It Takes 16 Clicks for a Student to Open a PowerPoint on an iPad

Re:It Takes 16 Clicks for a Student to Open a PowerPoint on ... by surgical_fire on Friday November 13, 2026 @04:31PM (#50490084)

What is really crazy is that things that should be just an application locally installed on the device (such as PowerPoint) need a login at all.

There's a secondary issue of schools pushing children to use proprietary applications when perfectly serviceable alternatives exist (especially for school level work).

How the hell we all normalized this crap is maddening.

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Re:It Takes 16 Clicks for a Student to Open a PowerPoint on ... by paradox460 on Saturday November 14, 2026 @03:39AM (#50495238)

It's not even new. 20 years ago I got a bad grade in highschool because I used StarOffice and not Office 2003 for a project

My father and I had an unreasonably long conversation with the dean of students about how requiring someone to purchase a $300 software suite for a basic highschool English class was egregious

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Re:It Takes 16 Clicks for a Student to Open a PowerPoint on ... by port11 on Saturday November 14, 2026 @07:27AM (#50496490)

The school in the linked post actually requires 3 separate logins before you can see the presentation, that’s just…

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Re:It Takes 16 Clicks for a Student to Open a PowerPoint on ... by WorldMaker on Saturday November 14, 2026 @09:57AM (#50497537)

One of the "best" parts being the first one of those was meant to be an "SSO" but apparently is design-by-committee and very bad at it. (Requiring too frequent logins, not saving usernames between logins [for kids?!], requiring login dances at downstream logins.)

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Re:It Takes 16 Clicks for a Student to Open a PowerPoint on ... by hulitu on Sunday November 15, 2026 @06:21AM (#50506068)

> that’s just…

I think they call it UX.

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