According to the edu support page, I should be able to invite my students over the age of 13 to join my class in Tinkercad. I have had a student follow the steps of clicking learn and then clicking that they are a student, but there is no where for them to enter my code.
What am I missing?
Hi everyone,
Sorry for any confusion. Let me take a minute to clarify a few things.
In Project Ignite the classroom code was used to connect a teacher to a specific (under 13 year old) student as a teacher moderator. In Tinkercad, the classroom code has been replaced with the invitation code and it serves the same purpose, to connect a teacher with a student as their moderator.
If a student is over 13 years old, they do not require a moderator. Instead they create standard accounts with email addresses, just like any other user.
IMPORTANT NOTE: If you were moderating a student in Project Ignite, you will continue to moderate that student in Tinkercad as well. The student must log into Tinkercad to before the teacher will see the student in their list. This may be why students are not seeing a place to enter the code. If they are moderated in Project Ignite they will not need to enter a code in Tinkercad, because it was completed in Project Ignite.
When it comes to grading work there are several changes that will help:
For under 13 accounts, the Moderate Kids page has been updated to allow teachers to see a student's actual design dashboard from grading/teaching/review purposes.
For over 13 year old account, the new Share tool in Tinkercad v2 (Beta) will allow students to share a link to the design directly with the teacher.
I hope this helps clarify things. We will continue to make improvements in the coming months.
Please let me know if there are additional questions, I am happy to help.
Thanks,
John
I'm having exactly the same problem, there is nowhere for my students to enter the code.
Same problem. I had my students sign up previously so I thought that was the problem. Help Tinkercad people!
Same problem
Same issue here. None of my over 13 students can put in my class code!
This is a serious flaw. Having a Classroom in TinkerCad is essential to teaching it in a classroom setting. I have had classes in the past and before Autodesk took over I had a classroom code I could give out to students and see them listed under my Team. It made finding their work and grading it possible when I was teaching 300+ students. PLEASE FIX THIS!!!!!
I would love to hear an answer to the above.
Agree with the others thoughts here. What I am understanding is that students over 13 are NOT going to be able to put in a code. I created an invite code, but a student over 13 has nowhere to type in the invite code. I agree it is essential when trying to teach to a class (for me this is 150 students) that they be able to join a class I have set up. Hoping for a quick reply so I can get back to having my 2nd semester students join and work. Do not want to confuse them by starting them in Project Ignite, then having to switch.
John-
How long does the shared link stay active in the Beta?
Please update this information on the website. It's confusing!
@Ms.Hento, the share link is currently configured for 2 weeks.
What would work best in your situation?
Look forward to hearing from you.
Thanks,
John
@TMS EmergingTech This is correct, students over 13 cannot be moderated. Their accounts are standard accounts.
This was/is true for Project Ignite too. While a student who is 13 could enter a classroom code, that student is not a "moderated", they are simply listed in a group with other students in the class.
Let me know if you have additional questions.
Thanks,
John
This new set up is very confusing for teachers and schools. Having the PI style "classroom" feature with a particular code was ideal. This current procedure is confusing and leaves teachers spending hours (that we don't have) to try to make sense of this. This is a major flaw. If you are making the changes, please create a detailed, step-by-step guide to how to set it up for teachers. I'm left Youtubing this from other teachers and trying to understand. Not impressed Autodesk. I'm happy to serve on an advisory group to help you develop empathy for those of us who use it with a variety of teachers and grade levels.
Same problem! I need to moderate my 13+ students! This is a classroom setting and I need to track their progress.
@John Helfen
@John Helfen I am not sure what the best time period would be at this point. I want to say at least a week, if not even longer. What I would really like is a way for students to turn in a design to me in so that I can look at their projects without the student being present. And an easy way for students to turn in projects to be printed. In my case, I have over 100 students who I see every other day. This would be a lot of email using the share feature, unless it could be sent to my account in Tinker? That might work. I am new to using the site and still trying to figure out student/project management.
@Ms.Hento This afternoon the expiration length will be extended to two weeks. In a future release we may (or may not) extend that further. We will continue to make improvements in this area as we move forward.
I would also like to restate again, in Tinkercad, you can now see a student's design gallery by clicking their name in the "Your Kids" list on the Moderate kids page. In Project Ignite you have the ability to track progress, but were unable to tell if the student was building one thing when they should have been building something else. Now you can access their designs gallery as if it were your own. From the Moderate kids tab you can right click a student name to launch their gallery in a new tab in the browser. This will let you quickly review the work and choose if you want to download for printing or not.
If a student is over 13 they will need to share their design link with you. Perhaps through a google form? This would be a simple way for those who you do not moderate to get your their link without an overload of emails.
Here is a link to a form I just created: have a look: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdz5ytgOXgRw_eB8p9wRtWe4jSyaInUt_MHEmaxPnskYxXipQ/viewform
This creates a spreadsheet of submissions with the name and link easily findable.
Please let me know what you think.
Thanks,
John
The links my students have created and shared with me (today through last week) are not working. We are getting the 410- resource is gone error page.
In the Designs, Collections, Lessons....or Designs...have the students change each thing's properties (under the Cog action icon that appears when you waive over each thing) from PRIVATE to PUBLIC. They will not need to reshare.
I had the same problem last week!
@ms.Hento,
Can you do me a favor and test this with me here? In my experiences things work quite smoothly, but that doesn't mean there isn't something wrong.
Can you start a new design (in beta) add a box to to the workplane and generate the share link? Then add it here. I will see if I can modify your design with the link. If it works, we can dig into what is preventing the others from working.
If the student deletes the design after the link has been created then I expect you may get the resource gone message. Can you confirm 1005 the students haven removed their design?
Thanks,
John
@ms.hento,
While testing please make sure you are logged into TInkercad before clicking the student's share link.
Let me know the if that works.
Thanks,
John
@ms.hento, I just tested and confirmed I can create the error message you are seeing. You need to make sure you are logged into Tinkercad before you click the link.
I will work with the dev team to get this corrected. You should be asked to log in, rather than get the error, but in the meantime...logging in first will prevent this.
Thanks for continuing to dig in on the product.
Let me know if you have additional question.
Thanks,
John
@John Helfen Thank you for the assistance, the links are working now and I will make sure I am logged in before trying them in the future.
@Peter Penguin The google form is great! I had to recreate it in office 365, we are not a google school, and I love the photos you included. Thank you for sharing this, it has been working really well for student work submissions.
@ms.hento, The comment from Peter was me too, I forgot to switch accounts before posting.
Glad things are working for you and again thank you very much for helping us improve the product.
@ginagr Actually, designs are not required to be made public in order to share them. If you continue to see this, please let us know because it would indicate something may not be working the way its supposed to.
I would like to add my voice to those asking for a classroom feature for the age 13+ users. While my students have a school Google account to log in with, they don't have email capabilities as part of the school's system, so I'm forced to take the extra step of talking them through the process of sharing a link via a Google doc that I have to track down (assuming they follow the right steps to paste & share the link into a doc). So far even trying that process has been unsuccessful as the links are so long that the kids can't get the whole string in hyperlink format due to the line break at the edge of the doc. We end up pasting the long address into tinyurl.com, shortening the link, and pasting the new link into a shared doc. I'm sure that I'll figure out a better workaround with time, but it would be awfully nice to have it more readily available.
I'm loving having my students use your software (I just discovered it in the last week or two and it's been a perfect fit for an unexplored area in our technology class), but the awkwardness of getting my hands on their work causes a great deal of lost time and frustration for all of us in my room. Assuming the classroom feature is available for the 12 & under kids, would it be a problem to simply change the settings to allow any user to sign up for a teacher's class via invite code?
Thanks for your consideration.
I would like to add to V Worthington's comment. I would like to be able to monitor even my 13 and older students. Per my district I really need to be able to see what all students are doing. Having to make them share everything each time would be time consuming. My students can log in through their Google Account also, but don't have email access. Can Autodesk recognize the school account? Or can they make an enter class invitation for every account?
Thanks for looking into this.
Monitoring is more than project progress evaluation, it includes progress of assigned tutorials.
I have to add my voice that being able to moderate ALL my students is vital as a teacher. I would like to see how much of a project they have completed and I would to be able to automatically check their work.
Additionally, I would like to be able to keep my classes separate. It is easier for grading purposes. So the ability to create class codes, rather than one teacher code is also important for this to be an educational tool.
The product is great, but not user friendly for teachers.
Like all of the other teachers on this thread, I MUST be able to monitor all of my students in a single place. I have 6 mixed age groups totaling 160 students and it is simply NOT possible to monitor what they are doing if different students are using different methods of submitting their work. I need to be able to see my 12-and-unders in the same place as my 13-and-ups students. If I don't have a consistent and simple system for monitoring and evaluating student work, I am not going to be able to push this experiment beyond they "Oh, that was an experiment that failed" stage at my district.
I agree with everyone else in this thread. I counted on being able to see students progress in TinkerCad lessons on my teacher page. Not being able to add new students is going to be terrible. I hate to have to lie and make their birthdays younger just so I can watch their progress through the lessons which was the best feature of project ignite.