Whether accelerated students need more of a challenge or students who are struggling need more scaffolding, CodeHS has many ways for you to differentiate materials for your students.
Enable Block/Text Settings
When Blocks are allowed for a section, students can toggle between block and text coding in the assignments.
Sandbox
The CodeHS Sandbox is where students can write programs outside of the bounds of an exercise. Teachers can use the Sandbox to assign individual projects, or as a way to encourage students to work on their coding skills outside of the classroom.
Create Assignments and Playlists to supplement CodeHS material
Creating customized Assignments and Playlists allows you to add your assignments and content inside your CodeHS Course!
Add Material to supplement your CodeHS course
Add Courses, Modules and Assignments, Supplemental Material, CodeHS Practice problems, or material from the Problem Bank to your course.
Use Alternate Exercises
Alternate Exercises are different versions of existing assignments in CodeHS courses. These assignments are changed in subtle ways so that the core concept and difficulty are not altered but a different solution is required.
Copy and edit CodeHS quizzes
You can fork, or copy, CodeHS quizzes to customize them for your students. Once you fork a CodeHS quiz, you can edit or remove existing questions or add your own questions to the quiz.
Use CodeHS Lesson Plans and Handouts
Lesson Plans contain suggestions for modification as well as Handouts that can be used to scaffold instruction.
Individualize Course Settings for Students
With the Student Settings tool, you are able to control which assignments are assigned, adjust Copy/Paste and Block/Text settings, schedule or lock an assignment, and set due dates independent of the section’s settings.
To differentiate settings for individual students:
From your Roster app, click on the gear icon next to the student's name.
You can adjust the settings for modules, lessons, or even specific assignments by using the dropdown arrow next to a module's title.
To assign additional material to individual students:
Assign the material to your section. See CodeHS Practice, Adding Courses, modules, and Assignments, Supplemental Materials, and Problem Bank for more information.
Once the material is added to the course, navigate to the Is Assigned Settings tool and un-assign the material from the section.
Navigate to the Roster app and choose the gear icon next to the student you would like to assign the content to.
Under Is Assigned, make sure the content is assigned and apply any other settings you prefer.
Differentiation with Student Settings is only available on CodeHS Pro. To get Pro for your school, contact our team at hello@codehs.com.