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by maxyme 2471 days ago
The student's input is rendered for teachers to make it easier to grade submissions without opening them in an external tool.

As someone who used blackboard in college I can tell you it's a mess. Neither teachers nor students like it. It integrates with a ton of 3rd party libraries to be "helpful" by embedding content like this but ends up with a ton of different, inconsistent and often broken experiences.

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