Dear All, I meant to add that hopefully a teams invite will follow tomorrow and that the meeting is 13:00->14:00. I cannot put it into people's calendars as our group do not use office 365 for email (uet). Best, david On 14/09/2020 19:08, David Colling wrote:
Dear All,
Thanks to those from physics who have filled in the doodle poll, I have added some people from ICT in the hope that one or more will be able to make it. Also Derryck, Luke and Richard Thompson because of another conversation that is going on in parallel.
The doodle poll had tomorrow as the preferred day (although only by a slim margin. I will try to take notes during the meeting and distribute them afterwards.
The purpose of this meeting is really as an information and needs gathering exercise to make sure that we have things covered - actually I am pretty sure that we don't have everything covered at the moment. This is following a similar exercise that started at faculty level.
The start of term is closing fast. A very drafty agenda is below.
Best, david
A rough draft agenda will be: ==============================
1. Courses and activities that would normally expect to have students physically logging on to the computers on level 3. I know of first and second year computing, Radioactivity Lab (this year), C&N, Computational physics (measurement and errors?)... but I am sure that there are others. Don't forget that this includes PG courses.
For each of these I would like to document their plans and needs and for others to comment. Somethings that come to mind for each course are:
- are you planning for students to RDP into the machines on level 3 and if so when and how many machines? - what will you do for students who have insufficient bandwidth to RDP in? - do you plan for student to install software locally (all students have been told that they need a computer)? If so:
o what guidance/documentation/videos will you give them? o are there any licensing issues with this approach? o are your instructions cross platform (I expect the students will have a mixture of platforms)? o anything else ...
2. Any other teaching needs that are going to be unusual this year. I can think of one off the top of my head. We have some machines in second year lab that run linux and controll and experiment. We want students to be able to do the equivalent of RDP into them from across different platforms. Thete must be others.
3. Other things. e.g.
- Would people make use of a Jupyter hub? - If students will be using their own laptops much more how does this impact on printing? -... -AoB