Blackboard

As a way to submit assignments or access simple materials it works great, trying to do any kinda of math work in ALEKS via BlackBoard is horrible. If you go to the ebook through ALEKS you can’t go back to the assignments without going all the way back to courses and starting over. All because Blackboard doesn’t give you access to any type of tab or back button, if you swipe back it just takes you to the course selection page. Any kind of popup on a webpage accessed via BlackBoard completely breaks scrolling, locking the page to whatever was viewable at the time. For example, during an ALEKs assignment if you tap the review button to read a bit more about the current problem you can no longer scroll once leaving the review popup. You have to go all the way back to courses select, then the carouse, go through the ALEKS access from BlackBoard, find the assignment and get back to the correct problem. Not to mention the analytics just flat out doesn’t work on iOS it seems, not once has it shown anything but works just fine on a computer. Some of this may be an issue with ALEKS, but since you can’t access ALEKS without going through BlackBoard it needs to be fixed.

This app is the most janky thing I use on a regular basis. It takes forever to log into my account which I am required to do with the security level of a federal prison every time I open the app despite every time saying that I want to stay logged in. Once I’m in the app and look at my courses, I don’t know what any of them are because the UI formats the text in such a way that I can’t see who the instructor is or whether it is Chem I or Chem II without going into them. This app will also give me a null error every time I want to download a document that a professor posts. With how widespread this poor quality educational platform is, you would think they could afford some halfway decent designs. Instead, it feels like I am transported back in time 15 years ago to a website programmed by a highschooler.