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3D Design
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Classroom Design with Tinkercad Moderate student accounts
Math and Science Integration digitalmaestro.org
March 15, 2018
3D Design and Printing for the Classroom
Table of Contents Teacher and Student Accounts .......................................................................................1
Teacher Accounts ...................................................................................................................1 Student Accounts ...................................................................................................................3 Using An Invitation Code .........................................................................................................4 Moderate Accounts and Groups .............................................................................................5 Student Groups .......................................................................................................................7
Student Projects ..............................................................................................................9
Curating Projects .....................................................................................................................9 Organizing Student Designs ..................................................................................................10
Wheel and Axle Design ..................................................................................................13
Creating Designs ...................................................................................................................13 Begin with Basic Shapes .......................................................................................................15 Printing Separate Parts ......................................................................................................... 22 Making Things Fit ..................................................................................................................26 Printing the Wheel and axle ................................................................................................... 28
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Teacher and Student Accounts Teacher accounts provide easy access to student designs and projects. Any Tinkercad account can be updated to include teacher account options. With teacher accounts, we can create accounts for younger students. Groups can be created to organize students. This is useful when we have more than one class or a large class.
Teacher Accounts
Create an account if you do not have one. There are social media options for creating accounts. These options make it easy to create an account with an existing service.
Teacher account begin with a regular account. There is a Teach option in the menu that takes us to a teacher page with some helpful information. If you have an account and are logged in you will see a slightly dierent page. We will get to that page in a moment.
There are four social media options for c re a t i n g a n a c c o u n t . T h e y i n c l u d e Facebook, Google, Yahoo, and Microsoft. If you don’t have one of these accounts then you will need to create a unique account using an email.
We can create our account on this page by clicking the sign-up button. The sign-up button takes us through the same process as creating a regular account.
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You will be logged in after the account creation process. Click the Teach option at the top of the page.
The page will update with the option to create an invitation code. Create an invitation code to facilitate the teacher account creation process.
The page provides an option to transform your existing account to a teacher account. Parent and student options are also available. The student option may be redundant because any account can be a student account. We can join any project as a student with an invitation code provided by a teacher. I will cover the invitation code later.
In professional development sessions, I ask teachers to create their teacher account and then join my training class as students. Joining a class as a student does not remove their options as teachers.
Confirm you are an educator and that you have permission to moderate students. Click the button to create your first invitation code.
Select the teacher option. If you do not see this option then you probably already have a teacher account. Click the apply button to continue.
The invitation code is a series of numbers and letters. Students will use this code to register for your class later. Write your code down. It will be used later.
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Student Accounts Student accounts are easy to use if your district uses providers like Microsoft or Google. These accounts are part of the social media sign-in option we saw earlier. These options are useful when it comes to accounts for students that are 12 years or younger. Use one of these options if they are available in your district. Students will need to create their own account or you will need to create one for them if these services are not available for your students.
Accounts without Microsoft or Google services can be created but it does take a little more work. Student accounts can be created by any student that is 13 years or older. Students can use the same process as anyone to create a regular account. They will be able to join your class with the class code. Classroom codes are entered in the profile section for individual user accounts.
Accounts for students that are 12 years or younger are created in the same way but with one difference. Students are asked to provide an email address for a parent or guardian. The parent or guardian can then moderate the account. In this case, the teacher will be the guardian. Let’s take a look at the process. Go to the main page and click the Sign-Up button.
Enter information for a student that is 12 or younger. In this example, the account is for a 10-year-old student.
Create a username and password for the account.
I like using a naming convention to create unique accounts. In this example, the student’s name is Mark and he is in my science-101 class. His username is science101_Mark.
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We are prompted to provide a parent email address. Teachers should use their email address. Students will not have access to this email information. Click the create button.
The student can begin to use the account right away. As the teacher, you will have access to any project created by the student.
We will be logged into the account automatically. The account will be restricted because of the student’s age. To use the account the student must enter an invitation code.
Create more student accounts as needed with the same process.
Using An Invitation Code Sending an invitation code to those that have an account is like creating a student account. Any account that uses the code becomes a student. This does not change their account options. It does give the teacher access to any designs in their library. This includes private designs. Students cannot see other student designs in teacher accounts. Students can see other student designs if they are shared.
Enter the invitation code we generated earlier and click the Get Approved button.
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Older students that have an account can join the class using an invitation code. Students can enter the invitation code in the Profile section of the account. Click the account icon to find the Profile section.
The account I created earlier is listed in the moderation section. Click the account name to edit the profile for that student.
Click the Enter Invitation Code section to see the invitation code field. Enter the code and click the Save Changes button.
Students that have student accounts we create can join other teacher classes using the same process.
We can suspend or delete student accounts. We can suspend a student account and then activate it again later. Deleting accounts may be necessary at some point. Be careful when deleting an account. It cannot be undone. I find it useful to suspend accounts rather than delete them. Deleting an account means I need to create another for a student.
Moderate Accounts and Groups Teachers can moderate student accounts. The option appears shortly after creating an invitation code. Click the account icon in the upper right to see the moderation option. Go to the moderation section.
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