[woodruffw]

Thanks to the addition of Top Hat by my statistics professor, I'm now registered on at least six functionally similar/equivalent services this semester:

- Top Hat

- GradeScope

- Canvas (UMD rebranded it to "ELMS")

- WebAssign

- Piazza

- The CS department's internal grading/recordkeeping system

I understand the need for competition, and I think that shaking Pearson and McGraw-Hill from their dominant positions is good.

However, I am measurably less productive in the class that requires me to use three of these than the ones that have little-to-no online interaction - devices in lecture are a distraction, automatically graded homework is a frustratingly fuzzy experience, and paying $50+ to multiple third parties to subsidize the workload heaped on my professor by the school feels exploitative all-around.