Google Shared Drive¶
New for Fall 2023.
Each iteration of the course has collected student documentation of exercises and projects into an ad hoc web archive hosted on the past course sites. This has proved very useful as inspiration and reference to successive classes.
From Fall 2014 through Fall 2022, the student work was managed via a WordPress site attached to the course site (e.g. RCP WordPress). For Fall 2023, we will instead be hosting this work on a Shared Drive on Google and posting the titles and links via the Student Work pages. Each assignment requiring a documentation post will also provide a Google Form for submitting an entry to be automatically posted to the course site.
The use of a Shared Drive will allow the text, photos, and video to persist past your own departure. Files owned by the Shared Drive will be retained even after your student Google Drive expires and is deleted.
Please note that students always have the right to keep this documentation private in keeping with the FERPA law. This can be implemented using the web and share permissions on files and folders. However, publicly readable submission is encouraged. Pseudonymous publication is also an option.
Documentation Procedure¶
Nearly every exercise and project deadline requires at least a brief report, typically a short text, supporting photos, and frequently a supporting video. Following are guidelines for preparing and submitting this documentation.
Upload or move your materials to your designated folder found within the RCP-F23 Shared Drive.
Please keep your materials organized and named within this folder in a reasonable way in case I need to go looking for an item. However, this structure is at your discretion.
Please choose one document to be the top-level item for a given report. This is typically a Google Doc, but in some cases could be Slides, Sheets, or video.
Please insert photos directly within your doc.
Please add links within your doc for videos, uploaded zip files, or any other related items.
Please insert short code samples into your doc as a specially formatted Code block.
In a Google Doc, this can be created using menus “Insert/Building blocks/Code block/Python”.
Please upload long code samples or multi-file sketches as separate items and link them into the doc.
Please prepare a small image (< 1MB) to use as the thumbnail image for your post. I generally recommend choosing one of your project images and scaling it down.
Before submitting, please publish your top-level doc as a web share; the web view is generally a cleaner view than the document editor view.
In a Google Doc, please see File / Share / Publish to web
Please copy the web publication link to use for the submission form.
When ready to submit, please open the submission form for the specific assignment and provide the following:
Display title to show on the course site.
Display name or names to show on the course site (name or pseudonym).
Link to the top-level document (a shared web link is preferred).
Uploaded thumbnail image.
Your post should then automatically appear on the course site Student Work pages. Please note that the submission form allows resubmission so any of the uploaded elements may be changed later if needed.