Technical Requirements:

PC (Windows 10) or Mac (macOS 10.13)  with at least a 2GHz processor and 2GB of RAM (4GB of RAM is recommended).

No iPads and no Chromebooks!!!

Broadband internet with at least 1.8Mbps download and 900Kbps upload speeds. Please make sure to remove your firewall if any

Webcam - Either external or built-in (many laptops have an integrated camera).

Microphone and Speakers - We recommend headphones with an integrated microphone 

學習者無需使用標準 Outschool 工具以外的任何應用程式或網站。

Dear Parents,

Welcome to Project-Based Scratch Level 1. In this online live course, students will learn how to create block-based programs with Scratch, make games, and solve programming problems. All lessons are project-based, and each lesson contains one fun guided project that allows students to practice new programming concepts. All students will be asked to apply what they’ve learned to create a final project of their own design which will be presented on the last day of class. The best projects will be displayed on the student showcase page on our website, and will earn students a special honors title on their course completion certificates. There will be some reinforcement quizzes for students to complete after lessons, along with review games that will be played in the final class meetings to ensure students remember material and are prepared to take the next steps in their programming adventures.

To get started, please register an account at https://scratch.mit.edu/. Please verify your account email address by opening the verification email you are sent when you create an account. This step allows students to share their projects with instructors if they need help, and also show off their creations to others. To explore some ideas, there are many project projects posted in the official Scratch website https://scratch.mit.edu/explore/projects/all. You may also find inspiration from Scratch programming videos on YouTube.
Important notes:

Student final projects that receive honors or high honors awards may be shared on our website as part of our student showcase. We will only ever share the publicly available project content from Scratch. If you do not want your child’s final project added to this showcase if they are a winner, please contact us to let us know. 

As per Outschool Policy: For the safety of all students, all cameras must be on at the start of every class meeting to verify learner identity. We encourage students to keep their cameras on for the entire duration of class as it helps to create an engaging learning environment. The camera safety check is mandatory.

For those that have never used Outschool before, please follow this link for some awesome preparation before our first class:
https://support.outschool.com/en/articles/802757-how-to-prepare-for-your-first-class
To join the class, please login to your Outschool account and click the scheduled session to get to the classroom, where you click “Join live meeting” to join the zoom classroom. There is no zoom link needed.

If you have any questions/concerns please feel free to reach out through us on Outschool. We are excited to have this opportunity to guide you all in this amazing coding adventure. Please come prepared and ready to learn for our first class, see you soon!

Best regards,
AI Code Academy