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Try it in 10 minutes

Everything here is what students use in class, and none of it needs an account. Start with the benchmark, then pick any activity. Nothing you do is saved or sent anywhere.

  1. 1Start here · 5–10 minThe sample benchmarkAnswer 15 questions in the style of the three exams. It scores itself by exam, by domain and by Louisiana standard, the way students are checked every few weeks.
  2. 2Course 1 · 5 minThe Trip to muggstech.netPut the steps from browser to server in order, watch a request travel them, then find where four broken connections broke.
  3. 3Course 1 · 6 minFind the FileThe basics many students never got taught: save, move, rename, search and restore on a pretend computer. Course 1 starts here.
  4. 4Course 2 · 10 minThe BenchFour computers broken on purpose. Ask the user questions, drag cables, reseat memory and fix the BIOS while the six troubleshooting steps check off.
  5. 5Course 2 · 8 minNobody Hacked AnythingA comic that replaces the textbook reading: three social engineering cons in one school morning. Choose what Ms. Harris does and see what happens.
  6. 6Course 1 · 4 minBits You Can HoldFlip binary cards, read a color as three bytes and avoid the bits-and-bytes trap.

Then look closer

A full lesson plan

Course 1, Day 1: the minute-by-minute plan in 90- and 50-minute versions, with the lab sheet students print.

 The standards

All 49 Louisiana 9–12 computer science standards and exactly where the sequence teaches each one.

 The Louisiana rules

The new graduation credit, who approves the course, and who can teach it, with sources.