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Welcome back to school! This guide is meant to be a resource to help you get set up and prepare for a year teaching with CodeHS. Here are some helpful steps to make sure you’re ready for the year ahead.

Schedule a Back to School Demo for CodeHS Pro

Each summer CodeHS adds new features/tools and works on improving the overall experience for teachers and students using CodeHS Pro. If you’re completely new to CodeHS Pro, or just want to learn about the exciting new features on CodeHS this summer, we’d be happy to help.

Reach out to hello@codehs.com today to schedule a CodeHS Pro demo!

Review the First Day Checklist

For a guide that will help you with your students on the first day of school, visit codehs.com/firstday.

Set Up Your New Courses and Sections

From your Courses page in the left-hand menu, you can create new courses and sections for this school year. From this page you have a variety of options, from creating, copying, and archiving courses to setting access controls.

  • Archive Last Year’s Sections: It's always nice to start the year with a clean slate! To help with this, your sections from last year should be automatically archived.

    • You can retrieve these sections anytime - click here to learn how.

    • You can easily reuse courses from last year while still creating new sections - click here to learn how.

Access Week Zero Lesson Plans

Check our Week Zero Lesson Plans at codehs.com/weekzero to easily implement CodeHS in your classroom and get students engaged right away.

Prepare for Hybrid or Virtual Teaching

Reference our Virtual Teaching Guide at codehs.com/virtual to learn more about how to use CodeHS in a virtual setting.

Check out our free 2-hour playlist on Teaching in a Blended Setting with CodeHS to take your computer science classroom virtual this year. Visit codehs.com/playlist/9477 to get started!

Register for Upcoming Webinars & Virtual PD

Throughout the year, the CodeHS Team and Teacher Trainers host a variety of free virtual events from webinars to 2-hour virtual PD workshops.

Learn more and register online at codehs.com/freepd!

Know Where To Go For Help

We have a ton of great help resources whenever you need some assistance:

  1. Review our info pages at codehs.com/info to learn about curriculum, professional development, teacher tools, and more.

  2. Visit the Knowledge Base at help.codehs.com to access a hundreds of how-to help articles.

  3. Still need help? Reach out to our team at hello@codehs.com anytime.

Learn More about CodeHS Pro

Interested in getting access to a comprehensive set of CodeHS Pro teacher tools to help you save time this year? Send us a note at codehs.com/learnmore and our team will get in touch to tell you more about Pro and help you plan for the year ahead.

Join the CodeHS Community

Want to network other CodeHS teachers, share best practices, and ask questions? There are a few ways to get involved with the community.

  1. Apply to become a CodeHS Certified Educator.

  2. Attend free PD workshops hosted by Teacher Trainers near you.

Please don’t hesitate to reach out to us at hello@codehs.com if there’s anything we can do to make it a great year!

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