Teaching assistant

Welcome teaching assistants (TA)!

It is very kind of you, that you help our course!

Frequently asked questions:

FAQ

Manual

Tasks

The main task is to communicate between teacher and students, to post every important thing like textbooks, reading material, reminders to do homework etc. in the WeChat group, coordinate the distribution of presentations etc. and the work of the wiki admin and the survey assistants.

请大家及时完成本周的课后作业，在自己的wiki主页上编辑一份自我介绍（英语）如图：点击右上方有头像处自己的名字进入user界面，点击edit，在主页编辑自我介绍。注意：编辑完成后点击save page, 需要在网页上方的password处输入密码“wikicaptcha”然后再按一次save page方可保存。

One major task is to keep a student roll with GRADES in Excel format. So you need to grade all quizzes (if 3 answers and no answer is answered in time, the student get 0 points, if 2 answers are correct, she gets 67 points etc.) and the homework (if a student has done the homework in time and the translation is not copied from an existing published translation and the names are translated the way we agreed upon in the Joint Translation Terms, then the student gets 100 points; if the student has also corrected the translation of her fellow student above herself with an extra paragraph, she gets another 100 points).

If there is text for the topic in the text book, we make the quiz with the questions from the textbook. Also in order for you to input the grades in the Grades List, it is important for you to know the correct answers. You can ask the teacher for a solution book with most of the answers. Please be so kind to edit the solution book so that the chapters are in the correct order and all missing answers are added.

请survey assistants 注意，在课文中有对应章目的话题，做问卷时是把课文后面的问题做成问卷，而不用自己想。对于没有文本的topic，需要同学自己做一个text，并且按照教材的模式设置reference和 questions

How to create a webpage in Wiki

Q: 我知道大概做出来是什么样子，但是具体操作还是比较迷糊……

A: 你用ctrl + f （f 是 find 的意思）找一下你想建立新的网页的地方。比如你要建立一个叫做 “wiki admin”的网页，那你先login，然后课网页里按一下“edit”。这个edit在最上边。然后在editor里面先找一下“wiki admin”两个词。找到了以后前边和后边写两个标点符号，就像这个样子：[ [ wiki admin ] ] (这些空格不要写，我只在这里写空格因为否则它在这个faq里面就变成连接了。你要按“save”，然后输入“wikicaptcha”这个密码。然后你看得到课网页，现在你加了标点符号的地方变成红色的链接。红色的意思是这个链接后面还没有网页。蓝色链接的意思是已经有这种网页。

The main task for the teaching assistant is to coordinate the work of the students, the wiki admin, who creates the subsection on the course homepage for the next session(s), the creates homework webpages and links everything on the course website, and she prepares the section of the course website which concerns the following week's tasks. The teaching assistant especially needs to remind the other assistants and the students to do things in time so that everybody can do their own tasks. E.g. if a student picks a topic and the text for the topic is not in the textbook, then the teaching assistants needs to find 2 more students, and the 3 create a textbook text and references, create a list of terms, questions and answers, and the survey assistants need to set up a quiz for the questions, the wiki admin needs to link the quiz in the homework section of the course homepage and the teaching assistant needs to check the results for the quizzes and grade the results in the student grades list.

That means the teaching assistant needs to be at least one week ahead of time, because all the other students wait for her.

So the first things to do would be to check if there is already a section on the website for the following week.

If not, you can instruct the wiki admin as follows:

Normally the course websites are structured with headlines. We have different headlines which appear larger (level 1) and smaller (level 2, level 3 etc.). In order to create a headline and therefore mark the section of the webpage as a separate part, you can add a "=". For example, if you want to create a new weeks' section, you can simple add

"= Session no. 2, Feb 28, 2022, Topic: Ancient Literature = " (of course, you do not type the blank spaces and no quotation marks)

After saving, this new section exists.

And you need to list under this header all the contents of that session.

It is good to create some subsections, by listing some minor headlines beneath, for example:

"= Session no. 2 ="

"= = Homework of session no. 1 for session no. 2= ="

"= = Texts to read from the textbook to prepare for this session = ="

(Here you list this topics, student names and links to a new website (you remember, that is done by typing [ [ .... ] ]) to access the text the student created.

"= = = Newly created texts which are not yet in the textbook = = ="

"= = Student presentations = ="

(Here you list this topics, student names and links for the student presentations. A link not to a website, but to a file (for example a pptx file) looks like this: " [ [ Media:Ancient_Literature_by_Wang_Jianguo|This is the link to the ancient Literature powerpoint by Xiao Wang ] ]".

Please make sure that you leave a blank line between two lines, because paragraphs are shown in Wiki linked together, only if you add a blank line, Wiki will display it as two separated paragraphs.

Also if you want to create a bullet list, simply type a "*" in front of the line for each bullet point. If you want to insert a picture, there are also editorial conventions. Please refer to the general website on how to edit in Wiki.

Also if you copy and paste a text into Wiki, please remember to delete any leading spaces at the beginning of lines. If you have a space in front of the line and then the text begins, it will be displayed in a grey box. So delete the spaces at the beginning of the line and it will appear as normal text.

How to create a homework page (a task for wiki admins)

Please make sure that you have a consistent naming convention for the webpages in order to keep the overview. You can look at the samples from last years.

It is also important that you repeat all links on new webpages, meaning that you should add a link to return to the course homepage on top of all new webpages.

Examples you can find here:

• for the course "Foundations of Chinese Cultures" CULTURE2022_LIST_OF_HOMEWORKS
• for the course "Chinese Language and Culture" LANG2022_LIST_OF_HOMEWORKS
• for the course "Chinese Classics Translation" CLASSICS2022_LIST_OF_HOMEWORKS

How to distribute the homework to different students (a task for wiki admins)

1. Please create a student roll 学生名单. Then reformat it that it fits the following sample:

"= = Ah Q 啊Q = ="

"= = Li Ang 李昂 = = "

"= = Sandström, Peter = ="

"= = Wang Jianguo 王建国 = = "

(So you can see that they follow alphabetic order. All without quotation marks and spaces.)

2. Then distribute the text in equal parts to the students. In general, one should translate about 3 screen lines, which corresponds to 1-3 sentences:

"= = Ah Q 啊Q = ="

Hongloumeng Chapter 24, title and first sentence

第二十四回 醉金刚轻财尚义侠 痴女儿遗帕惹相思 话说黛玉正在情思萦逗、缠绵固结之时，忽有人从背后拍了一下，说道：“你作什么一个人在这里？”黛玉唬了一跳，回头看时，不是别人，却是香菱。黛玉道：“你这个傻丫头，冒冒失失的唬我一跳。这会子打那里来？”香菱嘻嘻的笑道：“我来找我们姑娘，总找不着。你们紫鹃也找你呢，说琏二奶奶送了什么茶叶来了。回家去坐着罢。”一面说，一面拉着黛玉的手，回潇湘馆来，果然凤姐送了两小瓶上用新茶叶来。

"= = Li Ang 李昂 = = "

Hongloumeng Chapter 24, sentences 2-3

黛玉和香菱坐了，谈讲些这一个绣的好，那一个扎的精，又下一回棋，看两句书，香菱便走了，不在话下。且说宝玉因被袭人找回房去，只见鸳鸯歪在床上看袭人的针线呢。见宝玉来了，便说道：“你往那里去了？老太太等着你呢，叫你过那边请大老爷的安去。还不快去换了衣裳走呢！”袭人便进房去取衣服。 宝玉坐在床沿上褪了鞋，等靴子穿的工夫，回头见鸳鸯穿着水红绫子袄儿，青缎子坎肩儿，下面露着玉色绸袜，大红绣鞋，向那边低着头看针线，脖子上围着紫绸绢子。宝玉便把脸凑在脖项上，闻那香气，不住用手摩挲，其白腻不在袭人以下。

"= = Sandström, Peter = ="

Hongloumeng Chapter 24, sentences 4-6

便猴上身去，涎着脸笑道：“好姐姐，把你嘴上的胭脂赏我吃了罢。”一面说，一面扭股糖似的粘在身上。鸳鸯便叫道：“袭人，你出来瞧瞧。你跟他一辈子，也不劝劝他，还是这么着。”袭人抱了衣裳出来，向宝玉道：“左劝也不改，右劝也不改，你到底是怎么着？你再这么着，这个地方儿可也就难住了。”一边说，一边催他穿衣裳，同鸳鸯往前面来。见过贾母，出至外面，人马俱已齐备。刚欲上马，只见贾琏请安回来，正下马，二人对面，彼此问了两句话。只见旁边转过一个人来，说：“请宝叔安。”宝玉看时，只见这人生的容长脸儿，长挑身材，年纪只有十八九岁，着实斯文清秀。

"= = Wang Jianguo 王建国 = = "

Hongloumeng Chapter 24, sentences 7-8

虽然面善，却想不起是那一房的，叫什么名字。贾琏笑道：“你怎么发呆，连他也不认得？他是廊下住的五嫂子的儿子芸儿。”宝玉笑道：“是了，我怎么就忘了？”因问他：“你母亲好？这会子什么勾当？”贾芸指贾琏道：“找二叔说句话。”宝玉笑道：“你倒比先越发出挑了，倒像我的儿子。”贾琏笑道：“好不害臊，人家比你大五六岁呢，就给你作儿子了？”宝玉笑道：“你今年十几岁？”贾芸道：“十八了。”原来这贾芸最伶俐乖巧的，听宝玉说像他的儿子，便笑道：“俗话说的好：‘摇车儿里的爷爷，拄拐棍儿的孙子。’虽然年纪大，山高遮不住太阳。只从我父亲死了，这几年也没人照管。宝叔要不嫌侄儿蠢，认做儿子，就是侄儿的造化了。”

(All without quotation marks and spaces.)

How to tell the students how they should do their homework?

1. First of all, it is important to link the homework page to the course webpage. You can use the suggested logic.

2. Then you should instruct the students how to do their homework.

The Chinese original is one paragraph. Then the student needs to do a blank line. Then the student writes the English translation. Then the fellow students writes a blank line. Then the fellow student copies and pastes the translation of her fellow student beneath. In the copied paragraph, the student can work.

How to grade the translation homework and the correction of the translation homework

Question: Excuse me, I have some other questions. As for the homework and correction, should I give 100 as long as they finish them in time? If someone do it outside the time limit, or he doesn't use the given name(or to say he copy from the Internet), how should I deduct their point?( hope this will not happen) And should I score 200 for these do their homework and correction in time?

Answer: Maybe 100 if both translation and correction have been done in time. If pinyin used to translate names you can deduct 20 points (resulting in 80 points), if you see that it is copied from the internet or translated with Baidu Fanyi please give 0 points.

Homework

Teaching Assistants do not take part in the quizzes, homework and do not present a power point, because they get 100 percent for the classroom contribution grade 零时分.