This week, my main focus was on creating the UTFC module 5 banners. There were a total of 6 to complete for this module. In addition, I was assigned to complete some plain banners of all the color variation for the UTFC project too.
The past few weeks, I’ve been able to spend a good amount of time listening to podcasts at work. I always appreciate the sort of menial work I can chug through without much language processing brainpower for that reason. This week, not so much.
Photo IDs are one of those things I’m embarrassed it took me so long to really learn, and I am shocked at how logistically complex they are.
See these 5 photo IDs? Guess how many I was assigned (and assessed).
12. 3 had already been uploaded due to a miscommunication, 3 did not meet guidelines, and 1 was missing. That means 7/12, over half, were not available without client comms. And client comms are much more difficult than I thought – many of these are grad students, who I learned the hard way should be reached through an intermediary like an advisor. We have templates for different messages, but I’ve often had to modify them.
This isn’t to complain too much, but I want to say I am impressed that my coworkers like Rachel and Ingrid had worked through presumably dozens (hundreds?) of these over the past year.
I worked on some smaller tasks too, but I’m running out of time today, and I’ll be gone next week, so maybe I will append a little more info 2 Mondays from now!
For the past couple of weeks, I have been working on completing the backdrops for UTFC 5.3 & 5.4. The other backdrops for this module, I assigned to Adrian to complete.
I believe I am doing really well so far managing the French Textbook course. I am ahead so far on the backdrops and beginning to work on the banners for module 5.
This marks my first week working as an STA! The first day was an admin day, logging on and becoming familiar with the project management tools that LAITS uses. I was familiar with some of them beforehand, but others, like Harvest and Basecamp, came with a learning curve. Plenty of bookmarks were added to my browser window today. The best part of the day was getting to meet all the other STAs and hear about what they’re studying and their interests.
I finished my first task ever, making a Powerpoint presentation highlighting a few of the rules from the STA Handbook. It was a lovely start to my time working here!
I finished orientation after Tuesday and got started on the basic STA trainings for photo ID editing. Here’s some progress.
On Wednesday, I finished my bio and blog banner. I designed them to match each other!
That wraps up my first week!
Hello! Today marks my first day working as an STA. This week I will be focusing on meeting my coworkers, learning STA basics, and familiarizing myself with LAITS tools such as Basecamp, Slack, Workday, Harvest, and Box.
Below is a small exercise to become more familiar with the STA Handbook. I used 5 rules from the STA Handbook and illustrated them in a well-designed Powerpoint.
https://utexas.box.com/s/va5mgcm5h266ob9xajr1jyp197iajb7p
The rest of the week I had some more self-paced training. I focused on creating an STA bio page and a blog banner. I also got to train on editing UT photo IDs. It was an excellent refresher and an awesome way to finish up the week.
How to Upload a Homepage Banner
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