====== TA Matching Overview ======

This wiki contains instructions and documentation for the School of Social Sciences [[https://teaching-assistants.socsci.uci.edu|TA Matching]] web application.

===== Steps for TA matching =====

==== Initial Setup ====
  * [[tam:users:admins|Configure Administrative Users]]
  * [[tam:degrees|Associate Degree Codes and Course Departments]]
  * [[tam:school|Associate School Departments and Course Departments]]

==== Every Quarter ====
  - [[tam:users:grads|Create Grad Student List]]
  - [[tam:users:instructors|Import Instructors]]
  - [[tam:courses|Select Courses]]
    - [[tam:courses|Set 'Stats Filter']] - mark Econ and stats courses
    - [[tam:courses|Set 'Remote Filter']]
  - [[tam:surveys#dates|Set Survey Open and Close Dates]]
  - Email Students and Instructors to take [[tam:surveys|Surveys]]
  - [[tam:preferences|Monitor Survey Status]]
  - [[tam:remote|Review Remote Requests]]
  - [[tam:users:grads#edit|Exclude Students]]
  - [[tam:degrees|Review Course Departments]]
  - [[tam:courses#prematch|Manually Pre-Match specific TAs]]
  - [[tam:prematch|Pre-Match Econ TAs]]
  - [[tam:prematchstats|Pre-Match Stats TAs]]
  - [[tam:matching|Run Automated Matching]]
  - [[tam:courses#ta_edit|Adjust Final Matches]]

===== Features =====
  * [[tam:import|Course Assignment Import]]
  * [[tam:users|User Management]]
  * [[tam:preferences#ta_preferences|View TA Preferences]]
  * [[tam:preferences#instructor_preferences|View Instructor Preferences]]
  * [[tam:instructors#add_course|Instructor Course Update/Search]]
  * [[tam:surveys#dry_run|Survey Dry Run]]
  * [[tam:view|Final Course/TA List Viewing]]
  * TA Distribution

===== Frequently Asked Questions =====
  * [[tam:faq#vpn|A User can not access the website]]
  * [[tam:faq#manage_grads|A Grad Student does not see the Survey link after logging in]]
  * [[tam:faq#manage_instructors|An Instructor does not see the Survey link after logging in]]
  * [[tam:faq#manually_update_instructor_courses|An Instructor does not see their course in the course list]]
  * [[tam:faq#server_overload|A user is getting an 'Error 500']]