micro:bit classroom step-by-step setup guide

▪ 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

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”

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)

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

▪ 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

▪ 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”

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

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

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

▪ 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

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

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

▪ 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”

▪ 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

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

▪ 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

▪ 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

▪ 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

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

▪ 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

▪ 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

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

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

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