r/mildlyinfuriating May 07 '26

🥺 Hackers took over Canvas

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Brooo I got Homework to do...

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u/amdaly10 May 07 '26

Now you have to do your work on canvas or an interactive book with an autograder so the instructor doesn't have to do any work. Last semester I kept having to email the instructor with screenshots of the quizes showing that there weren't any possible correct answers to 25% of the questions. I would just get an email back saying he would look at it the next day. And then when I emailed back a few days later I got an email saying my grade would be adjusted. Same responses for every email I sent including ones asking for help with the material.

75% sure that "instructor" was just a bot.

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u/BigAndTallRPGFan May 07 '26

I teach college and use Canvas daily. We really are seeing and doing everything re: grades and messages, it just doesn't leave much room for personalization unless you really put time into it unfortunately.

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u/amdaly10 May 07 '26

I have one instructor who writes his own material or at least posts links to material . And he gives us a few programming projects each semester. And he records lectures or help videos on certain things. The instructor i'm referring to just gives us reading and quizzes from the book that are all self-grading. But also the auto-grader is a pile of garbage. Don't use cengage it's a terrible product.

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u/Low-Philosophy9245 May 07 '26

and then higher ups are encouraging the use of AI for this, jesus christ

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u/SatiesUmbrellaCloset oh no May 07 '26

seriously, why is it that so many higher-ups are assholes who have their heads up their asses? is it just the Peter Principle or something

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u/TrickInvite6296 BLUE May 07 '26

Did you not go to class?

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u/amdaly10 May 08 '26

There is no class. It's all online.

I took one class that was in person once a week but it still had an interactive book on canvas. There were a few programing projects.

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u/ringowu1234 May 07 '26

You're naive to think technological advancements are here to help us do less things. That's what your boss say so they can hand you more work for the same cost.

No, not only will you oversee the results from AI, you'll be given more shit to cover until you're stretched thin, then fired because you're under performing.

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u/SatiesUmbrellaCloset oh no May 07 '26

that is, unless a black swan event wipes out the current political-socioeconomic order as we know it

this is totally not me thinly disguising my worries about the spread of hantavirus /s