Blackboard Jungle

There is summat shady going on in the smoke & mirrors world of Academia and its called the Blackboard Jungle. Now I am enrolled with my comrades and compatriots on an MA in Playwriting and so far so good but now my age, my failing eyesight, the fact that I still only tap the keyboard with two fingers means that I have now entered the murky world of the 'Blackboard Jungle'. An IT whizz would say that it is a central forum for the dissemination of information to the student body from Tutors and course organisers but from where I am sitting it is a confusing jumble of titles, headings, marking criteria, appendices, bibliographies and reading list. Now I didn't come on this course to be an Academic and win the prize for bullshit baffles brains, I came on this course to learn the craft and discipline of Playwriting. I understand that there has to be an academic 'whatever' to use a complicated term but I feel that this 'Blackboard' is again symptomatic of the 'Divide & Conquer' mentality. You go into most libraries now and the whole system is automated. Vast swathes of the elderly were cut down by machines, who confused them by asking if they wanted to borrow or return books, whereas they had been used to wasting the librarians time with inane questions.
Now it is Bar Code, Beep Beep, Britain.
I am posting this because I am annoyed. If it wasn't for a good Samaritan in the first semester that notified me that I had 24 hours to get a 2,000 word essay in, then I would have been penalised heavily and the Blackboard Jungle leaves you in no doubt of the penalties for late submission. Castration and Hanging are obligatory.  Keep the Customer at arms length, keep the student at arms length, keep the job applicant at arm's length. We can deal with you as long as you fit into our 'one size fits all model of behaviour'. I did not see the link for this particular assessment and now in the second semester I am struggling again because I am going back and forth between the Jungle and the Student Email account which has two different Addresses and Passwords.
I am drowning, not because of Plays and Playwriting but because of the inner tension required to think of a Research Project Title with Appendices and Bibliographies and nits and facial tics. Having put all sorts of weird and wonderful search titles in Google over the years I realise that computers don't have all the answers but that people don't either.