This piece from @deandad is spot on. And I would add that one of the contexts of a course is "community," and we have to be very cautious about how and when others interact with a class community because they don't have the full context. insidehighered.com/blogs/confessi…
One of the reasons I'm against surveillance tech in classrooms (including the LMS, by the way) is because I see them as a violation of the community. Feeling like you're being monitored by people outside the community without the full context is bad for teachers and students.
The lack of context and community understanding is also one of the reasons I find the standardized tests around writing instruction so troubling. You do the work of building a community of writers for a year and then boom, it's an anonymous assessor whose judgement matters.
This outside monitoring and assessment may be working from an entirely different set of assumptions and values from what a class has been building over the course of a semester or year. I think outsiders deserve a window into those things, but it shouldn't be a livestream.
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