Suggestions & Troubleshooting

Key Teaching Resources

Scratch Ideas & Tutorials

• https://scratch.mit.edu/ideas

Grok Learning (Now Free for teachers and students)

• https://groklearning.com/ 

Google CS FIRST

• Tutorials to support: Digital Storytelling, Game Design, Animated Music Videos, Interactive Art

• https://csfirst.withgoogle.com/c/cs-first/en/curriculum.html 

Phil Bagge - Code.it UK

• • https://code-it.co.uk/csplanning.html 

Barefoot Computing UK

• https://www.barefootcomputing.org/primary-computing-resources

Code Club Course

• https://projects.raspberrypi.org/en/codeclub

Setting Up Student Scratch Accounts

There are two ways of setting up student Scratch accounts, with their pros and cons. Having a Scratch online account is essential for saving and publishing students' work.

1) Scratch Educator Accounts

• https://scratch.mit.edu/educators

• Would only recommend using it as part of a whole-school approach, as the functionality of this tool is limited.

• Create "Classes" of student accounts for each YEAR LEVEL. For example, all Year 5 students are put into a Scratch Class called Year 5 2023, or Class of "graduating year"). 

• Students will take these accounts throughout their schooling.

Pros 

• Allows the school to monitor student activity and interactions (comments) on Scratch.

• Student misbehaviour (when commenting) is automatically flagged by Scratch.

• Student accounts can be created by .csv import or class sign-up link.

• Teachers can access the account to change forgotten passwords. 

• Easy to set up and manage Studios for collating and sharing student work.

• Avoid issues with students not verifying their email addresses.

Cons

• Students can't change classes.

• Ending a class means students lose access to the account and their work.

• ICT team would need to add the creation of the student Scratch account to their new student workflow.

2) Students Create Own Accounts using School Email Address

Pros

• Slightly easier account set-up process.

Cons

• Teachers have no visibility of student comments or account control. 

• If students don't confirm their email address at the time of account creation, they will be unable to publish/share their projects.

How to Use Scratch Teacher Accounts

How to Use Scratch Studios 

Dealing with Save Errors