Weekly Meeting

For most classes with TAs, I hold a weekly meeting. This is a checklist that we need to cover during each meeting. It’s very helpful if you can check the status of these items prior to our weekly meeting.

• If this class has a group project, do all students belong to a group?
• Is the gradebook in order? As of Fall Quarter 2024, for ECS170 and ECS188, the source of truth for the gradebook is the “Grades” assignment on GitHub classroom.
  • If grades have been released for a group assignment, do all students have grades for that assignment in the gradebook?
• Go through the major assignment categories for the class and see if they’re on track
  • GitHub Classroom
    • Are all students linked to an account
  • Zybooks
    • Do students have access to Zybooks?
  • Homework
  • This Week’s Quizzes
    • SDC upload
    • In-person
    • Lockdown browser
  • Past Quizzes
    • Have past quizzes been graded? How many are left ungraded?
    • Have grades for the past quizzes been released? Which quizzes have been graded but without grades released?
    • Are there any regrade requests? Are you unsure how to handle any regrade requests?
  • Project
    • If students have submitted a project proposal:
      • How many project proposals have been graded?
      • Are there any common patterns among project proposals?
    • If the project has a peer feedback component:
      • Has the peer feedback assignment been created?
      • Have students submitted peer feedbacks?
      • Have peer feedbacks been graded?
  • Reflections
  • Student Presentations
    • Has a signup form been released for student presentations?
    • How many groups have signed up? Are there any groups that have not yet signed up?
  • Student Presentation Rehearsals
  • Midterms
  • Finals
• Check how last week’s discussion went
• Check on grading progress
• Check on student feedback/questions
• Are there any new policy decisions that need to be made? Have students asked you about a course policy item that is not handled by the course info page on this site?
• Has your workload been appropriate so far? Do you feel overworked? Do you have a heavy workload coming up in other parts of your life? Would it be useful to swap responsibilities with another TA, or make other adjustments?
• Do you have any unexpected work/absence/other items coming up? If so,
  • Will your ability to attend our weekly meeting be impacted?
  • Will grading be impacted?