I finally added the “Solve It For Me” feature to our Hour of Code tutorial, which should be a huge help for students struggling with some of the more complicated activities. I added more extensive analytics today, and was really concerned when I saw how many students seemed to get close to the final activity, only to exit without finishing or getting their certificate from Code.org, which is a cool thing to have! I actually began coding this feature a few weeks back, but got so busy doing other stuff that I didn’t have time to add it. Today it became my top priority when I saw how students are interacting with the app. The button is hidden until the user makes a mistake first, and I offer the warning message asking them to consider reading the instructions again before letting the app solve it for them. I found in my own class that kids ignored the instructions more often than you’d like to think…
I’ve also added tons of kids coding vocabulary cards, as well as tags and search which makes the cards a lot easier to manage. I’m not sure what I’ll do with these in the long run, but they are fun to make and hopefully some teacher somewhere will make use of them! I’ve got a lot more work to do before the Hour of Code, so stay tuned as I’ll try to post any new updates here.
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