HN Explorer

11 comments

[ 2.5 ms ] story [ 47.5 ms ] thread
prahv
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.

kinsman
Hi Prah, I had a question. How are the questions graded? Are they essentially uniting tests?
prahv
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.
kinsman
Are the tests auto-generated? Or must the individuals create them manually?
moschlar
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.
prahv
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
The University of Waterloo uses Marmoset, and it works well: http://marmoset.cs.umd.edu/index.shtml
prahv
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
Professors don't even grade assignments in my experience.

It's the Graduate students.