I guess what surprises me the most is that it’s even legal for schools to outsource the core of what they do to some random tech company.
replyEither way, they were under no obligation to adopt this garbage technology regardless of whether it’s available, so this is 110% on them.
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?
replyEdit: No idea why this was down voted so much. I'm not defending Canvas, just wondering what the alternative would be.
They do not need to develop it, but host an existing software on their infrastructure maybe...
replyThe alternative is FOSS.
replySeems like instructure canvas is FOSS: https://github.com/instructure/canvas-lms/tree/master
replyIf your line is GPL rather than AGPL there's Moodle.
replyBut you do then have to have a sysadmin capable of managing an enterprise grade LAMP stack.
Canvas already is AGPL, though?
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