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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 raises a lot questions, and a lot of informatrion is scattered around many emails. While this is unavoidable due to the fast-moving nature of things, we try to gather information here.

Online Teaching a page with useful information about resources that can be used to support online delivery, and here is a COVID-19 FAQ for our students.
There's an FAQ page for PGR students and supervisors and some Coronavirus PGR Supervisors Guidance.
Zoom meeting Kilburn Common Room (Virtual) a daily, virtual meeting open to all Kilburn staff 12:30-13:00 to drop in, say hello, share your experience, and ask questions.
There is HSE guidance on working from home and StaffNet guidance on Wellbeing support during the coronavirus crisis, plus a nice summary FAQ page.
Semester 2 Exams. Our students will not be taking summative assessments. It is likely that we will provide formative exam papers to allow the students to test their understanding of the materials. Further guidance on this is expected shortly. In the meantime, we are pausing the process of producing exam papers.
Expenses Claims and GTA timesheets
Procurement procedure - 16/04/20. Sent on behalf of Alice Larkin and Sarah Mulholland

Please find below detail relating to the procurement process to facilitate approval whilst we are in the period of remote working. In line with the current Procurement policy and procedure, only essential services and supplies can be purchased until further notice. All requests must receive approval prior to a request being made on the financial system.

Procedure, guidelines and required paperwork can be found here: [1]

You will need to provide the following with your request:

• Detail of the procurement request: item and value

• Justification of why it is essential and required now

• Detail on the source of funding to pay for the item, not just the account code – details on the project and funder (if applicable) including any limitations on the funding, i.e. it has to be spent by a certain date • Consequence of delaying the purchase

Process to follow; Requests for procurement must be sent to Deputy School Operations Manager (DSOM) Michelle Fox who will discuss with HoD Robert Stevens and will make request to the School.

All requests will be considered by the HoS. If approved at School level, the request will be considered by Alice Larkin, Chris Hardacre, Rachel Brealey and Martin Schroder.

If you have any queries to the above please contact your DSOM, Michelle Fox [Michelle.Fox-2@manchester.ac.uk]

Would you like to volunteer and have special health/social care skills? There's guidance on this.

Miscellaneous

Departmental procedures and links to School/Faculty/University Procedures

Promotion Process and Documentation for academic staff, incl. Reward for Exceptional Performance for all staff
Probation Process and Documentation for academic staff
Performance & development reviews for academic and research Staff
Induction for new staff
Meeting Etiquette for all staff
Room Allocation Policy for all staff
Buying Computers for all staff
Parental Leave and Flexible Working for all staff
Travelling including Risk Assessment and Export Control
Academic Visitors of staff and students visiting from other institutions

Boiler-Plate Text Snippets

Software/IT

Information Systems Officer Role
GitLab Student Project Manager
Benchmark
IT related information for staff
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
Support Portal CS - working document to gather generic headings which CS require in the Support Portal
Wednesday Waggle - some technical notes on waggle.cs.manchester.ac.uk
Ordering Computers for PGRs

Teaching

General

Undergraduate

Undergraduate Examining Rules ( Previous Version ) (Updated 7/4/20)
Application of Mitigating Circumstances at UG (Updated 28/6/19)
FAQ on Academic Malpractice (UG)
Expectations as Course Unit Leader
COMP23311:Software Engineering Course Team Information
Placing teaching materials on studentnet
Timetable general info

Admissions and recruitment

UG Open days
UG Visit days

PGR

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

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Work-related information around COVID-19 outbreak

Miscellaneous

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Boiler-Plate Text Snippets

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 * '''Semester 2 Exams'''. Our students will not be taking summative assessments. It is likely that we will provide formative exam papers to allow the students to test their understanding of the materials. Further guidance on this is expected shortly. In the meantime, we are pausing the process of producing exam papers.
 * [[Expenses Claims]] and GTA timesheets
+* '''Procurement procedure - 16/04/20'''. Sent on behalf of Alice Larkin and Sarah Mulholland
+Please find below detail relating to the procurement process to facilitate approval whilst we are in the period of remote working.  In line with the current Procurement policy and procedure, only essential services and supplies can be purchased until further notice.   All requests must receive approval prior to a request being made on the financial system.
+Procedure, guidelines and required paperwork can be found here: [https://www.staffnet.manchester.ac.uk/coronavirus/faqs/staff/#no19]
+You will need to provide the following with your request:
+•	Detail of the procurement request: item and value
+•	Justification of why it is essential and required now
+•	Detail on the source of funding to pay for the item, not just the account code – details on the project and funder (if applicable) including any limitations on the funding, i.e. it has to be spent by a certain date
+•	Consequence of delaying the purchase
+Process to follow;
+Requests for procurement must be sent to Deputy School Operations Manager (DSOM) Michelle Fox who will discuss with HoD Robert Stevens and will make request to the School.
+All requests will be considered by the HoS.  If approved at School level, the request will be considered by Alice Larkin, Chris Hardacre, Rachel Brealey and Martin Schroder.
+If you have any queries to the above please contact your DSOM, Michelle Fox [Michelle.Fox-2@manchester.ac.uk]
 * Would you like to '''volunteer''' and have special health/social care skills? There's [https://www.staffnet.manchester.ac.uk/news/display/?id=23844 guidance] on this.