Using Animator for students to practice fluency - help!

One thing that might be a good fit would be to use the Adobe Express Animate from Audio feature. It's Character Animator under the hood but much simpler to use. There aren't as many possible puppets since it doesn't have puppet maker, but there are quite a lot of puppet options at this point. The one other caveat is that it can be taxing on lower speed connections, so a classroom of kids all trying to use it at once could be taxing if your network isn't fast enough.

Anyway, if you use the Background option for transparency, you can add it to an Express project to combine with other backgrounds and even characters (though if I remember correctly, you have to copy/paste the animated characters to combine multiple into a single project, which is a little more advanced). For 3rd grade, I wonder if the easiest option would be to organize kids and have them pick characters and record their lines into projects and then do the (more complex) assembly into a combined puppet show project yourself.

Just some ideas!

Dan Tull

(formerly on the Character Animator team, led building the back end of the animate from audio service, and namesake of the blue cat 😸)