Mimir (YC S15) speeds up feedback with automated grading for professors
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Re: Mimir (YC S15) speeds up feedback with automated grading for professors
#2Hey everyone my name is Prah and I'm one of the founders of Mimir. There is a huge demand for good engineers so we built Mimir to solve the problem at the source. Our platform automates most the bureaucratic work involved in teaching a CS course and allows instructors to focus on their students.
If anyone has any questions, I would be happy to answer them.
Re: Mimir (YC S15) speeds up feedback with automated grading for professors
#3Hey everyone my name is Prah and I'm one of the founders of Mimir. There is a huge demand for good engineers so we built Mimir to solve the problem at the source. Our platform automates most the bureaucratic work involved in teaching a CS course and allows instructors to focus on their students. If anyone has any questions, I would be happy to answer them.
Hi Prah, I had a question. How are the questions graded? Are they essentially uniting tests?
Re: Mimir (YC S15) speeds up feedback with automated grading for professors
#4I have built the almost same system ~1.5 years ago http://pags.cs.bilkent.edu.tr but It did not get any traction :/ Here is a screenshot: http://i.imgur.com/U3pjIJA.png and even featured on Docker blog https://blog.docker.com/2014/04/docker-in-education-intervie...
But nevertheless, happy to see some competition on the road :) Good luck.
Re: Mimir (YC S15) speeds up feedback with automated grading for professors
#5I can not understand how a university could commit itself to rely on such external (proprietary) tools...
This kind of vendor-lock-in within the teaching process would bug me both as a teacher and as a student.
I built something similar (https://github.com/moschlar/SAUCE), which is open source.
Re: Mimir (YC S15) speeds up feedback with automated grading for professors
#6The University of Waterloo uses Marmoset, and it works well: http://marmoset.cs.umd.edu/index.shtml
Re: Mimir (YC S15) speeds up feedback with automated grading for professors
#7Hey everyone my name is Prah and I'm one of the founders of Mimir. There is a huge demand for good engineers so we built Mimir to solve the problem at the source. Our platform automates most the bureaucratic work involved in teaching a CS course and allows instructors to focus on their students. If anyone has any questions, I would be happy to answer them.
Hi Prah, I had a question. How are the questions graded? Are they essentially uniting tests?
Yeap, we have different types of test like I/O, Unit, Swing ect... and instructors pick the type they want and fill out a few fields.
Re: Mimir (YC S15) speeds up feedback with automated grading for professors
#8The University of Waterloo uses Marmoset, and it works well: http://marmoset.cs.umd.edu/index.shtml
Hey rgawdzik, we are actually engaged with University of Maryland and are in early talks to do some trials there. Marmoset is a great tool but we have some additional layers of analytics that set us apart. Also Marmoset is self-hosted which some instructors find annoying to maintain.
Re: Mimir (YC S15) speeds up feedback with automated grading for professors
#9I have built the almost same system ~1.5 years ago http://pags.cs.bilkent.edu.tr but It did not get any traction :/ Here is a screenshot: http://i.imgur.com/U3pjIJA.png and even featured on Docker blog https://blog.docker.com/2014/04/docker-in-education-intervie... But nevertheless, happy to see some competition on the road :) Good luck.
Thanks CSDude!
Re: Mimir (YC S15) speeds up feedback with automated grading for professors
#10I can not understand how a university could commit itself to rely on such external (proprietary) tools... This kind of vendor-lock-in within the teaching process would bug me both as a teacher and as a student. I built something similar ( https://github.com/moschlar/SAUCE ), which is open source.
Hey moschlar, if it makes a difference we work with individual instructors rather than the school as a whole and are a kind of pay as you go model rather than long terms contracts.