At the beginning of each Semester

• You will then be allocated to demonstrate for a particular set of course units; you will receive an email from one or both of the Laboratory Managers. This will inform you who the lecturer is for the course associated with the laboratory, i.e. the person `in overall charge' of that laboratory.

• You should liaise with the lecturer in order to find out the details of the laboratory itself, and to work out a suitable demonstrating timetable. It may be the case that you have not been allocated any hours -- the most likely reasons for this is that your skills did not match closely enough with those required by the course units running in the Semester.

  If you think that you have been allocated to a laboratory for which you feel you do not have sufficient expertise, then please discuss this with the course unit lecturer. In most cases, they will be able to reassure you that you will be able to cope. However, if you have been misallocated for some reason (surely we didn't make a mistake?!) then it is naturally important to address this as early as possible.

• You should also collect a Laboratory Manual from the Student Resource Centre which contains information given to students concerning all of the laboratories, a laboratory timetable and a set of laboratory exercises. There is one for each year (first and second year). It is always useful to know what the students know! The Laboratory Manuals also contain useful information about how the laboratories operate, what is expected of the students etc..

• You should also collect a `Demonstrator Hours' timesheet from Lynda Smith (email: lynda@cs.man.ac.uk) to record the hours you have worked.