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skywhoppertoday at 7:53 PM1 replyview on HN

Canvas itself is also open source (https://github.com/instructure/canvas-lms), which was the big appeal of it originally in a world where Blackboard had a stranglehold on the LMS market.


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__MatrixMan__today at 8:53 PM

Huh, neat! I had just assumed otherwise because everything else my university uses is nine kinds of proprietary.

Like, they recently tried to sell me to McMillian who then tried to sell me the "submit homework" button for $20. I complained and got exempted from having to submit homework, but that's par for the course in edtech right now.