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Funny you say that—I'm a startup partner with the submitter of this Ask HN, who linked me your comment, and I'm working on another startup that's trying to do t
by markbao 18y ago
Funny you say that—I'm a startup partner with the submitter of this Ask HN, who linked me your comment, and I'm working on another startup that's trying to do that.
Screenshot of general page:
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One of the biggest problems with LMS (USPTO Blackboard patent 6,988,138) is that they're often hard to use, so teachers don't use them. I'm trying to change this by making things mindlessly simple, and using words they're already familiar with (Attachments, like with email):
http://screenshots.markbao.com/cecd9f592564abe2cd5cac2ae8060aa5.png http://screenshots.markbao.com/cecd9f592564abe2cd5cac2ae8060...
It's certainly not to the caliber of Blackboard, but I'm trying to target the long tail who just want websites and not huge, bloated LMSs, and scale up from there. Release early iterate often! It's going to be charged on a yearly basis by school, which includes unlimited teachers, file storage included.
It's mostly going to be a sales and marketing learning experience for myself.
Let me know if you think there is a market for this in middle schools/high schools/college... contact email/AIM is in profile.
- nazgulnarsil 18y agoone of the simplest things that blackboard manages to screw up is the message board. each class should have a board generated for it for that specific semester with a message area, a collaborative blackboard (auto generated for each thread and saved!), and assignments posted all on one page. I suppose you need a widescreen monitor to really get it all laid out nicely.