There were a few CS courses at UoM that required Blackboard... and I hated it. It became a running joke between my tutorial group and my tutor (who was, at the time, the director of undergraduate studies in the school) and sometimes they mentioned Blackboard just to make me rant.

That said, you're absolutely right. The system works perfectly well, but we are talking about a computer science department here and not a humanities department.

PS is Dr Latham still teaching and, more importantly, wearing those hideous shirts?