Prodeus

Prodeus

Forget massive tuition costs. Let Prodeus catalog the hours you spend learning on Youtube and all the work you do along the way.

What is Prodeus?
Prodeus is a Chrome extension designed to track and quantify self-education by counting the hours spent engaging with educational videos on platforms such as Youtube, Coursera, and Codeacademy. It aims to foster equal access to higher education irrespective of wealth, status, or nationality by allowing users to accumulate 'class hours' and earn degrees across various disciplines. Features include creating quizzes, taking notes, and building custom learning paths. The focus is on learner-led education, and class quality is ensured through peer reviews.
Stats
Users: 4,000+
Rating: 4.26 (31)
Version: 2.1.0 (Last updated: 2022-05-19)
Creation date: 2020-06-30
Risk impact: Very high risk impact
Risk likelihood: Low risk likelihood
Manifest version: 2
Permissions:
  • https://www.youtube.com/
  • https://api-js.mixpanel.com/*
  • https://www.prodeus-api.herokuapp.com/*
  • https://prodeus-api-staging.herokuapp.com/*
  • https://www.prodeus.app/*
  • https://www.prodeus-web-staging.herokuapp.com/*
  • *://mandrillapp.com/*
  • activeTab
  • tabs
Size: 10.54M
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Summary

👋 Hi friends!

Prodeus is a free chrome extension that cleverly tracks the time you spend watching educational videos on Youtube so that you can earn a digital degree no matter your financial situation.

We built Prodeus because we believe that everyone regardless of wealth, status or nationality deserves equal access to higher education, as it’s the single most important factor in upward social mobility. In these past few years we’ve seen a dramatic rise in remote learning as universities continually raise their prices or close their doors from COVID.

📃 How it works

  1. Add the extension to your Chrome browser, pin it to the toolbar and create your Prodeus profile.
  2. Connect classes from Youtube📺 to the Prodeus library by hovering over an active youtube video and clicking "Track my time". You will also include the category, skill and difficulty of the class.
  3. Prodeus tracks your time spent watching classes and accrues your hours categorically, allowing you to earn degrees in Art & Design, Computer Science, Business, or Academics.
  4. As you accrue more hours, you build up your expertise and level up your ProDegree.

In our 2.0 launch we added a series of learning tools to provide more structure, better retention and hastened mastery of new skills. We also let you use the extension outside Youtube...whether your on Wikipedia, Coursera, Codeacademy or Medium you can use the learning tools Prodeus provides.

🤔 Quizzes: You and the community can easily create short answer or multiple choice quizzes to help practice your knowledge. Prodeus will ask you to retake these quizzes regular intervals to ensure retention.

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User reviews
User reviews summary
These summaries are automatically generated weekly using AI based on recent user reviews. Chrome Web Store does not verify user reviews, so some user reviews may be inaccurate, spammy, or outdated.
Pros
  • Helps to keep track of learning progress
  • Increases productivity
  • Easy to navigate and use interface
Cons
  • Issues with compatibility with latest Chrome updates
  • Causes excessive CPU & disk use
  • Some users experienced difficulties with login process and resetting passwords
Most mentioned
  • Helpful for learning through YouTube
  • Causes issues with browser performance
  • Some UI and UX issues, especially with new features
Recent reviews
great idea, but for some reason whenver i download it on Chrome current version, it uses all my CPU & disk and i have to terminate chrome and have to disable it, hope it's just a bug and not some kind of scheme.
by Yasser Hawass Yasser Hawass, 2022-06-19

I've been using Prodeus for moths now and I really like it! But sadly with few of latest updates to Chrome the extension has started to have some serious problems. I re-installed an older version of Chrome, but that's not really a sustainable solution in the long run. I really hope they fix the problems soon.
by Suvi Suvi, 2022-04-05

The app sounds very promising and helpful but i cant get it to work, the extension requires me to log in and upon pressing log it it takes me to log in web page, i am logging it and the extension still requires me to login :(
by FallenLegEND FallenLegEND, 2022-03-29
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Safety
Risk impact

Prodeus is very risky to use and it requires a lot of sensitive permissions. Avoid installing this extension unless you absolutely trust this publisher.

Risk likelihood

Prodeus has earned a fairly good reputation and likely can be trusted.

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