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Pedro Felix edited this page Mar 15, 2020 · 6 revisions

E-learning guide

This document contains a set of guidelines on the proper use of the available e-learning tools.

Post any question about this guide as a GitHub issue.

Slack

The Slack workspace is named isel-leic-ls and the invitation URL is available on Moodle (see "avisos").

This Slack workspace will only be monitored by the teaching staff during the scheduled lecture hours and eventual additional office-hours (i.e. extra time slots booked outside the regular scheduled lecture hours).

The available channels are:

  • A #general channel used by the teaching staff to broadcast information applicable to all class sections ("turmas").

  • A channel specific to each class section ("turma"), for more scoped announcements and discussions.

  • A per-group private channel, used for group-related conversations, mainly during the scheduled lecture hours.

GitHub issues

Use GitHub issues on the common repository to request help that can be handled asynchronously:

  • Note that the GitHub issues are public and viewable by all class members. Use them mainly for questions that are relevant to the overall community. An example are questions about project requirements or about used tools.

  • Do not include private information.

  • Always include your class section ("turma") in the issue description.

Colibri - Zoom

We will use the Colibri service, based on the Zoom platform, to host and run remote lectures and meetings. There will be two meeting types:

  • Lectures, used by the teaching staff to address all students (e.g. present a new subject or answers general questions). The links to these meetings will be publish via Moodle and via Slack.

  • Per-group meetings. These meetings should be requested by the students, during the scheduled lecture periods (or additional office-hours), by sending a message to the private Slack group channel, and including the Colibri/Zoom meeting link.

Attending a lecture or meeting

  • After obtaining the meeting URL, just click on it or use it in a browser. This will typically ask permission to launch the zoom.us application, or install if that wasn't done before. Unfortunately, this dedicated Zoom application is required to attend Colibri/Zoom meetings.

  • The first time the Zoom application is used, you will have the opportunity to check and/or configure audio settings.

  • Do not login into Colibri/Zoom before attending a lecture or meeting, to avoid using Colibri licenses. No authentication is required to attend a meeting, given its link.

  • When joining a meeting keep the speaker muted and the video camera turned off (see lower toolbar), namely to avoid adding additional load to the Zoom system. Un-mute speaker and turn-on video camera only upon host indication.

Requesting a meeting

  • Login into Zoom, using the SSO (Single-Sign-On) authentication method, the videoconf-colibri.zoom.us company domain, and the IPL identity provider. Use your IPL email credentials, only on the IPL identity provider.

  • Use Slack's per-group private channel to request a meeting.

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