Version history disabled when viewing student work

Does anyone know why the version history for teachers when viewing student work is disabled for CSA? I can see the version history in CSP but not CSA. I need this in order to check for valid process by students on projects.

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@klkennel - thank you for your post. I too discovered that I cannot view the students version history in CSA. It would be a very useful feature for all the Code.org courses.

I will ask the curriculum team and post a response when I receive one.

Stay warm, Sylvia

https://studio.code.org/v3/sources/<id>/main.json/versions
would this help at all…? i know this is probably tedious but this base path should be available in all projects if you really need to access the version history now instead of waiting on a solution. just replace <id> with the project id you need the versions of to view them
then you can just add in the parameter ?version=<version id> from the project you want to view by adding it after the project link after a query
for instance
https://studio.code.org/projects/<type>/<id>/view?version=<version id>

Varrience

Hi @klkennel, this is a very useful feature and I’m sure the development team would like this feedback. If you email support@code.org and request this feature it should get put on their radar. Also, hopefully more people request this as well and I think the more requests something gets the higher up the priority queue it goes.

@varrience, that would be a clever work around but I need a bit more of a walkthrough. Here is a link to one of my students projects. How would I go about using your method to see their version history?

Best,
-Sam

hmm well in java stuff it seems to be slightly different, since i am not apart of your classroom i don’t think i am able to see your students work, however if you are able to you should be able to pull it off

https://studio.code.org/v3/sources/1whbf-7fa7NlYIfpfG_Zfm2a46oFl28FyK2hFky0HD8/main.json/versions?with_comments=true

not sure exactly how it would apply to specific students but this would return a version history from a specific project path from there

and then to view that version you simply add it in
https://studio.code.org/s/csa4-2024/lessons/11/levels/1?version=upbgGTw8yMDCqwZqHB46Z9vPMh1pYoFW&viewAs=Instructor

is how i assume this would work since i assume the teachers are capable of viewing the current students work it should also have the version history you just have to substitute the link in

I was able to chat with Code.org support. The curriculum and development teams are aware of this usefulness of this feature. They are working on a solution. There is not a date on when this feature will be available.

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