Yes please! Something where I can just plug in a Github repo of lesson 01.md, lesson 02.md, with links to skip to the next lesson, or a way to embed a quiz into a lesson! Now that would be so useful. I mean all I need from an LMS is for it to work with our stuff, let me update stuff through text files and Markdown (or Org-mode), track student activity, and manage quizzes. Email notifications when a student does a quiz would also be nice, but I've been doing okay without them so far. Accessibility in how students read material and how I manage it is needed for me, since I'm one of the few blind people out there that use this stuff.
> Holy cow imagine if the interface to handle documents would be the interface people already know. I’m not even joking, this is a brilliant idea.
Yes. It also should be a pretty obvious one, but the industry and wider software development culture developed a blind spot for it.
I mean, how many startups would offer better value to customer if they ditched their custom, bloated, dog-slow SaaS, and instead offered an Excel spreadsheet? Happens way too often. I know of a failed startup which sunk a ton of money into pretty basic React fronted, whose main competitor actually licensed an Excel plugin for the same job. And much more functional at that.
The whole software dev world avoids interoperability like a plague. For-profit software at least has the Sinclair excuse (salary depends on one's not understanding it), but somehow open source is even worse. Back in the 1990s companies at least tried to make their software pluggable with/into other software via COM/DCOM. As brittle as it was, at least they tried.
