Frequently asked questions
Everything you need to know
Yes, school representatives can trial the platform for free once they receive a price quote. Simply contact us to schedule a meeting.
Teachers can add students individually or as an entire class. For detailed instructions, please visit our Knowledge Base.
There’s no limit on our end! Add as many students as you want, or as many as the school license allows.
Admins can easily integrate Google Classroom / Clever / Classlink accounts, or use the CoderZ admin platform, to manage licenses as well as view graphs and data for all of your students in one place.
Our extensive list of teaching tools is constantly growing! It includes: a teachers’ dashboard for class management, mission solutions, instructional videos, lesson objectives, heat maps for tracking individual and class progress, formative questions to guide your lessons, summative quizzes, webinars, professional development, an in-depth knowledge base, and online support.
Yes, CoderZ courses align to CSTA and NGSS standards.
CoderZ supports Clever and Classlink rostering for district-level implementation. Each of our districts is assigned with an account manager who accompanies the entire process.
Look at the course descriptions to determine the appropriate age range and grade level.
Most of our courses offer between 20-25 hours of curriculum, broken down into a series of scaffolded lessons.
Ease and accessiblity are part of what makes our plaftorm different. Not just for students, but for teachers too! The extensive teaching resources are carefully designed to guide you through every single lesson to teach every single child. Even if you’ve never taught this subject matter before.
Yes, we do! Amazon has pledged to underwrite funding for 100,000 students in Title 1 schools across the country through their Amazon Future Engineer program.
Pricing varies depending on your school’s needs and size. For a detailed quote, please fill in our Quote + Demo form and we’ll contact you to set up a personal meeting where we can answer all your questions.
We offer smart administrative tools and full integration with Google Classroom, Clever, and ClassLink for easy single sign-on. No installation or hardware required. Your school simply purchases the licenses and invites students to join specific classes.
Yes. You can sign up to our free 1-hour test drive activity
Subscription rates start as low as $7.49 a month. See full pricing details here.
Yes, CoderZ aims to align with NGSS and CSTA standards. Different lessons hit different standards.
CoderZ is designed for kids ages 8 and up, and stacks knowledge progressively.
You can cancel at any time with the monthly subscription plan.
Our 360° approach to code literacy helps kids apply their knowledge to everyday challenges so they actually WANT to keep learning. Even as levels advance, the experience is rewarding and fun.
You can upgrade to a family plan at any time for up to 5 learners, or contact us for more learners.
Yes. We offer a 14-day money back guarantee.
CoderZ works on both desktops and laptops with a Chrome browser, including Chromebooks. It is not compatible with iPads or other tablets.
Our 360° approach to code literacy helps kids apply their knowledge to everyday challenges so they actually WANT to keep learning. Even as levels advance, the experience is rewarding and fun.
Yes, CoderZ aims to align with NGSS and CSTA standards. Different lessons hit different standards.
You can cancel at any time with the monthly subscription plan.
Keep it simple, and preferably gamified. The challenges should be engaging but attainable, so that kids remain inquisitive and don’t get overwhelmed. All you need is an internet connection and a computer.
Teenage kids with a STEM foundation that includes basic geometry, physics, and engineering can start with more advanced concepts in programming. Remember: gamifying the learning experience always makes it engaging, regardless of age! For home learning, start with Robo Rover World. Though these are intermediate and advanced level courses, coding experience is not required to start.
The best way to introduce programming in elementary school is to start with a block-based visual editor, so kids can easily get the hang of it before diving into more complicated text-based languages. We also recommend gamifying coding for kids to bring the subject matter to life. CoderZ Adventures is a great place to start.
Email: support@coderz.zendesk.com. For immediate assistance Call us: 800-221-2763 (8:30 AM – 5:00 PM EST)
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Yes. Most CoderZ content is availble in Portuguese, Spanish, and French. The “Amazon Cyber Robotics Challenge” (which is also completly FREE) is available in 8 languages, including: Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Hindi and German.
Yes! Home learners can sign up to a free test drive activity and get access to two of our most popular courses — Adventure Peak and The Lost City.
We’re constantly adding more, but the list is already quite extensive! It includes: the parents’ dashboard, teaching guides and suggested solutions, instructional videos, webinars, in-depth articles on the website, an easy-to-navigate knowledge base, and online support.
That depends on how hands-on your involvement will be in teaching. You can use the tools in the parents’ dashboard to actively assess your child’s progress with reflective questions and quizzes – or simply track which courses they’ve completed.
Most of the courses use the visual editor Blockly to provide an intuitive approach to learning how to code. Other programming concepts that kids cover include: planning, designing, and debugging. By manuevering robotics in a virtual environment, they’ll also practice robotics and STEM concepts such as math, geometry, physics, and engineering.
Connect the dots to things that are familiar. Show them how coding is the foundation for much of the technology that we use on a daily basis to make our lives easier.
Some kids start as young as 6 or 7 years of age. Our courses are designed for kids ages 8 and up, and cover additional STEM concepts and 21st Century skills.
The platform includes extensive and easy-to-use teaching resources for you to successfully guide your child throughout the entire course.
No, but you can apply to get full access or try the 3-hour Amazon challenge to get a feel for it.
Kids can start our novice- and basic-level courses without any knowledge in coding or robotics. Math knowledge should ideally be aligned with the minimum comprehension standards for grade 5.
Accessibility is the biggest benefit. But only if you use a program that offers enough structure and guidance to make the learning effective. CoderZ is purposely designed to make it easy to teach kids coding online.
Teenage kids with a deeper STEM foundation that includes basic geometry, physics, and engineering can start with Cyber Robotics 101. This will give them an intuitive feel for programming with Blockly, and prepare them for more advanced text-based programming in Python Gym.
The best way to introduce programming in elementary school is to start with a block-based visual editor, so they can easily get the hang of it before diving into more complicated text-based languages. We also recommend gamifying coding for kids to bring the subject matter to life. CoderZ Adventures is a great place to start.
Teachers can use the Class Heat Map and Student Progress Reports to view their students’ progress, including total missions completed, average attempts, score and more. Check this video tutorial to learn more.
We recommend that they finish the rest as homework. Teachers can also dedicate more lessons to allow students to complete all the missions during class.
Yes, as long as they have an internet connection and their computers meet the minimum requirements.
We offer a series of webinars that prepare educators for integrating CoderZ into their schools, and guide them on how to implement a coding program.
The teacher’s guides in each course include reflection questions for the beginning and end of each lesson. These can be used as a class room activity to collaboratively uncover insights and challenges. We also recommend presenting the instructional videos to give students an overview of the lesson objectives, and reviewing any available tips to emphasize specific tools or concepts.
Absolutely. CoderZ curriculum is designed to be ‘low floor, high ceiling’ so that advanced students find the rigor they need and challenged students get extra support. These are built into the missions as bonus questions and guiding tips.
Use the heatmaps! Go to your classes tab, choose the class for which you want insights, and then the specific course and pack from the relevant drop down menus. Heatmaps help you identify topics that the class is struggling with so you can provide additional attention, or identify individual students struggling with a certain topic. Pair up proficient students with those who are struggling and promote collaboration and peer learning in the class room.
Teacher accounts have access to mission solutions which load a complete solution code. You can access the solutions for any mission by clicking on ‘Open solution’ from the dropdown menu in the top navigaton bar. Keep in mind that our solution is not the only one – there can be many ways to solve a mission. Encourage your students to try out different techniques.
CoderZ’s growing list of teaching tools and resources include: mission solutions, instructional videos, lesson objectives, heat maps for tracking progress (for teachers), graphs and data for tracking all students at-a-glance (for school admins), formative questions to guide lessons, summative quizzes, webinars, an in-depth knowledge base with hundreds of articles, and online support. Separate dashboards are available to parents or teachers/school admins for tracking and managing student progress.
Yes! The platform includes extensive and easy-to-use teaching resources for you to successfully guide your child throughout the entire course.
CoderZ is only compatible with Chrome browser. It can be downloaded here.
Users should make sure webGL is enabled. If it is not enabled, here is how to enable it.
Parents have full access to mission solutions, support articles, and can contact us at Parents@gocoderz.com for any type of problem. Open Office hours for personal online support from one of our friendly pedagogical guides will soon be available for kids and parents.
Teachers can easily get actionable insights for both total class progress and for individual students using heat maps. Visit our Knowledge Base for more detail.
Yes. For detailed instructions on how to download CoderZ code to an EV3 robot, click here.
Yes. CoderZ platform is compatible for use on Chromebooks.
No. While you don’t need to install anything or add any special hardware, you do need a computer to run the CoderZ platform. See our full list of minimum spec requirements for more details.
Single sign-on (SSO) is an authentication scheme that allows a user to log in with a single ID and password to any of several related, yet independent, software systems. This means that you only have to be logged into one system, application or website to be able to access others with that same user. CoderZ supports SSO with the following platforms: Google, Classroom, Clever
No, but you can switch between the visual editor and the textual one.
In Python Gym, students use text-based programming and syntax to learn the Python programming language.
Blockly is a visual way to build code that makes it easy to understand and use coding concepts in popular programming languages such as JavaScript, Python, and PHP. The Blockly editor represents codes as intuitive interlocking blocks and can be less intimiditating for young learners (or anyone, really) compared to the blinking cursor of standard, text-based programming.
We could go on about our award-winning platform, but the best (and most enjoyable) way to understand is to try it out for yourself with students. For that we recommend registering to our free 3-hour Amazon Cyber Robotics Challenge, in partnership with Amazon’s Future Engineer program, to get a taste of our complete courses.
CoderZ is different from other code learning tools for kids in a variety of ways: the interdisciplinary approach covers a full range of STEM topics and critical life skills in addiition to coding, the gamified interface and realistic robotics makes it highly engaging, the accessible platform allows for hassle-free integration, the scaffolded curriculum is standards-aligned and allows any student to learn at their own pace, and the rich offering of teaching resources makes it easy for teachers to successfully cover the learning material – even without any prior experience in computer science or robotics.
