Workshop Administration workflow

For centrally organized workshops

  1. One of the following occurs:
    • Someone submits the Carpentries workshop request form
    • Someone emails team@carpentries.org to request a workshop.
    • Someone contacts a staff member to request a workshop.
  2. Workshop & Logistics Manager or the Regional Coordinators for that region responds to request by email or phone/video call.
    • Give them more information about the Carpentries as needed.
    • Ask them for more information about their request.
      • Who is their target population?
      • What curriculum content do they want to cover?
      • What timeframe are they looking to host a workshop?
        • Remind them we need 2-3 months notice
        • Remind them to consider their own schedule and other events that may affect things like room availability
      • Remind them of the budget
        • US$2500 standard fee due to our fiscal sponsor (for non-member university, government, or non-profit sites only)
        • Costs for instructor travel (airfare, ground travel, hotel, and meals/incidentals) are managed entirely between host and instructors. We will look for local instructors but can not guarantee it. Member sites are still responsible for travel costs.
      • Ask them to complete the official request form
    • Workshop & Logistics Manager or the Regional Coordinators records request form in AMY.
  3. For non-member sites, Regional Coordinator asks host for invoicing contact, and introduces them to the Administrative Support Specialist to begin the invoicing process.
  4. Regional Coordinator adds workshop to appropriate tab (by geography) on call for instructors sign up sheet and sends email to instructors list notifying them of upcoming opportunities.
  5. Regional Coordinator reviews list of instructors signed up as interested in upcoming workshops and tentatively places them based on experience, geography, and skill set. See blog post for details. Selection guidelines include:
    • Other workshops has that person signed up for in that time period If they have volunteered to teach three workshops over the next few months, we likely won’t place them at all of them. However, we will take advantage of their flexibility to get them in on at least one.
    • Each person”s experience with The Carpentries We want to be sure to match up experienced instructors with new instructors, so new instructors are supported by experienced instructors.
    • Each person”s skill set with Carpentries material We want to make sure each instructor is comfortable teaching the workshop content, and understands the other instructor”s skills.
    • Each person”s acadmic or professional domain It can be helpful, but not required, to match the instructors” domain with the workshop audience. Instructors get opportunities to network in their fields, and learners get to hear from people working in those same fields.
    • Geography While we do not guarantee local instructors at workshops, we do take this in consideration to keep the host site”s cost down and to help build local communities.
  6. Regional Coordinator emails these instructors to confirm their availability, and returns back to the other instructors on the list if a conflict has since come up.
  7. Regional Coordinator sends email to workshop instructors and hosts with introductory information. This includes links to guides for roles of host, instructor, and helper.
  8. Regional Coordinator emails everyone else who signed up for that event thanking them for their time, letting them know other instructors were placed, and encouraging them to sign up for other opportunities.
  9. Regional Coordinator reminds instructors to set up a workshop website using the workshop template.
  10. Regional Coordinator sets up surveys in Survey Monkey and emails results links to hosts and instructors.
  11. If needed Regional Coordinator sets up registration in Eventbrite.
    • If there is a registration fee,Regional Coordinator informs Business Administrator that this will need to be refunded or applied to the workshop invoice.
  12. In weeks leading up to workshop, Regional Coordinator sends check in emails to be sure planning is progressing smoothly.
  13. After workshop is over Regional Coordinator sends email asking how things went and collecting attendance data.
  14. Regional Coordinator records workshop attendance in AMY, and if additional information is provided, in the Workshop Documents GitHub repo.

For self organized workshops

  1. Instructors notify Regional Coordinator about upcoming self organized workshop. This is no fee (suggested or mandated) for a self organized workshop.
  2. Regional Coordinator reminds them that as a self organized workshop they will have access to our surveys but will not receive any other support in coordinating this workshop.
  3. Regional Coordinator reminds instructors to set up a workshop website using the workshop template.
  4. Regional Coordinator records this in AMY.
  5. Regional Coordinator sets up surveys in Survey Monkey and emails results links to hosts and instructors. Explain to the hosts and instructors that this link should not be shared. Regional Coordinator informs hosts and instructors where to find the pre and post survey links to distribute to learners.
  6. In weeks leading up to workshop, Regional Coordinator sends check in emails to be sure planning is progressing smoothly. This is optional as instructors and hosts should not be expecting direct support from us.
  7. After workshop is over Regional Coordinator sends email asking how things went and collecting attendance data.
  8. Regional Coordinator records workshop attendance in AMY.