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

18 points by prahv 11y ago

prahv 11y 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.
- kinsman 11y ago
  Hi Prah, I had a question. How are the questions graded? Are they essentially uniting tests?
  - prahv 11y 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.
    - kinsman 11y ago
      Are the tests auto-generated? Or must the individuals create them manually?
CSDude 11y ago
I have built the almost same system ~1.5 years ago http://pags.cs.bilkent.edu.tr http://pags.cs.bilkent.edu.tr but It did not get any traction :/ Here is a screenshot: http://i.imgur.com/U3pjIJA.png http://i.imgur.com/U3pjIJA.png and even featured on Docker blog https://blog.docker.com/2014/04/docker-in-education-interview/ https://blog.docker.com/2014/04/docker-in-education-intervie... But nevertheless, happy to see some competition on the road :) Good luck.
- prahv 11y ago
  Thanks CSDude!
moschlar 11y 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 https://github.com/moschlar/SAUCE), which is open source.
- prahv 11y 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 11y ago
The University of Waterloo uses Marmoset, and it works well: http://marmoset.cs.umd.edu/index.shtml http://marmoset.cs.umd.edu/index.shtml
- prahv 11y 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 11y ago
Professors don't even grade assignments in my experience. It's the Graduate students.

18 points by prahv 11y ago

prahv 11y 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.

kinsman 11y ago
Hi Prah, I had a question. How are the questions graded? Are they essentially uniting tests?
- prahv 11y 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.
  - kinsman 11y ago
    Are the tests auto-generated? Or must the individuals create them manually?

CSDude 11y ago

I have built the almost same system ~1.5 years ago http://pags.cs.bilkent.edu.tr http://pags.cs.bilkent.edu.tr but It did not get any traction :/ Here is a screenshot: http://i.imgur.com/U3pjIJA.png http://i.imgur.com/U3pjIJA.png and even featured on Docker blog https://blog.docker.com/2014/04/docker-in-education-interview/ https://blog.docker.com/2014/04/docker-in-education-intervie... But nevertheless, happy to see some competition on the road :) Good luck.

prahv 11y ago
Thanks CSDude!

moschlar 11y 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 https://github.com/moschlar/SAUCE), which is open source.

prahv 11y 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 11y ago

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

prahv 11y 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 11y ago

Professors don't even grade assignments in my experience. It's the Graduate students.