I'm a teaching specialist at Michigan State University.
I've been a teaching instructor for computer science for the last four years.
I've used Mimir in four different courses.
Totaling about 500 seats, 500 students across all of those courses.
The primary reason I started using Mimir Classroom was because it allowed me to grade students'
programming projects in an automated fashion
meaning that I could focus my energies on actually teaching the courses instead of just grading.
Prior to using Mimir Classroom, I had a system that tried to do automated grading.
It involved a bunch of Python and Bash scripts
that would download a bunch of their projects from GitHub.
It would run various programs to grade how well they were doing and it would e-mail those reports
both to the students as well as to me.
It worked but not very well. It got the job done however,
every time I use it, I always have to cross my fingers because I wasn't sure if something would go wrong,
if students will get e-mailed the wrong grades and so forth
Having Mimir handle that for me, removed a whole bunch of stress that I would otherwise be facing
every time there was a project deadline.
Since using Mimir, there's been some pretty big changes.
The biggest one is students get a lot better feedback on as they're performing their projects
on what things are working, what things aren't.
This leads to many more students actually completing projects
as well as having a better grasp on what's going wrong as they're working on them.