u/The_B_Wolf

My company has for the last 6 years or so been using the free version of Canvas. That's been down for a while now and I guess we're going to hear its ultimate fate on Tuesday after the Memorial Day weekend.

I use it, along with in-person classroom instruction, to train and onboard new customers who need to learn how to use my company's products. The online course is given to them as part of adopting our platform. They get a continuing site license to use it if they get new staff or need it for a reference or we develop new features that they want to know about.

So as our customer base grows, so will the number of enrollees. That makes paying per enrollees pretty painful. The number of concurrent users is probably pretty low, but will grow as the company does.

I would rather have something hosted and pay to have someone else maintain it rather than our IT department.

We do occasionally use it for internal training like HIPAA. But that's under 20 people and it's once a year.

The course itself is of course text and images and a lot of video instruction. There are like 5 quizzes and you do get certified if you pass them all.

I don't need white labeling. I don't need single sign-on. I don't need integration with other systems.

Can I do this anywhere for under $1,500 a year?

First, a used M2 Pro MacBook Pro. It's the one with 12 CPU cores and 19 GPU cores. 16 gigs of RAM. 512 SSD. Used, but very good condition. I'm asking $800 for it.

Second, a brand new M5 MacBook Pro. 10 CPU, 10 GPU cores, 24 gigs RAM, 1TB SSD. Not only has this never been unboxed, the box it shipped in has never been opened either. It is literally brand new. I paid $1,900 for it plus $175 tax. I am asking $1,700. Only someone with serious intent to buy may open the boxes. If the item is exactly as I described, we have a deal.

For the last six or seven years, my company has been using the "free for teachers" version of Canvas by Instructure. What with the recent security incident, it looks like that stuff is gone and not coming back. Fortunately, most of our educational assets are in YouTube videos and we of course still have all those.

I've been thinking of using the hosted version of Frappe, but I'm having trouble with it. Mostly around creating lessons that look the way I want them to. Anyone have any experience with this?

Or advice in general? It is a short course. But we use it to help train our customers to use our product.

My company had been using the "free for teacher" version of Canvas (by Instructure) but now that it has seemingly gone away forever, we're switching to Frappe.

Some things seem to be going well. I made a course, gave it a few added a few Chapters, stubbed out a few lessons for them. I see how to write in the lesson. I see how to use a video. I can't figure out how to format the page so an image is sized the way I want and aligned the way I want (like to the right).

Demonstration videos show people using a markup language to do this. But that video is two years old. Besides which, I don't see the syntax for each thing you can do like the video shows. What gives?

I'm doing all this on their hosted service on a free trial. I plan to pony up in a few days before it ends. But If I can't have a picture with my text on the same page, I don't know...

I'm doing all this in a pretty clean Chrome browser.

I'm transitioning to a new board and power supply. I bought this Warwick Rockboard like a year ago, but never got around to using it. I just ordered their power supply, too. I won't be using their snap-on system, though. Good old velcro for me. I may put that old surge protector on the top of it. It's so convenient.

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I got a new MacBook Pro a week ago or so. I decided to set it up new and just drag a few folders over from my Time Machine backup.

But when I went to organize my desktop with Stacks by kind, it didn't look right. I'd take a screenshot and expect that specific image to be at the top of the screenshot stack. Instead, it was always somewhere else in the stack.

I tried organizing Stacks by date created, but that just put things in Today and Older, totally not what I wanted.

I figured it out though. I took away stacks. Then I organized the desktop by date added. Then I added the stacks back. Solved!