Sunday, September 27, 2020
Comparing yaks
After spending a week waiting for various permissions, I finally settled into proper testing of my courseware on the Canvas LMS. After two days of trying and failing, I happened to notice some forum discussions.... It turns out others are having the same problem, which seems to have cropped up this semester. Canvas simply isn't handling SCORM grades properly.
I don't know whether I should be semi-satisfied that it's not entirely my bug, or annoyed at spending so much UNPAID time and energy on someone else's bug. I'll pick 'Both'. Canvas is part of a fairly large corporation that has its own PAID programmers. Why aren't they fixing their OWN bugs?
Overall, I can't see why Canvas is becoming the preferred LMS. Compared to Blackboard and Moodle, it's much harder to get into, much harder to use, much less transparent, much less resilient. Canvas rejects several browsers outright.
Blackboard and Moodle are about equal. They behave differently, but both have the same general level of convenience and flexibility. For my taste Blackboard is marginally better because it handles multi-SCO packages.
Labels: TMI
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