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Really no point in doing a Lemmy instance if you're going to defederate from everything. There are easier forums to set up, or better yet, actual tools for classrooms like Blackboard and Moodle.
Are these alternative tools open source?
On the federation front, defederating from everything now doesnβt mean it will stay that way. Down the track, it might make sense to federate with similarly aligned instances. So having federation baked in from the get go might actually be a good idea for certain purposes.
Moodle is.
As an educator who has only ever worked with Moodle,
I agree that Canvas has better UX. I can't imagine another platform being as terrible to use in 2023 as Moodle lmao
Can you comment on Lemmy's suitabillity in this context?
Not really? It's a programming class with automated assignment submissions and grading, I don't see a lot of overlap with Lemmy's feature set for the kind of thing I'm doing.