Mastodawn

I wrote a static site generator for a course web site (https://comp127.macalester.digital/f25/). I like it, and I’m poking at documenting and open-sourcing it so that other instructors can use it for their own courses if they want to.

It needs a cute name. Suggestion box is now open in the replies.

EDIT: I was a fool to mention Moodle in the original version. It’s wrecked the replies: everyone’s talking about LMSes, and all the name suggestions are about Moodle — when the point is that this is not anti-Moodle, but a tool to solve a different set of problems.

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Ken Butler 21h ago

@inthehands my only suggestion is a terrible one: Bad Moodle.

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Ken Butler

@inthehands all right, sensible comment: a course needs to have two things, (i) a place to share material, and (ii) a place for grades (and maybe things like submitting work online and grading it). I don't like our Canvas any more than you like Moodle, but I have to concede that (ii) is something I am going to delegate to it. I have no interest in letting Moodle/Canvas near (i), though, partly because I want anyone interested to be able to see the material, and our Canvas is only accessible to students actually enrolled in the course (and not even those on the waitlist).