Community resources, complete lessons from real teachers, ready to copy
Teachers can now publish a lesson or worksheet for every other Coding Pathway school to read, copy and adapt. Browse the library at codingpathway.co.uk/resources, no account needed to read.
Every computing department has a folder of lessons that took someone a weekend each to build. Almost none of them ever leave the school. That has always seemed like a waste to me, so this update is about fixing it.
Community resources is a shared library of complete lessons and worksheets, published by Coding Pathway teachers for any other teacher to read in full, copy and adapt. It is live now at codingpathway.co.uk/resources, and you can read every resource on the public page without signing in to anything.
Read the whole thing before you decide
Opening a resource shows you all of it, top to bottom: every explanation, every question, every code cell. Cards state the essentials up front: cell count, suggested age and time, exam focus. Multi-part units appear as ordered series, so a five-part scheme of work reads as one.
Authors are named teachers. Verified teacher next to a name means a current member of staff at a real school, and a school's name is never published.
Copy it, then make it yours
Signed-in teachers can browse the same library from the Lessons screen and take a copy of anything. Each resource is shared under a Creative Commons licence the author chose, the copy carries a small credit line, and from there it is an ordinary lesson of yours: edit anything, mark it your way, set it to your classes. The original is never affected, and the author sees nothing of your school or students.
Students never browse the community. A resource reaches them only when their own teacher sets it as work, the same as any other lesson.
Publish yours
Any lesson or worksheet can be shared from its editor with Publish to community. You choose the licence and how your name appears, and you can withdraw a resource at any time.
The shelves are not empty on day one either. I have written worksheet coverage of the whole of OCR J277 Paper 1 and I am sharing it section by section: 1.1, 1.4, 1.5 and 1.6 are there now as ordered series with self-marking questions and marking guidance attached, ready to copy today, and the remaining sections follow over the coming days. Then Paper 2, OCR A Level and Edexcel GCSE. This is the part I am most excited about: these are the worksheets I will be teaching my own classes with this year, and now any department on the platform can pick them up and make them their own.
Start from a community resource covers browsing, copying and publishing. If you share something, tell your department; if you build something good, share it and save a stranger a weekend.