So version 2.0 is great, but as a teacher, I have a serious problem:

I teach 180 students, and I need to be able to open a whole period's worth of classes' files at once (highlight all, right click, open) so I can grade them and close them one at a time. If I have to open each file individually, it will add a few hours to the time it takes me to finish grading my students' projects.

I saw somewhere on scratch.mit.edu that an offline version of 2.0 will be available, but I don't think it is yet. Until an offline version of 2.0 is available, does anyone have any ideas on how I can open a class period's worth of files with just a few clicks of a mouse?

Thanks!

PS
I know of at least 2 other teachers who would also benefit from being able to bulk open 2.0 files (and that's just in my little corner of the US)

Tabs, much?

That, my friend, will be a LOT of tabs. XD

i dont know why it would add hours. projects open very quickly for my computer so it wouldn't be a problem, maybe an extra 5-10 minutes at most.

Wes64 wrote:

i dont know why it would add hours. projects open very quickly for my computer so it wouldn't be a problem, maybe an extra 5-10 minutes at most.

Takes me about 30 seconds to load sometimes.
So 15 minutes.

@bobbybee: Yes, I'm down with the tabs, but is there a way to have Chrome (for example) open all 30 files at once through scratch.mit.edu? Maybe this isn't the best forum for a question on Chrome?

@Wes64: Take my word for it. If you haven't graded this amount of student projects before, there's far more to the time involved than a simple operation of time to open x # of projects. Having to refocus from various tasks (open files vs. assessing student work), shifting vision on the screen, handling rubrics, etc. It all adds up, or rather multiplies up.

Any ideas would be greatly appreciated . . . or perhaps any news on when/if an offline version of 2.0 will be available? Thanks All!

An offline editor is planned for the summer.
I don't know of any quick way to open lots of files though.

jjhanson wrote:

@bobbybee: Yes, I'm down with the tabs, but is there a way to have Chrome (for example) open all 30 files at once through scratch.mit.edu? Maybe this isn't the best forum for a question on Chrome?

The only way I can think for opening multiple links at once in Chrome is by using an add-on designed to do that. There are a lot of them out there, I think it's a matter of choosing which one best suits you.

However, if you opened all 30 project files at once in the browser, you're very likely going to crash the Flash plugin (and ultimately the browser) as a result. You'll need to find an effective way to open multiple Flash-heavy web pages while avoiding a browser crash at the same time (and I think that would be a question best answered in Chrome-oriented forum )