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Great! Looks quite extensive and deeply thought-out at first glance. Respect for the discipline required to ship something like this by yourself. Keep at it :) Iterate till you win.

Some constructive criticism, if it helps: it takes a while to understand what this is. On the home page, if you can have two panes, some code on the left with your framework and output on the right to quickly get a grasp perhaps?

Good luck!

thanks for sharing! :)

congrats! :)

Thanks lobo_tuerto! Appreciate the kind words.

Yes, draft mode is in the next deployment :)

eChalk involves heavy technical content production and Chalkboard is a dinosaur and intended for in classroom use.

Classmill is flexible in the content required for classes and its intended use cases.

SSO is not supported at the moment, but is definitely in the pipeline.

hey bpesquet, fedora focuses on creating classes where the teacher actually produces the videos and content.

Classmill is attempting to help teachers who know where the right content is with the right tools to deliver them to students - while tracking effectiveness and progress.

Hope that answers your question, please feel free to dig deeper if not :)

Thanks for that. By that I meant that a regular joe teacher is going to find it technically difficult to use. You can run an instance of open edx on your server, use xblock components and point them to a video/audio file and build a course - but that just seems like a bit too much for a teacher who just wants to assemble a bunch of content.

The best solution here will win or even coexist; all the different approaches/platforms here will ultimately help the students win.

Versal seems like a very good product, but also seems to be focusing on content authoring quite a bit. Classmill is a lot more focused on content curation.

Yes, adaptive/dynamic blocks are definitely in the pipeline as we improve the product!

Cheers!

Hi jlees,

Thanks for the feedback. Definitely working on improving the messaging. Mysliderule seems to be course catalogging of various MOOCs around the web. Classmill lets you create the classes yourself.

Sending you an email, please do check! :)

Thanks vikp!

Yes - good point, I suspect we'll be forced into some sort of consolidation or focus to sustain user acquisition. Letting the user browse more of the site before signing up is something we're working on at the moment. Thanks for the note on lr, plenty of (premature) optimization left to do :)

Sure. For starters, Classmill is not self hosted or restricted to universities - anyone can create a class on Classmill.

Classmill also does not rely on content production or live streaming video like edx. You can create classes with existing resources: links, youtube videos, images, pdfs, ppts etc.

Strongly believe that for a vast majority of learning requirements, the content is already out there. It just requires someone who knows the subject (such as a teacher or expert) to curate the material and give students the confidence in consuming them.

Hence Classmill was born :)

Great idea, thanks!

Strangely none of the educators we've spoken to here in London had that feedback. Will stick to the name and focus on building a great product for now. Thanks for the feedback!

We're testing various homepages at the moment. The classes are free to make and to join at the moment (with eventual pay to join coming down the road).

Thanks for the feedback!

thanks primitivesuave!

Great feedback. The first modules are previewable without joining. Will be improving the notification views.

Cheers!

Sweet, could you please ping hello@classmill.com? Will keep you in the loop once the API is out.

Yes, absolutely. In the pipeline! :)

Many thanks, mgmeyers! :)

Gah. Well, lets hope for the best! :)

Hey gingerlime, thanks!

Its an MVP at the moment, eventually the goal is to have teacher curated classes for very reasonable prices. At the moment its all free.

Will be having a quick demo up soon! :)

Cheers

[Demo] There is also collection of Gilbert Strang lectures here: http://classmill.com/jennathompson/introduction-to-algebra - You'd have to login to watch the whole series, but lets you mark lectures as "done", ask questions, and track progress etc..

Cheers :)

Thank you for the feedback. Yes, comments are coming! :)

Pretty much :) Thanks for the kind words. Its actually a sub section of a larger product (http://classmill.com).

We just launched, what are you working on? Feel free to ping me (email in profile) - happy to share more details + I might be able to help in some way if you're working in the ed space!

"StyleSheet is not CSS. You will be quickly disappointed if you adventure outside the few CSS-inspired properties that React Native ships with." < I can see how that can be quite annoying, everytime you want to use a property, you'd have to go back and check if RN supports it.

Maybe there will be stronger overlap in the long run.

If I understand this correctly, the recipient (backer) is responsible for obtaining necessary legal documents and approvals for medical use. They might just end up putting a lot of people in danger of possession of drugs if this is not handled properly. But +1 for looking into psychedelics, specifically MDMA, with an objective lens and clearly demystifying their position in the drug world.

Sorry, what? One is in the real estate market, the other is is a dictionary(!).

Both are meaning to denote the direction "up". If you put two mediocre designers in two isolated adjacent booths - they'd come up with the same thing.

This is not stealing. This is an unfortunate coincidence of the lowest common denominators crossing each others paths.

Dont get it, why make both? Why make the customer decide on such mundane criteria. Ridiculous.

Great, I was introduced to ggplot2 via your note in the footer in articles you've shared in the past. This helps a great deal. Thanks Max! :)

ps: Is there a way to generate vector outputs?

That was an incredible talk, Paul, many thanks!