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As a teacher the basic Replit stuff is great, but their class management stuff is atrocious and unintuitive. For example, under one class I created 9 units with
by another_story 4y ago
As a teacher the basic Replit stuff is great, but their class management stuff is atrocious and unintuitive. For example, under one class I created 9 units with a number of challenges under each unit. You copy that to a new class (Team is what they call it) and all sections disappear). Then if you want to reorganize, even if there are sections, you have to drag and drop, scrolling up or down the page and repeating the drag to get it to the right section.
Another thing is when you organize sections there is no drag and drop, but arrows moving boxes up and down.
I've sent in dozens of issues for various bugs and annoyances, and even dug into the js to point out how to fix things, but after nearly 2 years they are still there.
- Kuldr 4y agoAs another teacher completely agree. I have managed to find a work around to the import/reorder problem. Replit organises by alphabetical order so we have simply numbered our challenges 01.01, 01.02, ..., 02.01, etc. Then on import they all live in the default section in order. We then only use the sections feature for projects/tests. Now Replit education is free I doubt they will be prioritising any fixes or qol improvements for that product. It does seem to be working as intended though we have several 17/18 year olds that are using Replit for personal projects and one that is fanatic and uses Replit for everything.
- another_story 4y agoHah, yah, that was my exact solution as well. Great minds. I've pushed my high schoolers towards VSCode after a stint with replit, and after a bit of grumbling they've come to see the benefit. I think the space is ripe for opportunity though. A stripped down and education focused version would be eat into replit's market share pretty quickly.