Lecture_Notes/imperfect_notes/pragy/TA Onboarding.md

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

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• 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

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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.

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• 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.