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So you need a Google account to login? That's going to be a problem. At my college Blackboard isn't tied in to the administrative processes (there's another s
by ddw 15y ago
So you need a Google account to login? That's going to be a problem.
At my college Blackboard isn't tied in to the administrative processes (there's another system for that), so hopefully they will consider this. "Free" is a word that they like to hear. I don't know too much about the guts of Blackboard but it doesn't seem to be as customizable as a Google system will be.
- marquis 15y agoFor the schools I work with (secondary education), this is a bonus. Faculty has been trying to get students to use their Google Apps email and converse using the school's own tools rather than Facebook. Any tool that gets the kids to login to Google Apps to use the website is a bonus. I'm curious to see how this LMS works out and am recommending teachers check it out immediately.
- mdaniel 15y agoDon't forget that the Google ecosystem is not just the "@gmail.com" or "@googlemail.com" domains. There are tons of deployments of Google Apps for Domains, wherein one authenticates using the DNS domain[1] of the hosted system, not via the "traditional" Google credentials. I could be misunderstanding your concern, however, since the vanilla Apps for Domains does store the credentials in a Google controlled machine, AFAIK. I cannot speak to whether there are any customizable authentication options available with Apps for Domains. 1 = and thus creates a new namespace for usernames
- deepbedi 15y agoCurrently Google requires you to have a Google acct to use any of their API's. So a site like OpenClass will probably have to cater to that...really hope they don't expect people to use two types of logins... Instructure's Canvas also used Google APIs and yes, you have to have a Google acct to use certain things like GoogleDocs within their site...