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@bthalpin@mastodon.social
2025-10-01 20:25:13

I upload HTML files to #Brightspace to have more control over my content (writing it in #Emacs #orgmode). It mostly works, but yesterday I discovered BS was corrupting my code examples by applying Mat…

@bthalpin@mastodon.social
2025-10-08 15:22:27

One thing I like about #BrightSpace: I can import a calendar of events for a class/module, and if I change something, delete everything and reimport in a few clicks.
Pattern: manage your data outside the web app, import easily, remain in control.
All it needs is a calendar program outside that can export ICS format (and do it programmatically for a defined subset).

@bthalpin@mastodon.social
2025-09-30 23:48:22

Oh FFS! #Brightspace is fucking up my #Julialang teaching materials for tomorrow by being too clever.
It can interpret latex code and show formula. Brilliant.
It just can't not do it, so my regular expression example of
r"\([0-9] \)") is showing up as below, a…

Code example 

r"[0-9]+" where the [0-9]+ is in Latex format, Computer Modern Roman font, instead of the r"\([0-9]+\)" required.