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?
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!
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.
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.
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).
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!