[photochemsyn]

"Cruically, our teachers could see how many times we've watched the video..."

This sounds like it's normalizing invasive surveillance. Getting kids used to the notion that their teachers should be able to monitor their online educational activities... and then, if governments and corporations are tracking all your internet activity, email communications, phone location data - it's just the way things are done! Now have a social credit score, it's like a grade in life...

That said, I wonder if there's a similar approach, some scripts users could run to artificially boost their social credit score (in China, for example). Just something that would run in the background - it could send pithy positive tweets, visit all the government-approved websites, etc. - all with no need for the user to be involved.

[dubya]

Canvas, which I think is pretty standard, has views, last access, and total access time for all pages. I don't think there's a way to choose not to track, and I've not seen a policy for what happens to the data.

Our school also has mandatory online trainings every year or two, with videos in a pop-up with most controls disabled. "document.querySelector('video').playbackRate = 1000;" used to save a lot of time, but with cross-site protections it's easier to use a plugin, which is much slower to adjust.