[cangeroo]

You're a great educator!

I'm surprised that other people here cannot separate their subjective opinions, whether they agree with your judgment, from fact, whether you're a good educator.

It would be more reasonable to say: A good educator would help students understand that PDF files should have a small file size, and if a student fails to notice that, you will have to downgrade them for lack of attention to important detail.

And, of course the acquisition is bad news. Americans are the only people I've encountered that seem to celebrate the dystopian monopolized unfree market that we're headed towards.

Although I wouldn't be surprised if Canva has people to distort social media to downvote anyone who disagrees with them, as other companies do.

[blowski]

If the course makes it clear that grading is affected by accessibility and efficiency of file size, and then submitted work ignores those factors - regardless of Canva being used - then downgrading it is justified. Perhaps it’s obvious to designers that Canva has these problems, but to a non-designer like myself, the comment sounds like snobbery, with students’ grades affected by the capricious whims of their teacher.

> I wouldn't be surprised if Canva has people to distort social media to downvote anyone who disagrees with them

Snide remarks about astroturfing are also off topic here.

[huntedsnark]

> Snide remarks about astroturfing are also off topic here.

How is that off topic when there are literally people in this thread from Canva arguing the framing and not the main point he made? Everything you disagree with isn't off topic.