Course Management
The Course Managers help provide key administrative and academic support to all large CS courses working alongside professors and the course staff that are teaching these classes.
About Course Management Program
The course manager’s role is to lead and oversee the administration of large CS classes thereby freeing up the instructors’ time and allowing them to focus on preparing and delivering the curriculum. Course manager’s are responsible for setting up the course logistics before the quarter begins, hiring and managing the teaching assistants, making sure the TA tasks are well distributed and ensuring the courses finish smoothly with a high level of student satisfaction. The course manager provides key administrative and academic support to all CS large courses working alongside the professors and course assistants that are teaching these classes.
The Course Managers
Meet The Team
We have successfuly supported number of courses in the Computer Science department working with various instructors and faculty members. We are here to support your course needs. If you would like more information about the Course Management program, please feel free to reach out!
Andrew Ng
Founder and Advisor - Large Course Management
ayn@stanford.edu
Swati Dube
Director - Large Course Management
swadube@stanford.edu
John Cho
Course Coordinator
johncho@stanford.edu
Cynthia Lee
Academic Director - Large Course Support & Outreach Program cbl@stanford.edu
Amelie Byun
Course Manager aebyun@stanford.edu
The Instructors We've Supported
Andrew Ng
CS 229, 230
Mary Wootters
CS 161
Christopher Manning
CS 224N
Jure Leskovec
CS 246
Fei Fei Li
CS 231N
Chelsea Finn
CS 221, 330
Nima Anari
CS 221, 161
Dan Boneh
CS 155
Zakir Durumeric
CS 155
Anand Avati
CS 229
Tangyu Ma
CS 229
Chris Re
CS 229
Shiva Shivakamur
CS 145
Kian Kitanfroosh
CS 230
Moses Charikar
CS 161, 229
Danfei Xu
CS 231N
Ranjay Krishna
CS 231N
Karol Hausman
CS 330
Stefano Ermon
CS 236
Emma Brunskill
CS 234
Tatsu Hashimoto
CS 221
Sponsorship Opportunities
Computer Science poster sessions are great opportunities to make an impression in front of the Stanford student population. We offer various benefits for our sponsoring companies. If you would like to know more about the sponsorship benefits, please feel free to reach out to Amelie Byun
See What Instructors are Saying
The course coordinators infrastructure is a life saver in large courses. In any large class that I’ve taught, I find myself spending hours on SCPD delivering exams, exceptions for exam times, handling TA absences, etc. For none of these tasks did I have a comparative advantage….Swati has shown me that the coordination does not require faculty—and it can free up hours to be better spent in the course. The lack of logistic issues frees faculty to rewrite lectures, brainstorm new assignments, etc,… it also helps TAs better support students.There are effectively zero fires. I think a large fraction of faculty can sympathize with a last minute fire that destroys your week … that is just gone in this model.
I've worked with a course coordinator for both CS330 and CS221, and they were super helpful in many aspects of the course organization, were also responsive to our needs, and allowed us to spend more time on preparing lectures and course content. Their help ranged from organizing poster session logistics to helping handle individual student circumstances to helping make decisions consistent with other CS courses. As just one example, we had an exam scheduled during the week of the Black Lives Matter protests, and the course coordinator helped us with making the decision to offer more flexibility in grading, in determining the messaging to send to students, and generally being informed about the decisions made by other instructors when in tricky situations
See What Instructors are Saying
The course coordinators infrastructure is a life saver in large courses. In any large class that I’ve taught, I find myself spending hours on SCPD delivering exams, exceptions for exam times, handling TA absences, etc.
I've worked with a course coordinator for both CS330 and CS221, and they were super helpful in many aspects of the course organization, were also responsive to our needs, and allowed us to spend more time on preparing lectures and course content.
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Request a Course Manager
If you would like to request a course coordinator to support your course, please fill out the googleform below and we will try our best to accommodate the requests.
