SEOC Tutorials
Following an experiment last year, tutorials in SEOC offer an unusual
choice. There are two kinds of tutorials:
- "Normal" tutorials. If you are registered for such a tutorial you will
(by default) be expected to turn up, every week, having made a serious
attempt at the tutorial sheet. Tutors will be asked to email students who
are registered in their group but do not appear for a tutorial. (Of course,
they will not track you down to your home and stand over you with a
tutorial sheet - doing the work is your responsibility! - but there is a
little chasing if necessary.) Correspondingly, if you are in such a
tutorial group you can expect that the other students there will be the
same people each week and will have done the tutorial sheets.
- A "drop-in" tutorial, run by me. Anyone is welcome to come to this,
for the whole or part of the hour, with or without a completed tutorial
sheet, whether or not you're officially listed as registered for it. I will
not contact students who are registered for this group but do not appear
for it; being registered for the drop-in is basically just a sign that you
do not wish to be registered for a "normal" tutorial.
Last year it seemed that most students tend to prefer the "drop-in"
tutorials, but some will prefer "normal" ones. Please check on the list. If
you are registered for a tutorial that doesn't match your preference (or,
of course, whose time you can't make), please contact the ITO to be
switched. (We do contingency plans if the number of students who prefer
"normal" tutorials turns out to be more than currently shown.)
If your timetable only permits you to go to a tutorial that is not your
preferred kind, please let your tutor know. Dropping in for part of a
"normal" tutorial probably wouldn't work, but your tutor can arrange to
take you off the list of people who should be chased if they don't turn up.
Conversely, I am happy to email individuals who do not come to the drop-in
if they wish.
This ends up sounding rather complicated, but it seemed last year to be a
decent way to account for different students' preferences. I'd be happy to
get feedback on how you find it.
This page is maintained by
Perdita Stevens (
perdita@inf.ed.ac.uk)
