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School software
Raised as a usability problem by 25 people on Hacker News over 18 years (2009–2026), in 26 threads.
This is a broad category rather than one product, so its issues aren't ranked on the home page.
No issue was raised by at least 3 people in 3 threads this year.
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Interface so bad user had to scrape it to see gradesUnreviewed
20092026- Homework is spread across many confusing websites with inconsistent interfaces, causing missed assignments2026-09-21
- Grade entry web form is painfully hard to use, worse than the old spreadsheet2024-04-12
- Interface is so atrocious the user had to scrape it to see grades2021-11-06
Unreviewed issues were grouped by machine: Claude Haiku labelled each comment as a usability complaint, named what it's about and summed up the problem in a line, and a small model grouped similar problems. Nobody has checked them by hand. Expect mistakes.
The newest 24 complaints
- Homework is spread across many confusing websites with inconsistent interfaces, causing missed assignments2026-09-21
- Having to switch to yet another app each year to get school updates2025-12-24
- Schools-required edu software is a mish mash of apps that fail to load and need restarts2025-12-10
- Forced to use an app when the same functionality works better in a mobile browser2025-06-15
- So bad the student avoided logging in, only wanting to check once a year2024-11-12
- Grade entry web form is painfully hard to use, worse than the old spreadsheet2024-04-12
- Missing scroll bars, inconsistent forms, and answers lost between test pages2024-02-07
- Login gets stuck greyed out after being logged out; room list loads slowly and out of order2024-01-10
- Must log into a confusing, ad-infested site every other day to check for messages2023-10-01
- Teachers must scroll left and right per child to enter attendance, with no tabbing between fields2022-11-16
- Forced through irrelevant steps and bounced to a separate portal for simple jobs2022-10-26
- Hard to find information across scattered systems and hard to trust what's current2022-10-17
- Animations run at low fps, keyboard is slow to appear, password saving and Apple login missing, modal lacks scrolling and back button out of view2022-05-03
- Interface is so atrocious the user had to scrape it to see grades2021-11-06
- Software is hard to transfer away from, and district staff hate it but can't change it2021-11-03
- Parents can't easily tell how to log in and set up notices2021-03-06
- Parents can't easily see what's due, submitted, or graded; the platform is hard to navigate.2020-04-29
- Printer drivers are a pain to install and printing often fails2019-11-22
- Very complex, bad user interface that staff are trained to use2019-08-12
- Entering each grade requires three mouse clicks, with no import or export2019-02-26
- Same info re-entered across many forms, per child, with awkward scrolling in iframe2018-11-06
- Shows only letter grades, not percentages, forcing manual weighted calculations2018-06-04
- Library search is a huge pain to use, so the commenter avoids it2016-08-09
- Education software is slow, unintuitive and wastes teachers' limited class-change time2009-10-21