HUD doesn't show on Mac

Extract will no longer function in DW after July 2022: https://community.adobe.com/t5/dreamweaver-discussions/extract-panel-will-be-unavailable-in-dreamweaver-from-july-01-2022/td-p/12606564 you'll need to start pulling the info from Photoshop instead.

They also disabled Device Preview a little while back, if you ever used that to preview on various devices: https://helpx.adobe.com/dreamweaver/using/device-preview-troubleshooting.html 

Which macOS are you using?  Which version of DW?

SOME THINGS TO TRY:

Switch to Live View (Ctrl/Cmd + Shift + F11 (enable function keys).

View > Live View Options > Untick Hide Live View Options.

In Live View panel, right-click and select Inspect.

As you well know @melissapiccone, Adobe lost interest in their desktop web authoring tools and shifted focus to design apps and online site services  -- XD, Portfolio, Creative Cloud Express (formerly called Spark).

I still use DW (perhaps out of habit) but I use it alongside other web tools.  VS code by MS is FREE and a solid coding option but it lacks visual design panel which is probably what your students crave.  Pinegrow is a paid alternative with a visual design panel.

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CODE EDITORS:
-- Atom (free) - https://atom.io/
-- Codespaces (free, browser-based) - https://github.com/features/codespaces
-- Nova (Mac only, formerly called Coda) - https://nova.app/
-- Pinegrow - https://pinegrow.com/
-- Sublime Text - http://www.sublimetext.com/
-- Visual Studio Code (free) - https://code.visualstudio.com/
-- Wappler ~ Visual Web App Builder - https://wappler.io/

This screenshot is from my student's PC...

 

I teach Dreamweaver. It's really difficult to teach when things don't actually work on my screen. Most of my students have PCs, I have a Mac. It works fine for them and I wind up teaching on their screens. It's very frustrating. Is there anything I can do to make it show up? I won't even get into the mess with the extract panel and the CIB. I basically make it all up as I go along. So what's next - what should I be learning to teach next year (that isn't DW).

By @melissapiccone

Unfortunately I cant help you with the first part of your question as I haven't used the late and the great DW in many years.

As to what you should be using to teach students next year has become a major issue for you as DW (which has been a popular choice for many years amongst beginner level developers) is dead and teaching anyone to use it (at a serious level) going forward is not going to be of any benefit to them at all.

You might want to focus your efforts on something like Wordpress. I think that is going to be around for some years to come and is highly popular in the development work place..........otherwise its kind of irrelevent what editor you use to teach as all editors are much the same. Teach your students to code (frameworks like Bootstrap/Tailwind will be helpful but make sure they have an underlying knowledge of vanilla first). You should not teach anything which depends on any one particular editor because editors come and they go.

Certainly you should not go down the low-code/no-code editor route to teach any one who is serious about getting into the industry as they will only have skills which will be applicable in a small niche job market. You presumably want to teach your students skills which will improve their options when it comes to acquiring a job.

Why dont you introduce a basic level html, css and javascript course where your students can use any editor they want, obviously the most popular editor these days is VS code and its free.