Why study Computer Science?

Research into Computer Science education has revealed the following:

  • Students are more creative and better at problem solving

  • There are higher tertiary enrolment rates

  • Increased likelihood of employment, and better income

  • Better executive function (working memory, flexible thinking, self-control, planning, etc)

  • National economic growth increase linked to ICT-skilled workers

What are educators saying?

One student, who suffers from massive social anxiety and has been subject to bullying has achieved much better results in this platform than what anyone could have possibly believed.

Success in this area has given him a positive mental self-image where most of the rest of his world has been quite dark and negative.

Chris
New Zealand

Code Avengers delivered exactly what we needed - rigorous curriculum, ready-to-use lesson plans, professional development, and the ability to monitor student progress - all at a reasonable price.

Carol
USA

Code Avengers was great. For myself, as a non confident digital user, they were very considerate and understanding in helping me to work through what was to be taught and the best way to support my students with their digital learning.

Thank you for giving me the confidence to be a digital learner and a digital teacher

Roz
New Zealand

Differentiation of Digital Technologies course content is now truly possible with Code Avengers platform. We have a very large Special Needs Program at the school with over 150 students identified with special needs/cognitive disorders/physical issues.

Many of these students have worked extremely effectively on the Code Avengers platform. This is an area where their various disabilities are of little consequence.

Many of the specialist staff that support them have been extremely surprised at the results that the students have achieved using Code Avengers.

Ashford
Australia

Students still working from home means that the likes of Code Avengers is a godsend to help us as educators to ensure a balanced and trackable curriculum.

Amy
New Zealand

[Code Avengers mini-projects] give my students the chance to demonstrate their learning and feel a serious sense of accomplishment

Andrew
USA

I have enough skills now to support students and scaffold them to where they need to be.

Melina
New Zealand

Professional Learning and Development for Educators

With an EDU subscription you’ll have full access to all Code Avengers content. Work through courses at your own pace, understand the student experience and feel confident in delivering your curriculum.
 
We are an accredited PLD provider and we support schools’ computer science curriculum implementation and digital fluency development globally. 
 

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Frequently Asked Questions

Do I need coding experience or training to use Code Avengers with my students?

No experience or training is required, our courses are scaffolded to support educators and learners of all experience levels. Teachers can complete courses themselves to upskill, or learn alongside students collaboratively. Code Avengers provides a rich set of resources with interactive tasks and activities to maintain student engagement and teach real-world skills.

Educators have access to lesson plans, unplugged activities and cross-curriculum integration through the Teacher Dashboard. Additionally, an EDU licence will provide access to our Professional Learning Development courses, covering topics such as; collaborative strategies, repositioning the teacher from being the expert to learning alongside their students, fostering perseverance and innovation, and culturally responsive pedagogy.

Our skilled Education Consultants are available to walk you through the online learning platform, and direct you to handy help videos and how-to guides as needed.

Is it easy to monitor and track what my students are learning?

Absolutely! Code Avengers courses have been designed by teachers, for teachers. We understand how busy you are, which is why we have a whole suite of educator tools. Teachers have access to 'at a glance' online student tracking where they can monitor student progress, time spent on each task, the number of attempts each student has made, support needed to complete each task and more.

All tasks are self-graded with immediate feedback provided on the teacher dashboard and class data can be exported to a spreadsheet at any time. Maintain control of class direction by assigning specific courses to class groups or individual students and simultaneously manage class differentiation needs.

Do my students need prior experience?

Teachers love the self-paced Code Avengers curriculum as it encourages and enables students to be confident, independent learners. Our courses are perfect for students of any experience level; Junior courses are story-based and connected with real-world themes and learning concepts. Pro courses (for middle school and older) are interactive and engaging with real-world skills and programming languages. Code Avengers provides a positive introduction to, and ongoing learning experience with computer science.

Within the Code Avengers platform students love the helpful videos, links to glossary terms and other important information, hints, built-in IDE, achievement tracking and more! All Code Avengers courses are aligned to computer science and digital technologies curricula around the world, giving you the confidence you need as an educator that learning is age-appropriate and relevant.

How do Code Avengers courses work?

Code Avengers courses are hands-on and combine a variety of written, spoken and video-based instructions to support student understanding. Students learn by doing in each Code Avengers course, and receive real-time feedback on their task completion.

Courses contain 10-30 lessons, with each 30 minute lesson broken into 5 tasks. Supplementary projects and quizzes help students deepen their understanding by applying the course concepts in new contexts.

We have developed a world leading learning platform that monitors student learning, provides real-time intelligent feedback to the students and the teachers, offers hints, solutions, an interactive reference, bonus games, gamification, and more. Practical concepts are taught through real-world projects that allow students to apply the skills they learn in broader contexts.

Can I use Code Avengers with my entire school?

We have learning material that caters to students K - 12 and curriculum alignment guides to help you understand which courses are best suited for your classes.

Code Avengers courses are integrated with concepts from a range of learning areas and are beneficial to support or supplement any unit or topic your students are learning.

What do my students learn with Code Avengers?

Code Avengers courses support educators in computer science teaching, and ensure that students have adequate access to all learning concepts from the computer science / digital technologies curriculum. We cover: computational thinking, data representation, digital systems, programming, the impacts of computing, software engineering, web development, design, and much more. Code Avengers lessons not only make it easy for students to understand abstract programming concepts, but also allow them to apply learned concepts within different projects, games, and real world scenarios.

Students learn programming concepts such as loops and variables, repetition, conditional logic, functions, computer drawing, and music. Students will acquire critical skills, such as problem decomposition, pattern recognition, abstraction, algorithmic thinking, and automation. Students will also count, sort, plot, translate, predict and model numbers in fun and engaging ways as they learn how computers store data in the binary system. Once students have a strong grasp of the fundamentals, they can transition to any mainstream programming language through our JavaScript, Python or HTML5 and CSS3 courses.

Are there lesson plans and outlines for teachers?

Each junior course is aligned to a set of comprehensive course notes for teachers to help them personalize and use the content as appropriate for their class. Course notes include: learning outcomes, descriptions of the story and content, unplugged activities and worksheets. Detailed year plans with unit outlines and step-by-step lesson plans are on their way starting with grade 6 in early 2022.

Is Code Avengers appropriate for students with special learning needs or disabilities?

Teachers around the world have shared the great success their students have with Code Avengers, including those with cognitive learning issues, physical disabilities, or other needs. Our scaffolded learning approach extends each student's ability at an appropriate pace.

Students enjoy and engage in Code Avengers courses through a variety of audio, visual, quiz, projects, and other task variations. Careful step-by-step instructions also help to keep learners on track.

How are Code Avengers courses culturally responsive?

Code Avengers courses cover a wide range of topics, themes, and settings, with culturally responsive pedagogy being a key pillar of design. Course characters and storylines are diverse, enabling students to see themselves in the learning and feel comfortable participating. Our content is fully or partly translated into 10 different languages, making our learning platform accessible to learners around the world.

Our online learning platform encourages tuakana-teina (the relationship between an older (tuakana) person and a younger (teina) person), a collaborative approach to learning. Teachers are not required to be 'experts' or the keepers of knowledge, they can learn, explore and upskill alongside their students. Students can also extend their knowledge and expertise through the built-in IDE (Integrated Development Environment).

We work alongside organisations nationally and internationally, to provide devices, learning materials, and positive computer science education experiences to indigenous and underprivileged students. We encourage the use of our learning platform by learners of all ages who are typically underrepresented in computer science careers.

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