Instructor Notes
Resouces for Instructors
We have an onboarding video available to prepare Instructors to teach these lessons. The slides presented in this video are available: https://tinyurl.com/y27swdvo. After watching this video, please contact [team@carpentries.org](mailto:team@carpentries.org) so that we can record your status as an onboarded Instructor. Instructors who have completed onboarding will be given priority status for teaching at centrally-organized Carpentries workshops.
Workshop Structure
[Instructors, please add notes on your experience with the workshop structure here.]
Technical tips and tricks
Installation
This workshop is designed to be run on pre-imaged Amazon Web Services (AWS) instances. See the Setup page for complete setup instructions. If you are teaching these lessons, and would like an AWS instance to practice on, please contact [team@carpentries.org](mailto:team@carpentries.org).
Common problems
This workshop introduces an analysis pipeline, where each step in
that pipeline is dependent on the previous step. If a learner gets
behind, or one of the steps doesn’t work for them, they may not be able
to catch up with the rest of the class. To help ensure that all learners
are able to work through the whole process, we provide the solution
files. This includes all of the output files for each step in the data
processing pipeline, as well as the scripts that the learners write
collaboratively with the Instructors throughout the workshop. These
files are available on the AMI in dcuser/.solutions.
Similarly, if the learners aren’t able to pull the data files that
are pulled in the lesson directly from the SRA (e.g. due to unstable
internet), those files are available in the hidden backup directory
(dcuser/.backup).
Make sure to tell your helpers about the .solutions and
.backup directories so that they can use these resources to
help learners catch up during the workshop.