Getting Started

Class account

Access via SSH

• Have you created ssh keys? If not, create your private and public keys:

  % ssh-keygen

• The public keys of authorized persons are placed in the class accounts by a batch job each night. This means it will be tomorrow before your public key is added to the class account. Only people with lecturer or supervisor membership are authorized to ssh into their class accounts. The command below shows your memberships:

  % acc

  If acc shows that you are not a member,

  • lecturers: Check that you are allocated to your course on the Teaching Allocations. If not, email <teachadmin AT SPAMFREE cse DOT unsw DOT edu DOT au>

  • admins: Email the lecturer for your course. The lecturer should then email <teachadmin AT SPAMFREE cse DOT unsw DOT edu DOT au> to add you to your course, as supervisor.

• Log into your course account:

  % ssh -Y cs9999@wagner

If you are correctly allocated to your course as indicated on the allocation files and if you have previously created your keys, you should be able to log into your class account. If not, you can email system support <ss AT SPAMFREE cse DOT unsw DOT edu DOT au>.

Classes

• Check Class Utilisation regularly.

• To open or close classes, increase or decrease class sizes, email <cse.teaching AT SPAMFREE unsw DOT edu DOT au>.

• How to find suitable times for new classes:

  • Check your students other lecture and class times.

  • Check lecture and class room bookings.

  • Check lab bookings. For lab bookings, email <meicheng AT SPAMFREE unsw DOT edu DOT au>

Enrolments

The class accounts have read permissions to extract enrolment records. The enrolment files are stored in:

• /home/sms/sturec/data

• % grep <course> /home/sms/sturec/data/<term>_<subjarea>

• e.g. grep COMP9999 /home/sms/sturec/data/20T3_COMP

Tutors

Selecting

• Andrew Taylor sends out an email a month before start of term with instructions on how to select casual tutors.

  View tutor applications at Talloc

Paying

• Enter the tutors and hours into CASTLE either interactively or by uploading a TSV file generated using Admin Tools (see below).
  
  As best you can provide an accurate schedule of hours for each tutor. The schedule form the tutor's contract.
  
  From 2023 onwards, contracts are created at UNIHIRE. The hiring manager has to declare Conflict of Interest and approve the contracts. Tutors must receive their offer letter before commencement of work.
  
  For casual hours enquiries: <cse.casuals AT SPAMFREE unsw DOT edu DOT au>

Granting access

• CSE account and Class membership (e.g. COMP1511_tutor) activation comes from
  

  • CASTLE - for people with casual hours

  • /home/teachadmin/public_html/casual_academics/<term>/selections/<course> - for people with no casual hours

Assigning classes

AdminTools provide the following tools:

• assign tutors to classes
• generate class timetable page, link this page from your course website.
• generate tutor authorisation to Xmark and sms for pasting into $WORK/give.spec.
• generate tutor sms security configurations for pasting into $SMSDB/security.
• generate sms calc expression to add to the Tutor field (you have to create the field in sms beforehand).
• generate tutor allocation hours for upload into Castle.
• generate online class rolls for use by tutors.
• push tutors to your course in WebCMS3.

• For online classes,
  • Generate list of AD names for the lectures and classes, enter the AD name to add students to Teams class
  • Generate session names (class Id and tutors) and session times to upload into Blackboard Collaborate.