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▪ Remotely organize and manage a live classroom
▪ Share starter code with the whole class or individual students
▪ Virtually “look over a student’s shoulder” to view student progress
▪ Collect and save assignments
▪ Assess how students felt about the activity
▪ Works with MakeCode (blocks & JavaScript)
and Python
▪ No student or teacher registration
▪ No accounts, no logins
▪ Browser-based, works cross-platform
▪ FREE

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1. Go to: classroom.microbit.org
2. Enter activity name, examples:
▪ Rock paper scissors
▪ Chuck-a-duck 15 April
▪ 3rd period 2020.04.15 beating heart
3. Choose programming language
▪ MakeCode or Python
4. Select storage setting
▪ Default stores data locally to decrease the
risk of losing data
▪ Deselect if using a shared computer
without a personal login account
5. Select “Launch classroom”

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1. Select “Editor” from the top
navigation
2. Add any blocks, code or
comments to the programming
area that the teacher wants to
share with students
▪ Pre-saved code can be added by
dragging a .hex file into the editor
window
▪ The .hex file must be created in the
same editor that is being used in the
virtual classroom (e.g. MakeCode or
Python)

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1. Select “Dashboard” from the
top navigation
2. Share join information with
students, examples:
▪ Project teacher’s screen to the
students
▪ Write the join details on the
whiteboard
3. Have students to go to:
microbit.org/join

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▪ From microbit.org/join, each
student enters:
▪ Colour,
▪ Animal,
▪ Transport,
▪ Object, and
▪ PIN
▪ Then each student selects
“Continue”
▪ Teacher must be in the session
for students to join

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▪ Each student enters their name
▪ Teacher can provide recommendations to
students such as:
▪ First/given name only
▪ First/given name and initial of
last/family name
▪ Student names can be edited later by the
teacher
▪ Each student selects “Continue”

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▪ Each student should see the
editor
▪ Their name should appear in the
upper left-hand corner

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1. Collapse joining details by
toggling switch located in
the upper right-hand corner
▪ Students who successfully
joined the virtual classroom
should appear on the
teacher’s dashboard
▪ To edit student names or
delete students, select the
edit icon for a student
▪ Select “Apply changes” to
accept

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1. Return to the teacher’s editor by
selecting “Editor” from the top
navigation
2. Select “Share code with students”
located in the upper right-hand
corner
3. Select individual students or all
students
4. Select “Send code”
5. Select “Done” when prompted
Shared code replaces any existing student code

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▪ Each student gets notified of
new code from the teacher
▪ Each student should select “Use
code” for the code to appear in
their editor
▪ Any existing student code is
deleted and replaced with the
shared code

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▪ To see individual student’s code
live, select “Student code” from
the top navigation
▪ Then select the student’s name
from the left navigation

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1. Select a student’s name from
the left navigation
2. Select “Share code with
students” located in the
upper right-hand corner
3. Select individual students or
all students
4. Select “Send code”
5. Select “Done” when
prompted
Shared code replaces any existing student code

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▪ When a student is ready to turn-in
their work, they should select “I’ve
finished” in the upper right-hand
corner
▪ Then the student selects the
appropriate emoji for how they feel
about the activity
▪ The student has finished the activity
and may now leave the virtual
classroom by selecting “Sign out”

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▪ From the “Student code”
menu, teacher can see:
▪ The student’s code
▪ The student’s feeling emoji
▪ The student’s status:
▪ In progress, Offline or Finished

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1. Select “Download report for
all students as Word
document” located in the
upper right-hand corner
▪ A Microsoft Word document
will be created and saved to
the teacher’s computer
▪ The teacher can download
the student work at any time

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▪ The downloaded Microsoft Word
document contains the teacher’s
starter code and the code from each
student
▪ If a student did not finish the activity,
their unfinished code will still be in
the Word document

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▪ From the “Dashboard”
menu, teachers can also
see the status of all
students and their feeling
emoji
▪ The teacher can change a
“Finished” student to “In
progress” by selecting
and toggling the switch
▪ Student will need to rejoin
the session if they logged out

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▪ At any time, the teacher can save
the virtual classroom session by
selecting “Save classroom” from
the top navigation, and selecting
“Download classroom html file”
▪ This generates an HTML file that
can be resumed at another time

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▪ To resume a saved classroom
session, open the HTML file in a
browser
▪ Select “Resume classroom session”
to proceed

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▪ Different details are generated
for students to re-join the virtual
classroom
▪ Share this information with the
students as before
▪ Have students go to
microbit.org/join and enter the
details

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▪ Returning students can resume
by finding their name
▪ They type three letters of their
name and select their name
from the choices
▪ New students to this activity
can create a new name to join

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1. Select “Save classroom” from
the top navigation
2. Select “End session”
3. Select “End session” to confirm
▪ All students are immediately
removed from the virtual
classroom when the teacher
ends the session

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▪ To use starter code from a project or
lesson on microbit.org, select “Open
in Classroom”
▪ Proceed with setup as before