Launch Pad (K-5)
Prepare your K-5 classrooms for lift-off with Launch Pad’s block-based to text-based coding, engaging games, and unplugged activities.
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Engage students in fun code activities
Students can engage in sprite puzzles to help them learn block-based to text-based coding.
Play with drag and drop puzzles to help students get familiar with coding.
Switch between block-based and syntax coding to help build computational thinking foundations, like algorithms, loops, and sequences.
Swap between characters to make coding projects more personalized.
Practice keys used in code
Students can practice using keys on the keyboard that are used in coding.
Play a typing game to help get used to keys that are used for coding.
Type as fast or as quickly as they want, to make it engaging and competitive.
See where they are making mistakes in their typing and make corrections as needed.
Streamline grading with a built-in autograder
Teachers can utilize the built-in autograder so they can spend less time grading and more time engaging with their students.
Automatically grade challenges, lessons, and projects in real-time.
Leverage the autograder so teachers can spend more time one on one with students, and less time grading code.
Allow students to receive immediate feedback on challenges and assignments.
Give every teacher the ability to teach computer science, regardless of experience.
Increase equity in computer science
Students can use the speech-to-text feature to type out their code and change to Spanish curriculum.
Allow every type of learner to participate in coding activities, regardless of computer or reading skill level.
Turn on the speech-to-text option so younger learners can engage in coding exercises.
Engage English Language Learners in coding using Spanish curriculum
Teach coding concepts in unplugged activities
Teachers and students can use unplugged activities to learn simple coding concepts.
Start engaging kids as young as Kindergarten in coding through unplugged activities.
Teacher simple coding concepts off the screen.
Prepare your students to learn more complex coding concepts by engaging them in a way they can understand.
Engage students in fun code activities.
Students can engage in sprite puzzles to help them learn block-based to text-based coding.
Play with drag and drop puzzles to help students get familiar with coding.
Switch between block-based and syntax coding to help build computational thinking foundations, like algorithms, loops, and sequences.
Swap between characters to make coding projects more personalized.
Practice keys used in code.
Students can practice using keys on the keyboard that are used in coding.
Play a typing game to help get used to keys that are used for coding.
Type as fast or as quickly as they want, to make it engaging and competitive.
See where they are making mistakes in their typing and make corrections as needed.
Streamline grading with a built-in autograder.
Teachers can utilize the built-in autograder so they can spend less time grading and more time engaging with their students.
Automatically grade challenges, lessons, and projects in real-time.
Leverage the autograder so teachers can spend more time one on one with students, and less time grading code.
Allow students to receive immediate feedback on challenges and assignments.
Give every teacher the ability to teach computer science, regardless of previous experience.
Increase equity in computer science.
Students can use the speech-to-text feature to type out their code and change to Spanish curriculum.
Allow every type of learner to participate in coding activities, regardless of computer or reading skill level.
Turn on the speech-to-text option so younger learners can engage in coding exercises.
Engage English Language Learners in coding using Spanish curriculum.
Teach coding concepts in unplugged activities
Teachers and students can use unplugged activities to learn simple coding concepts.
Start engaging kids as young as Kindergarten in coding through unplugged activities.
Teach simple coding concepts off the screen.
Prepare your students to learn more complex coding concepts by engaging them in a way they can understand.
Join our partners in making computer science education more equitable and accessible for all types of learners.
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For the teachers it's great, they can go back and see how students are progressing and it has auto-grading built in, so that is really effective because going back to read and grade multiple lines of code can take an extensive amount of time. It is helpful for the students as well to be able to auto-grade their own code because we want them to be self-guided learners.
Donna Woods
CTE Cyber Pathway Instructor, Moreno Valley USD
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The program and the people behind it are innovative, intelligent, and organized. The platform is very user-friendly and l have been able to guide my students easily through the curriculum.
Dillon Gilpin
High School CS Teacher, Duchesne County SD
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“Having a mapped out, structured way to learn and experience the computer science curriculum really freed up time for me to give students one-on-one attention.
Scott Couch
CS Teacher, Maeser Prep Academy
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Using the teacher portal has been super easy and seamless. Adding students, removing them, assigning them to different classes has been a breeze.
Erin Anderson
Director, Revel Academy
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