Lane signed up for his first online college class and it started on Tuesday. He seems to have been in a state of confusion ever since. He kept signing onto the blackboard and not seeing any assignments. Then he would tell me that he didn’t have any assignments and log off. Finally, yesterday I told him that I needed to look at it.

When I followed some logical links, I found the syllabus, the class agenda, and the assignments. I showed him where they were located and told him to get started, assuming all was well. His next excuse, he didn’t know how to do the assignments or how to turn them in to the teacher.

Today, he went to college for his physiology class and talked to that teacher about his problems with his online psychology class. He called me to tell me the problem was his operating system. The teacher told him the blackboard doesn’t work correctly with Vista.
I reminded him that we had already been on the blackboard.

I called his adult sister and asked her if she would come and walk him through it. She had taken the online class previously. He said he was more confident, but still didn’t understand how to turn in his assignments. Therefore, I spent the last two hours printing off his syllabus, his homework assignments, his agendas, and stapling them together in order.

He has had one of those weeks where he can’t seem to get anything accomplished or stay focused, which is why he needs to be homeschooled. He can’t seem to follow the typical pattern of education with daily studies Monday through Friday. Hopefully, soon he’ll have a week where he can complete several lessons a day. Until then, I’ll keep redirecting him ever five minutes.

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