Learn how to create your own custom course on CodeHS in this hands-on webinar. Discover how to build, organize, and publish curriculum using CodeHS course creation tools, including adding assignments, modules, and content tailored to your classroom needs.
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[Music] Hello and welcome everyone. Thank you so much for joining our back to school webinar today. The title of today's session is creating your own course and we are so lucky to have a very experienced code user and codes champion with us today. Tammy Huddle is one of our teacher trainers and has used codes for several years at her virtual school. So a very cool setup of very maybe different from other teacher trainers and folks in the audience even maybe but she has dove into our tools and is really really a power user. So we are lucky to hear from her and her classroom experiences using codes to create courses. So we'll go ahead and get started. Tammy, if you want to move on to the next slide and I will get a link to the slide in the chat.
And I also just remembered that I need to turn on the chat to let everybody chat. So Tammy, go ahead and introduce yourself, tell us where you're joining us from and your teaching background, and I will get the chat things working out.
All right. Thank you, Stephanie. Hi, I'm Tammy Huddle and I am a computer science teacher at the South Carolina virtual charter schools. So, I do teach from home. a little bit different in a virtual environment, but I really enjoy it. I've been using code HS for probably four to five years now. and fell in love with it and got some of my co-workers on board and I've taught Java, fundamentals of computing. I've taught Python and now I'm teaching cyber security. So I've taught several different courses and excited to be presenting for you today. Thank you. Yes. So let's move on to the next slide and give folks a preview of what we will be covering here today. So I did get the chat opened up and I did put a link to the slide deck in there. So if you would like to reference the slides later if you want to come back to these slides we will keep those available to you for the school year and also for attending you will get a u recording of the session today emailed to you along with the slides. So, we're we're going to give you tons of resources today and reference material so that if something you know next semester you're like, "Oh, yeah. Didn't Tammy say I could add a project to my course?" you can come back and reference the recording or the slides at any time. So, today we're going to be talking about how to set up your courses and sections. And then once you've got those set up, we'll talk about how you can customize those to meet the needs of your students. that can be adding additional codes content. It could be reordering or removing content that codes provides or you c you can also bring over your own content that has worked really well for you in the past. So happy to be able to share all this customization with you all today. All right. So Tammy, thank you. You are already on it. if you do have a question today, I will ask that you put your questions in the Q&A. That's so as I'm adding links to the chat or y'all are sharing your own best practices. We want this to be interactive today. We want to hear from you, our audience. So if the if the chat is busy, we don't want to lose anybody's question. So if you do have a question, please let us know in the Q&A. you can find that button at the bottom of your Zoom screen and that will allow us to make sure we get it answered either live or I'll I can maybe quickly find some resources on the back end also. So, let's go ahead and get started here. So, if you are brand new to CodeHS and have never signed up for an account, teacher and student accounts are free. Our curriculum is 100% free and student access to our curriculum is 100% free. So, I definitely want you to go ahead and sign up for an account if you haven't already created one. If you do have an account with us already, please go ahead and log in. I'll get this link in the chat here and let's talk about all the great things that Codess brings to your classroom. So, we are a comprehensive curriculum. We have curriculum all the way from K through 12 and we do offer our middle school and high school curriculum for free. we are web- based and so we make sure that we're accessible anywhere you have internet, anywhere your students have internet. And we're really proud to say that as long as you have internet you can work with our codes content and we just hope that that brings a lot of flexibility to you and your students. you know we have professional development because you're here today with us and I want to talk a little bit about our tools and resources that we provide. So Tammy if you'll go to the next slide. So, with our basic license, you have access to this fabulous K through excuse me, not K through 12, but middle school and high school curriculum. but we do also offer some tools with our basic free license that is really helpful to teachers, we hope. For example, what we're talking about today, customizing the curriculum, the ability to add and remove assignments, bring in your own material, all that is a free feature, conversation tools with students. So, u some common LMS features like being able to message students or send out announcements to whole to your whole class, free features. we do then also provide some prolicensed features such as academic integrity, a suite of tools, gradebook tools, lots of other awesome features that we just really hope are helping teachers all over the country be able to efficiently and effectively deliver computer science learning experiences to their students. So, definitely go ahead and say hello in the chat if you'd like to while I hand it over to Tammy. All right, trying to open up my audio there. So, anyway, we're going to get started on managing courses and sections. And if you have any questions, I'm sure Stephanie will be watching chat and relaying that to me while I'm showing you guys all the content and things that you can do on code HS. So let's get started. one of the things here is defining what a course is. There are courses and there are sections and there are two different things. a course is kind of like the brella and you can have multiple sections under a course. So a course is actually the curriculum that you will be teaching and a section is what students roster to in order to access their assignments. So within a course, let's say you teach fundamentals of computing, you can have two sections like a first block and a second block and a third block. You can have multiple sections underneath one course. So you would use a co codes course with no modifications. There's three different ways here. You could use one of our code HS courses and customize it to your liking, which is what I do. Or you can build a course basically from scratch and use all of the wonderful benefits and grading options, things like that that CodeHS has to offer if you want to do it from scratch. So, my personal preference is, like I said, the second one. I usually use one of the courses that is already there and I modify things like you can do alternate assignments and I'll do that a lot. You can change quizzes into quiz buzzes, you can remove assignments, you can add assignments, you can rearrange assignments and units. So, there's lots of different things that you can do in there. So, the first thing to do is check out our course catalog. And there are a lot of different course offerings. You can filter courses by grade, language, level, all sorts of different things. And I'll demonstrate that for you, too, so you can see where to go find that. You can view the course syllabus and the unit overview. And you can enroll yourself. You can actually enroll yourself in any of the courses that CodeHS has. So you can check it out a little more and take it as if you were a student. so to get to that, just to show you here, if I go on over, there's a couple of different places. Over on the left, right here under curriculum on the left in your navigation bar, you see course catalog. So you can go there or you can actually go up to the top under my courses and do views, view course catalog there. So that takes two clicks whereas the other one takes just one click. just go to curriculum and course catalog and that will bring it up. And as you can see, there's lots and lots of courses here. Some of them even offered in Spanish. So that's something to keep in mind. you can search for a course by you can see what I've been searching for. Cyber, Python, cyber security. you can search by tag and there's all sorts of different tags that are already here that you can use. You can search by grade level, by your state, or by time frame, whether you want a year, semester, quarter, or just like a hour of code. Maybe something for a December you want to do. So, lots of different options, filtering options that you can do to narrow your course down. All right. So, the first thing you want to do is actually create your first course. and this doesn't have to be something you use. This could be something you're just playing around with today, for example, for testing purposes, but I'm going to show you how to do that. So, the first thing you're going to do is over in assignments on the left hand side, you're going to click courses in the lefthand menu, and then we're going to click create new course. And there's also a button up here, too. So, there's generally multiple places where you can do some of these things, which is really nice. So, if we go over here and I'm going to go on the left hand side and I'm going to go to courses and you'll be able to see some of the courses I currently have. These are my courses that I currently have on my list and the blue underneath is actually the sections underneath the course within the course. So, I've got that there. So, to create a new course again, you could click this button here or create new course here. Okay? and that'll bring you up another screen. And just let Stephanie know if I'm going too fast or if you have questions. We'll be happy to help. All right. So, that's how you would start to create a new course. So, step one, once you click that button, you've got a choice to make. You got to decide whether you want to use one of the code HS templates and customize it or if you want to start from scratch and actually add your own content, your own quizzes or things from code HS you can add. you can import from a variety of places which we'll talk about later on. or you can create from scratch anything you really want. So that would be your second option. So on this screen here, you could choose from a starting point or from scratch. So either one. So I'm going to choose the template. I like that the best. So for step one, you're actually going to choose your course and then you'll name it after that. So I'm going to choose course template and gonna try to think of something. I think Stephanie, you gave me the Corgi course. so I used to teach Java. I haven't I'm not teaching it this year, but I'm gonna just type in Java and see what we've got. It looked like it pretty much stayed the same. There's a lot of Java stuff in here. let me do, you can see South Carolina's already up for me. so I maybe could pick a South Carolina course. We'll do that for fun. I'm going to do fundamentals of webpage design. Why not? So, I'll choose that one. Okay. So step two once you pick your course is naming your course. So if I go back step two if you choose to do a template, if you don't choose from a template, you're going to skip this step where you actually choose the course. If you choose to do it from scratch, obviously you won't have to do this. But this is where you will stick or or select your actual course. So I label this one B. Okay. Then you will choose a name for your course. And generally I name mine based on my semester or maybe a quarter and the block. not the block. I'll do that for sections. But for this one, let's say I wanted to say web design. I can't even type today fall 2025. Right? So I might name it like that. That way, if I go back through my courses, I can see, oh, this is the one I taught that semester. So, that way I kind of know by which semester or which quarter it is. Okay. So, I'd click next after you choose your name. Okay. And then it's done. So, the next thing you would want to do is add sections. So, let's go back here. So, step three is creating your sections. Well, it's not labeled step three, but it's the next thing you would do. So, you're going to create a new section next. And again, a section is like like let's say the only thing you teach is web design. Then you might have a section for first block, second block, and third block or the period throughout the day. or you might only have one section in here. You might be like me right now. I teach Python and cyber security. So, I have both courses and each of my courses have one section underneath them. So you would want to create a section next. You have to do that so you can enroll your students. So that's the next thing you would do is go over to curriculum. Wh not curriculum. You would go over to your courses and go back classroom sections. Okay. Classroom sections right here. All right. Okay. So this is where you have your sections and you would create a new section. You could do that here. Go back to the PowerPoint where it says you would click here and then do new section up here. And you can see we also again have it over here on the right. So couple of places you could do that. All right. You can see it over here on the right. Create new section. Or you would do that here. Either place works. All right. So obviously the first thing you're going to do is name your section. Okay. So again, you can see some of the ones I've done here already. So let's say I'm going to do first block for file 2025. That way I know that it's that time. You could do it by time. Maybe it's your 9:00 a.m. class or your, you know, 11:00 a.m. class, however you want to name it. So you'll do that. You could also import from a Google classroom. So that's another option. You'll click next. Okay. If I go back to my slides here, you would choose a name like I just did. And then you're going to pick the course. Okay. The like the one we just created. So, if you're a little lost right now, like why do I have to pick the course? Well, you said you wanted to create a new section, but you've got to tell it under which course that you have. So, this is where you'll pick your course that the existing one you already have. So, you'll go here and go to my course and choose that. And then you're going to pick the course you've got. Okay. I was trying to think, Stephanie, if I should use the one that you just gave me and do a section under there, but I think you already added a section there.
Yep, I did. Yeah, if you you can do your web design fall there.
Yeah.
All right. So, we'll do that here just to show you guys because Stephanie's already created one here for the demo one. So, I'm going to go web design file right there. And that's it. Now, we have a new section. So, the next thing obviously would be to add your students. And there's a couple of different ways you can do that. All right. So, this is where you create your section. You'll navigate back to your courses app and you'll be able to see it. So, if I were to go over here and go back to my courses, you'll be able to see now under my web design course, I have one section, first block file 2025. So, just like that. All right. So, now I'm going to click on that course and it's going to bring it up. We need to add students. So, if I go to my roster, you can see I currently have I was on the wrong class. I was under the demo one. Let me get back to my web design one. I was like, I shouldn't have any students in there. So, back in my web design class, I do not have any current students because I just created this course, obviously. All right. So, this is how you would enroll. Couple of different ways. If you go like I just did and you go to the course itself and click on roster, then you will get to where I'm at. And there's a couple of different places. And reviewing this, it is kind of funny because no matter where you click, it's like invite your students. Invite your students. So here's the roster. These little navigation buttons at the top. You can invite students via email or you can give them this link. So a couple of different ways that you can invite them in. we also this is probably a whole different PD training but we also integrate with several LMS's so you know that's also another option that you can do in order to enroll students is connecting your LMS to code HS. So, that is another option. And if I click on manage, it's going to tell me the same thing. Student settings. I don't have any students yet. It's going to say you got to invite your students. And again, with invite, like I said, two different ways. You can email the students or you can give them the link. So, either of those ways work. All right. Am I going too fast? Is everybody good so far, Stephanie?
Yeah, it's great.
Okay. Good. Good. All right. So, this is where you would invite your students in or enroll them. So, just a little bit of advice, little things on here, tidbits that I put in here is I prefer to start with a template and revise it as needed. And I kind of mentioned that earlier. you can play around with the templates and find what you like and what you don't. like I've got here, you can rearrange things, delete things, add to the existing material. and we're going to go over some of that, all the different things that you can add, make it customizable to what you want to do with your students. So, it's really, really good with that. one of the things I have done a lot is use supplemental material, especially for Python. one of the things that's not in there yet, but they're adding it. Actually, one of the courses has it and the one I use doesn't, but, it's like file processing and using it with that. So, I went to the supplemental material at the bottom of the assignments page and added that to my course. So, you can add things from other courses, you can add your own content, lots of different things. All right, so let's talk about customizing your page. Now that you've created your course and created your sections, how do you go in and actually customize it? All right. So, you can organize your course content by reordering units, lessons, or assignments. You can put them in any order you want to. You can remove units, lessons or assignments. You can add units, lessons or assignments. And there is something new now, assigning by student, which is pretty cool. So, I was really excited about that. That is a new feature. And so you can actually take an assignment and just give it to certain students. maybe your special needs students or students that need more of a challenge that you want to give them maybe some of the harder assignments. So you can give certain assignments or specific assignments to specific students, which is wonderful. All right, reordering modules. Pretty easy to do here. from the assignments page to reorder the module in your courses. So, you're going to go to your assignment so you can actually see all of the course content you have. And over on the right, you're going to click the edit button. So, if I go here, and at this point, I'm actually going to go back to let me go to my courses. I'm going to use the one Stephanie set up for me, which is the demo here. Okay. And it brings up my assignments. And if you're not in assignments, maybe it brought up a roster or something, you can go to the left and click on assignments, and that will bring it up for you. All right. So, over on the right here is that edit button I was telling you about. So, if you click edit, it lets you rearrange. You can see you've kind of got this little handle, the hand there where you can grab it. So, maybe I want to do some JavaScript basics before Carol challenges. I can drag and drop. or maybe maybe I don't want to do the Carol challenges until later. You know, I could drag it down way far. Maybe we want to do graphics first before we run into control structures. So, you can actually move things around really easy with drag and drop. And this is only for like whole units that you can do this with. And once you're done, just click done. All right. So, pretty easy. Drag and drop with that. All right. Now, you can also remove content from your code HS course. And it shows a little bit here on the left. I'll let you kind of watch the video a little bit. It shows you how to do that. we have these little ellipses, I guess some people call them, the three little dots on the right of your course material, and you can click on that and remove assignments. Now, I I do this just coming from experience. Sometimes I've removed an assignment and regretted it. There is a way to get that back though. so, you can do that, but a lot of times I'll just go unassign it. So, the students don't see it. I still see it. It's still there, but it's not visible to the students. So, I'll just go and unassign it instead of removing it. And that way, if I do choose to use it later, I can. It's still there. But it is easy to get it back. I've had that happen from experience. All right. So, the way you would do that, if I click on my programming with Carol unit here and scroll down, and this is the introduction to programming with Carol, you can see the little ellipses here. I could remove the whole lesson. Usually, I don't remove a lesson, but you could do that. Maybe you don't want to do that lesson. If I click on the lesson and see the individual assignments in here, I could remove it there with the three ellipses on the right. There's your remove. You would click that. And I've noticed that's one thing I have noticed, Stephanie, I have to click it twice. I don't know if that's built in. I usually have to click it twice. I don't know why. And then you would choose yes, remove the assignment to get it gone. All right. Pretty easy easy to remove stuff. All right. So, here is the assigning by student and the new assignment modal. And this was the one Stephanie I was talking about earlier. I wasn't quite sure what an assignment modal is because this is brand new. I did navigate my way around to find out how you can do this, but I wasn't able to find the assignment modal.
Modal is just the technical word that like our engineering team uses for that popup. So, popup modal I, you know, fancy engineering terms around here.
Fancy one. Well, I did find that like in the settings, I believe, is where I found it. So, if you were to go here and go to all settings, that's where I actually found the the modal. And scroll to the very bottom of your settings, configure per student. That's where I found it. So, here it is. is you would click there and then this is where you have it at. Maybe, you know, I know Grace is pretty smart. So, maybe I don't want her to take this one because she's I know she's mastered this concept. So, I'm going, you know, say Grace is good and Allen. We all know Alan Turn's pretty smart, too. All of these are pretty smart people here, but I'm going to go ahead and unassign it for them. So, this is where you can actually do it by student. So pretty cool pretty cool feature there.
So that's
and Timmy I'm gonna interrupt just a second. So this is how you can invi individualize student assignments on the prolicens and and this is one of our pro features. There is a way to do this for free also. So I will I will show you as you get into adding an assignment. I'll I'll guide you through.
Okay. Excellent. Awesome. All right. All right. So, yes, you can do that by student. Wonderful, wonderful new feature. Lots of good new stuff that just came out. So, for the content options, you can add code HS content, curated supplemental course content. That was one thing I mentioned a little bit ago. Projects from the project catalog. You can add projects from the career center. There are some good ones out there. I was actually looking at some for cyber security. you can also add any unit, lesson or assignment from another code HS course. So that's pretty cool. You can customize it any way you like. Code HS content, outside content, your own content, lots of different ways. All right. So here's how to add the curated supplemental materials. Says this is many courses that will include this. Not all of them do, but some of them do. You search for content on the assignments page to browse and add supplemental. So, you go over to your course, scroll all the way down, and do search for content at the bottom, and here are your supplemental materials. So, you could add a midterm, add a Carol practice. you can add these to the course and then check them out, or you can preview them ahead of time to actually add them to the course. But let's say I wanted to add to this course some extra practice for Carol. So I would just do assign and then I would pick my course. It would be this one here. Okay. And then
before you click next, go to previous. At the very top there is where we added that toggle for assign by individual student. It's kind of sneaky up there. So if you click that toggle, there you go. Now if you open that dropdown. Perfect. Now you can select
the individual students you want to have that assignment. So yeah, on all of the assign pages now this this is that assignment modal. All of them have that toggle now. And I I wish we would have made it like bigger with some confetti or something because it kind of hides up there.
Yep. Yep. I did not even see that especially since it's new. I was like there it is. Okay. I I did find it but somewhere different. say, "Yeah, that's pretty cool." And this would assign the whole module to them. So then you would have to go in and customize individual pieces, but maybe a student needs some extra practice and you just want to assign it to those students that need that extra practice. So that that is a really good thing there. Awesome. Then you would click next. here, this is the thing I like to do. You can turn on your blocks if you want your students to be able to do block coding or not. availability. I usually lock my assignments until I'm ready to teach it. so students don't work ahead. you can set due dates, put it in the grade book or not and set it to teacher graded or autograded. So lots of different things you can do there. And then you just assign it and it usually adds it to the bottom of the course. So I'm probably going to have to refresh. And there it is. Practice Carol. And again, you could move this up into the course by going through and using edit and moving it, but there it is down at the bottom. So, that's the supplemental material. Now, you can also assign content from the project catalog. a couple of different ways to go there and get it, but this is the easiest one over on the right at the top of the assignments page. So if I scroll to the top right here, add and then here is a code HS project and here is lots of different projects. So you've got you can sort it. I was trying to think this course is JavaScript so I might want to look for JavaScript. [Music] Let's see. You can see the ones that have JavaScript on it. I was thinking I might be able to search by language, but you can search by project name. So, that's that's one way that you can do them. Now, if you're not familiar with the projects, maybe you don't know what these are and yeah, that looks great, but I have no clue what it is, then another way that you could do it, let me see if I can close out of that. Okay. Is over on the left hand side, project catalog, right here under curriculum. And that will bring you up all the different projects so you can check them out a little more in detail. So, maybe you wanted to do I have looked at this one before letter histogram and it goes through the project details and right here's where you can assign it to your course. All right. Okay. You can also assign content from the career center which is pretty cool. I honestly have not used that yet but I didn't excuse me, see much out there for Java and Python, which is what I used to teach. But now that I'm teaching cyber security, I have seen that. So, if I go back to my course, see if I can get back there, courses, and I'm going to go back here and add on the right hand side. And then I would choose goodness, that's not where career center is. Yeah, I think to aside from the career center, if you go to the curriculum toolbox in the navigation, there is now Yeah. career center right there. There's a career center app listed at the bottom of that curriculum toolbox. Yep. Perfect.
You would go there to get to the career center.
Yep. And then if you open up one of those like you were talking about cyber security and scroll down there will be one or more lessons that you could actually assign using that same button. Okay. So there it is. There's where you would assign it. So check out the career center. There's a lot in there. I really didn't realize how much was in there. I'd looked at it a while back. Didn't see anything for job in Python, but there's some good stuff in there. All right. Okay. Okay, so that's from the career center. Then you can add content from other code HS courses as well. So this is where the code HS course addin is. So if you go here and let me get back to my course. Probably could have went just back to my section instead of the course, but go here. All right. And then add and then code HS course. So from here you would pick whichever course you wanted to add from. maybe I wanted to, for some reason, do some Python in my JavaScript class. and then I could choose a lesson, view lessons, and pick a lesson to add to the course right here. Assign. All right. So, that's how you would add from another code HS course. All right. So, my advice on here, I just said I've added usually add supplemental materials. that's what I've done the most. But I have also added content from other courses that I wanted to cover like you can I think in the past with Python and Java I have actually used some of the other Java course content and other Python course content. So you can do that. All right. All right. Creating your own content. So how do you add things from scratch? you can add your own custom content. You can add articles, coding activities, videos, Google slides and docs and more. I actually today I was telling Stephanie for the first time I added an edp puzzle to my code HS thing which was wonderful. So, it's nice having it all in one container, I guess, because we use Schooly and it gets really confusing for me and for students when I have assignments on Schooly, assignments on CodeHS, you know, assignments out in Edpuzzle, different places. So, it's kind of nice you can have it all in one place. So to add, pardon me, to add your own module, you're going to click in the upper right hand corner, click add and module and create that from scratch. So let me close out of this. You go here to add and then module. Okay, so maybe I wanted a module called extra practice and then click create. And there it is. It adds it down at the bottom. And actually, this would be really good under the extra practice module. So, that's how you would add that there. So, if you wanted to create your own thing and something I was reading about, maybe you want to add a syllabus in there. There's lots of things you can add in that. And I thought, well, that would be another great idea to add your own module containing maybe tips and tools and syllabuses and rules, coding rules, different things like that. you can add your own lessons. It says customize your courses by adding your lessons and assignments. So, you would actually add lessons and stuff in there. So, if I go back here, let's say I go to my extra practice module right here and add new lesson. And over here on the right, there's also a way to add a new lesson to my module. And then maybe this one I want to call I don't know practice number one. Okay. So this would be practice one and I would add it there. All right. So this is a lesson. This is just a lesson title. You would actually add the activities under this lesson. This is where you would add those. So this would be practice one and then I would add activities under that. All right. What kind of activities can you add? Lots and lots of different things. So, you can do journaling, free response questions, screencasting, Google draw. I honestly never realized how many different things you could add. I was like blown away by this choice boards. going on polling apps, you could use quizzes with the codec. You can create your own quizzes from scratch. You can use Quizlet or Wayground, which used to be quizzes. you can use that Padlet prey Google videos you can add and this is actually what it looks like when you go to add new things from the choices you've got coding exercises this is like a sandbox kind of project that you could add you could add a quiz a practice problem if you've done any of the coding this is what you would do in there if you've done if you've taught any of the coding courses then you know you've got practice problems in there that the students do and they have autograders. you can add videos, articles, a notes section for the kids, lecture notes, free responses. You can embed which is how I actually embedded the edp puzzle that I did a resource for the students or an example. Lots of things you can add in here. So how do you do that? Once you would go into your module you just created your lesson and do add new assignment. And then you would choose your assignment type. That would be step two. And then step three, you would title your assignment. And step four, you would save and continue. So let's say for some reason in my practice one, I want to add a new assignment of a quiz and quiz the students from the get-go. So this is one thing I have done before is the quizzes. We also have you can create with AI now too. So you can create a quiz you can title it maybe quiz number one. Of course you' probably call it something a little more creative than that. Create a quiz question. what is the answer? I don't know. and then put your choices. Just try and do something quick and easy here. The right answer would be B. And then you would click create. It would save it. And then right here you would save and then you can configure it. This is for all the different assignments. Whether you want it to be available now, set due dates, set the points for it, assign a category, put it to the grade book, and even more settings there. and you can preview it if you'd like to see what it's going to look like and then save it and it'll be in there. So, there's the quiz. All right, the remix remix button. that is something that's pretty cool. It's pretty new. used to you could take an assignment. this is one thing that I absolutely love is a lot of our assignments have alternate assignments that you can use which is wonderful because some of the students might have taken the course before they found the answers somewhere you know online. so if you choose an alternate assignment chances are they probably haven't seen it but now remix has other options. So, if we were to go in, see if I can find one with a remix. let's see. I'm not sure if one of the your first Carol program might probably should have looked to see which one might have that. There's the remix button. So, you click the ellipses on the right. Remix. And then this is alternate assignment if there was one. You can fork the assignment, which is awesome. it makes a copy of the assignment and then you can change it to the way you want it. And then there's a fork with AI where you can add you can take the existing assignment and make it a harder one or an easier one. So, that's something else that you can do there. All right, we good so far? Yes, this has been wonderful. so comprehensive on all the ways that we have available to customize the curriculum. Thank you so much for sharing Tammy and the walkth through step by step was perfect. Thank you so much. So yeah, we are time it is time to wrap up here and so would love to share with you some additional resources. So we have a Facebook group for educators. We have social media. we also have upcoming PD. if you'll go to the next slide there for me. oh I guess we'll get to that in a minute. so we will ask you very quickly folks if you have a minute just takes a brief minute to give us some feedback. I've put a link to our webinar survey in the chat. We love getting feedback and hearing from you how we did today. And excuse me. And you know, tell us tell us what you need. If we if you were expecting to hear something in this webinar, creating your own course today, and we didn't hit on it, we would love to know that so we can include it next time. We do do these webinars a couple times a year, and we really want to make sure we're serving educators, g getting you the information you need. So let us know in that survey and then we also want to make sure that you get a certificate of completion showing that you are here with us today. So go ahead and click on that link. You do need to be logged in to your codes account. Then click on the link in the chat and it'll just bring up a screen that says thank you for attending. And then the next slide is our advertisements for our upcoming webinars. So to round out our back to school webinars, we are focusing on those AP courses and we have APCSA checklist, APCSP checklist which will be more informative type webinars like we got today. If you are interested in networking with other AP teachers and want to bring some resources to share that have worked really well for you in your AP teaching, the APCSA and CSP PLC's, professional learning communities are going to be interactive small groupoup sessions where you can share resources and get advice. So I do see we had a couple questions come up right at the end of our webinar here. So, I want to answer those before we sign off. Josh asks, "Is Remix avail available for free or pro?" you can fork any assignment for free and edit it. I believe maybe I should double check that, but remix with all remixing with like AI Creator is an add-on and remixing with Quizbuzz is would be a pro feature. So, a lot of the the remixing is a pro feature, but I believe that you can at least make a copy fork and edit assignments for free. I believe. And then, we have another question. I can't edit where it says Florida introduction to cyber security. yeah. I I don't know if you can edit the names of courses. You can edit the names of your sections Timmy. Let's try that. if you go to courses and then settings, see where or maybe click the little gear icon next to your corgi course. I don't want to mess up one of your real courses. Yeah, click that and let's see if we can Yeah, you can rename your course there. Okay. So, you can click the pencil icon and you can rename your course there. So, Wilkinson, if you go to your course settings, then you should be able to edit the name of your course. And I you it's the same for a section. So, if you accidentally named a section period 3 and it was supposed to be period 2, you can also edit the name of your section. So, thank you all so much for being here today. Tammy, thank you so much. This was fa fantastic. And we loved hearing how you have customized your courses. Thanks and we will talk soon. See you. [Music]
And I also just remembered that I need to turn on the chat to let everybody chat. So Tammy, go ahead and introduce yourself, tell us where you're joining us from and your teaching background, and I will get the chat things working out.
All right. Thank you, Stephanie. Hi, I'm Tammy Huddle and I am a computer science teacher at the South Carolina virtual charter schools. So, I do teach from home. a little bit different in a virtual environment, but I really enjoy it. I've been using code HS for probably four to five years now. and fell in love with it and got some of my co-workers on board and I've taught Java, fundamentals of computing. I've taught Python and now I'm teaching cyber security. So I've taught several different courses and excited to be presenting for you today. Thank you. Yes. So let's move on to the next slide and give folks a preview of what we will be covering here today. So I did get the chat opened up and I did put a link to the slide deck in there. So if you would like to reference the slides later if you want to come back to these slides we will keep those available to you for the school year and also for attending you will get a u recording of the session today emailed to you along with the slides. So, we're we're going to give you tons of resources today and reference material so that if something you know next semester you're like, "Oh, yeah. Didn't Tammy say I could add a project to my course?" you can come back and reference the recording or the slides at any time. So, today we're going to be talking about how to set up your courses and sections. And then once you've got those set up, we'll talk about how you can customize those to meet the needs of your students. that can be adding additional codes content. It could be reordering or removing content that codes provides or you c you can also bring over your own content that has worked really well for you in the past. So happy to be able to share all this customization with you all today. All right. So Tammy, thank you. You are already on it. if you do have a question today, I will ask that you put your questions in the Q&A. That's so as I'm adding links to the chat or y'all are sharing your own best practices. We want this to be interactive today. We want to hear from you, our audience. So if the if the chat is busy, we don't want to lose anybody's question. So if you do have a question, please let us know in the Q&A. you can find that button at the bottom of your Zoom screen and that will allow us to make sure we get it answered either live or I'll I can maybe quickly find some resources on the back end also. So, let's go ahead and get started here. So, if you are brand new to CodeHS and have never signed up for an account, teacher and student accounts are free. Our curriculum is 100% free and student access to our curriculum is 100% free. So, I definitely want you to go ahead and sign up for an account if you haven't already created one. If you do have an account with us already, please go ahead and log in. I'll get this link in the chat here and let's talk about all the great things that Codess brings to your classroom. So, we are a comprehensive curriculum. We have curriculum all the way from K through 12 and we do offer our middle school and high school curriculum for free. we are web- based and so we make sure that we're accessible anywhere you have internet, anywhere your students have internet. And we're really proud to say that as long as you have internet you can work with our codes content and we just hope that that brings a lot of flexibility to you and your students. you know we have professional development because you're here today with us and I want to talk a little bit about our tools and resources that we provide. So Tammy if you'll go to the next slide. So, with our basic license, you have access to this fabulous K through excuse me, not K through 12, but middle school and high school curriculum. but we do also offer some tools with our basic free license that is really helpful to teachers, we hope. For example, what we're talking about today, customizing the curriculum, the ability to add and remove assignments, bring in your own material, all that is a free feature, conversation tools with students. So, u some common LMS features like being able to message students or send out announcements to whole to your whole class, free features. we do then also provide some prolicensed features such as academic integrity, a suite of tools, gradebook tools, lots of other awesome features that we just really hope are helping teachers all over the country be able to efficiently and effectively deliver computer science learning experiences to their students. So, definitely go ahead and say hello in the chat if you'd like to while I hand it over to Tammy. All right, trying to open up my audio there. So, anyway, we're going to get started on managing courses and sections. And if you have any questions, I'm sure Stephanie will be watching chat and relaying that to me while I'm showing you guys all the content and things that you can do on code HS. So let's get started. one of the things here is defining what a course is. There are courses and there are sections and there are two different things. a course is kind of like the brella and you can have multiple sections under a course. So a course is actually the curriculum that you will be teaching and a section is what students roster to in order to access their assignments. So within a course, let's say you teach fundamentals of computing, you can have two sections like a first block and a second block and a third block. You can have multiple sections underneath one course. So you would use a co codes course with no modifications. There's three different ways here. You could use one of our code HS courses and customize it to your liking, which is what I do. Or you can build a course basically from scratch and use all of the wonderful benefits and grading options, things like that that CodeHS has to offer if you want to do it from scratch. So, my personal preference is, like I said, the second one. I usually use one of the courses that is already there and I modify things like you can do alternate assignments and I'll do that a lot. You can change quizzes into quiz buzzes, you can remove assignments, you can add assignments, you can rearrange assignments and units. So, there's lots of different things that you can do in there. So, the first thing to do is check out our course catalog. And there are a lot of different course offerings. You can filter courses by grade, language, level, all sorts of different things. And I'll demonstrate that for you, too, so you can see where to go find that. You can view the course syllabus and the unit overview. And you can enroll yourself. You can actually enroll yourself in any of the courses that CodeHS has. So you can check it out a little more and take it as if you were a student. so to get to that, just to show you here, if I go on over, there's a couple of different places. Over on the left, right here under curriculum on the left in your navigation bar, you see course catalog. So you can go there or you can actually go up to the top under my courses and do views, view course catalog there. So that takes two clicks whereas the other one takes just one click. just go to curriculum and course catalog and that will bring it up. And as you can see, there's lots and lots of courses here. Some of them even offered in Spanish. So that's something to keep in mind. you can search for a course by you can see what I've been searching for. Cyber, Python, cyber security. you can search by tag and there's all sorts of different tags that are already here that you can use. You can search by grade level, by your state, or by time frame, whether you want a year, semester, quarter, or just like a hour of code. Maybe something for a December you want to do. So, lots of different options, filtering options that you can do to narrow your course down. All right. So, the first thing you want to do is actually create your first course. and this doesn't have to be something you use. This could be something you're just playing around with today, for example, for testing purposes, but I'm going to show you how to do that. So, the first thing you're going to do is over in assignments on the left hand side, you're going to click courses in the lefthand menu, and then we're going to click create new course. And there's also a button up here, too. So, there's generally multiple places where you can do some of these things, which is really nice. So, if we go over here and I'm going to go on the left hand side and I'm going to go to courses and you'll be able to see some of the courses I currently have. These are my courses that I currently have on my list and the blue underneath is actually the sections underneath the course within the course. So, I've got that there. So, to create a new course again, you could click this button here or create new course here. Okay? and that'll bring you up another screen. And just let Stephanie know if I'm going too fast or if you have questions. We'll be happy to help. All right. So, that's how you would start to create a new course. So, step one, once you click that button, you've got a choice to make. You got to decide whether you want to use one of the code HS templates and customize it or if you want to start from scratch and actually add your own content, your own quizzes or things from code HS you can add. you can import from a variety of places which we'll talk about later on. or you can create from scratch anything you really want. So that would be your second option. So on this screen here, you could choose from a starting point or from scratch. So either one. So I'm going to choose the template. I like that the best. So for step one, you're actually going to choose your course and then you'll name it after that. So I'm going to choose course template and gonna try to think of something. I think Stephanie, you gave me the Corgi course. so I used to teach Java. I haven't I'm not teaching it this year, but I'm gonna just type in Java and see what we've got. It looked like it pretty much stayed the same. There's a lot of Java stuff in here. let me do, you can see South Carolina's already up for me. so I maybe could pick a South Carolina course. We'll do that for fun. I'm going to do fundamentals of webpage design. Why not? So, I'll choose that one. Okay. So step two once you pick your course is naming your course. So if I go back step two if you choose to do a template, if you don't choose from a template, you're going to skip this step where you actually choose the course. If you choose to do it from scratch, obviously you won't have to do this. But this is where you will stick or or select your actual course. So I label this one B. Okay. Then you will choose a name for your course. And generally I name mine based on my semester or maybe a quarter and the block. not the block. I'll do that for sections. But for this one, let's say I wanted to say web design. I can't even type today fall 2025. Right? So I might name it like that. That way, if I go back through my courses, I can see, oh, this is the one I taught that semester. So, that way I kind of know by which semester or which quarter it is. Okay. So, I'd click next after you choose your name. Okay. And then it's done. So, the next thing you would want to do is add sections. So, let's go back here. So, step three is creating your sections. Well, it's not labeled step three, but it's the next thing you would do. So, you're going to create a new section next. And again, a section is like like let's say the only thing you teach is web design. Then you might have a section for first block, second block, and third block or the period throughout the day. or you might only have one section in here. You might be like me right now. I teach Python and cyber security. So, I have both courses and each of my courses have one section underneath them. So you would want to create a section next. You have to do that so you can enroll your students. So that's the next thing you would do is go over to curriculum. Wh not curriculum. You would go over to your courses and go back classroom sections. Okay. Classroom sections right here. All right. Okay. So this is where you have your sections and you would create a new section. You could do that here. Go back to the PowerPoint where it says you would click here and then do new section up here. And you can see we also again have it over here on the right. So couple of places you could do that. All right. You can see it over here on the right. Create new section. Or you would do that here. Either place works. All right. So obviously the first thing you're going to do is name your section. Okay. So again, you can see some of the ones I've done here already. So let's say I'm going to do first block for file 2025. That way I know that it's that time. You could do it by time. Maybe it's your 9:00 a.m. class or your, you know, 11:00 a.m. class, however you want to name it. So you'll do that. You could also import from a Google classroom. So that's another option. You'll click next. Okay. If I go back to my slides here, you would choose a name like I just did. And then you're going to pick the course. Okay. The like the one we just created. So, if you're a little lost right now, like why do I have to pick the course? Well, you said you wanted to create a new section, but you've got to tell it under which course that you have. So, this is where you'll pick your course that the existing one you already have. So, you'll go here and go to my course and choose that. And then you're going to pick the course you've got. Okay. I was trying to think, Stephanie, if I should use the one that you just gave me and do a section under there, but I think you already added a section there.
Yep, I did. Yeah, if you you can do your web design fall there.
Yeah.
All right. So, we'll do that here just to show you guys because Stephanie's already created one here for the demo one. So, I'm going to go web design file right there. And that's it. Now, we have a new section. So, the next thing obviously would be to add your students. And there's a couple of different ways you can do that. All right. So, this is where you create your section. You'll navigate back to your courses app and you'll be able to see it. So, if I were to go over here and go back to my courses, you'll be able to see now under my web design course, I have one section, first block file 2025. So, just like that. All right. So, now I'm going to click on that course and it's going to bring it up. We need to add students. So, if I go to my roster, you can see I currently have I was on the wrong class. I was under the demo one. Let me get back to my web design one. I was like, I shouldn't have any students in there. So, back in my web design class, I do not have any current students because I just created this course, obviously. All right. So, this is how you would enroll. Couple of different ways. If you go like I just did and you go to the course itself and click on roster, then you will get to where I'm at. And there's a couple of different places. And reviewing this, it is kind of funny because no matter where you click, it's like invite your students. Invite your students. So here's the roster. These little navigation buttons at the top. You can invite students via email or you can give them this link. So a couple of different ways that you can invite them in. we also this is probably a whole different PD training but we also integrate with several LMS's so you know that's also another option that you can do in order to enroll students is connecting your LMS to code HS. So, that is another option. And if I click on manage, it's going to tell me the same thing. Student settings. I don't have any students yet. It's going to say you got to invite your students. And again, with invite, like I said, two different ways. You can email the students or you can give them the link. So, either of those ways work. All right. Am I going too fast? Is everybody good so far, Stephanie?
Yeah, it's great.
Okay. Good. Good. All right. So, this is where you would invite your students in or enroll them. So, just a little bit of advice, little things on here, tidbits that I put in here is I prefer to start with a template and revise it as needed. And I kind of mentioned that earlier. you can play around with the templates and find what you like and what you don't. like I've got here, you can rearrange things, delete things, add to the existing material. and we're going to go over some of that, all the different things that you can add, make it customizable to what you want to do with your students. So, it's really, really good with that. one of the things I have done a lot is use supplemental material, especially for Python. one of the things that's not in there yet, but they're adding it. Actually, one of the courses has it and the one I use doesn't, but, it's like file processing and using it with that. So, I went to the supplemental material at the bottom of the assignments page and added that to my course. So, you can add things from other courses, you can add your own content, lots of different things. All right, so let's talk about customizing your page. Now that you've created your course and created your sections, how do you go in and actually customize it? All right. So, you can organize your course content by reordering units, lessons, or assignments. You can put them in any order you want to. You can remove units, lessons or assignments. You can add units, lessons or assignments. And there is something new now, assigning by student, which is pretty cool. So, I was really excited about that. That is a new feature. And so you can actually take an assignment and just give it to certain students. maybe your special needs students or students that need more of a challenge that you want to give them maybe some of the harder assignments. So you can give certain assignments or specific assignments to specific students, which is wonderful. All right, reordering modules. Pretty easy to do here. from the assignments page to reorder the module in your courses. So, you're going to go to your assignment so you can actually see all of the course content you have. And over on the right, you're going to click the edit button. So, if I go here, and at this point, I'm actually going to go back to let me go to my courses. I'm going to use the one Stephanie set up for me, which is the demo here. Okay. And it brings up my assignments. And if you're not in assignments, maybe it brought up a roster or something, you can go to the left and click on assignments, and that will bring it up for you. All right. So, over on the right here is that edit button I was telling you about. So, if you click edit, it lets you rearrange. You can see you've kind of got this little handle, the hand there where you can grab it. So, maybe I want to do some JavaScript basics before Carol challenges. I can drag and drop. or maybe maybe I don't want to do the Carol challenges until later. You know, I could drag it down way far. Maybe we want to do graphics first before we run into control structures. So, you can actually move things around really easy with drag and drop. And this is only for like whole units that you can do this with. And once you're done, just click done. All right. So, pretty easy. Drag and drop with that. All right. Now, you can also remove content from your code HS course. And it shows a little bit here on the left. I'll let you kind of watch the video a little bit. It shows you how to do that. we have these little ellipses, I guess some people call them, the three little dots on the right of your course material, and you can click on that and remove assignments. Now, I I do this just coming from experience. Sometimes I've removed an assignment and regretted it. There is a way to get that back though. so, you can do that, but a lot of times I'll just go unassign it. So, the students don't see it. I still see it. It's still there, but it's not visible to the students. So, I'll just go and unassign it instead of removing it. And that way, if I do choose to use it later, I can. It's still there. But it is easy to get it back. I've had that happen from experience. All right. So, the way you would do that, if I click on my programming with Carol unit here and scroll down, and this is the introduction to programming with Carol, you can see the little ellipses here. I could remove the whole lesson. Usually, I don't remove a lesson, but you could do that. Maybe you don't want to do that lesson. If I click on the lesson and see the individual assignments in here, I could remove it there with the three ellipses on the right. There's your remove. You would click that. And I've noticed that's one thing I have noticed, Stephanie, I have to click it twice. I don't know if that's built in. I usually have to click it twice. I don't know why. And then you would choose yes, remove the assignment to get it gone. All right. Pretty easy easy to remove stuff. All right. So, here is the assigning by student and the new assignment modal. And this was the one Stephanie I was talking about earlier. I wasn't quite sure what an assignment modal is because this is brand new. I did navigate my way around to find out how you can do this, but I wasn't able to find the assignment modal.
Modal is just the technical word that like our engineering team uses for that popup. So, popup modal I, you know, fancy engineering terms around here.
Fancy one. Well, I did find that like in the settings, I believe, is where I found it. So, if you were to go here and go to all settings, that's where I actually found the the modal. And scroll to the very bottom of your settings, configure per student. That's where I found it. So, here it is. is you would click there and then this is where you have it at. Maybe, you know, I know Grace is pretty smart. So, maybe I don't want her to take this one because she's I know she's mastered this concept. So, I'm going, you know, say Grace is good and Allen. We all know Alan Turn's pretty smart, too. All of these are pretty smart people here, but I'm going to go ahead and unassign it for them. So, this is where you can actually do it by student. So pretty cool pretty cool feature there.
So that's
and Timmy I'm gonna interrupt just a second. So this is how you can invi individualize student assignments on the prolicens and and this is one of our pro features. There is a way to do this for free also. So I will I will show you as you get into adding an assignment. I'll I'll guide you through.
Okay. Excellent. Awesome. All right. All right. So, yes, you can do that by student. Wonderful, wonderful new feature. Lots of good new stuff that just came out. So, for the content options, you can add code HS content, curated supplemental course content. That was one thing I mentioned a little bit ago. Projects from the project catalog. You can add projects from the career center. There are some good ones out there. I was actually looking at some for cyber security. you can also add any unit, lesson or assignment from another code HS course. So that's pretty cool. You can customize it any way you like. Code HS content, outside content, your own content, lots of different ways. All right. So here's how to add the curated supplemental materials. Says this is many courses that will include this. Not all of them do, but some of them do. You search for content on the assignments page to browse and add supplemental. So, you go over to your course, scroll all the way down, and do search for content at the bottom, and here are your supplemental materials. So, you could add a midterm, add a Carol practice. you can add these to the course and then check them out, or you can preview them ahead of time to actually add them to the course. But let's say I wanted to add to this course some extra practice for Carol. So I would just do assign and then I would pick my course. It would be this one here. Okay. And then
before you click next, go to previous. At the very top there is where we added that toggle for assign by individual student. It's kind of sneaky up there. So if you click that toggle, there you go. Now if you open that dropdown. Perfect. Now you can select
the individual students you want to have that assignment. So yeah, on all of the assign pages now this this is that assignment modal. All of them have that toggle now. And I I wish we would have made it like bigger with some confetti or something because it kind of hides up there.
Yep. Yep. I did not even see that especially since it's new. I was like there it is. Okay. I I did find it but somewhere different. say, "Yeah, that's pretty cool." And this would assign the whole module to them. So then you would have to go in and customize individual pieces, but maybe a student needs some extra practice and you just want to assign it to those students that need that extra practice. So that that is a really good thing there. Awesome. Then you would click next. here, this is the thing I like to do. You can turn on your blocks if you want your students to be able to do block coding or not. availability. I usually lock my assignments until I'm ready to teach it. so students don't work ahead. you can set due dates, put it in the grade book or not and set it to teacher graded or autograded. So lots of different things you can do there. And then you just assign it and it usually adds it to the bottom of the course. So I'm probably going to have to refresh. And there it is. Practice Carol. And again, you could move this up into the course by going through and using edit and moving it, but there it is down at the bottom. So, that's the supplemental material. Now, you can also assign content from the project catalog. a couple of different ways to go there and get it, but this is the easiest one over on the right at the top of the assignments page. So if I scroll to the top right here, add and then here is a code HS project and here is lots of different projects. So you've got you can sort it. I was trying to think this course is JavaScript so I might want to look for JavaScript. [Music] Let's see. You can see the ones that have JavaScript on it. I was thinking I might be able to search by language, but you can search by project name. So, that's that's one way that you can do them. Now, if you're not familiar with the projects, maybe you don't know what these are and yeah, that looks great, but I have no clue what it is, then another way that you could do it, let me see if I can close out of that. Okay. Is over on the left hand side, project catalog, right here under curriculum. And that will bring you up all the different projects so you can check them out a little more in detail. So, maybe you wanted to do I have looked at this one before letter histogram and it goes through the project details and right here's where you can assign it to your course. All right. Okay. You can also assign content from the career center which is pretty cool. I honestly have not used that yet but I didn't excuse me, see much out there for Java and Python, which is what I used to teach. But now that I'm teaching cyber security, I have seen that. So, if I go back to my course, see if I can get back there, courses, and I'm going to go back here and add on the right hand side. And then I would choose goodness, that's not where career center is. Yeah, I think to aside from the career center, if you go to the curriculum toolbox in the navigation, there is now Yeah. career center right there. There's a career center app listed at the bottom of that curriculum toolbox. Yep. Perfect.
You would go there to get to the career center.
Yep. And then if you open up one of those like you were talking about cyber security and scroll down there will be one or more lessons that you could actually assign using that same button. Okay. So there it is. There's where you would assign it. So check out the career center. There's a lot in there. I really didn't realize how much was in there. I'd looked at it a while back. Didn't see anything for job in Python, but there's some good stuff in there. All right. Okay. Okay, so that's from the career center. Then you can add content from other code HS courses as well. So this is where the code HS course addin is. So if you go here and let me get back to my course. Probably could have went just back to my section instead of the course, but go here. All right. And then add and then code HS course. So from here you would pick whichever course you wanted to add from. maybe I wanted to, for some reason, do some Python in my JavaScript class. and then I could choose a lesson, view lessons, and pick a lesson to add to the course right here. Assign. All right. So, that's how you would add from another code HS course. All right. So, my advice on here, I just said I've added usually add supplemental materials. that's what I've done the most. But I have also added content from other courses that I wanted to cover like you can I think in the past with Python and Java I have actually used some of the other Java course content and other Python course content. So you can do that. All right. All right. Creating your own content. So how do you add things from scratch? you can add your own custom content. You can add articles, coding activities, videos, Google slides and docs and more. I actually today I was telling Stephanie for the first time I added an edp puzzle to my code HS thing which was wonderful. So, it's nice having it all in one container, I guess, because we use Schooly and it gets really confusing for me and for students when I have assignments on Schooly, assignments on CodeHS, you know, assignments out in Edpuzzle, different places. So, it's kind of nice you can have it all in one place. So to add, pardon me, to add your own module, you're going to click in the upper right hand corner, click add and module and create that from scratch. So let me close out of this. You go here to add and then module. Okay, so maybe I wanted a module called extra practice and then click create. And there it is. It adds it down at the bottom. And actually, this would be really good under the extra practice module. So, that's how you would add that there. So, if you wanted to create your own thing and something I was reading about, maybe you want to add a syllabus in there. There's lots of things you can add in that. And I thought, well, that would be another great idea to add your own module containing maybe tips and tools and syllabuses and rules, coding rules, different things like that. you can add your own lessons. It says customize your courses by adding your lessons and assignments. So, you would actually add lessons and stuff in there. So, if I go back here, let's say I go to my extra practice module right here and add new lesson. And over here on the right, there's also a way to add a new lesson to my module. And then maybe this one I want to call I don't know practice number one. Okay. So this would be practice one and I would add it there. All right. So this is a lesson. This is just a lesson title. You would actually add the activities under this lesson. This is where you would add those. So this would be practice one and then I would add activities under that. All right. What kind of activities can you add? Lots and lots of different things. So, you can do journaling, free response questions, screencasting, Google draw. I honestly never realized how many different things you could add. I was like blown away by this choice boards. going on polling apps, you could use quizzes with the codec. You can create your own quizzes from scratch. You can use Quizlet or Wayground, which used to be quizzes. you can use that Padlet prey Google videos you can add and this is actually what it looks like when you go to add new things from the choices you've got coding exercises this is like a sandbox kind of project that you could add you could add a quiz a practice problem if you've done any of the coding this is what you would do in there if you've done if you've taught any of the coding courses then you know you've got practice problems in there that the students do and they have autograders. you can add videos, articles, a notes section for the kids, lecture notes, free responses. You can embed which is how I actually embedded the edp puzzle that I did a resource for the students or an example. Lots of things you can add in here. So how do you do that? Once you would go into your module you just created your lesson and do add new assignment. And then you would choose your assignment type. That would be step two. And then step three, you would title your assignment. And step four, you would save and continue. So let's say for some reason in my practice one, I want to add a new assignment of a quiz and quiz the students from the get-go. So this is one thing I have done before is the quizzes. We also have you can create with AI now too. So you can create a quiz you can title it maybe quiz number one. Of course you' probably call it something a little more creative than that. Create a quiz question. what is the answer? I don't know. and then put your choices. Just try and do something quick and easy here. The right answer would be B. And then you would click create. It would save it. And then right here you would save and then you can configure it. This is for all the different assignments. Whether you want it to be available now, set due dates, set the points for it, assign a category, put it to the grade book, and even more settings there. and you can preview it if you'd like to see what it's going to look like and then save it and it'll be in there. So, there's the quiz. All right, the remix remix button. that is something that's pretty cool. It's pretty new. used to you could take an assignment. this is one thing that I absolutely love is a lot of our assignments have alternate assignments that you can use which is wonderful because some of the students might have taken the course before they found the answers somewhere you know online. so if you choose an alternate assignment chances are they probably haven't seen it but now remix has other options. So, if we were to go in, see if I can find one with a remix. let's see. I'm not sure if one of the your first Carol program might probably should have looked to see which one might have that. There's the remix button. So, you click the ellipses on the right. Remix. And then this is alternate assignment if there was one. You can fork the assignment, which is awesome. it makes a copy of the assignment and then you can change it to the way you want it. And then there's a fork with AI where you can add you can take the existing assignment and make it a harder one or an easier one. So, that's something else that you can do there. All right, we good so far? Yes, this has been wonderful. so comprehensive on all the ways that we have available to customize the curriculum. Thank you so much for sharing Tammy and the walkth through step by step was perfect. Thank you so much. So yeah, we are time it is time to wrap up here and so would love to share with you some additional resources. So we have a Facebook group for educators. We have social media. we also have upcoming PD. if you'll go to the next slide there for me. oh I guess we'll get to that in a minute. so we will ask you very quickly folks if you have a minute just takes a brief minute to give us some feedback. I've put a link to our webinar survey in the chat. We love getting feedback and hearing from you how we did today. And excuse me. And you know, tell us tell us what you need. If we if you were expecting to hear something in this webinar, creating your own course today, and we didn't hit on it, we would love to know that so we can include it next time. We do do these webinars a couple times a year, and we really want to make sure we're serving educators, g getting you the information you need. So let us know in that survey and then we also want to make sure that you get a certificate of completion showing that you are here with us today. So go ahead and click on that link. You do need to be logged in to your codes account. Then click on the link in the chat and it'll just bring up a screen that says thank you for attending. And then the next slide is our advertisements for our upcoming webinars. So to round out our back to school webinars, we are focusing on those AP courses and we have APCSA checklist, APCSP checklist which will be more informative type webinars like we got today. If you are interested in networking with other AP teachers and want to bring some resources to share that have worked really well for you in your AP teaching, the APCSA and CSP PLC's, professional learning communities are going to be interactive small groupoup sessions where you can share resources and get advice. So I do see we had a couple questions come up right at the end of our webinar here. So, I want to answer those before we sign off. Josh asks, "Is Remix avail available for free or pro?" you can fork any assignment for free and edit it. I believe maybe I should double check that, but remix with all remixing with like AI Creator is an add-on and remixing with Quizbuzz is would be a pro feature. So, a lot of the the remixing is a pro feature, but I believe that you can at least make a copy fork and edit assignments for free. I believe. And then, we have another question. I can't edit where it says Florida introduction to cyber security. yeah. I I don't know if you can edit the names of courses. You can edit the names of your sections Timmy. Let's try that. if you go to courses and then settings, see where or maybe click the little gear icon next to your corgi course. I don't want to mess up one of your real courses. Yeah, click that and let's see if we can Yeah, you can rename your course there. Okay. So, you can click the pencil icon and you can rename your course there. So, Wilkinson, if you go to your course settings, then you should be able to edit the name of your course. And I you it's the same for a section. So, if you accidentally named a section period 3 and it was supposed to be period 2, you can also edit the name of your section. So, thank you all so much for being here today. Tammy, thank you so much. This was fa fantastic. And we loved hearing how you have customized your courses. Thanks and we will talk soon. See you. [Music]
