To view your current settings, visit the roster page for your section. Next to each student’s progress bar, you will see a ? icon. Clicking on the icon will open a modal showing your current settings, and you are able to edit your settings from within the modal.

Customization Categories

We’ve broken up the CodeHS activities into four categories and you will be able to decide which activity types are counted and how they are weighted within the calculation.

Here are the four categories:

Videos: We know some classroom setups don’t require students to watch the video in each lesson on their own account, so you can customize whether videos count in the calculated progress

Examples: Activities that explain or show concepts fall under the examples category. Examples, demos, connections, resources, and notes are all considered example activities.

Exercises: Generally activities that require student interaction and response are part of the exercises category. Exercises, surveys, challenges, free response, unit tests, presentations, and data explorer activity types all fall under the exercises category.

Quizzes: Some teachers may want to provide their own quizzes to their students, so how quizzes are counted can also be customized.

Customization Options

For each of the the categories listed above, you have three options for how the activity is weighted within the course progress calculation.

Not Included: Activities in the categories that are not included will have no effect on how the course’s progress percentage is being counted.

Completion: Each activity counted for completion has a weighted value of one point.

Points: Activities each have their own point value. Challenges are harder so they are worth more than regular exercises. End of unit quizzes are worth more than quick concept quizzes. Activities will be weighted by their point value if this option is selected. Note: Quizzes work the same as other activity types. Each quiz has a point value, separate from the number of questions in the quiz, which is used as the weight.

By default all activity categories are counted for completion. Head over to your section’s roster page to view and customize these settings for yourself. Not on Pro, but want to learn more about course progress customization? Get in touch at hello@codehs.com or Request a Demo.

Customizing Course Progress Calculations was originally published in Read Write Code on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story.

To improve this workflow, we’ve added a new feature that allows you to run code directly in Fast Grade. When viewing a submission in Fast Grade a button will show up on the right when you are able to run the student code.

Clicking on this button will launch a modal where you can then run the student code. For Karel you can test the different worlds and you will also be able to see any errors that occur from running the program

We hope that by adding this feature it will allow you to have an even more improved grading workflow. Try out running code in Fast Grade today!

Fast Grade is a tool available on Pro to help make the grading workflow for teachers more efficient. To learn more about Pro, get in touch here.

Running Code in Fast Grade was originally published in Read Write Code on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story.

Currently courses are set up so that there are two types of modules, those that are in the main part of the course and those that are supplemental modules. The distinction is that supplemental modules do not count towards the overall completion percentage of a course but they are still available for the students to work on.

Module Settings

With the course customization tool you’ll have the option to set a module to three different types:

Main Module: Main modules will be shown first to students and will be considered the main part of the course. All modules designated as main modules will be calculated into the overall course completion percentage for a student.

Supplemental Module: Supplemental modules are available for students to work on as extra practice, but these do not count towards the course completion percentage. Some teacher tools are not set up to work with supplemental modules.

Hidden Module: Hidden modules allow you to hide modules from view, so if there is any content that you don’t want your students to see, you can designate it as hidden. Your students will no longer be able to see these modules and they will not count towards the course completion percentage.

Customizing your Course

Visit the settings page for your section and scroll down to the “Toolbox Settings” page and click on “Configure” next to Course Customization.

You will be shown the current state of the modules in your section for the main course. Next to each module in the section you will have a dropdown to change the setting for that module.​

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If you make a bunch of changes and realize you actually want to start over, you always have the option to reset the modules to their original state. We hope this helps you plan your classroom to use exactly the curriculum you want.

Customize your Course Modules was originally published in Read Write Code on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story.

In the basic settings section of your section settings page you’ll see a “Show Blocks” option. If this is toggled on students viewing blocks compatible activities will see the blocks editor. The blocks editor allows students to code with blocks, but students can still use text by clicking “Switch to Code View”. The blocks editor looks like this:

Toggle the setting off and students will no longer be able to use blocks and will see the regular text editor like this:

Use the show blocks setting to customize your classroom the way you want to and control how your students are coding using CodeHS.

Blocks or No Blocks? was originally published in Read Write Code on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story.