Work on a project shared with you

A teacher can hand you a project rather than asking you to start from nothing. It arrives by email, and appears in your projects once you accept.

What you get depends on a choice they made when sharing, and the difference matters.

• The same project, together

  Everybody is in one file. You see each other's cursors as you type, and so does your teacher.

  Good for live demonstrations, pair work, and a group building one thing.

• A copy of your own

  You get your own project, starting from theirs. Nobody else's copy changes when you work, and yours does not change when they do.

  Good for an exercise set for the whole class.

Working in it

It behaves like any other project. Open it, run it, change it, with one difference worth knowing: your teacher can open it too.

In a shared project that means they can see what you are typing as you type it. In your own copy it means they can come and look, run your code, and work alongside you when you are stuck.

Neither is a mark. Sharing is for writing code together; an assessment is what gets graded.

What you can change

Your teacher chooses whether you can edit or only look. If a project opens read only, your teacher set it that way. Ask them to change it if you were meant to be working in it.

What next

If what you have been set is an assessment rather than a project, it works differently. There is a clock, and an answer you submit.

Working together in a project covers editing at the same time as somebody else.