alt Hacker NewsMy wife is in grad school at a major university and is dealing with this right now the week of midterms for spring quarter.
I totally understand why a university wouldn’t want to bake their own learning portals but just feels like such a single point of risk to use third party solutions for something like this.
Back in my day… all we had was a school email via on-premise services. I guess we registered for classes in a web portal but that’s about it. The idea of online class was entirely foreign at the time. Ain’t nobody hacking a blue book.
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Universities used to do this sort of stuff themselves. Then it became a business handled by purchasing rather than needs met by the department themselves.
> Ain’t nobody hacking a blue book.
Well not with that attitude
A university doesn't need to bake its own learning portal, Moodle exists and is used by a lot of large schools.
I totally understand why a university wouldn’t want to bake their own learning portals
They used to, in the pre-cloud/SaaS era; and they were much simpler and better UX than the slop that they're renting today, because the actual users were not far from the developers.
It’s wild to me that people in this comment section are suggesting that schools should improve their security by rolling their own platform, which is bound to be filled with security holes, instead of using a popular, maintained, open source option.