First off, the fact that a log wasn't posted the day of the tutoring ending (it should have been up within an hour to be honest, and I know more than one person was saving it iirc) really says a lot about how lazy we are. I thought we were trying to make a difference in CBC and get our act together. Do we even HAVE the log anymore? In which case, I kind of suggest we redo the first class, but with the organization it deserves, which brings me to my next issue.
Vrai and I have the log, I still need to filter out some things in it and organize it some, and also decide what to keep and what not to due to the first class being so untidy. It's understandable that it was a mess, because it was the first class and somewhat of a test to see how the future classes should be. We didn't realize all of that would happen when planning, but it did. Move on and correct past mistakes.
Chaos. That's all I got from the server that day.
Second class is going to have one user lead each subject (and that is going to be announced days before the class even starts). No one will be allowed to interrupt the "leaders" unless they have something important to say (that the leader forgot to). The server is going to be silenced during a subject, and at the end it will be removed for questioning, and then re-added for the next subject.
Questions should be asked in the main chat as well, as that "Questions" channel was a failure anyway because nobody used it.
It was used plenty. The issue with it was that it distracted students from the actual class and users spent time chatting there.
I'm unsure as to how the questions should be handled though...If they wait until the end, it's not much of a class (As Anti told me in the PO chat), and if they happen in the main chat at random, it could slow us down severely.
Only option in my opinion is having the schedule like this:
--- 1 Subject
-- 1 Subject Questions
--- 2 Subject
-- 2 Subject Questions
And so on. We don't want to answer thousands of questions at the very end, it should be separated. Having them at the end of each subject allows the students to understand it before we move on to something else. Future subjects could require the student to know the subject before, and having questions at the end would mean they would only understand until the very end of the class.
I know it's a lot of information to throw at people who've never competitively battled before, and now that we know what we had planned for the initial class was too much, perhaps we could divide the introduction up into two or three parts and try again? I'd hate to restart the program with basics, but I can't imagine students got much out of the initial class.
I am thinking of revamping the "Introduction to Competitive Battling" sticky thread so that it covers all the basics. The basics are easy enough to understand in a guide, and it doesn't require an actual class. It would take about 3 classes (maybe more for a thorough class) just to complete all of the basics...that would be way too much. I am going to redo the team building basics again, that was rushed.
I also disliked how we didn't plan at all, and just went ahead and winged it (wung it? Idk).
Again, learn from our mistakes. Of course we are going to plan it early, if we don't the same problems are going to occur. After the first class, we know what to iron out and what to keep.
ALSO, Khreep had a good idea, an RSVP sent to everyone who signed up, although I'd want to say, in this RSVP, we should state that the sign-up was strictly for the one-on-one tutoring, and not for classes (which only require you to show up on the PO server at the proper time). I can't imagine that there aren't a few people (and by a few, I mean 90%) who signed up and didn't read the first post to see that it's for 1 on 1 only.
Already am. I am not sending private messages to every single user that signed up though, only the users that are next in line for one-on-one tutoring. (So, the 8 members that posted first.) Half of the users that have signed up should know that it's only for one-on-one tutoring because of my red text warning (I put that in the first post half way during the sign ups to clear some confusion).
Even though you already started asking everyone, I would like to have a say in it before you do anything.
New Suggestion SMASH:
While I know 1 on 1 has failed in the past, what if we did it in a more casual way. basically we have a list of approved tutors, all year round and then a sticky for students to apply for tutoring. If a tutor is free and their timezone matches an applicant's, then they are paired and the applicant is tutored for 1-2 months. Firstly, each application for tutoring would need to be improved, by that I mean we wouldn't let people be tutored if they're just in it to "beat their brother's Charizard" or something of that nature, while it's somewhat elitist, I think that only applicants who show a true interest in battling and improving ought to be accepted, since our main goal is to cultivate new regulars out of this and build on the CBC Community and a regular would be easier to mold out of someone who already has stepped in the battling world a bit and now wants to get better and make battling part of their PC person, not some random who will probably never pop up again.
Isn't that what we are already doing? I am flirting with the idea of having a separate thread for one-on-one tutoring (or just for sign ups) though.
Also, I would prefer discussing this on the server channel like in the past rather than cluttering the main thread with this.