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We may post some analysis here from CS faculty and students, if we have something worth sharing.  A first attempt at loading the data and looking for exponential growth is [http://cs.indstate.edu/~jkinne/research/covid-19.html at this link]
 
We may post some analysis here from CS faculty and students, if we have something worth sharing.  A first attempt at loading the data and looking for exponential growth is [http://cs.indstate.edu/~jkinne/research/covid-19.html at this link]
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FWIW, a nice summary of what is known about covid-19 - [https://www.cnn.com/2020/03/14/health/coronavirus-covid-19-flu-comparison-frieden-analysis/index.html here].
  
 
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Revision as of 18:00, 14 March 2020

This page will be kept up to date with information and resources related to how CS courses are handling impacts due to covid-19 (in particular online instruction and potential student/faculty illness).

University information/resources is being kept at https://www.indstate.edu/covid-19

For Students in CS Courses

Attendance

Students should plan to keep their calendars clear for when they would normally have lecture. Some instructors will meet online with their classes during the regular lecture time.

For courses where attendance is part of the grade, each instructor will determine how to count attendance during online instruction. The policy should be reasonable. Students should not be penalized for illness, and if there are other impacts related to covid-19 students should be in touch with their instructor and the associate chairperson of CS.

Lab Hours

Note - we're also trying out Microsoft Teams. Will send out a message when it is finally settled which one we're going to use.

Hosted in the blackboard course DEV-CS-TEMP-JK. Note that the software being used requires either Firefox or Chrome, so you need to have one of those installed first. To get to the link to join the online unix lab hours -

  • Login to blackboard. Once logged in, click Courses near the top right to view all courses. Search for DEV-CS-TEMP-JK (ctrl-f on windows, cmd-f on mac).
  • Once in the DEV-CS-TEMP-JK courses, click on Tools on the left, then scroll to find Yuja and click on Yuja.
  • If a lab assistant is currently online and ready, there will be a Quick Meeting shown that you can double click to join. There would also be a highlighted notification bell in the upper right that you could click on.

Note that you can see who should be on duty for lab hours at the bottom of http://cs.indstate.edu and you can send them mail (ISU CS People) if you don't see the Quick Meeting in Yuja.

Programming Assessment

For those who need to pass the programming assessment this term (CS 202, 500), we will likely offer the assessment online so that you have the same number of attempts as normal. The current thought is to give the assessment using blackboard with its lockdown browser quiz. The questions would be in the quiz, and you would type your answers rather than write them out. This is being tested out and we'll let you know.

For CS Faculty, GAs, Lab Assistants

Graduate Assistants and Student Workers

Graduate assistants are expected to continue their duties. Those teaching courses continue to teach, now online. Lab hours will continue (though online now). Grading will continue.

Undergraduate lab assistants will continue their lab hours (online) if they are willing to do so. We appreciate you continuing to serve the department! Rather than clocking in, you will need to keep a spreadsheet of your hours that is accurate to the minute. You should only count time as working when you are logged into the online lab hours site when your normal lab hours take place.

Resources for Faculty

Information about what some of us use as tools for online teaching - Online-Instruction

Covid-19 Data

Many will be interested in examining the data related to the spread of Covid-19. A nice dataset to look at is at https://github.com/CSSEGISandData/COVID-19

We may post some analysis here from CS faculty and students, if we have something worth sharing. A first attempt at loading the data and looking for exponential growth is at this link

FWIW, a nice summary of what is known about covid-19 - here.

Communications

March 12

Head's up message from associate chairperson of CS

Cheers students enrolled in CS courses. As expected, we will be online-only starting next week. CS faculty met earlier in the week to discuss common expectations across all CS courses.

We will likely meet again tomorrow or this weekend to pin down the details. I will be in touch again after that, and will likely put up a website with information/resources related to your CS courses.

A few things to give you a head's up on already are below. Please read through that, and if you have any questions be in touch with your instructors and/or myself.

Note - face to face classes /will/ meet today and tomorrow as usual.

Reliable internet - you will need a reliable internet connection to view lectures and/or participate in synchronous sessions. If you will not have a reliable internet connection, please notify your instructors and myself ASAP.

Normal class meeting times - faculty may choose to hold synchronous online class sessions/lectures during your regular meeting times (everyone would connect to a video conferencing system at the same time). Until you hear otherwise you should keep your regular class meeting times blocked off on your calendars.

Lectures - faculty will choose between synchronous lectures, videos that can be viewed asynchronously, tutorials to follow, detailed powerpoint slides. Each faculty member will choose based on (a) their own preferences, and (b) what is likely best for the course.

Assignments - will likely continue on the same schedule. You should expect to continue working on your courses.

Unix lab - is likely to become an "online lab". We are working out the details, but we will have online hours where you can connect with one of the lab assistants to share screens, look at code, etc.

Quizzes and exams - faculty can choose whether to give quizzes/exams online or not. If the university resumes face to face eventually, faculty may choose to delay quizzes and exams until then.

Delay in startup - you may experience a delay in some courses getting up and rolling online. Faculty who have never taught online courses before will be getting up to speed early next week.