Updates to communication policy

CourseOutline/CAS741_Outline.tex

@@ -99,7 +99,7 @@ skills from physical modelling, mathematics, numerical analysis and computer
 science.  For this reason it is important that we clearly document requirements
 (including assumptions) and design decisions.
 
-\subsection*{Course Website}
+\subsection*{Avenue, GitLab, GitHub and Teams}
 
 This course will be administered via Avenue to Learn.  Go to
 
@@ -124,9 +124,9 @@ discuss this with the Instructor.
   information on the course's Avenue to Learn page and to check
   regularly for announcements.}
   
-The primary purpose of Avenue will be for maintaining grades.  Most
-of the course content will be maintained in a public git repository.
-You can access this repository at:
+The primary purpose of Avenue will be for maintaining grades.  Most of the
+course content will be maintained in a public git (CAS GitLab) repository.  You
+can access this repository at:
 
 ~\newline
 \href{https://gitlab.cas.mcmaster.ca/smiths/cas741/}{https://gitlab.cas.mcmaster.ca/smiths/cas741/}\\
@@ -135,13 +135,20 @@ You can access this repository at:
 % questions (issues) to the GitLab issue tracker.
 
 In addition to Avenue and the Gitlab course note repository, every student will
-create a public gitHub repository (with the instructor added as a full access
+create a public GitHub repository (with the instructor added as a full access
 collaborator) for their work.  The GitHub server is at
 \url{https://github.com/}.  Each student's repo will start from the given
 \href{https://github.com/smiths/capTemplate} {template repo}.  Students will be
 expected to use GitHub to provide comments on the work of other students in the
 class.
 
+We will use Teams for for discussion. Our communication policy is that questions
+that are relevant to other students in the class should be posted on Teams.
+That way everyone can benefit from the discussion.  Questions that are relevant
+to only one individual, should be sent to the instructor via e-mail.  Please
+send only normal McMaster e-mail; do not send mail via Avenue or direct messages
+using Teams.
+
 \subsection*{Classes}
 
 Classes will be held in person in the graduate classroom (ITB/222).