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TA Waitlist: Student Menu

What you see:

               Student Menu
               1) Add yourself to the waitlist
               2) Check your position on the waitlist
               3) Update screen now
 
 
            Enter your choice (1-3) -->
Note: The student menu running on the terminal near 9a in the Sunlab is identical except it does not allow students to add themselves.

The Options

  1. Add yourself to the waitlist
    This is how students put themselves on the wailist. This option is only available on the terminal the waitlist was started on in the TA room. It is possible for this option to be disabled. This means nobody else can add themselves to the waitlist. The TA is going off hours soon, and unfortunately can not help any more people.
  2. Check your position on the waitlist
    This will tell you what number you are on the waitlist. It may be necessary if there are over 20 people on the waitlist( the maximum number of people displayed on the screen at once). You can also check your position from a shell using the shortcut: /u/tawait/bin/tacheck.
  3. Update screen now
    Above the menu, you can see the names and accounts of the people on the waitlist. This is updated at regular intervals, but can be forced to update with this command. This only changes the visual display. It will not make your turn come up any faster.

Quitting the Menu

There is no way to quit the student menu from the terminal it is running on! It will automatically go away when the TA ends the waitlist.

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Page Owner: Meta-TA Last Modified: Wed Nov 7 14:35:57 2001