I am a high school teacher and just started using Unity with my students this semester. I have a Unity ID and my students also have one. They are sharing their Unity scenes with me through Collaborate. I can see their names in my Dashboard, but when I click on them, I am only getting statistical data. How can I actually view their games on my end? Not sure how this works. If Collaborate is no longer available, then I guess I need to look for something else that is “free”. Please let me know how to handle sharing and viewing work with students. Thanks!
Dianne
I don’t know the current status of Collaborate. Most serious developers consider Collaborate to be a niche Unity-only product and will instead use an industrial-grade source control product such as git, which is both free and has thousands of tutorials out there on how to use it.
However, like any software, everybody using git will need to learn how to use it properly. This means both YOU and ALL the students. Initial use and setup is quite straightforward but it isn’t what I would call “casual” software. Source control is a very abstract concept.
If you’re just casually collecting digital product work from students, I’m not even sure the best way forward, as that is almost never done in the commercial software industry. We almost exclusively use industrial source control (such as git) to store work product.
You might want to ask around some of your other peer teachers for the mechanisms they use. Perhaps even having each student copy their files to your dropbox might even be the easiest route.