Get Started: RoboGarden Platform Introduction
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The Robogarden platform provides individual accounts that allow users to access coding courses termed 'journeys,' which include tutorials, missions, and quizzes. Each journey features a roadmap indicating progress and includes various adventures that teach coding concepts in a structured manner. Users can gain experience points and coins by completing missions and quizzes, which can be used to unlock model answers, while account management options are available through the user profile.
Get Started: RoboGarden Platform Introduction
- 2. Individual Account - Journeys When you log onto your individual account, you will arrive on a page showing the journeys you can access. A Journey is RoboGarden’s terminology for a course. These Journeys are sectioned off into Blockly or textual languages. For more information on Journeys. Click here.
- 3. Road Map When you click on a Journey, you will arrive at the Journey road map. The roadmap shows you where you are in the Journey. Look for the RoboGarden icon to find your location.
- 4. Adventure Info On the top left corner of the roadmap, you will discover an information icon. When you hover over the icon, the Adventure information will pop open. It’s important to read the adventure description so you understand the storyline and occasionally, there will be hints that can help you throughout the journey.
- 5. Adventures On the road map, there are 8 bubbles located on the bottom. These 8 bubbles are called Adventures. An adventure is a lesson. In each adventure there will be a tutorial, 5 missions, and a quiz at the end. Each adventure teaches a new coding concept while building on the one before. For more information on Adventures. Click here.
- 6. Tutorial The tutorial is essentially your teacher. It explains the concept code block you will learn, along with a video that demonstrates what the code does and how it works. Following the video, there will be a short two question quiz. In order to move forward, you have to pass the tutorial quiz.
- 7. Missions Missions are the units of study/assignments of each adventure. You must pass the first one before moving onto the second mission and so forth. Each mission will be a variation of the coding concept taught in the tutorial. The missions become increasingly more complex as you move forward. For more information on Missions. Click here.
- 8. Adventure End Quiz At the end of each adventure, there will be a 4 question multiple choice quiz. The questions varies between finding the correct code and figuring out the outcome of the code. These quizzes make sure you understand what you just learned. It’s to ensure that you understood the coding concepts. In order to move onto the next adventure, you must pass the quiz.
- 9. Menu Bar - Journeys In the top right corner, you will see a horizontal menu. The green highlight indicates where you are. In this example, you will show up on the Journeys menu from slide 2. For more information on Journeys. Click here.
- 10. Menu Bar - Dashboard If you click dashboard, a pop up will occur because you do not have a school/summer camp/after school program student account. As an individual homeschooler account, you do not have access to a dashboard. For more information on Dashboards. Click here.
- 11. Menu Bar - Dashboard If you exit the popup, you will see the option to add another child to your account. Depending on the account you have, it will indicate if you can add more children or not. For more information on Dashboards. Click here.
- 12. Experience Points & Coins You can gain experience points by solving missions and quizzes. Each mission has a base score of 10 XP and the base score is only added the first time you complete that mission. The quiz questions are weighted and the weight is the XP. The XP can be obtained if the answer is correct. 1 coins is gained for each 5 XP. You can use coins to unlock the model answer of the mission. Unlocking model answers will consume 10 coins. To unlock, click on “show model answer” button in the settings menu of the mission page. When you unlock the model answer, you can view it anytime you like. It will not cost another 10 coins.
- 13. Profile By clicking on your name, you will access your profile. You can change your personal information, account information, password, subscription plan, and your billing information.
- 17. Technical Support The technical support icon will show a pop up menu where you can reach any of the following for additional assistance.
- 18. Tutorial The World icon allows you to change the language. Logout icon will log you out of your account and return you to the RoboGarden home page.
- 19. Time to start your Journey! We hope this was helpful for you. Now it’s time to start your RoboGarden Journey! To play RoboGarden for free. Click here.
- 20. Thank You! For more information please visit www.robogarden.ca
Editor's Notes
- #6: Each adventure teaches a new coding concept while building on the one before.
- #10: Log on state what type of account you have/ head to journeys page. Pick the journey you are enrolled in explain journey Explain the road map Adventures “lessons” bubbles on the bottom Each adventure 1 tutorial, 5 missions, and a “challenge/quiz” Go over the info thingy Dashboard XP points what are they used for? What the coins are used for Profile Change password, name, and picture. Support? World? Log out? They can now start they journey?