CSE 325: .NET Software Development

Setup: Groups

Overview

Team learning is a collaborative effort and teams are an essential part of most career fields. Working in groups supports the principles of love, service, and teach one another as shown in our Learning Model.

In this setup activity, you will sign up for a group in Canvas based upon your preferred weekly meeting time and then you will connect via the MS Teams platform.

During the course block, you will meet with and collaborate with your group synchronously at least once each week and collaborate asynchronously throughout the week. Past students often say that coordinating group gatherings was one of the more difficult parts of the course, but they also consistently say that these gatherings were one of the most important parts of the course as well.

Instructions

Group Selection in Canvas

  1. In Canvas, select the People link in the course menu.
  2. Select the Groups tab.
  3. Select one of the CSE325 student groups based upon your preferred weekly meeting time.
    • The meeting times are shown in UTC time and are set as one hour blocks on Wednesdays, Thursdays, or Fridays.
    • If your desired time is full or you would like to propose another date/time, you may contact your instructor.

MS Teams

  1. Download Microsoft Teams on your computer and other device(s) as desired.
  2. Use your byupathway.edu email account to sign into MS Teams.
  3. Review or complete the Introduction to Microsoft Teams tutorial as needed.
  4. You will automatically receive an invitation to enroll into this section's CSE 325 MS Team named something like .NET Software Development. Complete that enrollment.
  5. Find the channel in MS Teams that corresponds to the group you selected in Canvas. It may be listed among the Hidden Channels at the bottom of the list. Find the appropriate one and select Show for that channel.
  6. Confirm your membership in your group's channel by posting a brief bio and hello to the other members of your group on MS Teams once those group channels have been setup.
  7. Setup notifications for 'All Activity' on your group's channel using the kebab menu •••. You should also do this for the 'General' channel to connect with course-wide activity.
  8. Monitor and communicate with group members in your channel and with the class in the General channel throughout the week and course.
Course-wide discussions, instructor announcements, and other course topic threads will also take place in Teams in the General channel.