Re:Technical co-founder needed for Studeous
by yummyfajitas on Wednesday July 16, 2008 @08:20PM
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>What is the fire burning in the pants of your market? (And who is your target market -- you've got teachers and students and school admins, please pick one.)
WebCT and blackboard (the competition) are utterly unusable from a teacher and student perspective. I'd love to use something different if I ever have the need for more than just HTML. The main thing I'd like is a grade management system when I deal with large courses.
However, I'm almost certainly not permitted to use a grade management system besides the one my university provides, certainly not a third party one. That would violate student privacy.
Another problem is that commercial software can't (legally) add all the features of blackboard:
I'm almost certainly not permitted to use a grade management system besides the one my university provides, certainly not a third party one. That would violate student privacy.
Are you allowed to use a notebook?
What is the fire burning in the pants of your market? (And who is your target market -- you've got teachers and students and school admins, please pick one.)
The first thing I see what I visit your site: "You've never seen elearning like this before." As a teacher, how does that help me?
I can tell what you're doing. You are trying to position yourself as a competitor in the marketplace. You are coming from a position of weakness when you do this.
Features page: "Just go ahead and try to outfeature us." WTF are you even talking to? How does that apply to me as a teacher? When did more features make a project better?
Forget your competition and get yourself into the boots of a teacher. Feel the pain a teacher feels when they aren't using your software.
Where are the testimonials from teachers that are raving about your software? "Last year, I couldn't get my students to stop chatting with each other during class. This year, I signed up for Studeous, set everything up and 95% of my class is logging in each day and 85% are actually talking to each other on the message boards. I'm absolutely giddy!"