulk of what I wanted to say out there.
FUCK!
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[–] 21187435? 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
Yeah my dude. In my classes, I've had to deal with Blackboard, My Math Lab, Cengage/Mindtap, and Testout LabSim. They're all CRAP. How do companies with this much money have such amateur websites?
[–] 21190577? [S] ago
I cannot make sense of that myself.
Perhaps something that could explain it is in my area, whenever there's a developer job available the company is always offering way too little for the job, and they have ridiculous expectations for what they get in return - and then after you build the infrastructure they want to can you.
[–] 21187518? ago
Get a uw34 monitor.