# CodeHS Web Design Insider: Back to School Guide, Product Updates, and More
Published: 2025-08-13
Category: Newsletter
Category URL: https://codehs.com/blog/category/newsletter
Tags: coding, Web Design, Computer Science, Back to School
Tag URLs: coding (https://codehs.com/blog/tag/coding), Web Design (https://codehs.com/blog/tag/web-design), Computer Science (https://codehs.com/blog/tag/computer-science), Back to School (https://codehs.com/blog/tag/back-to-school)
URL: https://codehs.com/blog/codehs-web-design-insider-back-to-school-guide-product-updates-and-more

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## 🍎 CodeHS Back to School Guide

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Back to school is around the corner! Check out the [CodeHS Back to School Guide](https://help.codehs.com/en/articles/4357342-codehs-back-to-school-guide) to help you set up for a year of teaching with CodeHS. This guide includes Week Zero lesson plans and more steps to make sure you’re ready for your first day.

Explore the Back to School Guide

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## 📚 Website Critique

Start the year with design thinking! Have students explore real websites and reflect on how layout, color, and content affect the user experience. It’s a great way to introduce web design concepts to beginners and build a strong foundation for future projects.

For students coming in with some HTML/CSS experience, consider having them jump into the [Tell a Story](https://codehs.com/app/curriculum/projects/proj-tell-a-story-html) project. In this creative challenge, students build a multi-page site to share a fictional or real story using images, animations, and interactive elements. They can tell a story from their summer break, or what they hope to accomplish this school year!

Check Out This Project

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## 🌈 Web Design Scavenger Hunt + Color Exploration

Another great activity to kick off the school year is the Web Design Scavenger Hunt. A no-code activity to help students start thinking like designers!

Have students explore their favorite websites to identify specific themed elements such as:

- 🎨 Color palettes that reflect the theme
- 📝 Font styles and sizes
- 🧭 Navigation layouts and responsive design

Then, connect the activity to the [HTML Colors tutorial on CodeHS](https://codehs.com/tutorial/jennifer/html-colors), where students can dive into how web pages use color codes like hex and RGB to control design. Challenge them to match a favorite fall color from a site they visited and recreate it in the tutorial’s color previewer.

This activity builds digital literacy and introduces key design vocabulary with no coding experience required!

Get Started

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## 🛠️ CodeHS Product Updates Page

Check out our [product changelog](https://codehs.com/changelog) to stay up to date with the latest features, improvements, and fixes to CodeHS. Some of the notable updates/features that you should take advantage of this year are:

- [QuizBuzz](https://codehs.com/quizbuzz)
- [AI Grading](https://codehs.com/ai_grading)
- [AI Creator](https://codehs.com/ai_creator)
- [PowerUps](https://help.codehs.com/en/articles/11272097-using-the-power-ups-app)

Check Out the Changelog

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## 👥 Upcoming Free Webinars

We have a number of free webinars on the calendar this fall. A couple that may interest you are:

**Getting Started with CodeHS**

Sept. 2nd @ 3:30 PM CT - [RSVP](https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_grQL3gn2T2uQayNiNZ-_0w)

**Creating Your Own Course with CodeHS**

Sept. 4th @ 3:30 PM CT - [RSVP](https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_K3DWiwE8TdyuFjQ62B4EUw)

Explore Upcoming Webinars

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## 💬 Stay Connected

- Follow us on [X](https://twitter.com/CodeHS) and [Instagram](http://instagram.com/codehs)
- Chat with fellow teachers in the [CodeHS Facebook Group](https://www.facebook.com/groups/CodeHSEducators/)
- Explore the [CodeHS Web Design Hub](https://codehs.com/curriculum/web-design)

- _The CodeHS Team_

_Get CodeHS Pro for your classroom. [Contact us](https://codehs.com/learnmore?c=WebDesign_8.13.25) today!_


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