GTN for Teaching

European Galaxy Days 2022

Helena Rasche & Saskia Hiltemann

GTN - By the community for the community

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• Lots of scientific topics
• Also technical topics�
• Paper soon™ to be published
• Preprint: 10.1101/2022.06.02.494505

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training.galaxyproject.org

New Topic: Foundations of data science

Non-Galaxy tutorials, inside Galaxy

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• Python
• R
• Bash
• SQL
• Scientific Workflow Management Systems

Notebook tutorials

Also RMarkdown Documents

Pyolite: Notebooks in Javascript / Browser

Video Slides

• View slides with full spoken explanations from the GTN instructors�
• Generated from speaker notes, using AWS Polly text-to-speech
• Automatic Transcript
• Automatic Captions

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• Look for the camera icon

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• All fully Automagic!
• Future: Tutorials to Video?

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Magic! 🧙‍♀️By Helena

New: Quizzes

• Add quizzes to your tutorial
• Two modes:
• Self-study mode
• Classroom mode�
• Check out our tutorial on how to add your quizzes!

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Choose Your Own Adventures

Will you use

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Nanopore

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or

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Illumina

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The Choice Is Yours!!

Automatic Accessibility

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Visual

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Screenreader Tested (TalkBack)

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Tested for WCAG AAA

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Dark Mode (inc. “Lights Out”)

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Auditory

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Slides2Videos automatically captioned

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SRT files and Transcript also available

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Cognitive

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Prefers-reduced-motion supported

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No autoplaying video

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No sounds

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Remote Teaching

Gallantries project

• Develop new training modules
• Combine Galaxy and Carpentries training
• Mix of Galaxy and coding analysis
• Delivery via Hybrid and/or remote training
• Train-the-trainer program
• Infrastructure for instructors and event organizers

Registrations

days

Countries

Instructors

Hours of Video

78

1200

5

60

25+

GTN Smörgåsbord

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�Asynchronous format

• Pre-recorded videos
• 24/7 support on Slack
• Participants manage their own time
• Everything remains available after event�

First annual event!

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Registrations

days

Countries

Instructors

Hours of Video

111

3000

5

100

100+

GTN Smörgåsbord 2: Tapas Edition

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�Asynchronous format

• Pre-recorded videos
• 24/7 support on Slack
• Participants manage their own time
• Everything remains available after event�

Second annual event!

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Video Library

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• All video tutorials available (176 videos)
• Organised into modules
• Linked from GTN website
• Submissions welcome!

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gallantries.github.io/video-library

Course Handbooks

• Get a course handbook for your (online) event
• Similar to format used for Smorgasbord
• Everything needed for participants the course
• Open for anybody to use

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Course Builder

• Select (video) tutorials
• Build a schedule
• Add event metadata
• Get an event webpage for your course
• Template registration, feedback forms

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• More info: Community call Nov 17

GTN Slack for Your Events

Use Slack for communication for your event

• Get a channel for your event
• A channel per GTN tutorial
• The global instructor community can help

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Certificate Bot

• submit histories after each tutorial
• request certificate at end of event
• Instructors check and approve submissions
• Certificates automatically generated

Get Involved

• Add your tutorials to the GTN!

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• Record a GTN tutorial for video library!�- help really wanted here!�
• Help us by reviewing on GitHub�
• Join our quarterly CoFests!
• Join Matrix/Gitter channel: https://gitter.im/Galaxy-Training-Network/Lobby