NoRedInk

NoRedInk
Developer(s)	NoRedInk Corporation
Written in	Ruby, Elm, CoffeeScript
Platform	Web application
Type	Language education
License	Commercial software
Website	noredink.com

NoRedInk (stylized as noredink) is an online web-based language-learning platform.

History

NoRedInk was founded by Jeff Scheur, a high school English teacher at Whitney Young Magnet High School in Chicago.[1] After documenting years of misconceptions that popped up in his students' writing and developing a taxonomy to address them over several years, Scheur posted an advertisement to Craigslist asking for an engineer to help him build an educational platform.[2] Scheur's students voted on the name "NoRedInk."[2]

In February 2012, Scheur shared the first version of NoRedInk with some colleagues at a local Illinois conference. The application grew: in a month there were 1,500 users on the site. In another month, there were 15,000 registered users.[2] In September 2012, NoRedInk won the Citi Innovation Challenge, hosted by NBC, netting the company $75,000 in prize money.[3] In January, 2013, NoRedInk raised $2 million from a series of investors, including Google Ventures.

gollark: He would, since he is pretending to be someone else.

gollark: Anyway, #11 is obviously mine due to SQLite good.

gollark: It's not like you need to use the actual `input()` anywhere.

gollark: `LIMIT -1` looks like something written by someone who does not know SQL very well, or is doing unfathomable things beyond my comprehension.

gollark: #11 is quite bad SQL using string interpolation and such. PHP uses string interpolation lots because PHP is awful. Sinthorion uses PHP. Thus, half-life 3 is to be released in 2026.

References

Sarno, Aaron (26 October 2012). "NoRedInk Helps Improve Grammar and Writing Skills". PR News. Retrieved 1 February 2016.
Taub, Alexander (19 December 2013). "NoRedInk Is Growing At Mach Speed, 100% Of The PK School System Using". Forbes. Retrieved 1 February 2016.
Mader, Jackie (26 September 2012). "Education Nation: Revived Support For Grammar Instruction". The Huffington Post. Retrieved 1 February 2016.

External links

Official website

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[Sarno-1] Sarno, Aaron (26 October 2012). "NoRedInk Helps Improve Grammar and Writing Skills". PR News. Retrieved 1 February 2016.

[Taub-2] Taub, Alexander (19 December 2013). "NoRedInk Is Growing At Mach Speed, 100% Of The PK School System Using". Forbes. Retrieved 1 February 2016.

[Mader-3] Mader, Jackie (26 September 2012). "Education Nation: Revived Support For Grammar Instruction". The Huffington Post. Retrieved 1 February 2016.