[Nullabillity]

How on earth is it acceptable to force students (who have pretty much no position to argue) to install what is effectively malware?

[zulln]

You can use Zoom online without installing anything.

[igetspam]

I tried that the other day and could only get a 403. Is their web portal still active? I ended up just dialing in.

[GhostVII]

They disabled it temporarily (https://status.zoom.us/incidents/16ll08mmddk6)

[Nullabillity]

After exhausting all other options. And the malware peddlers are still ultimately getting their payday.

[puszczyk]

What would you instead?

[est31]

NYC could set up a jitsi instance.

https://github.com/jitsi/docker-jitsi-meet#quick-start

[igetspam]

That's what I'm planning. I've been happy enough with jitsi that I'm going to run my own and enforce auth policies.

[valuearb]

Whatever it is has to be super easy to use.

Source: Father of two teenagers struggling with getting them acclimated to online school right now.

[pm24601]

https://highfive.com/