Basic Setup: Other

For a new course at UCSB: Things other than this github pages website stuff...

Checklist

If you don’t want “negative” scoring as default, change default in course settings to “positive”
If you are reusing materials from an instructor that taught the course before, ask them to make you a TA or instructor on their old course so that you have the option to copy over rubrics.

Choose whether to use github.ucsb.edu or github.com. There are compelling arguments pro/con for each.
- TODO: Make a list of the pros/cons. For now, ask Phill.
Consider setting up a github organization for your course.
- Advantage: make yourself and your grading staff “Owners”.
- Then you can see into the private repos of the students to help them and gain insight into work in progress.
If you use an organization, be sure to set the default organization permissions to “None”
- Otherwise students that are members of the organization can see one anothers private repos.
- You probably want only “owners” (i.e. instructional staff) to be able to do that
If the organization is on github.com, consider asking for “coupon” so that you can get free private repos.
- Where: https://education.github.com leads to https://education.github.com/discount_requests/new
- Private repos are allowed automatically at https://github.ucsb.edu
Consider using https://ucsb-cs-github-linker.herokuapp.com/ as a way of allowing students on your course roster to self-enroll in a github organization.

Anonymity: yes or no?
- Consider whether or not to turn off the ability for students to be anonymous before you upload the roster.