As part of the Scratch team I helped launch Scratch Teacher Accounts, a new feature in the Scratch online community, which allows teachers to manage their classes on the site - create student accounts, create studios and moderate their students’ activity.
I conducted a series of interviews with teachers that were alpha testers for the teacher account feature, to get their feedback and learn about the ways they use Scratch. This helped us prioritize feature requests and create an intro video and FAQ page.
I’m also looking into the usage data collected from students and teachers in the first few months using teacher accounts. Through log analysis, I’m trying to understand if the usage patterns of students are different than those of the general Scratch user population.