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In Development By Myrtha Avorenne - input higly appreciated!

This is a suggestion for how the preparation and execution of future classes could be supported by Agony members, in order to make life easier for the instructors, and make sure that their effort is kept as low as possible. Thereby, the instructors will be liberated from the chores, and as a result, will be able to deal better with the increasing number of classes. The effort involved in executing a class would be spread out more, and all would benefit: the instructors by being able to concentrate on the course tasks, and the assistants by learning how the class organization works. Please note: This text is not endorsed in any way by Agony's leadership - it is a suggestion, and it is still very much under construction.

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Agony Class Assistance

Class Initiation

• Option 1: If any Agony member sees the need for a specific class: Work on finding an instructor to give the class, and agree on a date and time.
• Option 2: An instructor planning to give a class: Create a new thread in the Tasks forum, just stating the course type, date and time, and any voluntary assistant(s) will deal with the administrative part of the course preparation.

Class Accouncement

• Post class information to Enrolment forum. Remember to add a link to the PVP-University Students forum and the Class Feedback Form. The member who creates the enrolment thread will be the only one who can update it, so please make sure the time for updating the post will be available.

• Have the announcement stickied by a forum moderator.

• Post class information to AU_PVP_CLASSES mailing list in game. Remind Agony members to not delete the mail, otherwise it will disappear from the mailing list for all readers.

Between Announcement and Start of Class

• Compare course fees received with list of enrolled students, update Enrolment Info list, answer enrolment and payment questions in enrolment thread.

→ Open: Find solution how the course fee receipt logs can be checked by a course assistant. An option would be to give course assistants read access only, without the ability to transfer or withdraw funds.

• Get support roles for class set up (XO, EWO, recon, scout, skirmisher). The future of this is already being organized by Ripard and Ging.

→ Open: New improved process for identifying Agony members filling support roles.

• Close the registration once the Maximum Enrolment Limit is reached: Post comment to thread, change thread subject to “[CLOSED]...”, keep updating Enrolment Info, keep reminding stragglers to register correctly and pay. Replace AU_PVP_CLASSES mail with notice stating class is full.

On Start of Class

• Compare list of confirmed students with fleet member list, make a note of missing enrolled students and participating non-enrolled students.

• Try to locate and contact missing enrolled students, make them aware of the AU_PVP_UNIVERSITY channel, get them to the course meeting location and into the fleet.

• Contact participating non-enrolled students and deal with them: Additional alumni and Agony are welcome. Non-alumni are referred to later courses and excluded from both the Ventrilo channel for the class and from the fleet. Pilots who are not enrolled cannot be accepted into the course at the time of its starting because they would not have read the course material, as they are missing access to it. Note that unknown characters in both Ventrilo and fleet could be alts of students or Agony, so ask them.

→ Open: How to deal with non-Agony students who are already in fleet, but do not appear anywhere in the enrolment thread? If they claim to be alts of no-shows, accept them as alts, I suppose? Refuse attendance to everyone else for both fleet and Vent? → Open: Link to all-time graduates list, to identify alumni.

• Arrange with Agony alumni who will take which jobs during the class, including job rotation (nothing like doing 360 scanning for probes for hours): rearguard, local, 360 scan, scan for probes, scanning gates / stations in range.

Before Entering 0.0

• Compare list of enrolled students with fleet member list, as latecomers might have joined, and update the participants list created earlier. The students participating now are the people who have "graduated" from the course.

→ Open: What is the difference in the Enrolment post between Attended and Graduated?

After the Class Ended

• Edit initial Enrolment post and add students who were in class before entering 0.0 to the Graduated list. Add graduated students to all-time graduates list:
  • PVP-BASIC Graduates
  • PVP-WOLFPACKS Graduates

→ Open: Difference between Attended and Graduated, see above.

→ Open: How to edit the all-time graduates list, without having to bother Rells? Should these lists be copied to the wiki and set to Category:PVP_University_Instructor/xxx?

• Have the thread unstickied by a forum moderator, so that it moves into the normal thread pool.

• Add a friendly request at the end of the enrolment thread that the students should leave their feedback in the enrolment thread or through the Class Feedback Form, and remind them to discuss their experience on the PVP-University Students forum.

• Monitor the enrolment thread for comments from users, evaluate the output of the Class Feedback Form, and add the relevant ones to the class’s After Action Report.

→ Open: How is the student input transferred from the form to Agony instructors?