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0 pointsbradley131mo ago0 comments

I'm in Europe, and we don't use Canvas (at least, I've never heard of it). However, we have similar diseases. In my particular school, it's a massive SharePoint site plus ever more stuff in Teams. Plus Moodle, plus other services.

The MS services have not improved teaching at all. What they do, is fragment communications, and add ever more places people have to look, in hopes of finding things.

But the administration loves them. "The bureaucracy is expanding, to meet the expanding needs of the bureaucracy."

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pfortuny1mo ago

Spain here. Most of our public Universities have their IT stack on MS... I cannot fathom how much of our national budget goes to their pockets.

Thankfully, I store my teaching materials on my personal non-uni webpage, and the student's marks in my office's computer (apart from the MS-based Uni system).

Whenever something happens with MS, chaos ensues throughout the whose Uni and the students end up paying the consequences.

iamflimflam11mo ago

Teams and SharePoint eventually infect any organisation that uses Office.

tokai1mo ago

There are plenty of European Canvas customers.

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