Scratch Teacher Accounts now Available
« News and Announcements
- Login to post comments
Christan Balch
Member
August 09, 2016
Hello from the Scratch Team!
We are excited to share that Scratch Teacher Accounts are now available! Scratch Teacher Accounts enable educators to create and manage classes, student accounts, and class studios. If you are interested in learning more about or registering a new Teacher Account, you can do this on the Educators page on the Scratch website: https://scratch.mit.edu/educators/
We look forward to continuing to improve the site to support you and your students’ participation on Scratch.
Scratch On!
Christan Balch, for the MIT Scratch Team
Hello!
I Teach scratch in a school. I lecture 5 classes on daily basis. Each class attend the Scratch for 35 minutes which, to me, personally, doesn't seems to be enough for such kind of activities. Meanwhile administration cannot allow me to engage every group more than 35 minutes as other teacher have to teach as well. So My Question is how should I manage my lecture, curricullum and activities and all sorts of things to get most out of my students with the 35 minute integration in computer lab.
It is a big challenge for me. Can anyone help me sort out this problem.
I may have hit the limit on the number of students that I can add to a class.
Is this documented or can someone tell me?
Thanks,
Kelly Powers
How many students have you added to the class?
I wonder whether this question may be better directed toward the teacher accounts email:
Best,
Alexa
I'll send an email. I have 259 students and it seems to have maxed out at 250.
Kelly
But I don't understand for some problems.
1. Why can anybody still send comments to the project in closed class?
After class closed, the student can't sign-in, answer to the comment, or control the thread.
It seems unfair or sometime danger, isn't it?
2. Why the students accounts named in global?
The teacher have to make so many global username, or usual "school-year-class-numbering" name.
How was the architecture for the identification by the special delimiter? (ex. name.class)
3. At first, student and teachers talk each other in comment, only in the scratch class, not in global. Especially low grade, it difficult to take care to access to the global SNS.
Thank you!
thanks
Answers are not available for the Creative Computing guide.
- Students accounts only work within the class? Can they just enter and do their projects independently?
- Can teachers track changes on the projects? or are there any function that allow some following up?
- I usually teach how to create and studio, invite students to create they accounts and later became curators, so all projects witihin a class can be part of the same studio. Taking this? What are the extra benefits of having a teacher account?
- I read here in the comments something about csv to create students accounts? no idea what that is.
Thanks in advance!!!
Students accounts only work within the class? Can they just enter and do their projects independently?
I'm not sure I understand your question. Might you please elaborate on what you mean by this?
Can teachers track changes on the projects? or are there any function that allow some following up?
No, there are no tools in Scratch that would allow you to track changes on a project.
I usually teach how to create and studio, invite students to create they accounts and later became curators, so all projects witihin a class can be part of the same studio. Taking this?
Students are automatically added as curators to studios created within a classroom. This allows you to bypass the step of inviting students to curate studios.
What are the extra benefits of having a teacher account? I read here in the comments something about csv to create students accounts? no idea what that is.
I would encourage you to check out our Teacher Account FAQ page as well as the introductory video we've created on Teacher Accounts (found on the same page) as I think it might be helpful in answering some of your questions.
I hope this helps,
christan
I hope this helps!
I remember just same problem happened on me.
Any advice is appreciated.
It looks like nobody ever answered your question, but I sure wish they had, because I also would like to know if it's possible to share one studio across multiple classes. Have you ever found an answer to your question?
I am just getting ready to start using Scratch again with my students this year. I have two accounts--My origianl account(MESTech) I used for years with my students before Teacher Accounts. This account has lots of resources, studios and projects that I want to still use with my students. I also have alpha teacher account that I used last school year with my students.
What I would like to do, is convert my original account to a teacher account and combine it with my alpha teacher account. I do not want to keep my alpha user name as it was the generic scratchteacheralpha029 username. I would like to keep my original username, MESTech.
When I was at the conference this year, I spoke to someone regarding this and was told all I needed to do was to send an email and this could be done. Unfortunately, I can not find the email address I only see on the Scratch site where I can request a new account.
Can you help me or direct me to who I should contact.
Thanks!
We hope you'll join us for the discussion!
Willa, on behalf of the ScratchEd Team
Please confirm URL and path to create a class.
Thanks,
Linda
Have you seen the Teacher Account FAQ video we created yet? I think it may be help answer a lot of the questions you have. You can find that video here: https://scratch.mit.edu/educators/faq
Yes, I did register on the teacher page, with the username lindawollan, and received two emails back. The first confirmed that 'Your application for an account is currently being reviewed. Any account applications that are not from teachers/educators will not be approved'. The second email said 'Your ScratchEd account for lindawollan has been approved'. I then followed the links and changed passwords, etc.
I can sign into both https://scratch.mit.edu/ and http://scratched.gse.harvard.edu/ but nowhere do I see the purple banner that has the My Classes, Educator Resources and Teacher Account FAQ buttons on it.
I tried emailing scratch@mit.edu, but received an email back saying that they are 'very busy, so we’re not able to respond to all the messages we receive' - I assume that's an auto-reply :)
Would you please check my account to see whether I have the appropriate access? I would appreciate it.
Thanks,
Linda
ScratchEd accounts (which is the account you are using here) are different from Scratch Teacher Accounts (which are found on scratch.mit.edu). Sorry if this is confusing!
It looks like the account "lindawollan" was created six months ago - we had not released Teachers Account when you created this so it is a regular Scratch account, not a Teacher Account.
Might you have created another account using a different username? (The username can be found in the emails that you received.) If not, that's okay. You can make a Teacher Account here: https://scratch.mit.edu/educators/register
I hope this helps!
Thanks,
christan
I'm now waiting again to be accepted as a teacher, so I can get going.
The deletion menu is within the Student Account, so you must first log in with the student (or log in yourself, if you've created the account in error), and navigate from the top-right dropdown: Account Settings > Account > "I want to delete my account".
I hope this helps!
I appreciate that I'm replying to a reply that you wrote almost 2 years ago, so apologies if what I'm asking doesn't take account of more up-to-date information.
I have the same problem as George - I want to move students from one class to another. I don't want to have to go through the tedious process of deleting students' accounts, then creating new accounts, with new usernames, for every student, just so I can re-organize the classes that they are all in.
From now on, I plan to only create Scratch classes that will be named according to graduation year, so students will just stay in that same class as they move from one year level to the next. But that doesn't solve the problem of those students who are still enrolled in last year's class. I want to tidy things up, but don't want to have to spend lots of time deleting and re-creating student accounts, and confusing students who already have enough trouble remembering current usernames and passwords, without giving them a new one, or chasing up student to get them to delete their own accounts etc. etc. I've used a number of different online platforms for students over the years, and have never encountered one where account management is as cumbersome as it is on Scratch.
I'm tempted to just go back to using the offline version of Scratch, which is what I did for years before Scratch teacher accounts became available. But the kids love being able to explore other Scratchers creations, getting inspiration, re-mixing and so on.
PLEASE, is there anything that can be done about this??
Meg Franks
I think the Teacher Accounts are great and have set up my class. Although I used a csv file to set up username and passwords, the students still had to complete their personal info (age, gender, country etc) themselves. Is it possible for me to include this in the csv so that they skip this step?
Thank you!
I'm trying to figure out what the benefit is to using a Teacher Account versus just having the kids make accounts and share links with me. I thought these accounts would be easier to navigate and allow a teacher to give a course code or link to students who would then enroll in the class and all projects that students created would appear in that classroom. It seems there is an awful lot of set up required to get this working and I'm having trouble figuring it all out.
I have many new students to Scratch and they are not happy about being forced to share their very beginner work with the universe. I get the whole Share with All thing but there should be occasions that teachers (especially of younger students) should be afforded the option to wall off their classes so kids are free to learn and experiment without doing it in public.
The benefits are that 1) It can be used on-line without an account, 2) the students can use it on a chromebook 3) the students can save their work directly to Google Drive. They can then submit their work to me via Google Classroom or, if you are not using Google classroom, they could share the file with you. I have not yet tested having to grade all of these but I think it might not be a problem if I download the off-line editor on my Mac.
If a student wants to share their work with the community, and gets their parents' permission to create an online Scratch account, they can always upload their Scratch program to that account.
Good luck!