BEFORE YOU PUBLISH | EDPUZZLE SETUP
Connect Edpuzzle before assigning
Use these public lesson links to add the videos to your Edpuzzle account and connect each lesson in this Canvas course:
- Smart Solutions: micro:bit Intro: Edpuzzle lesson | original video
- Coding Games on micro:bit: Edpuzzle lesson | original video
For each Edpuzzle assignment, choose Edit, keep Submission Type: External Tool, choose Find, then Edpuzzle. Select the matching lesson from My Content, save, and test it in Student View.
Open Edpuzzle's Canvas setup guide. If you are not using Edpuzzle, the original-video links above let you run the lesson without the integration.
⌁ Steel and Gold · Facilitator’s Guide
Coding Adventures (micro:bit)
Four block-coding lessons on real micro:bits, each one Learn → Do → Checkpoint. Everything you need to run the strand.
Run sheet
Each lesson block opens with its own Facilitator’s Guide page — that page holds the full written guide plus the presentation, worksheet and printable checkpoint for teaching the lesson live instead of sending students into the Learn lesson. This sheet is the order and the timing; the detail is one click down.
| Module item | What happens | ~Time |
|---|---|---|
| Coding with micro:bit — four lessons in order. VilBot’s story runs through all four, and each build assumes the one before it. | ||
| Lesson 1: Intro to micro:bit and Block Coding — details, printables and the full written guide: the Lesson 1 guide page that opens this block | ||
| EdPuzzle | Smart Solutions: micro:bit Intro | Video that pauses on its own for embedded questions. The page sets the house rule: a score of 90 or higher before a student may pick up a micro:bit. 0 pts in Canvas — see grading. | ~20 min |
| Learn: Lesson 1 | The Learn lesson, hosted in Articulate RISE. Launches out of Canvas into the tool. 0 pts. | 20–30 min |
| Do: Lesson 1 | First board day, and the story setup — students meet VilBot here. They write their first block program and send it to a real micro:bit. Worksheet is linked inside the assignment — the link hands each student their own Google Doc copy. 5 pts. | 1 period |
| Checkpoint: Lesson 1 | Canvas quiz, 4 questions, unlimited retakes, highest score kept. 4 pts. | ~10 min |
| Lesson 2: Inputs and Outputs — details and printables: the Lesson 2 guide page | ||
| Learn: Lesson 2 | The Learn lesson, hosted in Articulate RISE. Launches out of Canvas into the tool. 0 pts. | 20–30 min |
| Do: Lesson 2 | Give the board something to react to and something to say back. Inputs and outputs paired up, then one program that uses both. Worksheet is linked inside the assignment — the link hands each student their own Google Doc copy. 5 pts. | 1 period |
| Checkpoint: Lesson 2 | Canvas quiz, 3 questions, unlimited retakes. 3 pts. | ~10 min |
| Lesson 3: Radio and If Statements — details and printables: the Lesson 3 guide page | ||
| Learn: Lesson 3 | The Learn lesson, hosted in Articulate RISE. Launches out of Canvas into the tool. 0 pts. | 20–30 min |
| Do: Lesson 3 | Two boards talk. Students program a micro:bit radio and help VilBot send secret messages to her sidekick Mr. Whiskers. Needs students working in pairs with two boards. Worksheet is linked inside the assignment — the link hands each student their own Google Doc copy. 5 pts. | 1 period |
| Checkpoint: Lesson 3 | Canvas quiz, 3 questions, unlimited retakes. 3 pts. | ~10 min |
| Lesson 4: Coding Games on the micro:bit — details and printables: the Lesson 4 guide page | ||
| EdPuzzle | Coding Games on micro:bit | Second video, and it sets up the game students build in this lesson. 0 pts in Canvas. | ~20 min |
| Learn: Lesson 4 | The Learn lesson, hosted in Articulate RISE. Launches out of Canvas into the tool. 0 pts. | 20–30 min |
| Do: Lesson 4 | Rock Paper Scissors first, then students invent a game of their own for VilBot’s cousin LilBot. The longest build in the module. Worksheet is linked inside the assignment — the link hands each student their own Google Doc copy. 100 pts. | 1–2 periods |
| Checkpoint: Lesson 4 | Canvas quiz, 10 questions, unlimited retakes. The biggest checkpoint in the module by a wide margin. 10 pts. | ~15 min |
⚠️ The 90-or-above rule is not enforced by Canvas
The first EdPuzzle tells students they need 90 or higher before they may use a micro:bit, and that is the gate protecting your hardware. Both EdPuzzle items are external tool launches set to 0 points in Canvas, so the score never reaches your gradebook. Check it in the EdPuzzle dashboard before you hand out boards, or the rule is a suggestion. What sits behind the gate is all of the graded work: the four Do lessons, including Do: Lesson 4 at 100 points, the module’s Major grade.
Materials + prep
- Physical micro:bits counted against your roster before Lesson 1, with battery packs and fresh batteries or USB data cables. A charge-only cable will not flash a board, and that failure looks exactly like broken code.
- Lesson 3 needs two boards talking — plan the pairing before that day, not during it. Whatever grouping you set in Lesson 1, keep it, so partners are not relearning the board each lesson.
- The four worksheets are linked inside the Do assignments as Google Docs that hand over a copy the moment a student clicks. Open all four yourself first and confirm they copy from a student account.
- EdPuzzle roster ready before Lesson 1, and pop-ups allowed on student devices — EdPuzzle, the Learn launches and MakeCode all open outside Canvas.
- Printables live on the lesson guide pages — presentation, worksheet and printable checkpoint for each lesson, if you would rather teach it live than send students through Articulate RISE.
- Background reading before you teach the strand: the program’s facilitator guide for Coding Adventures (Google Doc).
Watch-fors
- A blank Learn page is not a broken Learn page. All four Learn items are external tool launches into Articulate RISE. Their Canvas description is empty on purpose — the lesson lives inside the launch. Click through one yourself before class and do not spend an evening trying to fill a page that is meant to be empty.
- The story is load-bearing. Do not skip Lesson 1’s setup. VilBot is introduced in Lesson 1, her sidekick Mr. Whiskers is who the Lesson 3 radio messages are sent to, and her cousin LilBot is who the Lesson 4 game is built for. Start at Lesson 3 and the names arrive with no one attached to them.
- Check publication before class. The EdPuzzle, Learn and Do items are already published; all four checkpoint quizzes, all five guide pages and the module itself are not. Walk the list once before you open it to students, or your class finishes Lesson 1 and finds no checkpoint.
- Lesson 4 is not a fourth ordinary lesson. Its checkpoint is 10 questions where the others are 3 or 4, and its Do is an open build after a guided one. Leave more room for it than the run sheet’s minimum, and expect the invent-your-own-game half to run into a second period.
Grading — 135 points
✓ Do: Lesson 4 is the module’s Major grade, at 100 points. The other three Do assignments are Minor grades, 5 points each (15 total). All four are graded on the finished worksheet, uploaded as a file or as a share link.
✓ Checkpoints are 4, 3, 3 and 10 points for Lessons 1 through 4, all Minor grades — one point per question, unlimited retakes, highest score kept. The Lesson 4 checkpoint is half the checkpoint points on its own.
✓ The four Learn items are 0 points — completion happens inside RISE.
✓ Both EdPuzzles are 0 points. That is deliberate here, but it does mean the 90-percent hardware gate lives in EdPuzzle and nowhere else. If you want it in the gradebook, set the points yourself.
The module is unpublished. Publish as you go, and check the quizzes.