A low-cost, feature-rich coding platform built to make Computer Science teaching easier.
Built by a teacher, for teachers, with practical tools for assignments, tracking progress, grading, and classroom management in one place.
Go Code It is constantly growing, with new projects, smarter tools, and regular improvements shaped by real classroom feedback.
Complete assignment and project management. Assign bulk projects to classes and track students' work. GoCodeIt includes a large and constantly growing library of ready-to-use programming tasks together with tools for building and sharing your own.
Full account and class control with bulk student import, SSO support, teacher sharing across classes, and smooth student transfer tools when class structures change.
Parsons problems, fill in the blanks, example solutions and other student support features built in and easily set for individual students to allow custom support.
The platform continues to expand with additional projects, assignments and improvements shaped by classroom use and teacher feedback.
Use self-marking assignments alongside a built-in markbook, comment banks, bulk commenting, and streamlined review tools so giving useful feedback is quicker and more consistent.
Go beyond basics with support for turtle, NumPy, Tkinter Lite, Matplotlib, pygame, and a wide range of standard Python libraries in the same classroom-ready editor.
Create your own custom programming projects and problems with built-in self-testing and automatic marking capabilities. Design projects tailored to your curriculum and teaching goals using our intuitive creation tools.
Use built-in analytics and reporting tools to monitor progress, review attainment and put the important classroom data directly in teachers' hands. External API access can also feed Power BI, Google Sheets via Apps Script, or your own reporting workflows.
Teachers shape what gets built next. If there is a feature that would help your classroom, get in touch and let me know.
All of the projects being built along with the guides and tutorials are free to use. A cup of coffee would always be welcome but if you don't require any of the additional student management tools then feel free to use what's here.
The additional paid subscriptions unlock the site's full features including custom project creation, advanced student management, grading and feedback tools, reporting analytics, and broader classroom administration features. Premium subscriptions are designed to give teachers and schools an affordable way to manage coding work at scale, providing exceptional value for money.
I've been teaching Computer Science for over 20 years and worked in industry for 20 years prior to
that. Since joining the teaching profession, I have become dismayed that despite huge advances in
technology and the current digital age, access to good teaching tools that don't cost the earth is
becoming more and more difficult. Although we all like 'free', nobody really minds when things
aren't. We just want things to be affordable.
Budgets in schools are really very tight at the moment, so I found myself looking for a super
low-cost platform that would make managing my students' programming work easier. I couldn't have
been happier to have found not one, but two online coding platforms that seemed to offer amazing
support for teachers and, unbelievably, would be offering this support FOREVER and for FREE! I
dutifully set about spending months developing online exercises and courses, and for a while, it
looked like all was well.
However, as many of you know, that first platform withdrew support for schools, and we were all left
high and dry. We picked ourselves up and set about building courses over the coming months in the
other platform that had also promised free forever. Well, we all know how the story goes... and once
again, we were all left without anything affordable.
That's where Go Code It came in.
Having lost access to some great learning platforms, I decided it was time to develop my
own... and here I am with Go Code It.
Although the large platforms were offering free, the truth is I would have paid for the service had
they offered a cost-effective package for subscription. The school I teach at has nearly 1500
students studying Computer Science at one point or another. Per student licenses are simply not
affordable.
I wanted to develop a flexible online coding platform that was really light on the need for
resources so that it gave a low-cost platform to help me teach the students in my classroom while
being able to be sustainable for the long term.
The self marking programming problems section will always be free to use, so have a play around and
see
what you think. However, full disclosure... I do charge a small amount for the additional
teacher tools so that they can continue to be supported, developed and maintained. Go Code It is
available to teachers and schools and continues to grow with new features and improvements.
I continue developing new features and enhancements regularly in my spare time.
The platform includes a complete back-end account system with everything teachers need for
comprehensive student and class management. You can create custom programming projects,
manage assignments, track student progress, review submissions, and support students with built-in scaffolds and feedback tools.
Go Code It also includes analytics and reporting features that help schools turn raw class activity into something useful for teaching decisions. Secure external API access can be used for server-to-server reporting workflows, including feeding data into Google Sheets through Apps Script, Power BI dashboards, or a school's own app.
Security and data protection matter as much as the teaching tools. The platform is built with secure school use in mind and includes GDPR-compliant handling of teacher and student data.
So that's it really, Go Code it, a low-cost platform that is available to any teacher who feels the
same as I did. There is plenty more planned, and the platform will keep expanding with features developed from real teacher and school feedback.