[Levelbuilder] Welcome to Levelbuilder
Levelbuilder is the content creation tool used to create levels, examples, and courses on https://studio.code.org. You can access it at: https://levelbuilder-studio.code.org.
To use all of the features of Levelbuilder, you need an account with permissions.
- Go to https://levelbuilder-studio.code.org and make a new code studio account, just like you would on the main site.
- Ask an engineer for levelbuilding permissions. You'll need them on your levelbuilder account so you can edit levels, and you'll need them on your code studio account you can be redirected to levelbuilder on production.
When you create content or make a change in levelbuilder, it won't be available on studio.code.org until it's scooped into staging and pushed into production.
When content from Levelbuilder gets "scooped", all changes from levelbuilder are committed to GitHub, and are merged with the code-dot-org staging branch. After staging goes through testing, it's pushed into production.
To see what the status of levelbuilder currently is, check out the #levelbuilder channel in Slack. If your content was scooped, you'll see it after staging gets pushed to production.
Levelbuilder supports all level types seen on the Code Studio platform. Find an example for one of these? Link it!
| Blockly | DSL-Defined | Advanced Apps | Content | Algebra |
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| Levels used in CSF | Domain Specific Language | Levels used in CSD and CSP | -------- | Levels used in CS in A |
| Maze | Multi ( select one , choose 2 ) | App Lab | Standalone-Video | Calc |
| Collector | Match | Free-Response | Unplugged | Eval |
| Bee | Evaluation Multi | External Link | ||
| Farmer | Text Match | Game Lab | ||
| Harvester | Contract Match | Web Lab | ||
| Play Lab | Markdown | NetSim | ||
| Star Wars | Curriculum Reference | Pixelation | ||
| Minecraft | Map | Text Compression | ||
| Ice Age | LevelGroup | Odometer | ||
| Sprite Lab | Public Key | |||
| Cryptography | ||||
| Frequency Analysis |
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Levels are the individual bubbles in a stage on Code Studio.
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Scripts are used to create stages within courses. A stage is associated with a lesson, this holds all of the levels for this lesson.
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The stages are grouped together to compose courses, like Course A from CS Fundamentals.
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The table below shows how these terms translate over to Curriculum Builder
| Name in Levelbuilder | Course | Script | Lesson/Stage | Level |
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| Name in Curriculum Builder | Curriculum | Unit | Lesson | N/A |
As long as you are on https://levelbuilder-studio.code.org and are signed into an account that has levelbuilder privileges, you should be able to use this list of URIs for content creation and editing on Levelbuilder.
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Access All Levels:
/levels
Make a New Level:
/levels/new
Open an Individual Level:
/levels/[level ID]
Open a Level in the Level Editor:
/levels/[level ID]/edit
Learn more about the level editor here: [link]
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Access All Scripts:
/s
Access an Individual Script:
/s/[course name]
Make a New Script:
/s/new
Open a Script in the Script Editor:
/s/[Name]/edit
Learn more about the script editor here: [link]
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Access All Courses:
/courses
Note: While this URL works, it will redirect you to the code studio site
Create a New Course:
/courses/new
Editing a Course:
/s/[course name]/edit
Learn more about the course script editor here: [link]
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Blockly levels have a few different block editors. The following URIs take you to a UI where you can edit these specific kinds of blocks. You can also change the XML directly in the level editor.
NOTE: In order to save your changes made in the UI, you need to press the run button. This should prompt a pop-up that says you have successfully changed the blocks, like this:
Editing Start Blocks:
/levels/[level ID]/edit_blocks/start_blocks
Editing Solution Blocks:
/levels/[level ID]/edit_blocks/solution_blocks
Editing Toolbox Blocks:
/levels/[level ID]/edit_blocks/toolbox_blocks
Editing Required Blocks:
/levels/[level ID]/edit_blocks/required_blocks
Editing Recommended Blocks:
/levels/[level ID]/edit_blocks/recommended_blocks
Editing Initialization Blocks:
/levels/[level ID]/edit_blocks/initialization_blocks
Sprite Lab has the same options as any other blockly level, but also has its own block and function editors.
Sprite Lab and its block and function editors have cross-tab copy and paste, meaning you can copy and paste blocks from some editor to a Sprite Lab level, and vice-versa.
List of Existing Sprite Lab Blocks:
/blocks
Create a New Block:
/blocks/new
Edit Existing Block:
/blocks/[block name]/edit
List of Existing Behaviors and Functions:
/functions
Create a New Behavior or Function:
/functions/new
Edit Existing Behavior or Function:
/functions/[function ID]/edit
NOTE: This refers to the functions ID , not its name.
These are different supplemental and curricular materials created in levelbuilder that require extra steps to make.
General Processes
Used in CSP and CSD
- Making and Using Exemplars [link]
Used in CSF
- Making an Authored Hint [link]
Game Lab Only
- Adding Preloaded Animations in Game Lab [link]
App Lab Only
- Adding Preloaded Design Elements in App Lab [link]
- The Script Editor [link]
- Navigating the Blockly Workspace [link]
More to Come!