At the very tail end of when I was going to college, classes were starting to move to "online assignments" where you type your answer into an online tool which

At the very tail end of when I was going to college, classes were starting to move to "online assignments" where you type your answer into an online tool which matches it as a string against the expected answer, and it's exactly as intolerable as you imagine. Teachers like them because they don't have to grade papers, textbook publishers like them because the online code prevents reselling the textbook (or at least, the new customer will need to purchase a key anyway).