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Hoping those familiar with #LaTeX can give me some advice here. I've started using it to create my assignments for school. I'm not writing technical papers yet, but I find using LaTeX with #Zotero in #VSCode more #accessible with a #ScreenReader than most other setups I've tried.
Since my discussion posts have to follow #APA style, I’m using LaTeX for those as well as full papers. That part is going well—but I’m running into trouble when I need to actually post what I’ve written.
My school uses Brightspace, which allows discussion posts in either rich text or #HTML. I have #Pandoc installed, so I tried converting my LaTeX source to HTML and pasting the code. But Pandoc didn’t include my references section in the output.
I also tried copying from the PDF, but that stripped all formatting.
Does anyone know how I can get a clean HTML version of my work—with references included—that I can paste into Brightspace?
Here’s the command I’ve been using:
pandoc main.tex \
--bibliography=references. Bib \
--csl=apa.csl \
--standalone \
-o main.html
It creates the HTML file, but the references section is missing.
Any tips?
#Accessibility #AssistiveTech #Pandoc #APAstyle #Brightspace #EdTech #AcademicWriting #InclusiveTech #BlindTech #HigherEd #CitationTools #OpenSource #WritingWorkflow

More things #brightspace can't do: negative numbers.

The formula editor in the gradebook is already a horrorshow of bad 1990s web design. And now this.

There's probably a workaround.

OK, I just realized that I said "there's probably a workaround" for the problem of a software system used by education systems all over the world that can't handle negative numbers.

#billiondollarcompany #enshittification #math #mathishard

#mtbos #iteachmath #D2l #brightspace #moodle
Lots of interactive online learning activities have nifty visual displays of student progress (ALEKS, et al).... is there a way to generate something like that in D2L or Moodle? I remember figuring out the code a million years ago in HTML / Javascript but if there's something already there

In its wisdom, #SUNY central has apparently decided that allowing an instructor to manage multiple sections of the same course from one LMS shell is a violation of #FERPA

So here I am coding and entering grades and fighting with #brightspace to perfectly synchronize my two intro #statistics courses.

I would like to have a conversation with whatever SUNY lawyers made this ridiculous decision, with a FERPA representative on conference call.

#unpaidlabor #faculty #highered #grading #waste