Most modern copiers offer scan-and-email functionality. This might be much simpler than faxing.
You are correct! And they can be faxed to us as well. We just don't publicize it (yet).
Show HN: We allow teachers to print out "Scantrons" and scan for results via fax
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Re: Show HN: We allow teachers to print out "Scantrons" and scan for results via fax
#12Push the scantron-less grading. That's your biggest selling point, hands down. A pack of 500 forms (see link below) retails for $60; you'd be saving school districts literally tens of thousands of dollars per year.
https://store.scantron.com/OA_HTML/ibeCCtpItmDspRte.jsp?sect...
Also, I can't seem to get my PDFs to generate. Anyone else experiencing this?
Re: Show HN: We allow teachers to print out "Scantrons" and scan for results via fax
#13Push the scantron-less grading. That's your biggest selling point, hands down. A pack of 500 forms (see link below) retails for $60; you'd be saving school districts literally tens of thousands of dollars per year. https://store.scantron.com/OA_HTML/ibeCCtpItmDspRte.jsp?sect... Also, I can't seem to get my PDFs to generate. Anyone else experiencing this?
Checking.
Edit: DNS hasn't resolved for our print server. We're going to hotfix it real quick.
Re: Show HN: We allow teachers to print out "Scantrons" and scan for results via fax
#14Given that "Powerful analytics" tells most teachers "You're on the wrong website", I might have skipped that sentence and gone directly to the problem which they actually care about that you purport to solve. n.b. I love the idea of launching a new Heroku instance for demo accounts... though one questions why Heroku would let you do that. You should probably rethink that interaction design, though. "Setup Demo" sugge…
Just got an email from Heroku, looks like they're not happy about that.
Re: Show HN: We allow teachers to print out "Scantrons" and scan for results via fax
#15Push the scantron-less grading. That's your biggest selling point, hands down. A pack of 500 forms (see link below) retails for $60; you'd be saving school districts literally tens of thousands of dollars per year. https://store.scantron.com/OA_HTML/ibeCCtpItmDspRte.jsp?sect... Also, I can't seem to get my PDFs to generate. Anyone else experiencing this?
Checking. Edit: DNS hasn't resolved for our print server. We're going to hotfix it real quick.
That's what I call support. Awesome!
EDIT: Looks to be working!
Re: Show HN: We allow teachers to print out "Scantrons" and scan for results via fax
#16Given that "Powerful analytics" tells most teachers "You're on the wrong website", I might have skipped that sentence and gone directly to the problem which they actually care about that you purport to solve. n.b. I love the idea of launching a new Heroku instance for demo accounts... though one questions why Heroku would let you do that. You should probably rethink that interaction design, though. "Setup Demo" sugge…
Just got an email from Heroku, looks like they're not happy about that.
Not terribly shocking, since you probably just created more apps than their entire customer base this week. From their perspective it looks like a huge resource hit from a very, very costly action by an account which has not given them many reason$ to trust with anomalous behavior yet. Count yourself lucky: a less hacker friendly company would ban first and email later.
I'd suggest apologizing for a somewhat poor architecture choice, turning off that button temporarily, and then round-robinning folks into 10 demo instances which are reset daily with a big Do Not Put Student Data In Here warning at top in red. This may be easier than rearchitecturing the demo to be multi-tenant, though that is a good idea long-term.
Re: Show HN: We allow teachers to print out "Scantrons" and scan for results via fax
#17This is one of the most interesting companies I've seen posted on HN in a while. Good luck achieving market penetration.
I'd put up a pdf of a generated assignment that can be scan/fax graded online right away in an easy to access fashion. That is what I most wanted to take a look at, and it looks like the demo won't render the document.
Do you put a QR code on each assignment to uniquely identify a student? So papers have to be handed out precisely to each student? Or do you have students bubble in names/identification numbers?
How are you going to handle the kind of problems that would be created by using this technology in a class of Is your product going to be crushed by computers/tablets for every student in future classroom environments? If assignments are all digital (i.e some college textbook environments like 'Mastering Physics') the scan to grade edge slips out. Especially when providers can offer prewritten educational material questions/exams/content as part of their platform.
Re: Show HN: We allow teachers to print out "Scantrons" and scan for results via fax
#18Re: Show HN: We allow teachers to print out "Scantrons" and scan for results via fax
#19Earlier quoted context omitted.
Just got an email from Heroku, looks like they're not happy about that.
Not terribly shocking, since you probably just created more apps than their entire customer base this week. From their perspective it looks like a huge resource hit from a very, very costly action by an account which has not given them many reason$ to trust with anomalous behavior yet. Count yourself lucky: a less hacker friendly company would ban first and email later. I'd suggest apologizing for a somewhat poor arc…
Yeah. That button is gone now. Took it down. We'll figure something out later.
Re: Show HN: We allow teachers to print out "Scantrons" and scan for results via fax
#20Agree with the previous sentiment-this seems geared towards showcasing a cool tech demo rather than the teachers themselves. Put the scrantron scanning upfront, as that's the main draw and detail the painless process to do it.