Sketchpad has completely disappeared from Ink Workspace

I too am a disappointed high school teacher who bought a Surface Book 2 largely due to the functionality of the surface pen and InkSpace. Whiteboard is so inferior, so frustrating to have had no choice in the matter.

and if anyone wants to know of a decent alternative, there's Inkodo

That looks like it has concepts of "books" and "pages" and other unwanted cruft that makes it slow and difficult to use. Has anyone figured out how to extract Sketchpad and copy it manually forward?

I don't think it's possible to "extract Sketchpad and copy it manually forward" as it was a UWP app. UWP apps are super limited and restricted compared to win32 stuff. UWP stuff, namely WinUI (the interface library) has great touch and pen support.

You can just ignore the pages and books and stuff. It doesn't make it slow or difficult to use. Simply go to the settings and hide the navigation pane. I like Inkodo as it's the closest free app I've found to Sketchpad. Tons of teachers use Sketchpad and Microsoft has let everyone here down. I even saw a math video on YouTube where someone was using Sketchpad. Inkodo lets me use my finger and doesn't require a pen like some apps. The developer is also responsive to feedback (unlike Microsoft >.>)

that is heart-wrenching. doesn't anyone at microsoft have a heart?

What do you two do now?

Hi, just bough a new HP ENVY and was happily doodling along on the sketch pad, then the pc decided to update. After it ran the update, boom, no sketchpad, just a dumb snippy thing and an option to download a whiteboard. I really don't like it. So, you think I can uninstall the update that just ran?

I rolled back the major update after I realized what it did to sketchpad. Luckily it was less than 10 days after I installed it.