Setting up student accounts
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Lilsa Waters
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April 07, 2016
What is the best way to set up student accounts in Scratch? In particular, what is the best way to set up student accounts in which they can participate in the Scratch Community, share their work and use a classroom Studio? Thanks, Lisa Waters, CS teacher for JK-8
Great question! Here is a note (a thread from a larger discussion on this issue) from my colleague, Christan Balch, who is leading the Scratch Team in creating teacher accounts. I hope this helps!
"Hi. I’m Christan Balch, the Online Community Coordinator on the Scratch Team at MIT. We understand your frustration with the registration process for students, and we’re sorry for the difficulties that it has caused for you and your students.
We’re continuing to work on Teacher Accounts, which we hope will simplify the process of creating accounts for your students. Unfortunately, the development of the Teacher Accounts has taken much longer than we expected. We hope to have more news about the accounts soon. We’ll make sure to post messages on ScratchEd to keep you informed.
In the meantime, we suggest using a single email address (e.g., a teacher’s email address) to register and approve all of your student accounts. (Multiple Scratch accounts can share the same address.) We realize that the confirmation process can be time-consuming for educators, but confirmation is just a one-time process when first registering an account.
Sorry again for the current difficulties. We hope to have better solutions in the future. Please do feel free to reach out to me should you have more questions."
Best,
Willa, on behalf of the ScratchEd Team