Leveraging CodeHS Pro Tools

Hi everyone. Thank you so much for joining our spring webinar series. Today we'll be going over ways that you can leverage some of our pro tools. Super excited to have you all here today. My name is Amir Shotwell. I'm a customer success manager here at CodeHS. Also joining us on our webinar today is Kayla Pika, who is a customer success lead also on the customer success management team.

So, a little overview of what we'll be covering today. I'll talk a little bit about lesson plans and how that can help with enhancing your course pacing. We'll also go over progress monitoring. I'll walk you through our grade book and different ways to grade as well as some settings that you can implement there as well. And then we'll round off with our academic integrity center.

So, a couple of housekeeping things. I can't see you. So, if you have any questions, please put them in the Q&A that you see on the screen. Any questions that you leave, Kayla is more than happy to answer those questions while we're on the call today. So, if anything comes up as I'm doing the demo, just feel free to put those questions in there.

Many of you already know what CodeHS is, but if you need a refresher or this is your first time interacting with us, we are a comprehensive platform for teaching computer science and we do have curriculum from elementary all the way through high school. So, we are a K through 12 computer science career guide. We also provide professional development both in person or virtual for our teachers as well. One thing to note is that if you do have pro, you are also able to be connected with a customer success manager like Kayla or myself to help with curriculum, answer questions about our tools, and make sure you're fully set up for the classroom in the best way for yourself.

If you don't already have an account, our curriculum is free and creating an account is also free to do as well. You can sign up for an account at codehs.com/signup. Kayla is dropping the link to that in the chat as well. We are going to be going over Pro Tools, but you should be able to see a lot of things on this site. Feel free to explore as you're looking around. Note that a lot of these tools will require a pro account, but you can go ahead and get an understanding of what those look like as I do the demo today.

Let's get started. First I'll talk about streamlining the grading process. Overall our grading tools are designed to make your workflow a lot easier. While our autograder does do a lot of that heavy lifting, there are ways to grade assignments yourself. You are able to grade student assignments all in one place and any finalized grades are automatically pushed to the grade book. It is a very streamlined process for you and I'll show what that looks like.

In your CodeHS account, the first thing that I'll show is the grade book. You'll access the gradebook here on the left-hand side panel. This left-hand side panel is organized into categories. For the grade book, you're going to scroll to the grading category and it's the first app at the top. Clicking into the grade book you'll notice that it is color-coordinated and each of these colors has a specific meaning. Anything that is gray means that students have not opened this assignment yet. Anything that is yellow means that students are working on it; they haven't submitted it yet, but it is in progress. Green is going to let you know that this is an assignment that has been submitted by students, but that grade isn't finalized, likely meaning that it's a grade that you'll need to go in and finalize. Pink means that you have sent this assignment back to students for review. Once they've resubmitted that assignment, you'll see that that's magenta. And then again, all finalized grades are going to be teal.

You have access to this color key just in case you need a refresher. Our grade book is fully customizable. Right now, I'm looking at the overview, seeing all the assignments that students have access to for the course overall. But you can also view the gradebook by individual modules, by lesson, and by student as well. If you would like to further edit the gradebook, you can click this blue edit button and you can remove certain assignments from the gradebook and also change the number of points that each assignment is worth. Just make sure to click done when you're finished to save that.

In the gradebook settings is another great place to further customize. Here you can see which assignment types students are getting graded on. If you would like students to not be graded on videos or certain debugging exercises, you can remove those from the grade book. Display settings are purely visual. This is where you will go just in case you want to clean up your gradebook and make it less cluttered. For any edits that you make here in settings, just remember to click that save button.

There are a couple other settings here as well. Two that I will point out are late assignments and grade weighting. You can give students missing assignment zeros until they complete it. You can also penalize late submissions by deciding what percentage of points you would like to deduct. If you would like to enable grade weighting, you'll just toggle this on and then you'll create categories and decide what the weight amount is. This would be a great opportunity to reach out to your customer success manager to get a better understanding of what that whole process looks like.

Now I'll go to fast grade. In terms of grading student assignments, many are set to be autograded by default, but you can change those. Any assignments that are set to teacher graded, you can access via fast grade. In grading, if you go down to code review, this is a great place to see all of the student submissions that are coming in that need teacher eyes on them. You can access fast grade and AI fast grading here.

In fast grade, I can see student code for my student. I can also see the solution code side by side. Looking at it with just a quick look I can tell that the student code is matching the solution code. You can also get a description of the assignment, run the student code, and run the solution code. If it looks good, I'm going to award full credit, and it's going to move directly on to the next student. If you find yourself giving the same sort of feedback to students over and over again, you can also create canned responses so that students are getting their feedback without you having to manually type it every single time.

Another option for grading is AI grading. Here you're going to see the student code, but unlike fast grade, you're going to see a suggested grade from AI and suggested student feedback. This is not meant to take away any agency, so you can change it if you want to. You'll see an understanding of which of the rubric tests it passed with check marks or X's. Once you finalize that grade, it moves you directly on to the next student's work.

Now we're going to look at how to enhance course pacing and monitoring. I'll walk you through how lesson plans can provide structure, how you can track student progress, and how to see real-time activity in the classroom to keep everyone on pace. Under assignments you'll see lesson plans, or you can go to materials within the course. You have your course syllabus for a high-level overview, but lesson plans are your best bet for granular level pacing. If I open up a lesson plan, you're going to see a description of the lesson as well as the objectives and activities. You'll also have access to solution references, problem guides, and handouts. You can see a suggested lesson opener, the pacing for each activity, and a lesson closer. You'll also have access to any prior knowledge needed, slides with discussion questions, modifications for students, and AP or state standards.

Your problem guides are assignment-specific. You'll get a description of the assignment and the solution code. This is great if you're teaching computer science for the first time. You'll also have common questions that students might ask and the answers. Often you'll see an "explain this" video where a member of our curriculum team walks you through that particular assignment.

For a quick snapshot of progress, you can go to the progress tab under the grading app. You can look at this on the lesson level or the module level to see the percentage of the course that students have completed. Another place for a snapshot is the roster app.

Our real-time dashboard can be accessed under classroom. You can see student progress in real time, including which students are present, their most recent activity, and a live feed of what they are working on. Focus mode is also great. If students should be working on a quiz, I can choose that quiz and it's going to push that assignment out to all of the students so that they're not able to navigate away from the page.

Next is the configure app under assignments. This is your tool for organizing what students have access to and when. You can set due dates, which are necessary if you want to penalize late assignments. Your access controls let you know if an assignment is available or locked. If it's locked, students see that the assignment is there, but they don't have the ability to work on it yet. You can also schedule certain modules to open at a certain time to help with pacing. In the grading settings, you can change things from teacher graded to autograded, turn on block text, and access copy and paste settings. Per student settings allow you to give specific students additional timing or access if they need to catch up.

Finally, our academic integrity center is located under grading. The plagiarism report is a great place to start. You can see how much time a student spent on an assignment compared to the section average. You can also see a similarity score between student code and the CodeHS solution. If you suspect two students are sharing answers, you can toggle between students to see their similarity score. Code history shows snapshots of a student's work, which helps you see their workflow. Code replay gives you a play-by-play of what the student was doing and will show you exactly when they copied and pasted. Time tracking gives you an understanding of how long it's taking students to do certain assignments, which can be a good indicator of who might need additional support.

If you have any questions, you can always reach out to support@codehs.com. Anywhere you see the blue icon is our support team. Help.codehs.com is our knowledge base with many articles to help you. If you're interested in bringing CodeHS to your school or district, you can learn more at codehs.com/learnmore. Thank you all so much for attending.