alt Hacker NewsMaybe a hybrid approach. Scramble to create a final exam/project and give them the option to do pass/fail or a real grade, their choice.
And then wish for the death of saas and a day where you can deploy your own software you can control and modify as you need.
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What is the strategic response then? Assuming I'm a student and my grades are gone, and I want to graduate, shouldn't I pick pass/fail?
Does a future employer look at pass/fail vs the grade? do they care? Are there even jobs that matter enough to care out there for them?
This seems like, solving the problem but without actually seeing the broader goal or trajectory education is supposed to follow.
> day where you can deploy your own software you can control and modify as you need.
Canvas is mostly FOSS
Universities are not going to write their own software, and no they can’t use ‘agents’ to write and maintain it for them either.