Mimir (YC S15) speeds up feedback with automated grading for professors

http://venturebeat.com/2015/07/27/y-combinator-backed-mimir-speeds-up-feedback-with-automated-grading-for-professors/

by prahv • 11 years ago

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prahv5• 11 years ago

Hey 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.

kinsman2• 11 years ago

Hi Prah, I had a question. How are the questions graded? Are they essentially uniting tests?

prahv5• 11 years ago

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.

CSDude• 11 years ago

I 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.

prahv5• 11 years ago

Thanks CSDude!

moschlar• 11 years ago

I 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.

prahv5• 11 years ago

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.

rgawdzik• 11 years ago

The University of Waterloo uses Marmoset, and it works well: http://marmoset.cs.umd.edu/index.shtml

prahv5• 11 years ago

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.

meIias• 11 years ago

Professors don't even grade assignments in my experience.

It's the Graduate students.

Mimir (YC S15) speeds up feedback with automated grading for professors

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