Updates

What's new on Coding Pathway

The platform moves quickly. New features, improvements, and curriculum additions land steadily through the year, and the highlights live here.

New feature13 July 2026

Targeted trophy goals, for the exact steps you want worked

Trophy goals can now target specific units and steps. Set a recap after a holiday, warm a class up before a new topic, or reissue work as targeted homework. Pupils who already finished the steps redo them fresh and earn again, with nothing they achieved before put at risk.

New feature6 July 2026

Reset a unit for another attempt, and keep the trophies

Teachers can now reset a pupil's or a whole class's progress on a single unit, ready for a fresh attempt. Year rollovers or reteaching a topic; keep the trophies pupils already earned or reset them.

New feature29 June 2026

Teach it live, on every student's screen

Go live in a lesson and model code straight onto every student's screen in real time. They follow along read-only, you can leave questions right in the code, and when ready they can copy it into their own workspaces and complete work.

New feature22 June 2026

File handling is now part of the core course

The core course now includes file-handling tasks. Students read from files and, more importantly, write to them, and each task is auto-marked on the file the student produces, not just on what they print.

New feature15 June 2026

p5.js-style sketches and animation, now in Python

The kind of interactive sketches and animation you would reach for in p5.js, now in Python on Coding Pathway. A fresh, visual way for students to apply what they are learning, saved alongside the rest of their work.

For teachers11 June 2026

We've moved to codingpathway.co.uk

Coding Pathway now lives at its permanent home. Old links redirect automatically and nothing is lost. One thing worth checking: school web filtering. Here's what your IT team may need to know.

New feature8 June 2026

The Project Library — 114 curated projects, from first turtle to real data

A library of ready-to-go Python projects students can start themselves, organised by theme, level, and difficulty. Each one seeds a workspace with instructions and starter code.

New feature1 June 2026

Workspaces & Lessons — a browser Python IDE with a teaching layer

Every student now has a persistent Python workspace in the browser. Teachers author lessons, share them with a class or with any teacher anywhere, and broadcast code live to the whole room.

For teachers18 May 2026

Trophy goals — the simplest way to run the core course

Give the class one trophy target, put the live board on the projector, and let every student find their own route to it. Plus teacher awards for the work that deserves them.