[Levelbuilder] Scripts: Creation and Publishing
Scripts serve many different purposes across all curricula, but in general scripts are used to create stages within courses. A stage is associated with a lesson, this holds all of the levels for this lesson.
NOTE: You must have a levelbuilder account in order to access, create, and use scripts
URIs You Need to Know
There's a few important URIs you're going to need to know if you're going to work with scripts
Access All Scripts:
/s
Access an Individual Script:
/s/[script or stage name]
Make a New Script:
/s/new
Edit the Script:
/s/[Name]/edit
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Logged-in to levelbuilder, go to https://levelbuilder-studio.code.org/s/new. A blank script will pop up, ready for details.
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Give the script a good, descriptive name. Make sure to use only lowercase letters and hyphens. This is required.
| Do This | Not This |
|---|---|
| coursea-2018 | courseA 2018 |
- Edit your script with the script editor
Fill in the other fields as you see fit. Make sure you don't mark"Visible in Teacher Dashboard" until the script is ready to go live.
There are tons of different options in the script editor, learn more about what they do here: [link]
If you have levels to add to this script at this, you can add them now. Refer to the next section of this document, Populating a Script, if that's the case.
If not, feel free to leave this area blank. You can always come back to it.
- Click "Save Changes". Congrats, you've made a script!
As you start building your puzzles, you will want to add them to your script. To do so, there are two fundamental pieces and lots of variations.
Under "Stages and Levels" you will see a giant text box. This is where you define the stage names (lesson names) and levels (puzzles) that belong to them.
Using this example:
stage 'Programming in Artist', flex_category: 'csf_e_1'
level 'courseC_video_artist_2018'
level 'courseC_artist_prog1_2018'
level 'courseC_artist_prog2_2018'
level 'courseC_artist_prog3_2018'
level 'courseC_artist_prog4_2018'
level 'courseC_artist_prog5_2018'
level 'courseC_artist_prog6_2018'
level 'courseC_artist_prog7_2018', challenge: true
level 'courseC_artist_prog8_2018'
level 'courseC_artist_prog6_predict1_2018'
bonus 'courseC_artist_prog_challenge1_2018'
bonus 'courseC_artist_prog_challenge2a_2018'
Stage : The lesson name that all of the puzzles for that stage will be kept beneath
Level: The level ID of the puzzle in levelbuilder
Bonus : Optional puzzles that show up at the end of a stage
Flex_category : Optional tag used when the course is broken up into distinct named modules. You cannot create a new flex_category without the help of an engineer.
Challenge : Tagging a puzzle as intentionally hard and allowed to be skippable
When your script is ready to go live, check the "Visible in Teacher Dashboard" box and save. This will make the course available in the teacher dropdown, but will not automatically connect the lesson plans. To do that, refer to the Curriculum Care and Feeding doc.