Preparing for Day 1

Faculty Coaches

1. Be prepared to give a 1-minute introduction of yourself in class.

2. Set up Piazza/Question forum

   • Ensure your email settings and notifications are correct

3. Set up office hours calendar

   • Decide with other Faculty Coaches what day/time for open office hours, set those times up and add to Home tab in Canvas

4. Update and publish week 1 homework.

   1. Make sure you've signed up for a GitHub and Gitpod account.

   2. Configure your GitHub account for the course by:

      • making an organization

      • connecting your organization to Grades

      • testing the connection by running rails grade in a Gitpod workspace for an assignment

   3. Be familiar with how to make Gitpod snapshots

5. Be comfortable with identifying/designing 1-N, N-N relationships and justifying why those relationships are necessary.

6. Set up a weekly calendar reminder for coaches and Raghu to Zoom record a class each week to post to Canvas.

7. Set up a channel in Slack for the semester named: teaching-<season><year> for example: teaching-spring23