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# Oct 2

### Action Items

- [ ] **@Gurus** Bi-weekly TA Meetings with your TAs
	- Bi-weekly standups (15 or 30 min)?
	- Team bonding -> Among us :heavy_check_mark: 
- [ ] **@Gurus** Once a month all TAs Retros
	- [ ] Switch up between Gurus
- [ ] **@Tim** Add TA System Question for Student Survey
- [ ] **@Tejen** Final word on more TAs

**Wishlist**

- [ ] `Hints` Tab on the course portal
- [ ] Hard to find the thread that you claimed 
	- Bot conversations to remind/communicate TAs when student replies

### TA Health

How are you all doing (Feedback)?

- Feel bad sometimes leaving students due to other duties
- Most students ask questions at night (starting 8 pm)
- Team Building
- Assign a TA for
	- performance analytics
	- list of common questions
- Office hours?
- More organization/structure to increase efficiency

Should we hire another 1 or 2 TAs to help out?

- (iOS) Will – Yes
- (Android) Giancarlo - Yes
- (iOS) Derek - Yes
- (iOS) Ebuka - Yes
- (iOS) Sai – yes

TAs + Curriculum

- Standup in the beginning of the week to go over historical challenges of the course. 
- MAD Course would do labs for first runthrough 
- Provide updates to TAs on what's new
- TAs be aware of content taught in the video
- Add another tab on course portal for common mistakes on the assignment
- Deadlines cause students to rush 

Slack Issues

- Students not having access to certain channels

### TA Bot Improvements

- Find a way to query previous questions
- Have bot ask for github repo and perhaps screenshot of log.

- Analytics Dashboard like this one to keep track of all unanswered bounties
![](https://i.imgur.com/CbKMz5p.png)


## Common Problems 

Please list down the **common problems** that we can fix through the course portal to help students **+ link** to one of the those problems (either slack message link or discussion system link)

### iOS 

Superheroes posters "Displaying very small" https://codepath.slack.com/archives/C0196CTV98T/p1601673960467600

### Android



### Cybersecurity



