How to Create a Lesson with Replit

You can find some more information about lesson authoring here.

Teams for Education is a collaborative platform where teachers can create assignments for their students.

In this tutorial, we're going to cover how to create a lesson.

Steps to follow:

We'll cover how to:

Create a new lesson
Add lesson contents
Perform input output testing
Publish project

Step 1 - Creating a new lesson

To create a new lesson with Replit, you need to make sure that you're the admin in your team.

If you navigate to your Teams page, you should see the following below the team's name:

Go ahead and click on the 'Create Project' button.

You'll be prompted to select the template language you'll be working with and the name of your project. You can descibe the type of project you have created and this project can be an assignment students have to submit or a lesson with notes or both. If it's an assignment that you want the students to submit, you can specify a due date for submission. You can also specify which unit the project covers.

Click the 'Create' button at the bottom.

Step 2 - Add lesson contents

Once you've created your project you'll be taken to a new window where you can add content for your lesson.

In the Files tab, the main.py file is where students can write submissions or complete different tasks. Any other files added in this section will be visible to the students so you can also place additional notes in this section.

The section labelled 'Lesson' will consist of all files accesible by the teachers or team admins. The files instructions.md and lessonplan.md are created by default.instructions.md will be available to the students in a read only format while lessonplan.md is admin-only.

Replit will also generate an assets folder where you can put resources such as images to use in markdown files.

Step 3 - Input Output Testing

Once you've created your project, you can also add Input/Output testing to allow students to test their code against the expected output.

You'll find the "Input/Output Tests" window by clicking the tick in the left side bar as shown below:

Next, you can create a test by clicking on 'Create test' and adding the test name and expected input and output.

You can define the expected output by indicating whether it should be a "match", "exact", "regex" or "compatibility" test. You can find out more here.

In most cases, a match test is sufficient. A match test is passed if the expected output is in (or equal to) the actual output. In other words, the actual output does not have to be identical to the expected output, it must just include it.

Step 4 - Publish project

You can publish the project to make it available to students by clicking on the 'Publish' button on the top right section of the window. On the next popup, make sure the slider is moved to the right and turned blue to ensure it's visibility to the students and then click save.