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mikeocool on Sept 19, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: I develop free software because of CUNY and Blackb...

"The project is not pitched as a Blackboard alternative, for a number of reasons (primary among which is that the Commons’s Terms of Service prohibit undergraduate courses from being held on the site)."

Is there any particular reason undergraduate courses prohibited?

boonebgorges on Sept 19, 2011 [–]

Money. The site was started on a shoestring budget, and we don't have the resources (servers, support, etc) to serve the 300,000 undergrads at CUNY.

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