Teacher tools

Run BugBot with a class.

See every student as they work, set the work and the tests, and teach from a ready-made plan for every lesson.

Make a class Plans and prices

30 days of everything free, starting with your first class. Students never pay.

Getting started

A class in a few minutes.

  1. Make a classSign in with your school Google or Microsoft account and make a class.
  2. Read out the codeStudents open the lessons and type the six-letter code. No accounts, nothing to install.
  3. TeachThey start at lesson F1.1. You watch who is stuck, send a hint and set the next piece of work.

Every tool

Everything you get with a plan.

In the lesson

  • A live view of the class: who is working, who is idle and whose last run failed
  • Read any student's code and send them a hint
  • A message to the whole class, on every page they open
  • Robot games on the projector between modules, run as a class competition

Over the term

  • A progress board of every task, filled in as students pass
  • Every version of a student's program, and what changed each time
  • Hand-ins with comments on any line, and a check for copied work that renaming does not hide
  • Assignments with due dates, and module locks so the class stays together
  • Printable certificates when a student finishes a module

Tests and marking

  • Tests with a fixed window, pasting blocked and the lessons closed
  • Theory questions at the end of every lesson, marked instantly, with a question bank by exam specification
  • Marks with your own weighting and grade boundaries
  • A mark book to download

To teach from

  • A lesson plan for every one of the 409 lessons
  • Every point of the GCSE and A level specifications covered: see the coverage map
  • Printable worksheets with answers
  • Slides built from the lesson, with the simulator live on the projector
  • Answer keys, and tasks you write yourself for your class
  • Any task embedded in your own site or VLE: get the snippet

Across the department

  • Every teacher in the school included, on the School plan
  • One view of every class, and one mark book for all of them
  • Sign-in with the school's Google or Microsoft accounts
  • Homework and marking outside the lesson

Plans

Free for students. One price for you.

The lessons, the simulator and the games stay free for every student, for good. A Teacher plan adds the tools above for one teacher, and the School plan adds every teacher in the school, the department view and the data protection pack.

Start free for 30 days See the prices

Buying for a school

The paperwork, already done.

Students never pay. Schools pay one price for the teacher tools, with a signed data processing agreement and an impact assessment already filled in for your IT team. Pay on invoice with a purchase order, or by card.

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