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I think what niels_olson is asking for is to weigh your time saved versus the collective spent time of the students in some measure when considering the use of

• _delirium 15y ago
  I know I always found these a huge imposition for no gain as a student. Email to a designated address: easy. Run a Unix command on the CS department server to submit: also easy. Deal with some bullshit LMS to figure out what it wants: hours of my time. Even as a prof, they're a pretty mixed bag. For a lot of simple things, it's infinitely easier to ask students to just email me something as an attachment, with a particular subject line, and then set up a quick procmail filter to grab and process the attachments. Then you can actually run scripts on the result, which it turns out in computer science is something you sometimes want to do (you might even want to run tests on code!). The role of these LMSs appears to be to make it as hard as possible to just get a damn zip file with all the data so I can run my scripts, and then also difficult to upload my grading results back into the system. Maybe that would be okay if they included internally all the functionality I might need, but: 1) it's hard to use any functionality they do include; and 2) as far as I can tell, they don't include anything like compiling code with gcc and running instructor-submitted tests on it.