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This wiki is a repository for information useful to staff in CS; it is a community resource, please feel free to contribute.

Pages available on the CS Staff wiki include. You may also find General CS wiki for both staff and students of interest.

Work-related information around COVID-19 outbreak

The COVID-19 outbreak has raised a lot questions, and a lot of information is scattered around many emails. While this is unavoidable due to the fast-moving nature of things, we try to gather information here.

• Return to campus and current guidance on working on campus.
• There's an FAQ page for PGR students and supervisors and some Coronavirus PGR Supervisors Guidance.
• A university summary page with teaching related policy guidance and the university's Institute of Teaching and Learning
• Working from home
• HR has published a staff FAQ and a Guide to HR Operations.
• Would you like to volunteer and have special health/social care skills? There's guidance on this.

Departmental procedures and links to School/Faculty/University Procedures

• Induction for new staff
• Performance & development reviews for academic and research Staff
• Probation Process and Documentation for academic staff
• Promotion Process and Documentation for academic staff, incl. Reward for Exceptional Performance for all staff
• Estates, environment, etc. who to contact around estates, infrastructure, computing, etc. with links for submitting issues
• Expenses Claims, explaining claims process, GTA timesheets
• Procurement, explaining procurement of things (incl. furniture)
• Buying Computers and other IT equipment, for all staff and students
• Travelling including Risk Assessment and Export Control
• Room Allocation Policy for all staff with links to Room Allocation Database
• Academic and teaching Events and timeline of a typical year
• Health and Safety Policy
• Meeting Etiquette for all staff
• Parental Leave and Flexible Working for all staff
• Academic Visitors of staff and students visiting from other institutions
• Display Screen Equipment for all staff & PHD students - Guidance: user guidance - setting up your workstation - If you would like to take the online assessment and request support then please take the test here: DSE Assessment for all staff & PHD students
• Teams -To set up the Teams PWA on Linux: [1]

Miscellaneous

• Research Resources
• Research Impact Resources (Under Construction)
• Research Ethics FAQ
• REF 2020
• Green Impact Team
• Social
• Wellbeing
• Seminars/Talks
• Travel Update

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• Research Proposal Boiler Plate
• Job Advertisement Boiler Plate

Software/IT

• Technical Apprenticeship Scheme
• Information Systems Officer Role
• GitLab Student Project Manager
• Benchmark
• IT related information for staff including how to print
• CS Systems - various systems maintained around the school
• General LaTeX Staff FAQ
• Open source software
• Oracle migration - planning migrating the Oracle database from aardvark.
• Xilinx Zynq
• Wednesday Waggle - some technical notes on waggle.cs.manchester.ac.uk

Teaching

General

• Examination Guidance
• Electronic Exams
• Academic Advising
• Completing a Unit Specification and Planning a New Course Unit
• Blended Learning Guidance
• Programme Amendment
• Expectations as Course Unit Leader
• Guidance on Coursework
• Assignment Naming Scheme

Undergraduate

• Preparing for Teaching 2021-22
• Undergraduate Examining Rules ( Previous Version ) (Updated 7/4/20)
• Application of Mitigating Circumstances at UG (Updated 13/7/21)
• FAQ on Academic Malpractice (UG)
• COMP23311:Software Engineering Course Team Information
• COMP28112:Distributed Systems
• Placing teaching materials on studentnet
• Timetable general info
• Expectations as a Personal Tutor
• Expectations as a 3rd Year Project Supervisor
• Expectations as a Lab and Examples Class Supervisor

Postgraduate

• Expectations as a MSc Project Supervisor

Admissions and recruitment

• UG Open days
• UG Visit days
  • Hosts
  • Tutorial activity
  • Parents talk
• UG Virtual visit days
  • Hosts (virtual)
  • Tutorial activity (virtual)
• Reading list for prospective students

PGR

Here is information for PGR Programmes (in case I'm in a Train Wreck):

• PGR Handbook (Full)
• Expectations of the Student (Handbook)
• Expectations of the Supervisor (Handbook)
• PGR Home (CS Staffnet)
• Regulations & Policies (MDC)
• Code of Practice (MDC)
• PGR Student Index (eProg)
• PGRs For New Staff
• Viva Expenses
• Welcome Week
• Research Training Support Grants
• Ordering Computers for PGRs
• EPSRC Vacation Bursaries (Internships)
• CONACyT
• Internships & Placements
• EngD FAQ
• The PGR Admissions process

Archive

• Recruitment processes.
• Departmental Meetings
• COVID-19 FAQ for our students.
• Blended_Learning_in_AY20-21 a collection of resources relating to the development of blended learning.
• Online Teaching this page has useful information about our "emergency" moves to support online delivery.
• SCS Common Room Ideas - Comments & Suggestions
• SCS Courtyard - Comments & Suggestions
• Out of hours document - staff-only version for proposing updates
• Information for staff about 2013 IT changes (now superseded by the IT FAQ page above)
• Timetable changes 2014/15
• Timetable changes 2015/16
• Timetable changes 2016/17
• MATH timetable
• HCI Programme