{"id":5811,"date":"2021-01-05T20:21:40","date_gmt":"2021-01-06T02:21:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/?p=5811"},"modified":"2021-01-05T20:29:20","modified_gmt":"2021-01-06T02:29:20","slug":"click-to-delete","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/2021\/01\/05\/click-to-delete\/","title":{"rendered":"Click to Delete"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There are many ways Google Classroom has been a game changer for teachers with remote students. On the other hand, after using it for almost two semesters, I can say that the Google approach to app development &mdash; build the bare minimum set of features to impress first-time users &mdash; leads to horrors. <i>(Horrors, I tell you.)<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Yet until now, I&rsquo;ve kept my mouth mostly shut. After all, it was better than the alternatives. Mouth shut no longer.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Scenario<\/strong>: Suppose I want to delete all assignments from the fall semester. <em>(I won&rsquo;t go into why this is very important. Trust me; it is.)<\/em>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Question<\/strong>: How many mouse clicks does that take to accomplish this?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Answer<\/strong>: Here&rsquo;s a back of the envelope calculation.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>To delete a single assignment takes 3 clicks.<\/li>\n<li>Multiply that times the number of assignments in a typical week: 4&#215;3=12 clicks.<\/li>\n<li>Multiply that times the number of weeks for the semester. 16&#215;12=192 clicks.<\/li>\n<li>Multiply that times six classes. 6&#215;192=1152 clicks.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>More than one thousand clicks to delete all the assignments. And of course there&rsquo;s the scrolling that you have to do between every 3 clicks.<\/p>\n<p>Google has no solution to this. And I have no plan to add some plugin from an unknown developer to automate this for me &mdash; all you have to do is give said unknown developer write-access to your Google Classroom. <em>Not going to happen.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>So many clicks, so little time.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are many ways Google Classroom has been a game changer for teachers with remote students. On the other hand, after using it for almost two semesters, I can say that the Google approach to app development &mdash; build the bare minimum set of features to impress first-time users &mdash; leads to horrors. (Horrors, I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5811"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5811"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5811\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5813,"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5811\/revisions\/5813"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}