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Most graduates aren't really qualified to work anywhere that they couldn't have worked before going to college in the first place.
I used LaTeX as a ugrad, it’s not that hard
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I won't disagree on usability. It has some sharp edges for sure. But > A bright undergrad could build a superior replacement in a few months, even without AI. Is quite naive. Canvas is not at all just a crud app. You can view the code yourself as it's AGPL
What component in particular goes substantially beyond CRUD?
But it’s rarely the case in practice.
In a sibling comment right here for example someone bemoaned the difficulty in Canvas of having two TAs simultaneously grade separate parts of the same assignment. That sounds like something that goes beyond CRUD.
But more importantly any workflow system, which an LMS will be full of, has to handle the always tricky problem of how changes to workflows affect the things that are currently in the workflow. Assignments posted in course X need to be approved by person Y; some assignments are submitted for approval; person Y goes on leave and now the approval needs to be person Z. Not a simple CRUD problem.
These are things that occur to me with only a moment’s consideration of what an LMS system might need to deal with. The actual domain probably has considerable more complexity that I can’t even imagine.
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I used LaTeX as a ugrad, it’s not that hard
you're at the other end of the spectrum; unless you get work in academia this is not an advantange.
I'm surprised how few comments there are on this thread. This is probably affecting millions of students at the most stressful time of the year. Incidentally I've always hated Canvas and probably every other LMS provider, but what is particularly amusing about this current outage is that it is occurring at exactly the time when universities are demanding that all professors put all of their materials on Canvas, witho…
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The alternative would be that each school develop their own platform for this, which also isn't very good use of their time and money? Edit: No idea why this was down voted so much. I'm not defending Canvas, just wondering what the alternative would be.
> The alternative would be that each school develop their own platform for this I worked at a university which did exactly this, in the UK. It was a bespoke platform which integrated incredibly well with the rest of the systems the university used because it was designed from the ground-up to meet the institution's needs, there were regular user groups involving academics to understand what features needed to be buil…
1. It should be illegal for any company to pay ransomware attacks. Period. No pay out ever. 2. The penalty for being the attacker should be linked to the system they violated. If you do this to a hospital and someone dies you are life in prison / chair. The minimum sentence should be so painful that it deters the attack. No this will not stop this and companies need to be held accountable for their lack of security i…
Shouldn’t we be focusing on making it harder to pay overseas criminals in the first place? /ahem/ crypto platforms facilitating transfers to bad actors /ahem/
There are no shortage of coins and no shortage of sketchy exchanges. The platforms do work with LEOs, when asked, but my understanding is that unless the perp was a serious nonce, chasing the transfers themselves is a fools errand.
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I've never used Canvas before, but all the LMSes that I've used allow students to enable emails whenever anything is updated, including when grades are posted. This is off by default because it's often 10+ emails a day, because many teachers post notes once a day, and with 5 classes, that adds up pretty quick. I personally have it enabled because it's pretty manageable with some custom Outlook rules, but setting this…
> setting this up is well beyond the capabilities of most students. Setting up custom email filters is beyond the capabilities of most students? What are they learning? Where will they be qualified to work?
It reminds me of an old joke my father used to say about jobs with virtually no interview (fast food, etc). He called it "The Mirror Test", as in if you hold a mirror up to the person, does it fog up? If yes, you are hired!
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> LMS's are also just really complicated pieces of software it's MIT.
But it’s not like MIT gains anything from rolling their own LMS.
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Shouldn’t we be focusing on making it harder to pay overseas criminals in the first place? /ahem/ crypto platforms facilitating transfers to bad actors /ahem/
But, then, how would Trump’s family and cronies get paid?
Like is that your actual model? I’m curious