Information for Assistants

This page is intended for assistants. You find some pdfs with further information and helpful hints.

Useful hint for those assistants supervising online experiments

A nice tool to organize the online lab classes via zoom - when you have multiple groups - is the breakout room feature of zoom. For detailed information see here Zoom Breakout Room.

Handling of Testats for Service Lab Courses

Organizational matters for the service lab courses (D-MAVT) are handled via the Webtool. You can log in with your nETHZ credentials.

Dates and Times

The lab course takes place on various mornings and afternoons, depending on the course of studies. All relevant dates (intended for students) are on the corresponding page for the course of studies.

Introductory Meeting:

• TAs supervising students of D-PHYS: Mon 10. Feb 2025, 10:30 - 11:30, HPP J 41
• TAs supervising students of D-MAVT: Mon 10. Feb 2025, 15:30 - 16:30, HPP J 41

The first day you actually have to be physically present in the lab:

• D-PHYS (odd weeks): Mon, 24th of February OR Thursday, 27th of February 2025
• D-PHYS (even weeks): Mon, 3rd of March OR Thursday, 6th of March 2025
• D-MAVT: Monday, 24th of February OR Friday, 28th of February 2025

Testing your experiments

Before the students come to the lab, you have to test your experiments. For the TAs supervising the same experiments every week, you can arrange to come by before the semester starts. If you want me to be present and/or if you have specific questions, please coordinate with me. Else, just let us know one day ahead such that we can make sure the lab is open when you arrive. The helpdesk is occupied at least from 9am to 6pm.

AI and plagiarism

As well as you, most students are aware of artificial intelligence (AI) tools such as ChatGPT or Gemini from Google. ETH recently released a statement and guide lines for AI in teaching and learning. Please see here for more details: AI Guidelines. In short: ETH Zurich encourages responsible and transparent use of AI in education. BUT students and lecturers should recognize its limitations. Students have to ensure that their work remains original and they have to be transparent and fair when working with AI (i.e., state when AI has been used for language improvement etc.). Also, it is important that you are aware of the rules about plagiarism, and that you tell the students about it. See more details here: Plagiarism.

Improving the Manuals

There are always things to improve. If you have suggestions or spot mistakes (language, formal, content), please let me know, and help improving the manuals. Also, if you have any kind of constructive feedback, I very much appreciate it! Ideally you send your feedback via mail.

Grading the report

Below you find a table should serve as basis for grading the report. Note that it is ideal to give a separate grade for the measurement/experimental execution and for the report. Also, the grading table is rather generic and might need to be adapted to the specific experiment you are supervising.

Slides and PDFs with organisational matters

Below you find information on how the lab course is organized. Most questions should be answered in the documents, however, if there is anything unclear or you have a question, please do not hesitate to contact me, either via mail or the office and helpdesk HPP J 14.