Lecture start times

Lecture start times

by MATTIA SCANTAMBURLO -
Number of replies: 15

Hi, me and some of my classmates were wondering whether there was the possibility of delaying the lesson starting from 8:30 to 8:45 on Thursday and Friday. This is because some of us have problems with train arrival times and also some other teachers this semester did the same.

Thank you.

(Edited by Giorgio Satta - original submission Wednesday, 2 October 2024, 6:40 PM)

In reply to MATTIA SCANTAMBURLO

Re: Lecture start times

by Giorgio Satta -
I am very flexible in this respect ... is there any objection to this proposal? Please post your reply, we need to take a decision very quickly.
In reply to MATTIA SCANTAMBURLO

Re: Lecture start times

by Giorgio Satta -

We must stop lecture at 10:15am at the latest, in order to free the classroom. This means that if we start at 8:45am, we don't have any time for a break. This is not a good idea: ALC lectures are not an easy walk, students need a break ...

Not clear to me what to do.

In reply to Giorgio Satta

Re: Lecture start times

by DANIELE FRANCESCATO -
I have a suggestion that we could start at 8:40, so almost everyone can have the time to get in class and so we can have a 5 minutes break.
In reply to MATTIA SCANTAMBURLO

Re: Lecture start times

by Giorgio Satta -

As an experiment, tomorrow we will start the ALC lecture at 8:45am. We will take a permanent decision later, this is only one time change.

In reply to MATTIA SCANTAMBURLO

Re: Lecture start times

by Giorgio Satta -

Any proposal for moving forward the start of the lectures for Thurs and Fri?

What about this: we start at 8:45, and reduce our lecture break to 5 minute only?

In reply to Giorgio Satta

Re: Lecture start times

by FILIPPO MAZZAROTTO -
We ran a poll in our WhatsApp group. Out of 175 members, 64 voted.

The majority (39 votes) prefer to start at 8:40 AM with a 10-minute break, and a decent number (24 votes) also like the idea of starting at 8:45 AM with a 5-minute break.

A few people suggested starting at 8:40 AM with a 5-minute break, it didn't seem to be as popular.
In reply to FILIPPO MAZZAROTTO

Re: Lecture start times

by Giorgio Satta -

But for Operational Research you start at 8:45, is that true? How does it come that there were different preferences for the two classes?

In reply to MATTIA SCANTAMBURLO

Re: Lecture start times

by Giorgio Satta -

As an experiment, and following the vote that took place among the students, for this week (Thurs 10 + Fri 11, October) we start lectures at 8:40am with a 10-minute break.

Later on we will decide what to do.

In reply to MATTIA SCANTAMBURLO

Re: Lecture start times

by Giorgio Satta -

For this week, Thurs October 17th and Fri October 18th, we will test the following new schedule:

  • ALC starts at 8:45am with 10 minutes break
  • Operations Research starts at 10:45am
In reply to MATTIA SCANTAMBURLO

Re: Lecture start times

by Giorgio Satta -

Dear All, please let me know if starting at 8:45 on Thurs and Fri (and moving 15 minutes forward the class on Operational Research) is the optimal solution.

In reply to Giorgio Satta

Re: Lecture start times

by Giorgio Satta -

Since no one has objected, we will adopt the following new schedule for all of this semester. On Thursday and Friday

  • ALC starts at 8:45am with 10 minutes break
  • Operations Research starts at 10:45am