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@info-creaticode I have a request- and I think this would be helpful for you. Is it possible to make changes in a sandbox and leave the stable software running for users? I think you would be better off letting a few beta testers try everything out before you release changes to the wild. I really like the concept you came up with and I would love to continue to use this software with my students, but there have been multiple problems and the students just feel that the software is too unreliable to invest a lot of effort in.

I have a couple of students who are trying to work independently and they cannot add a backdrop to the stage. We have tried all different methods with no luck.

I just tried it on my “teacher computer” and I could add the backdrop. So, possible the backdrops come from a different server (and our district firewall is blocking them for the students)?

@info-creaticode Thank you! I will get to try again on Friday.

Hey Folks, my students are now able to remotely edit. One student creates the project, then the other requests to edit and the first student accepts. All that works. But, today, there is real intermittency in the connection. I was watching two students side by side (using Windows 11 laptops running Chrome) and the remote student appeared to remain connected, but the student who shared the project kept getting disconnected (on and off and on and off). I was watching the connection indicator on the main project computer flash on and off.

We reloaded pages on both machines and tried to reconnect and were successful, but when the remote student tried to drag a block in to the coding area, he couldn’t.

Earlier, the students reported to me that they lost the connection several times and that some of the code they wrote was lost as well.

Not sure what to do at this point. Going back to Scratch until you get back to me.

@info-creaticode Thank you so much! I may try this on my own computer just to test this out. If it’s stable, I’ll try it with my students on Monday.

@info-creaticode I have good news and bad news. I got better results today. I was able to get 3 students to be able to remotely edit at the same time. I did do something different. The project that I shared was in a class in a studio and all 3 students were enrolled in the class.

On the bad side, the remote editing broke at some point. I have to apologize because I had a lot going on and wasn’t really able to collect much data. I’m not sure exactly what broke and/or why. I think the kids added some code and then it disappeared. Let me try again on Monday and I’ll get you more info.

And, on a side note, the remote edit was a bit laggy. We are located in California. I hate to complain about something we’re getting for free. I am hoping that my feedback is taken in the spirit it was intended- to be part of the solution.

@info-creaticode Still not working for me. I have two Chrome browsers side by side. Each with a separate user profile/Google account. In the one, I share the project. I wait for approval. I copy the link. In the remote account, I paste the link. I then See inside both projects. And I Request to Edit in the remote project. I approve the request to edit and I still only see the Published project in the remote window and I cannot edit. Also, it seems like we may have taken a step backward. Yesterday when it tried this I was able to see the remote editor in the original project. Today, after I approve the Edit request, the remote editor does not even show up in the list of those editing the original project.

@info-creaticode Awesome! Thank you so much!

Hey Folks, I am a teacher and I’m trying to make it so my programming students can collaboratively create Scratch-like apps. Creaticode offers remote edit, but I can’t get it to work. It seems like I’ve tried everything. I had two students each login. One created project and Shared it (we tried both as unlisted and as a friend). We were able to email the unlisted link to the other student and they were able to click on the link and See Inside the project and they were able to Request to Edit. The original student then accepted the request. But then the remote student could not see any edits that the original student was making. The hint that something was wrong was that the original student was still working on the draft project but the remote student had red buttons at the top of the screen that said 1.0.0 (Published) and Read-Only. We tried many different things but could never make it so that both students could edit the same project at the same time.

On a side issue, I had one student add the other student as a friend. He could see the friend’s account, but he could never see the project that the original student Shared with Friends. We went into the remote students My Stuff and there were no shared projects listed there. He went into the original student’s page and there were no shared projects there.

It seems to me that Remote Edit is just broken (and maybe friend sharing too?). If it is broken, please let us know. If it is working, I could use some docs on how to troubleshoot.

One last note. I tried to duplicate remote edit on my own teacher computer. I logged in to two different chrome browsers and tried sharing a project with my other chrome profile and I had the same problem as described above.