Okay, so I haven’t posted anything in over a month, generally because I don’t really care. But I need to let out a good rant here about how utterly BAD this system my university has set up for my entry-level computer course. In turn, this will probably lead to other, more worthwhile posts, but whatever.

Okay, so the class is COMP100, generally ‘How-to-use-Microsoft-Word’, and a bit more. For all of our tests/exams/practice exams, we use this online setup thing called MyITLab. It’s a system that keeps all of your assignments posted online(fine), organizes them by due date(also good), and runs them in a simulation/parallel operating system-type fashion(HORRIBLE). Now WHY is this horrible? Because computers cannot comprehend COMMON SENSE.

Most of the assignments are generally “Open this MSWord document, and do the stuff the instruction panel tells you.” The first time I began to realize how horrible the system was, I was told to highlight a block of text, and make it bold faced. So naturally, I highlight it with the mouse, and press Ctrl + B.

“INCORRECT ACTION”

Wait, what? I’m pretty sure I hit the ‘B’ key. Oh well, let’s try it again!

“INCORRECT ACTION”

What the hell? Wait……do the seriously want to tell me I NEED to go find the bold button in the menu and use that? Well, lets try that…

“CORRECT”

*sigh*

And that was an easy one. Today I’m told to make the header of a paragraph’s font color purple. Okay, highlight, click the color selection panel, and hit the shade of purple it told me. Nope, that was wrong too. This one, unlike the bold-font one, I never figured out. But after the 10 tries it allows you were up, it does it for you, and SURE ENOUGH, all it wanted was purple font. Also, apparently using the “X” button at the top of the window you’re looking at right now is the incorrect way to close your browser. So when you’re done, make sure to use file -> exit. I’m sure that’s the way everyone does it. That X button is so horribly inconvenient.

In the end, apparently I don’t know how to use microsoft word, or even MAKE MY FONT BOLD for that matter. See, I tried to make the ‘MAKE MY FONT BOLD’ bold by pressing Ctrl + B and it didn’t………………oh wait.