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+TA Onboarding
+-------------
+
+- 3 major respinsibilities
+    - solve doubts during assignments (post lecture) - push the candidates to solve it
+    - standup session
+    - help requests
+
+TODOs
+-----
+- every TA should complete it
+- installations, see your students
+
+Classroom
+---------
+details of current day's class
+- During the assignment part, track the performance of each student (live)
+- If any student is stuck, ping on flock.
+- It's the duty of the TA to make sure that all of their students have solved all by the end of 1 hour
+- Share screen / flock the code
+- Not a passive interaction
+
+
+Help Request dashboard
+-----------------------
+- Students can raise a request towards their TA
+- Shows pending requests
+- Prioritize and answer based on importance
+- Pending on Me vs Mentee
+    - TA replies
+    - mentee can communicate back
+    - pending on mentee = waiting for mentees response
+- Open Pool
+    - if > 12 hour unsolved
+- Rewarded based on the number of queries that the TA answered
+- Students list - see students who come last in ranking and push them
+
+Standup session
+---------------
+
+- Explain the problems we've provided in the lecture. Basically TA session post lecture
+- Provide intuitive explanations
+- All of Standup Session must be done on the Wacom Tablet
+
+
+Contest Discussions
+-------------------
+
+- Might have to take extra class on weekends
+- biweekly contest for students
+- explain solutions for those problems
+- preapre the explanations beforehand
+
+-- --
+
+
+- Make sure that they have prepared the material for they day.
+- If you feel that there is some issue with the material, notify us so that we can provide an editorial
+- 1st session is going to be an intro session - to establish connection and trust
+- You should know each of your students personally, and be able to provide detailed feedback about each
+- Regarding leaves - notify 24 hours prior and notify the mentees too
+
+
+
+
+-- --
+
+Metric
+------
+- Daily stand-up ratings.
+- No. of help requests resolved.
+- Average response time.
+- Group’s assignment completion percentage.
+- Contest performance.
+
+
+- Cautions:
+    - Help students, don't blatantly tell them the answer - could lead to your termination. We do perform plagiarism checks
+
+- Students can ask doubt on both flock and interface. Be active on both.
+
+-- --
+
+
+- If the TA feels that he is good at a topic, and wishes to take classes / remedials on weekends, we would encourage that. Rewards will be performance based.
+