Learn Scratch through these interactive challenges!

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Version
0.0.6
Update
July 8, 2019
Size
71.07KiB
Developer
challengegalaxy.com
Category
Users
509
Rating
3.54545 ★
Manifest Version
2
Web Store Status
Languages Support
English
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Challenge Galaxy Extension

Learn to code with Scratch with Challenge Galaxy. Our challenges teach through problem solving and experimentation with just the right amount of help. Start with simple challenges and work your way through more complicated projects and games.

Install this Chrome extension and load the challenges any time you are at Scratch (https://scratch.mit.edu).

Our Philosophy

Experimentation and Play
Fiddling, puzzling, playing and experimenting are at the core of learning. The progressive educational movements of the last hundred years go by different monikers – constructivism, constructionism, “Maker Education,”“Hands on Learning.” The big idea that connects them is that the best learning happens when people engage with materials, deriving their own understanding through active inquiry and experimentation – rather than through instruction about the materials. What are the core concepts of engineering? Try building a bridge out of drinking straws and marshmallows and you’ll probably arrive at a good portion of the answer.


The Right Amount of Scaffolding
The big challenge for educators is how to manage what should be a constant tension between the instinct to show someone how to do something and the harder task of laying out the pieces and engaging them in the task of figuring it out. Sometimes a student is stuck and could benefit from a bit of direction or information to keep moving forward. The challenge for educators to devise assignments for students that allows them to develop their own questions and methods, but still help them arrive at the particular understandings that we as the educators have been tasked with “teaching.” At the end of the day we may really need to know how to build a real bridge.


A flexible platform
The goal of ChallengeGalaxy is to create a platform that allows for this flexibility. We are working to give learners a place where they can puzzle through the key concepts of programming with optional clues and pointers which can give a hand up over a wall, solidify knowledge, confirm suspicions, or open paths to new inquiries. Some people will want a lot of pointers, some will want a few, and some will want none.
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Source Manifest.json

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How to download and manually install Challenge Galaxy extension for Chrome

Looking for a way to install Challenge Galaxy extensions for Chrome, you can search for them in the Chrome Web Store, clicking the "Add to Chrome" button, and following the straightforward process.

However, you may need to install Challenge Galaxy extensions manually, this article outlines two simple methods to effortlessly install Challenge Galaxy extensions, whether they come as unpacked folders in compressed formats like .zip or as .crx files.

Method 1: Download Challenge Galaxy extension and manually install through Drag &Drop

If you ever need to manually install a Challenge Galaxy extension for Chrome, don't worry, it's a simple process. Just follow these easy steps, and you will have your extension ready to use in no time.

Step 1: Download the Challenge Galaxy Extension by clicking the "Download CRX" button on the website.

Look for the Challenge Galaxy extension you wish to install. Go to the website and download the Challenge Galaxy extension package, which is usually a .CRX file and comes in a zipped file. Here ".crx" file is the format for Challenge Galaxy extension that contains all the data.

Step 2: Extract &Arrange Files

Once the file is downloaded, extract that file into its own folder. Similarly, give that extension files a permanent home. In other words, keep it in a folder that you don't accidentally delete it because these files will be needed to make that extension work.

Step 3: Go to the Chrome Extensions Page

Open Google Chrome and in the address bar, type chrome://extensions; it will open the Google Chrome extensions page. Make sure that "My extensions" is selected in the sidebar.

Step 4: Drag and Drop the Extension

Now, go to the folder where you extracted the Challenge Galaxy extension and drag &drop the extension file from there anywhere onto the extension page within Google Chrome.

Step 5: Complete the Installation

Once you drag and drop the extension file, follow the steps that Google Chrome takes you through. Similarly, if the extension file is of .crx file format, you will be required to review the permissions and then add the extension.

Now, you can manage that added extension as you would like to with any other Chrome extension that you added through Chrome Webstore. Its icon will also appear in the Google Chrome Menu on the right side of the address bar once you activate it.

Method 2: Download Challenge Galaxy extension for Chrome and install in Developer Mode

This is another method to install Challenge Galaxy extension manually, but the twist is that here, you install by enabling the developer mode option provided in Google Chrome. This mode is commonly used for testing extensions or running unpublished tools.

Step 1: Download the Challenge Galaxy extension file

Select and download the Challenge Galaxy extension by clicking the 'Download CRX' button on the website.

Step 2: Extract the downloaded contents

Convert the file to a ZIP file if it is in CRX format then extract the Challenge Galaxy extension zip file or folder that you downloaded. Make sure you extract it using the same folder name and keep it safely in another folder, so you don't delete it by mistake. The extracted folder will be needed to keep your Challenge Galaxy extension running.

Step 3: Open Chrome Extension Setting Page

In the address bar of Google Chrome, type chrome://extensions and open the Chrome Extension Page.

Step 4: Enable Developer Mode

After opening the Chrome Extension page, look at the top right side, and you will find the toggle option of "Developer mode."Simply enable that developer mode option.

Step 5: Load the Unpacked Extension

Once you enable the developer mode option, you will see the menu of Load Unpacked, Pack Extensions and Update. From that, select the option "Load unpacked."

Step 6: Select the Extension Folder

Once the pop-up opens upon clicking Load unpacked, select the Challenge Galaxy extension directory and click on the "Select Folder "button.

Step 7: Confirm and Install

After you select an extension folder of a Google Chrome extension you're installing manually, confirm its installation for the final time and let the installation complete.

Conclusion

Here we've made a step-by-step guide on How to manually install Challenge Galaxy extension in 2 ways. We hope this guide proves helpful.

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User reviews

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progamere2002 progamere (ID: 0000000c42464b51) Voted 4 ★ - Updated 09/09/2023 Love it but can you add more changes?

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Barnali Roy Sarkar (ID: 0000003b05c443b9) Voted 5 ★ - Updated 07/17/2022 For people who think this doesn't work it works, you just need to go inside the Scratch editor, and click it in the extensions. Then it will open up, also good extension

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Daniel Vlaicu (ID: 000000277c88a4e8) Voted 5 ★ - Updated 06/07/2022 it works just go on scratch first and then go on it

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Danton Porter (ID: 000000b1a2531a5b) Voted 1 ★ - Updated 10/06/2021 i dosent work its useless dosent even do anything do not get this not trying to be rude about it

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Viaan Kurup (ID: 0000003ffa30b755) Voted 1 ★ - Updated 07/22/2021 it does not show any challenges