#brightspace is still a massively overpriced, barely-functional, heavily-enshittified prototype of the principal-agent problem, in case anyone was wondering.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principal%E2%80%93agent_problem

Reason 237 I fucking hate #brightspace: they lock all conversation about their product behind a soft paywall (e.g. I get stupid emails like this where I can't just see what Yi Yan.L.782 said). Every fucking interaction has to be on their platform, under their control. Much of the content is hidden from search engines.

Of course, once you get into their little walled garden you discover that searching for unfixed bugs or unmet feature requests is only possible on a one-term-at-a-time search basis. There's almost no way to see if related issues exist.

No surprise: when I dove into this last year and spent a couple of hours trying to answer some questions about basic, industry-standard functionality (spoiler: the answer to all of them was "No"), I figured out that they have hundreds or thousands of unresolved issues going back 20 years.

This company is worth a billion dollars.

Edit: I clicked the link. I did. The message was "We have also had this question. Does anyone else know..."

Holy fuck this is stupid.

Every LMS I've ever used has convinced me of the importance of user-centered #design. A huge issue in all of them (#moodle, #brightspace, and #blackboard) is the sheer, mind-numing, RSI-inducing number of mouse clicks required to do almost anything.

Nearly every task in an #LMS has the potential to be done thousands of times per semester or more by an instructor. Reasonable, intuitive, ergonomic keyboard shortcuts would be very helpful. They rarely exist.

Whyyyyyyyy??? (#Brightspace added a "more" button, so I have to do one extra click for each and every student assignment)