Teachers! What would you prefer?

livcheerful · October 21, 2021, 5:08pm

Hi, educators! I have a question for you –

We’re planning on adding a button to our Hour of Code Educator’s page this year that will let you create an assignment in Teams or Google Classroom from our webpage with a link to the Hour of Code activity. If you were going to assign this acitivity to your class, would you rather that link go to:

The Hour of Code landing page: https://arcade.makecode.com/hour-of-code-2021
or the skillmap for the Hour of Code itself? https://arcade.makecode.com/--skillmap#docs:/skillmap/forest

lucasmayhew · October 21, 2021, 7:59pm

I am not a teacher I am not am not old enough to be a teacher but one day I would like to make my own skill map is that possible?

lucasmayhew · October 22, 2021, 12:55am

I like the first link.

livcheerful · October 25, 2021, 4:52pm

It is possible! But I’m not sure if it’s documented anywhere…

but the main idea is it’s just a bunch of tutorials that are linked together, so if you write the tutorials you want then we can help you turn that into a skillmap! have you tried the tutorial tool? https://makecode.com/tutorial-tool

AlexK · October 25, 2021, 6:23pm

For the “create assignment” button, I think I would want it to point to the skillmap itself, since that’s the actual assignment. Your marketing team may have other ideas, though. They might really want students to see the landing page.