Day 47: Marks, get set...

GO!

I passed the Pi's and their script off to Georgiana, who proceeded to rampage through the first 15 of them in 45 minutes (3 minutes a Pi is about right, it takes about that long for one of them to boot up and have it's MAC registered).

So today we just want to time and get a feel for how many a single person can get through in how long, so that we know if I need to also join in the labelling before the end of the week (or if we can just leave Georgiana to toil alone).

Email testing

I'm also the proud guinea pig (and canary) of the new email infrastructure. Basically Tony from IT Services is going to switch my address over to the new system as a test case, and I report a few things to him and then make a tutorial about how to set up the email system on Windows and Linux and even on my Android smartphone just because I can. Said tutorial will include lots of screenshots.

QandA to Wiki

In previous years the CS QandA site has not really been very popular, even though it is actually a great place to communicate with the staff and other students collaboratively and solve common problems. So this year it has been decided that there will be a collaborative staff and student wiki, with the hope that this tech will garner increased popularity and have more success than the original QA site. Another one of my tasks is to go through the QA site and check for any substantive or useful questions that could be used to seed the new Wiki. Steve Pettifer asked me to go through for an hour and just copy any good discussions into a google doc so that he can determine if porting such questions onto the Wiki is actually a good idea or not.

Here's the doc:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/14Kf5__sG9qurGWexaakkGVYIuToDacSBLencf09j6TE/edit?usp=sharing

AR

Carried on some more general code fixes and mass commenting!