Category: Blog

  • New Update 13/10/24

    Two updates in two days! Didn’t think I would have time today but I’ve done another few additional tweaks which you will hopefully find useful. I won’t go into too much in this post but I will just highlight the changes so you can look out for them. 1. Ability to order class assignments. You…

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  • New Update 12/10/24

    I pushed out a new update earlier today and hopefully all performs as well as it should. If there are any problems just let me know. Update Notes You will notice this now looks a little different. Rather than dragging up and down, the available blocks are now on the left and the solution is…

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  • Parson’s update this coming weekend

    Another quick post. I’ve been working to improve the framework and parsons problems in the light of the new T2C problems being added. I now have a working solution for a first pass upgrade. This is not the finished product but should offer a slightly better experience than is currently offered. I have a few…

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  • The ‘random’ problem

    Update: I will be doing another run back through these problems and for now will be including the need for the random.seed to be set to 1 for testing. If your students are trying to tackle these problems, they can obviously set the seed to the default while creating their code but the tests will…

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  • Site Update 21/09/24

    So, I took a step back from adding the Time2Code projects this last week or so, so that I could do a pass through QoL update to the site and add some of the features that you’ve been asking for (and some that you haven’t). In this post I’m going to give you a really…

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  • Student Numbers

    Just dropped in to quickly mention student numbers on beta accounts. A number of you have asked about the limit of 120 students that has been set and whether I intend to increase that limit. If you are signed up for the beta and want your number of students increased, contact me and let me…

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  • The student support ‘problem’

    When I started developing the site, I had a number of features in mind that I felt teachers needed. One of the features I felt was really important was the need to be able to automatically generate support and framework structures/code for students and allow the teacher to turn them on or off for particular…

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  • Beta Access Open To All Teachers

    So wouldn’t you know. Summer brought with it a raft of unexpected delays that means that although I wanted to be all set for launch for September, sadly that is is now not the case. But fear not, the site is ready to access and use for your classes for this new year and the…

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  • Detailed Testing Feedback

    This will be quite a long post but I want to be certain that I cover as many of the comments that I have received as possible and give as much clarity as I am able to on each point. I want to thank everyone again for their feedback so far. Rather than send individual…

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