
In 2021–22, we moved our College Board–endorsed curriculum and unparalleled teacher support to Codio’s all-in-one learning platform to provide an enhanced experience for teachers and students.
We first launched our project-based AP Computer Science curriculum in 2015 and continually refine our curriculum and support each year. One of the biggest upgrades to our program has been the addition of the interactive Codio platform in 2021.
We are excited to combine our College Board–endorsed curriculum and unparalleled teacher support with Codio’s all-in-one learning platform to provide an enhanced experience for teachers and students.
Codio’s platform allows us to provide our comprehensive teacher materials with an interactive student textbook alongside built-in programming environments. This seamless learning experience provides everything teachers and students need in one place:
With the Codio platform, UTeach CS is now able to offer:
Codio is an evidence-based learning platform for computer science education. The platform was designed with interactive tools specific to computer science, which optimize students' engagement, satisfaction, and performance. Additional tools save teachers time on administrative tasks and provide insights into student learning, allowing for more personalized feedback and intervention.
Codio is FERPA compliant, GDPR compliant, and meets the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.1 Standard at Level AA. Codio provides a built-in dyslexia support feature and supports screen readers for text-based programming languages such as Java and Python. Codio is actively committed to maintaining and continuously improving the accessibility of the Codio experience..
UTeach CS Principles students access an interactive textbook with embedded assessments, and can resize or collapse the textbook to focus on programming in the built-in IDE for Scratch and Python.
UTeach CS A students master Java concepts through embedded assessments and programming in the built-in text editor, compiler, and debugger.
Auto-graded formative and summative assessments will be embedded throughout the AP CS Principles and AP CS A curriculum. For example, Parsons Problems ask students to rearrange blocks of scrambled code, allowing students to focus on the purpose and flow of the code without worrying about syntax.
Additional tools will allow teachers to provide more personalized feedback for their students. In-line code commenting allows teachers to leave helpful comments for students directly next to the relevant code, and code playback provides in-depth insight into students’ thought processes as they code and debug.
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