Community reviews for Scratch

It is an excellent tool if you know how to use it. It will be great if there is more training for teachers available.

My opinion is that this is a great teaching tool for young students learning how to code. I really liked Scratch Jr. for the coding app as well. It better serves my students and my teaching because they have to practice perseverance and a growth mindset to continue to build their codes and change them if they make mistakes.

I really like scratch. It's free and it is a great way for students to create stories, games and animations. It has a variety of features and that is something I love the most about scratch! You have a wide variety of animations, sounds, costumes to choose from. You can make music, create a story, create a came and so much more. Scratch provides a tutorial video for each one of its features. Overall this app is super fun especially for students. Using scratch students are able to create something they can call their own.

This is a great place for students to apply concepts they have learned in the classroom in an entertaining and rewarding way. Students will require little assistance once they've understood concepts as they can check their own work.

I think that its good that kids are learning some concepts of coding without knowing

The mechanics of this site are easy to pick up on, for teachers and students. This would work wonderfully for a middle school or high school class who is new to coding, and teachers are able to see both the inner workings of students' projects and how it looks when run. I highly recommend using this site in classes for in-class assignments and homework.

This software is easy to use and has infinite uses inside and outside the classroom. It helps students who are not familiar or may not know what coding is to be able to build something and understand the processes behind the finished product in a relatively easy way. It allows students to have creative control and tinker with projects they are working on within this software.

The children loved the movement in each round, they enjoyed creating things with their partners, The best part is after they saw the code play on their own computer they could then go back and look through all the projects, make comments, fix code, add code. Skies the limit.

I think Scratch is wonderful in its simplicity and ease of use. I felt a little overwhelmed at first, but it was such a blast learning to use this. And when the students were introduced, they immediately took to it as if they had been using it all along. I have two students with autism, and when they finished their projects, they were so proud because they had been able to do it themselves and in their own styles. No two projects were alike, and that was the beauty of it. Every student's voice was represented and heard.

I believe that Scratch is a great tool to introduce coding to students in secondary classes, specifically middle school. I have used a variety of different coding tools, and this one seems a little more advanced to do the dashboard and amount of features that you can select. I would not recommend this for younger primary students, unless they are able to code well. I do like that there are many features that the students can explore and play around with as to not make the tool monotonous or boring.