Course planning and details - 2024-12-10

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• Location: Meeting Center Odense
• Date: 2024-12-10
• Pre-course assignments dates (~3-5 hrs to complete, suggest they dedicate a full day to it):
  • Start: Nov. 10, 2024
  • Due: Dec. 05, 2024

Instructors

Instructors/helpers:

Before the course, please review the CONTRIBUTING guide, Code of Conduct, and the Tips for instructors or helpers in the Guides website.

Days	Session topic	Instructor
Day 1	Introduction to the course
Day 2	Creating automatic analysis pipelines
Day 2	A general approach to doing statistical analyses
Day 3	Efficiently running many analyses at once

To do before course

Several of the below tasks (for the admin/lead instructor) can be done using the r3admin package.

• Nov. 10, 2024: (Optional) Send an calendar invite to registered participants with link to pre-course tasks and website.
• Nov. 26, 2024: Send a calendar invite to instructors/helpers for course location (with planning issue link), dinner locations, and post-course debrief.
  • Include registered participants with link to pre-course tasks and website.
• ~Nov. 26, 2024: Pre-course instructor meeting:
  • Go briefly over Instructor and Helper with new instructors.
  • Mention about post-course debrief (described in the Guides site).
  • (For intro course) Have all instructors/helpers give their GitHub user names.
• Dec. 02, 2024: Send a reminder to everyone to complete tasks.
• Dec. 05, 2024: Check that all participants have completed pre-course material.
• Dec. 07, 2024: Get participants into groups (~3-4 people per group).
• Dec. 07, 2024: Assign instructors to groups.
• Dec. 07, 2024: Open up the Google Forms feedback survey

To do during course

• Set up repo to host code-along that instructors will use (course dependent).

To do after course

• Close the Google Forms feedback survey
• Update git tag and release it (r3admin::create_course_tag())
• Update course metadata in r3admin/data/courses.yaml
• Update instructor/helper metadata in r3admin/data/courses.yaml and r3admin/data/people/
• Update Zenodo DOI

Other details

• DDA will reimburse travel expenses here