NOT SO GOOD
Community Review for codeSpark Academy
My Take
The gameplay, and coding activities are fun but...
1. You can not demo or model this game as a teacher if you signed in through Clever (they won't even give me another account to sign in so I can play it even though I have paid for a subscription already.)
2. It is hard for kids to scroll down to basic levels as there is no scroll bar, so if you are using laptops, PCs, or Chromebooks, it is very hard for little kids to do it.
3. It often kicks kids out after they finish level 8, afterwhich, they need to go back to the homepage, scroll down to the level they were on, click on it so that level 9 shows up.
4. “Game stuff" should be at the bottom and the coding levels should be at the top.
Some of the answers they provide on their guide (Kite Plight) are WRONG.
5. There should be an arrow so students can easily switch screens between levels 1-8 then to 9-16 (or 17)
6. There are often problems going back to a page and there is an error. You have to reopen it, log out, then open it again to log back in, very frustrating.
7. After contacting them, they don't seem to be too interested in fixing anything.
I DO NOT RECOMMEND IF YOU ARE USING FOR IT A WHOLE SCHOOL OR SCHOOL SYSTEM.
How I Use It
I use this with K through 3rd grades.