Show HN: We allow teachers to print out "Scantrons" and scan for results via fax

Every sheet of paper uniquely identifies the student and assignment. One thing we're going to do to make this less annoying is to remember the order the students' assignments were faxed in and just print it backwards the next time the teacher hits print.

Nothing is in place to handle the unfortunate way children choose to transport their homework at the moment; what we do have is that our recognition tech is fairly robust (it handles fax).

Further we've discussed methods of inferring who an unreadable assignment might belong to or having the teacher just step in and view the broken images themselves and do that part by hand.

It's not something we've invested a whole lot of time in figuring out yet, but something we know we will have to think about in the near future.

And in regards to MTurk, yes, we've considered it and romanced the idea of using it for free response type questions.

Our mission is to introduce technology into the classroom. We have computer/tablet based solutions now, but the classroom is currently still in a place where paper and pencil are king. But when they evolve, so will we. :)

You know, I saw when this website was posted earlier.

I think it's awesome you provide both faxing and scanning interfaces.

I had two questions: 1. Where are you based? Why don't you have a snail mail address on your website? It's not even clear you are based in the U.S.

2. On a more stat based note: When you analyze the data, are you merely analyzing the students, or are you providing IRT analysis for the test questions themselves? Do you provide support for A/B testing of test types, or dynamic testing in your online interface?

Because to me, those are things your average teacher can't do, but knowing how well each question and each test assesses students modeled as a function of student ability means that your assessments aren't just easier, but can be made better at measuring ability.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Item_response_theory

Hello!

1. Los Angeles, CA. I didn't think snail mail was necessary, but I guess we could throw it on there.

2. We're basically analyzing students. Our content is aligned to the common core standards, so we can figure out what standards students are weak in. These are very, very simple analytics that we're providing right now (that teachers can action upon).

Later on we plan to do more adaptive learning type stuff.

I'm going to read the IRT link, haven't seen that yet.

Thanks!

The UI on your home page is terrific! So well designed... did you do that in-house or contract it out?

In house! By me, so thanks! :)