Good concept, but an unfortunate name. It reminds me of "diploma mill" or "puppy mill"... which indiscriminately pump out things just to make money.<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diploma_mill" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diploma_mill</a><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puppy_mill" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puppy_mill</a>
As someone who's putting a class together right now from a mix of existing and custom content, I definitely think this is needed, though I don't think the site does a great job of explaining quite what it is. I noodled around with the "curated learning paths platform" idea myself, even :)<p>I found <a href="https://www.mysliderule.com/" rel="nofollow">https://www.mysliderule.com/</a> a while ago which seems to be the same kind of thing - might be worth checking out.
Looks really neat. I have lots of questions that I couldn't get answer on the site though ...<p>* What's the business model? Are they charging teachers / students / schools?<p>* Does it allow people to charge money for the classes they build? Or all classes are meant to be free?<p>* Would be nice to have a demo / way to see how easy it is to build classes, e.g. add content, create quizzes etc before having to sign up.<p>Otherwise, looks very promising.
First, great design! It's nice to see startups bringing good design to the ed tech space, I remember how much I hated the design and UI of Blackboard products when I was a student.<p>It would be nice to be able to check out class content without having to make an account. I also missed the light red bar at the top that says "you need to join the class", so I kept clicking on the button to open a section and thought the link was broken and just snapping the page to the top of the screen (as in when someone leaves <a href="."></a> as a placeholder)<p>Overall a very cool concept, and something teachers definitely need! Best of luck with it!
Looks interesting, can you talk about how this compares to the edx platform? <a href="https://github.com/edx/edx-platform" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/edx/edx-platform</a>
Nice looking site! I worked on something similar a while ago, but it didn't look nearly as good as this.<p>The problem I faced was in attracting users without one key compelling subject area. Saying "this is a platform for every type of class" is awesome in theory, but it's hard to find people who are just browsing around for random classes.<p>I'd love to be able to browse at least one complete course without having to login, also.<p>On a sidenote, livereload is still linked in your javascripts, and is hitting localhost. You might also want to concatenate and minify the js.
I love what I see so far. My school has recently ditched our VLE, and this is the type of thing I would recommend to non-tech staff as a replacement.<p>Do you have any plans for introducing tracking of student progress - maybe the ability to submit files or multiple-choice quizzes?<p>Oh - and the name is fine. Educators and kids will be much more concerned with content and usability - both of which you seem to have nailed.
Loved the idea, and finally a place with good format where to vert some knowledge in.<p>I really liked your design and UX overall, good job!<p>Update: Is there a place to set the module/class to "published" or something? So it's not visible until you are done with editing and such (like a draft mode).
I must second the comment about the name. Most educators I know (and I know many) would avoid anything that suggests their work is templated or rote, and "classmill" kind of starts off on a bad foot with an educator audience. Seems like a neat project though, best of luck!
A question for the site creator who seems to watch this thread : how would you compare classmill to <a href="https://usefedora.com" rel="nofollow">https://usefedora.com</a> ?
How does this differ from traditional LMSes, like eChalk or BlackBoard?<p>Is it e-rate eligible?<p>Can I integrate it with SSO things (Active Directory, Google for Education, or Office 365)?