In case anyone else besides me might be having the issue of the checker pattern not showing up, make sure you have selected all of your model first before following the instructions. It took me half an hour of rewatching, googling etc to realize this and now I feel really dumb.. haha. :) As someone mentioned elsewhere since this course is just the second one in the intro to Blender flow, it would be helpful if every single click/step were mentioned even if it seems obvious, otherwise it takes a lot of rewinding to get through the lessons.
