Table of contents

  1. Misc tools/ideas for administrivia
    1. Enrollment Pie
    2. Scheduling stuff
      1. On-demand OHs booking
      2. Academic Calendar Template
      3. w2m (private and prettier When2Meet alternative)
    3. Machine-learning courses tree
    4. Bonus (cheesy but fun) ideas

Misc tools/ideas for administrivia

A collection of widgets and small apps to make administrivia fun and efficient!

Enrollment Pie

A drag-and-drop Enrollment Pie for visualizing enrollment stats.

Scheduling stuff

On-demand OHs booking

I host this on-demand OHs booking tool. It is intended to complement fix-scheduled OHs.

The tool is publicly accessible and offers “seats”, which can be helpful if a student wants to tag along and join in others’ booking. Also, I host the server in my office and all data is encrypted. Feel free to register an account.

Academic Calendar Template

I maintain a Course Calendar Template where I pull key dates from the Registrar. This “pulling” is intentionally manual; the dates are then programmatically cross-checked against the .ics release from the Registrar.

w2m (private and prettier When2Meet alternative)

w2m

Machine-learning courses tree

This Machine Learning Courses Tree is mainly geared towards AI+D folks, but perhaps helpful too if your academic advisees ask about the tips on picking the various ML courses on campus.

Bonus (cheesy but fun) ideas

Adam Hartz designed a course logo for 6.101. I thought it was a very cute and fun idea and copied it for 6.390.

I’d need to check with Adam on how he made his logo. For mine I drew everything on iPad using the app Procreate.

It’s even more fun to bring the digital logo to the real world! Some resources towards that:

  • Various Maker-Space on campus
  • Sticker Mule for various swag (stickers, magnets, pin, etc). They do painless tax-exemption process.