CS4740 (etc.) Fall 2022
Staff; Office Hours

Staff and communication channels other than office hours

What follows is a "decision tree", or ordered list; please read the items in order!

1. Questions about the class that can be asked and answered publicly? (You may not post any portions of your code publicly.)
   Post to Ed Stem, our course Q&A forum.
   Don't worry: you can choose to be anonymous to your classmates (but not the course staff) there!
   The entire course staff collectively monitors Ed Discussion, including the...
   • TAs: John Chung, Chenxin Fang, Tushaar Gangavarapu, John R. Starr, Shaden Shaar, Renee Shen, Meghana Srivastava, Ruizhe Wang, Han Xia, Fangcong Yin, Heather Zheng
2. Questions about your specific code for an assignment? Please do not send code questions by email.
3. Time-sensitive, class-wide matter that anyone on course staff might be able to help with? (e.g., "There's no TA or instructor at the 2:30 office hours";
   Email intro-nlp-staff@cornell.edu. This reaches all the TAs.
4. Time-sensitive and individual matters that should be handled exclusively by the instructors? (e.g., "I'm sick and need an extension and it's the night an assignment is due") Email intro-nlp-prof@cornell.edu. (Please do not email the instructor(s) individually or personally; it is important to keep all course communication in one place.)
   • Instructors: Prof. Lillian Lee and Prof. Marten van Schijndel
5. For certain specific matters explicitly mentioned in class or this website, you may need to contact the Course Administrative Assistant: Lacy Jordaens (NetID LSL92).

Office hours: schedule and sign-up are at QueueMeIn

At office hours, you can ask any questions about the course, including questions about your individual code.

Office hours are now being managed/displayed (mostly) on QueueMeIn. Via QueueMeIn, you can see your position in the queue and an approximate waiting time.
Unfortunate truths:

• Having a spot in line does not guarantee that the staff member will get to you. Staff should not (and in many cases cannot) go past the end of their scheduled office hours.
• It is thus to one's benefit to be able to go to office hours earlier in an assignment cycle, when they are less crowded.

You can also book individual appointments with Professor Lee ahead of time, which are managed by YouCanBookMe instead of QueueMeIn. (But don't worry, Prof. Lee and Prof. van Schijndel's joint regularly-scheduled office hours are on QueueMeIn.)

QueueMeIn instructions for our class

Do this if you aren't the only person/group in the room.

• Log into queueme.in using your NetID credentials. We have reports that the site works best when using Chrome or Firefox. If you are using another browser, see a blank screen, and refreshing the page does not help, try one of the recommended browsers.
• Make sure you go to the CS 4740 queue: you may need to add "CS 4740" to your list of courses, by going to the Edit Your Classes page, or you may need to click on the blue box at the top to change to the "CS 4740" queue. Here is an illustration for someone switching from CS 1112 to CS1110.
  
• Click "Join the Queue" on the appropriate office/consulting hour slot.
  • Because QMI doesn't always automatically display these to us, put your name and netid in the "location" field if it exists.
  • Fill in the question field with at least a full sentence about what your question is: if we can see lots of similar questions, we can handle some of them "en masse".
• Navigating to the next week can be a little unintuitive: