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Feel free to steal any of these.

Extensions/Slip Days series

  • Slip days vs. slip hours
  • [Shomil] How to build an extension backend
  • Slip days do not replace extensions

Data Analysis

  • Are class drop rates really 10%? Do more people drop if there's a big assignment due before the drop deadline?
  • How much do TAs cost for the department?
  • Will partner projects reduce OH wait time?

Best practices

  • Regrade request best practices
  • Website design (the one that comes to mind is adding semester on top of website, but I'm sure there are others)
  • Make assignments due on consistent dates
  • Scalability and stable classes (e.g. one professor = content doesn't change dramatically each semester)
  • Tips for running effective hybrid office hours (suggested by Shomil, one post by Peyrin already)
  • Tips for running effective hybrid discussions (in rooms with and without a camera)
  • Tips for running hybrid lectures (Nicholas and/or Caroline?)
  • [Caroline/Peyrin/Fuzail] Textbook/notes writing and editing

How-to guides

  • Room reservations
  • DMCA takedowns of project solutions
  • Copyright message to avoid course material getting posted on shady websites like Course Hero
  • Kaltura/Youtube video image guide?

Infrastructure

  • Course websites: Jekyll/Github Pages/Zola?
  • Course chat platforms: Slack/Discord/other?
  • Documentation: Github Wiki/Google Drive/other?
  • Piazza vs. Ed
  • In-house software, pros and cons (Caroline: Nicholas has a lot of thoughts)

Pedagogy

  • [Caroline] What skills do we expect from students? (meta-skills, how to Google, debugging) (series with 61ABC?)
  • [Caroline] Communication across courses: dependencies, skills, topics
  • [Caroline] Exam writing, what's the point?

Opinion pieces

  • Don't stress people out with April Fools' jokes
  • Piazza etiquette post?
  • Professors don't like teaching web classes with pre-recorded lectures
  • [Peyrin] Text screenshots are bad
  • [Peyrin] Content warnings on posts
  • Clobbering?

CS ed community

  • [Peyrin?] How to apply for a teaching-track 5th year MS

Student support

  • [Zoe] DSP intro slides
  • [Vron] Flowchart for student support resources
  • There seem to be Google Docs scattered everywhere with resources that we should centralize on here (or somewhere that's not Google Docs)

Staffing/Staff Management

  • [Caroline] Documentation; staff resources
  • [Caroline?] Separation of personal feelings/issues and work
  • [Caroline?] Task delegation, micromanagement vs macromanagement, hierarchy of staff
  • [Caroline] Creating an inclusive course (staff) environment

Exams

  • Clarifications