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I am a current user of Blackboard, but only under duress, and would heartily welcome a replacement written by someone who actually cares about software. Under t
by ecuzzillo 20y ago
I am a current user of Blackboard, but only under duress, and would heartily welcome a replacement written by someone who actually cares about software. Under their model, even if you write the best software, it is likely that no one will care, since the users of the software (teachers and students) are not the people who select the software (administrators). Multiple professors at CMU have commented that Blackboard is a system designed to annoy professors and otherwise not accomplish anything that couldn't be done via email and normal websites. All of my best teachers have rejected it.
This means that if you do, in fact, write even passably good software, teachers might spontaneously decide to use it. However, from there I'm not sure where any revenue would come from.