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.
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.
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.
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.
But nevertheless, happy to see some competition on the road :) Good luck.