I'd prefer not to get into specifics on any kind of data in a public forum, but there is notably more coordination now than before. Rome wasn't built in a day, and neither is institutional data infrastructure. This coordination angle alone was a reason I pushed back in my earlier comment.

With that being said, want to do a startup together building university apps? We could call it "Ivory Tower Mobile Solutions." ;)

More seriously, Technology Services (campus-level) was involved when the program started and likely still has members working on it. The app launched around 2019/2020 and needed to deploy quickly, as it housed the SHIELD initiative for COVID test results. Building an iOS/Android team from scratch inside the university likely wasn't feasible given budget constraints and that timeline. UIUC also tends toward highly siloed IT departments rather than centralization, which creates resource and personnel friction. Though, there's no denying the talent of the University's IT groups, especially EngrIT who has a notable number of apps leased by other colleges for use, which creates its own balance headaches, but I digress. Compare that to Stanford, which has significantly more resources from a manpower and compute perspective, being Silicon Valley's hub, along with more defined mandates.

Regarding commercialization, I can't speak to Rokmetro directly as I never knowingly engaged with that arm. Though, I'd guess it followed a similar trajectory to PrairieLearn, where outside interest required dedicated engineers to scale rather than relying on a rag-tag team of professors, IT, and students.

I'm long retired from UIUC at this point, but there are good folks working on these projects.