Easy student access to Bootstrap starter files

[Schanzer (Director)]

As students move through Bootstrap, they encounter a number of "starter files" (e.g. - Game Template, Rocket-Height, Sam the Butterfly, etc). We get a lot of questions from teachers, asking "how do I distribute links to these files, so that my students can use them?". Some teachers have students do a web search for the file, while others write a shortened URL on the board.

As of today, you can now open the latest version of these files right from the WeScheme Program List!

We've added a dropdown menu to the "My Programs" page, which allows your students to start up a new file right away. This menu will always be current, so any improvements we make to these files over the years will always be accessible right from the same place. Thanks to all of you who've given us feedback on this feature - we hope you enjoy it!

The Bootstrap Team

[Katrien Vance]

Awesome--thank you.  FWIW, I have kids access things like this through the link in the slides.  I find that having them read the slides on their own computers while I have them also up on the big TV in front is really helpful, and it does give them these links.

K

[Bob Kahn]

I noticed this. Thank you so much. Makes it so much easier to deliver the starter files.