Just blowing off some steam...hoping maybe Andrew will post a reply with a pic of one of his beauties to cheer me up ;-)
So I was one of a small number of people selected by my company to get their Bachelor's degree, paid for in full. Fantastic - very happy, and appreciative seeing as it's something I've wanted to do, but time, family, (and most certainly - funds) have made it difficult for me to pursue otherwise.
Thing is...it's an online university. No problem there....but the navigation is F'kin horrible. Go to the general homepage to login...a second tab opens in Firefox (and IE when I do it at work)....click on the pre-work assignment...a third tab opens. Read through the page and follow the instructions and more tabs open. Before you know it you have 10 tabs open. Is this really necessary?
I don't mind the occasional pop-up quiz, answer the questions and click "submit" and the window closes, returning you to the previous page type scenario...but this is crazy. On top of it, you have PDFs and Word checklists they have you download in tandem with what you're working on.
Then there's the page to verify your software/hardware...it says my Windows Media Player needs to be updated (they require v.11 or greater...and I have v.12)...so I go along with them and click this "upgrade" link which takes me to MS's "GenuineCheck" page - which, when run, says "This version of GenuineCheck is no longer supported"...wtf...google a solution and see "Please download and run the Microsoft Genuine Advantage Diagnostics Tool." Really!? Aw for fks sake...
Oh yea...I running Win7 (all Windows Updates installed) Firefox 24.0 with all plug-ins up to date (I'm a bit OCD about that sorta thing)....
Why can't they have a simple "home" page you land on when you log in...and if you need to post on a discussion forum, or read some assignment, have that page be a one-off which closes and returns you to your home page when completed...
grr....
Edited by dfrance (09/21/13 05:52 PM)
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