The community college cancelled the last of my community education classes for this semester, because not enough people signed up for it (only three signed up, they need six).  So, of the four classes that I had scheduled this semester, I actually only taught one. 

That's irritating.  Especially since this particular college's website is so stupid that I suspect that I had a bunch of people who wanted to come to the class, but the people couldn't figure out how to sign up for it.

I'm a computer professional and a website professional.  You'd think that I'd have a step up in trying to figure out how to accomplish things on a website.  By the time I was done I was absolutely astounded at the counter-intuitiveness of their process, and I'm actually flabbergasted that those three people could actually figure out _how_ to sign up for the class.

First off, before you can sign up for any class at this college, you have to have an ID number... and they make that a stupidly idiotic process. You can't just click on a webform and get a number.  No... you have to snail-mail something in and wait for a snail-mail back, or you have to fax a form in and wait for a snail-mail back... before you can even begin to sign up for a community education class!! 

They're kidding, right?  Don't they know that community ed classes are impulse buys?  People want to click on a link and sign up for a class, all in one quick session.  But apparently this college doesn't know that.  And no, unfortunately they're not kidding.  Morons!

So, my kid goes to this college, and he has an ID number.   I asked him to sign into his college account and look to see how many seats are open for the class.  He signs in, and after 15 minutes of frustration, we can't find anyplace that says how to sign up for the class let alone find the page for the class itself. 

Let me get this right... they insist that people get an ID number, then after we get an ID number we can't sign up for community ed classes?  Oh, this really does make sense.

I'm beyond annoyed at this point and go get my laptop.  I get to the registration spot where it insists on the ID number, then take my computer to my kid, and he logs on.  Which then took me to a completely different part of the website!!

Mind you I got to this spot by clicking on the class number that I wanted to register for, then I log in, and do I get taken to the page to register for that class?  No!!  It takes me LITERALLY (I timed it) 20 minutes to get to the page to actually find out if there were any seats left in the class, let alone trying to figure out to actually register for the class.

**sigh**  Oh, and to top that...  The gal arranging for my classes always leaves everything to the last minute, then got sick for a couple days, so I'm not teaching any classes this summer.  And the only class she's proposing for this fall is at the college that's impossible to sign up for, so I told her I'd pass on that dubious honor.

So I guess I'm moving off onto other opportunities.  **annoyed**