F26 CS 449 / 649 Week 1

Lecture

• (no lecture - Labour Day holiday)

Studio Prep

• Talk to your classmates about forming teams! Brainstorm some project ideas and some teams.
• Before the studio try to find 3 - 4 people that you might want to form a team with. Please note that if your team is not at capacity, there may be additional students added to your team later this week, in order to accommodate all the students in the class.
• Post and respond in the "Join a Team!" channel on MS Teams.
• Form a team of 4 to 5 people, then decide on a team name and one focus area
• Once you have the team formed and filled out the team information, the TA or instructor will provide your copy of the design notebook template. Be sure to add all your team members and your TA to the notebook.
• Explore the design document template you’ll be populating this term.

Studio Activities

• Meet instructor and TAs
• Course onboarding / orientation
• Team formation

To Dos (After Studio)

• Submit team information via this form
• Complete P1: Ethics Training

  • Each student must individually complete the TCP2 Core ethics tutorial. The tutorial takes 2-3 hours to complete. This is mandatory before the next studio session.
  • The TCPS 2 Core-2022 Tutorial Course on Research Ethics (CORE), also known as the TCPS2 tutorial, is mandatory for all researchers who intend to engage in research with human participants. In this course, you will be interviewing target end users. Before contacting users and conducting interviews, each student is required to individually complete the ethics tutorial. In other words, you cannot proceed in the course until you have completed this ethics tutorial. If you have already completed the TCPS 2 Core ethics training (e.g., for another course, or for a research project outside of courses), you can just submit the certificate of completion that you obtained previously. There's no need to re-do the training.
  • From the Welcome Page, click on the "Login to Core / Create Account" button on the right. Click "Create new account here" and fill in the required fields; make sure you register using your uwaterloo.ca email address. A confirmation email will be sent to the email address that you provide (check spam if you do not see it in your mailbox. Click on the activation link only once to activate your account. Once your account is activated, you can log in and begin the tutorial. It can take up to 3 hours take to complete the tutorial, depending on how many examples and activities you explore. You can go through the modules at your own pace; your progress is automatically saved, and you can log out and in again to resume your session. If you experience any difficulties, refer to TCPS 2: CORE Frequently Asked Questions.
  • After finishing the online course, submit the certificate of completion as pdf with the following format: lastname_firstname_tcp2.pdf
  • Submit Certificates to the designated Learn dropbox.
• P2: Prep for next studio