resistance is futile

I have been working for about a month on reconfiguring one of my courses from classroom-based, 15-week semester to online-based, 4.5 week semester.

Our course management software (Blackboard) has it's own weird logic: that's the kindest I can be. I suppose though that it's like any other software package written by a group of people. You have to work with it for a long while before you begin to discern its interior logic so that using it becomes more intuitive. I am anticipating that students will have a lot of problems using it too, and that those difficulties will interfere with learning. Starting on Monday, we'll see how it goes.