These will be held on Fridays and will be held in-person. Students are expected to make use of GitHub as their central collaborative platform.
You are expected to bring a laptop to the workshops. Please read the school’s Technology and equipment page for information on equipment or to request a device. There is also a loan service in the main library in case anything is wrong with your device at short notice. The school provides IT support for Windows laptops. Support for other operating systems cannot be guaranteed. If your laptop uses another operating system and you cannot install the required software you may need to look into borrowing a laptop under the loan service.
During the workshops you will work in teams of 5 or 6 students on computing lab exercises. You can meet up with your team later to complete anything that you didn’t manage to finish during the workshop.
Set up weekly team meetings between Friday and Tuesday.
To take part in workshops you will need to first set up your GitHub account, download and install R and RStudio and link RStudio to your GitHub account. Instructions to do this are given in the Setup & Troubleshooting page.
A frequently asked question is “What happens if I can’t make my workshop time?”
If you have another obligation every week at the time of your workshop, you should change into another group. To do this, you can use the new, self-service, Self-Change System which has been introduced in the University’s new Timetabling system, Timetabler. This allows you to reschedule group activities—such as tutorials, workshops and labs—when they conflict with other timetabled events.
To make a change, go to Timetabler and open MyGroups. Use Self Change to move to an alternative group where space is available, or submit a change request for the event from that page if no suitable slot appears. The Self Change system will be open until the end of Week 3. Please note that availability depends on capacity and course requirements, so not all moves will be possible to facilitate.
Video instructions how to use Self Change system can be found here.