Shared library for simple functions

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Sorry I misunderstood you. The “duplicate” button is a “pull” – it works like “fork” on GitHub. So the model is:

  1. teacher creates template
  2. students log in to web editor
  3. teacher gives template link to students (cut-paste a normal URL, you can also “Share”)
  4. students open a copy of the original template in a browser tab
    (if they modify it at this point, that doesn’t modify the original – it isn’t a shared document like Google Docs. Their changes will be lost if the tab closes, although they can optionally Save)
  5. students “duplicate” – this creates a full copy of the template sketch under their own account.
  6. students modify their duplicate and save their changes.

The web editor is also like GitHub in that it doesn’t have a permissions model for forking “duplication” – anything that you can see, you can duplicate.

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