Blackboard and I, like many of us students out there (and probably professors) have a love-hate relationship. It makes it simple to see work and know when things are due, but I can never get away from it. Professors can randomly send out a message saying "Oh..well, it's the weekend, [I don't want you to enjoy it] so go ahead and read 100 pages from your textbook for a quiz on Monday," where as back in the day, that probably did not happen last minute. Students were aware in advance. So instead of having a relaxing weekend, it would now be filled with endless schoolwork.
To take it even further, Blackboard Learning has created an app (a less recent development). Luckily, UGA has not jumped on this train yet, but other universities have. I first saw the app and thought "Ooh how easy would that make life, I wouldn't have to go all the way through my mobile browser to get to Blackboard!" Then the next thought came...I would never not be able to get on it. It would make life miserable. Although I can access Blackboard through mobile web, some features are not compatible, so I couldn't do everything I could on my computer. An app would allow me to do those things. Sometimes we need a break from school. We are already constantly connected everywhere else, which we may enjoy, but school is often a stressor. Limiting our time with these stressors in life seems to make life just a little bit better.
A little less than a month from graduating, I am incredibly happy that I am going to be done with school before UGA utilizes a mobile app to connect with students. The world is shifting that way, so it is definitely coming. But is this what students really want? To literally never have time away from schoolwork? Maybe, maybe not.
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