Scratch Teacher Accounts

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Mitch Resnick

Member

January 14, 2016

Hello from the MIT Scratch Team! We’re continuing to develop Teacher Accounts for Scratch, and we want to give you an update on our progress.

Developing the Teacher Accounts has been more challenging than we expected -- and we know the delays have been frustrating for you. We now have a working prototype, and we will start alpha testing with a small group of teachers later this month.

Based on feedback and requests we have received from educators using Scratch, we have focused on two main areas in this first version of Teacher Accounts:

Account creation. Teachers will be able to create accounts for an entire class of students
Classroom management. Teachers will be able to keep track of students’ work and participation on Scratch.

Here’s a sneak peek at some screenshots from the current implementation of Teacher Accounts...

A teacher can have multiple Classes:

Each Class contains Students, Studios, and an Activity feed:

Each Class also has a profile page on Scratch similar to a Member’s profile page:

We are excited to share this update with you. If you have any questions or suggestions, please add them to this ScratchEd thread.

-- Mitch Resnick and Christan Balch, for the MIT Scratch Team

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Christan Balch

Member

August 09, 2016

Hi there! We are excited to share that Scratch Teacher Accounts are now available. See here for more information.

Mr. Stone

Member

August 09, 2016

Teacher accounts are available. I submitted my request for a teacher account and was approved withing 24 hours. Pretty exciting. Thank you Scratch Team!

https://scratch.mit.edu/educators

Henry Smith

Member

August 06, 2016

I am planning a super expansion of Scratch Creative Computing for my 650 student elementary school. This is the tool I really need to set up and monitor accounts and students/work. Thanks for all your efforts and PLEASE HURRY. School is just a month away!

Christan Balch

Member

August 10, 2016

Hi Henry. Scratch Teacher Accounts are now available. We've started a new discussion thread with more information - see here.

Ann O

Member

August 05, 2016

Not sure how that happened but I double posted.

Ann O

Member

August 05, 2016

Where is the date on the post that says the alpha will be tested "later this month"? What month? And please let us know if there is some type of formal process to apply to be part of the testing. I, for one, would like to participate if possible.

Please be sensitive to educator needs and give us as much information about timing as possible. I can't afford to wait around before buidling my curriculum blocks for this year and if it sounds like this is not going to be available by the time school begins the first week of September, I wish we would be informed of that. I have turn in my topics list soon and do not want to include something that is not going to work out. Adding or substituting units during the year is something I try to avoid.

Christan Balch

Member

August 10, 2016

Hi Ann. Scratch Teacher Accounts are now available. We've started a new discussion thread with more information - see here.

Jaziel Carballo Tadeo

Member

August 02, 2016

This is excellent, what I have to do to be a tester?

Andrea Wilson Vazquez

Member

July 29, 2016

Thanks, Scratch Team! This will be awesome!

One additional suggestion would be to allow for multiple teachers / instructors for a given course. This would be helpful for courses that are co-taught by both a mainstream and special education teacher or teacher of English learners.

Looking forward to the release! Let me know if you need any additional alpha/beta testers!

Lilli Meloche

Member

July 24, 2016

Thanks Mitch!! Really looking forward to this!

Paula Moore

Member

July 13, 2016

In this student-teacher environment, will it be possible for the student to just share their work with just the teacher or, optionally, just with the class and not with the entire Scratch community? Those of us who work with younger students have to go through a lot of paperwork with parents to allow them to create accounts that can be shared with the wider community. If the student doesn't share with the whole community, I cannot see the project unless I log in as him/her. With 200 students a term (middle school), that is a lot of tedious logging in work. It would be so much easier if we could limit the people they can share their work with.

Thank you so much for this enhancement, it will make things a lot easier and allow us to continue keeping our kids insulated on the web.

Paula

Lisa Ryan

Member

June 22, 2016

This is very exciting news. We plan to use Scratch next school year and teacher (parent) accounts and student (child) accounts will make it much easier to manage the process. Thank you!

Ryan O'Connor

Member

May 28, 2016

So happy to hear this is coming out this summer! Keep up the amazing work, guys!

Kate Arsenault

Member

May 25, 2016

I am so excited about this! I'm going to add my voice to the other educators who asked this question: Any updates on teacher accounts?

Christan Balch

Member

May 25, 2016

Hi Kate! We are still in the process of alpha testing Teacher Accounts at the moment. We are actively working on getting them ready to be shared publically. Keep an eye on this thread for more news on release times later this summer. :)

Victoria Daglian

Member

May 31, 2016

Will this Definitely be ready to use in the Fall? I need to know now if I should purchase a different paid program. If yours is ready to go in September and free I will be using yours!

Anders Berggren

Member

May 29, 2016

That's good news. I assume that releaseday is some day at the Scratchconference in august? Keep up the amazingly good work!!

Siu Lun Ng

Member

May 19, 2016

Looking forward to using the teacher account for my class!!!!!
I just wonder if there is any function for me to give students comments on their projects?

Christan Balch

Member

May 20, 2016

Hi there! I'm not sure I fully understand your question. Do you mean to ask if you will have the ability to comment on a student project? If so, then yes! Teacher Accounts will behave similarly to regular Scratch accounts in this way, and you will be able to comment on students work.

Samantha Cardines

Member

May 15, 2016

Hello,

When will this be available?
I am planning on using Scratch for a SUmmer program in about 3 weeks.

I also have a ScratchEd account. I am hoping that I will be able to use
the teacher account. Any chance it will be out that soon?

Mahalo,
Sami

Christan Balch

Member

May 20, 2016

Hi there! We are still in the process of alpha testing Teacher Accounts. At this time, we have reached our maximum number of participants for the alpha test, so we won’t be adding any new testers. We are hoping to release a public beta test later this summer. Keep your eye on this thread for more news about release times. Thanks!

Paula Simoes

Member

July 12, 2016

great news :)

Francesco DeRuvo

Member

May 13, 2016

Is it possible to know more about tests, as is not possible to have a "teacher account"? Thank you!

P Figueras

Member

May 12, 2016

Will this be ready for next school year?

Christan Balch

Member

May 20, 2016

Hi there! We are hoping to release a public beta version of Teacher Accounts later this summer. Keep an eye on this thread for more news on release times :)

Pinay_Rover D

Member

May 05, 2016

Sawassdee Kha from Bangkok, Thailand. My students would be very excited about this new feature. Cant wait until next academic year. Thank you :)

Gloria Lao García

Member

April 22, 2016

Just looking forward to having this new feature. Thank u so much for your effort!

Maddie Vahey

Member

March 17, 2016

Hi,
Has alpha testing already started? Either way, is it possible to still participate? Do you know when this feature will be released.

Christan Balch

Member

March 17, 2016

Hi there! Yes, alpha testing has already begun. At this time, we have reached our maximum number of participants for the alpha test, so we won’t be adding any new testers. Keep your eye on this thread for the release of Teacher Accounts later in 2016! Thanks!

Cassindra Nutter

Member

March 11, 2016

I would love to be able to track my students. How can I get my name on the list to be one of the teacher able to use these features.

Alain Botrel

Member

March 02, 2016

Thanks for all...

I have two suggestions...

It would be fine if teacher could see all the students' projects even the unshared projects.

As I use scratch in robotics projects, it would be fine if teacher could see also students projects and all the scripts with special extensions...

Alain

Steven Yee

Member

March 01, 2016

Some of you may find this useful, I have been working with teachers using ITCH. It does have teacher account along with videos lessons and the ability for teachers to create their own courses. However, it is not free. (Full disclosure, my company has been working with ITCH and Code.org to support teachers teaching coding in classrooms).

Chris Crosby

Member

March 01, 2016

I absolutely love Scratch. Is there an update on the status of the alpha test? I am very interested in having my students use Scratch under a teacher account. I've been using Scratch in the classroom for the past year.

Tiago Maluta

Member

February 04, 2016

This is great great news! Thanks all Scratch team for building that.
Looking forward to test it!

Lisa Manzi

Member

February 03, 2016

I love being able to see all my classes in one place. Assessing their work is my biggest time hog so this would be helpful time wise and I think kids would get better feedback.

Alicia Kostecki

Member

February 02, 2016

Wow. So exciting - this feature would really help take my teaching to the next level. Especially helpful with younger students that don't have an email account. I spend too much time dealing with login issues. I'd be interested in being a tester.

Mr. Stone

Member

January 27, 2016

This is excellent. Thank you for your hard work and continued improvements in Scratch. As the tech teacher in a 3 year old through grade 8 school this is a great addition. I currently have been coding with scratch from grades 1 through 8 since the Hour of Code in December.

My ability to add students to my "classroom" will help me keep track of their projects as well as help the students register their accounts. Thank you so much.

Good Stuff!

Jen Gilbert

Member

January 22, 2016

I am SO excited for this to finally be a reality. Have been waiting 2 years and emailing a couple times a year to check on progress.

I submitted to be an alpha tester the other day so hopefully it made the cut. Looking forward to having the students use Scratch as a tool in an official capacity with managed accounts (so hard to keep track of without this feature).

Thank you for all of your hard work so far, and for keeping everyone posted!

Hope to be part of a fantastic group of teacher alpha testers :)

Christan Balch

Member

January 21, 2016

Hi all! We are thrilled to see the excitement around Scratch Teacher Accounts! At this time, we have reached our maximum number of participants for the alpha test, so we won’t be adding any new testers. Keep your eye on this thread for the release of Teacher Accounts later in 2016!

Jennifer Futrell

Member

January 21, 2016

Great stuff! I can't wait for this to get up and running.

Janet Clark

Member

January 21, 2016

I just applied as well. How long before you here back? I would like to get going in the next week.

Doris Spencer

Member

January 18, 2016

Very excited to see this!

Karen Vitek

Member

January 18, 2016

So happy that you are making progress on this! It will be a huge help for me and for my students.

Ruth Kastenmayer

Member

January 17, 2016

I hope to be an alpha tester!
Ruth

Steve Greenfield

Member

January 16, 2016

Fantastic news. Can't wait!

Thank you

Barb Tennyson

Member

January 15, 2016

So excited for this feature!
I sent an email inquiring how to be an alpha tester!
Thank you for continuing to work on this important feature.

Denis Golikov

Member

January 15, 2016

This is VERY exciting!
Thank you!

And there will be an opportunity for the teacher to leave comments on the projects students of another color?

Sjoerd Dirk Meijer

Member

January 15, 2016

This is great!

Just applied for being a alpha tester.

Vicky Sedgwick

Member

January 14, 2016

This is VERY exciting. Thanks!

Randy Macdonald

Member

January 14, 2016

Indeed, looking forward to this new feature. I currently use Google's CS-First platform and this would allow our after school program to go beyond what it offers. I've sent the team an email to apply to be part of the alpha test.