Reset Level Progress for Teacher Account

When I model a lesson for students, my progress is recorded at each bubble, especially for the projects that stretch across lessons. For each new student section, I have to reset every bubble with “Start Over” before beginning to model the lesson again. This also occurs when I have attended a training session and completed the levels as part of the process.

One solution that was suggested was to create a dummy student account for myself in each section. I sync to Google Classroom, with district-managed email accounts, so that is not an option for me.

I have made a “Demo” section, with dummy student accounts using the word logins. That works, but that log-in process is a little cumbersome, and I have to log out of one account and into another every period.

I’m wondering if it would be possible to add a “demo” mode to a teacher account that would allow a teacher to model the lessons they want, without storing the work/progress. Another option would be to have a single “Reset Lesson” button that restores all the bubbles within that Lesson to their starting content, or that lets the teacher choose what to reset - bubble, lesson, or unit.

Or am I missing a much easier way to do this?

Thank you!

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Hi!

Thanks for posting. The ability to reset progress is on the list of improvements planned for next year. We’ve recorded your comments to keep in mind as we make these improvements.

Elizabeth

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Hi,
Was this ever improved? It is cumbersome for me to take care of before each period, or it is distracting to the students when I have to do it “live.” Thanks for any update that I may have missed.

Hi,

We unfortunately still do not offer a progress-resetting feature, for any amount of progress on any student nor teacher accounts. This remains one of our top requested features, and we hope to build this out in some fashion as part of our engineering roadmap in 2021. Our apologies for the inconvenience, and we appreciate the feedback!

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My workaround this year has been to create a dummy section, with one “student” for each of the classes I teach. I log in as that student for each class and work on the current lesson, modeling whatever we are doing. I set it up as picture login so I don’t have to remember a bunch of passwords, just pictures for each class (although I still made a list for daily reference).

This inflates code.org’s enrollment numbers a little, but until I can reset progress on my teacher’s account, this works.

I also use two devices (for virtual monitoring + face-to-face) so I am able to log in as the student on the shared/projected device, and as my teacher account on the monitoring device. I can still pull up a student’s code there to help find bugs if needed, especially for virtual students.

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I just got it set up! Thanks so much for the idea.

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Any progress with the resetting? Its been two years now. Thanks!

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If you email support@code.org with this question they could give you an update on this. They don’t always see suggestions in the teacher forum.

@codeorg1,

This was implemented several months ago. The only catch is that you need to email support@code.org (as @CeciliaZ mentions.). They are quick to respond, though, so it should happen pretty quickly

Here’s more information on the process.

Mike

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The reset that has been implemented is not level- or lesson-specific, but resets the entire course. What I would rather is the ability to click “Reset” on an entire lesson, so that when I teach the second section of the same course on a particular day, I can just reset and go through the lesson again. I could “Start Over” every lesson in Version History, but that takes a lot of time on lessons with 10+ bubbles.

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@pkoleszar,

That would be a good request to make by emailing support@code.org. Right now, the Version history is the only way to do that.

Mike