twincityhacker

See, my mother decied that she doesn't want to work in daycare anymore. It's not the fact she doesn't like taking care of the kids anymore, it's the part where the daycare centers she works at are crazy. I suppose this crazyness is in part in peole thinking if they do the tiniest thing wrong, the kid is damaged for life.

Anyway, she want's to stop. If she finishes her degree, she belives that she can get a non-day care job. She was close to getting it before, but she had to stop because she had me. Now, I'm all for her finishing it, but the only way for her to finish her degree would be to take online courses.

My mother gets fustrated by computers rather easily, so you can just imagine where this is going.

So far, she's had two days of classes. She's already behind because the book she's supposed to be working out of didn't arrive when it was supposed to, three days ago. Add to the fact that the printer that she was using upstairs isn't compadible with he comptuer, so we had to spend an hour hooking the damm thing down in the basement.

But that's not even the really nasty part. The program she needs to use to access her class information, Microsoft Outlook Web Acess is EVIL! The first post she had to make was a little tough, but it went thourgh. Unfotunatly, the option we used to post it was the wrong one, and the teacher bitched at her to follow proper threading procedure.

Her next task was to answer a question after reading the book that hasn't come yet. Luckily, she could make up an answer without the book, since the question was asking about how she planned papers. So she clicks on the reply to folder icon that would let her post her response to the question. Instead of opening a box that would let her type her response, the window closes. And this icon is the only thing that she can press to let her post her response in the proper threading fashion.

Repeat this for FIVE HOURS. She had about 45 minutes for her to post her response, when I finaly went to bed, since I couldn't help her anymore. I did tell her that if she just had ten minutes until it was due to just post it the wrong way again.

I don't think she did. She did try again this morning, but I don't think it worked any better today than it did yesterday.