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[acbart]

This is the first thing I've ever seen in the Python Ecosystem that really rivals some of Pedal's features: https://github.com/h365chen/socassess

I really like the reliance on pytest, which is probably the most popular python testing library at this point. This reinforces at the minimum that we should have bindings for Pytest, similar to how we support unittest (so that the instructor can write tests in it).

I also like the "phone a friend" feature. We started implementing some of these ideas in the new Cloud package, but this is much more sophisticated.

This is super worth looking into, along with Huanyi's dissertation. We should think about whether we should adopt some of these ideas, and how we are positioned differently from them. Do they have a better DX that we should be thinking about?