Resources and References

Every Tynker classroom has a handy navigation at the top that allows teachers to manage various aspects of their classroom such as assigning courses, ...

When you click on lessons page of the class, each course has lessons that contain a Presentation Mode link. This link takes the teacher to a present...

Note: Students can not alter their username in Tynker so teachers can easily trace inappropriate comments posts to a user. There are two ways you can...

Lesson progress cannot be reset for students but students may revisit a lesson to retry. Students' course and lesson progress don't reset from year to...

From your teacher dashboard: Click on My Classrooms . Click the class card of the class you want to add the co-teacher in. Within that class click on...

You can add, edit, archive, and manage classes in the My Classrooms page of the teacher dashboard. Classes can also be imported from Google Classroom,...

If your classroom is rostered via Clever (premium), ClassLink, or Google Classroom, then students should be automatically added and synced to your Tyn...

Go to the My Classrooms page and click Set Up Your Classroom if you have no other classes, or click Add Classroom to add an additional class. Ad...

Tynker courses and lessons give you several data points as students complete progress including automatic tracking of where students are in lessons, m...

The Elementary School curriculum which can be found on the Tynker Course Page includes Tynker Block based courses for both pre-readers and 3-5, electi...

This tab displays the Educator Projects that were categorized as “Text Coding” projects such as JavaScript, Python, HTML/CSS, Java, or p5.js when they...

The add more link on the left of the lessons page of each class takes teachers to a page with course recommendations to add next.

To unassign a course, go to the lesson page of the class, and click the three dots in the top right corner of the course. Then click unassign

Email schools@tynker.com to report the bug and get a blank certificate.

Class notifications allow a teacher to see the most recent summary of activity from their classes. Depending on the user role and dashboard you may se...

If you have more than three active classes, use the “ Show All Classrooms ” link to reveal all of your classes on the My Classrooms page.

Click on My Classrooms. Click on the card of the class you want to change. Click the tab with Settings icon. Edit the class name and click Save Se...

Go to My Classrooms . Click the class card of the class you want to print. Click the Students tab. Click Print Student Login Cards below the list...

When students first log into Tynker, they are given a dashboard that is appropriate to the class grade level chosen by the teacher. To change it navig...

If you share the URL of the project when it is open with another teacher, they will be able to open the project and save it as a copy. The project t...

Click the Gradebook tab in the class. Click the Attendance link of the class to see a timestamp of when your students last logged in.

Tynker lessons contain a variety of unplugged activities that students can participate in that work in conjunction with the Tynker Curriculum. These l...

Click on the Student page within your class dashboard. Click on the Username of the student you are trying to log in as. Click Log In on the pop...

The Tynker SmartPass is a QR code that allows students to login easily using a device with camera access.

Your projects are saved on your account on Tynker. You can access them at school, at home — anywhere you have access to the internet. In the teacher ...

Tynker Lessons are structured, grade-appropriate coding modules designed to help students build programming skills through engaging, scaffolded activi...

You can do this one of two ways. While the project is still available for the week: Have students save it to their My Projects page. Assign the pro...

Go to the Curriculum page in the teacher dashboard. Find the course you want to assign and click the Assign button. Choose whether you want to ass...

Teachers have the ability to reset their student passwords. It is found in the teacher dashboard under the Students tab. To make changes, click the ...

Under the My Projects section, this is where Educators can create and save Tynker block or text coding projects which can be assigned to students.

Click the class card to navigate into the desired class. Go to the students page of the class. Click the name of the guardian in the guardians list. C...

Each Tynker Lesson includes a full lesson plan with vocabulary, lesson objectives, warm ups, activities, code, extended activities, and standards. The...

Click on the curriculum page. Click Course Overview on the desired course. Click on Lesson Plans on the left navigation, then click on the less...

Log into tynker.com as a teacher and click the avatar in the top left. Click the privacy tab. Click delete.

Click on the class card you want to run the live lesson with. Click on the lessons tab. Click the course on the left side. Click the presen...

By clicking the run lesson button, you open a new tab that gives teachers everything they need to run a live lesson including class presentation, stud...

Each Tynker lesson has a slide deck that accompanies it to help teachers introduce concepts and discuss what each Tynker lesson includes. These presen...

For Teachers: As a teacher, view the settings tab within the designated classroom Click the "Disable community projects" link For Admins and District ...

To access, click on the "Scope, Sequence, and Standards" link within the Curriculum tab inside your Teacher Dashboard or by visiting https://www.tynk...

All Tynker lessons align with Common Core ELA and Math standards. That alignment can be found in the Scope and Sequence document on the Standards page...

Each Tynker Lesson plan has a corresponding "Student View" that allows the teacher to preview lessons as a student would and try any activity within t...

While inside a classroom, a drop down menu is available at the top of the page that lets teachers quickly shift from one class to another.

Each Tynker lesson plan comes with Warm Up activities to introduce the lessons concepts. Many of these warm up activities are unplugged. The lesson pl...

Tynker courses provide a structured sequence of interactive coding lessons designed to teach essential computer science concepts in a classroom settin...

Click My Classrooms. Click the card of the class where you want to see projects. Click the progress tab. Find the Newly Created Projects widget a...

Go to the "Projects" page in the class by clicking on the Projects widget under the Progress tab of a classroom, and select the projects that you want...

Any project in Tynker can be customized and assigned to students. For Tynker Block Coding Projects If you are editing an existing Tynker Project , sa...

When you assign the Icon Based Coding Course Pack to a class, students will have immediate access to 5 icon based courses, All About Computers 1, and ...

When you delete a student, their data is erased and won't be able to be recovered. You can always add that student user name again for the user to res...

No. A student can only be removed from the class by a Tynker teacher or Tynker Administrator.

Yes! In fact, we encourage it. You can even have multiple Tynker classrooms per physical class. This helps if you have students who have different lev...

Click on the class card Go to the lessons tab Assign the Icon-Based coding course to the class Click the Gradebook tab. Click the drop-down menu in th...

Click on the My Projects page. Click on the three dots in the top-right corner of the project. Click “share”, and choose how you would like to share...

You can close the slide navigator on the left by clicking the "X" in the top left of the presentation in order to get a full screen view of Tynker pre...

Click My Classes. Click the students tab. Check the box to the left of the student’s name you want to remove. Click the bulk action menu on the t...

No. A student can only be removed from the class by a Tynker teacher or Tynker Administrator.

Class codes are automatically generated and can not be changed or customized. You can, however, have students join multiple classrooms in your Teacher...

Go to My Classes Click the class card for the class. Click the gear icon tab to edit your class settings. Enter the new class name. You can also ch...

Click on the student page within your class dashboard. Click on the username of the student you are trying to log in as. Click login on the popup ...

To archive the class, go to my classes, click the three dots in the right corner of the class you want to archive, and click archive. To delete the cl...

An active class is one that is currently able to assign lessons and receive graded assignments.

An archived class is one that is no longer active. You cannot assign or receive completed assignments from an archived class. Archiving a class is rec...