The irony here is that for the 3 years I taught in a Blackboard environment, the Java implementation was incredibly buggy on Macs, and the WYSIWIG formatting never worked properly, meaning the school eventually gave up and followed the lead of profs who had been saying to students for quite some time “OK, we won’t count off for APA formatting in your citations for discussion posts.”
(To be really honest, the words “taught” and “school” above should probably be in irony quotes, but that’s another discussion.)
Also, it’s well and good to say “X sucks, you should use Y” but most of us teaching don’t actually get to choose the courseroom software we use. I wish.
