Educator Hub User Group

Hello Educators, 

Welcome to the Educator Experience and thank you for joining the kickoff session.
You'll find the replay and materials here

See you next week and don't forget that if you have any questions, you can post it here and our team will be replying!.

Hello Educator,

We had a highly interactive Week 1 SME Session #1, and we’re excited to share that a repeat session is coming up!

The meeting invite is already on your calendar.
Join us to:

• Learn interesting and insightful facts

• Participate in a fun and interactive Kahoot quiz

• Engage with Paul Newton and fellow participants

We’d love to see you there—don’t miss out!

Hello Educators, 

It’s Week 2 of the Educator Experience SME Session! Join us for one of the sessions tomorrow Feb 5th across two time zones with our expert -  Monica Siegel ! for a review, live Q&A, and a fun Kahoot quiz - don’t miss it! If you don't have the session invite on your calendar please reach out to me.

Support Links - 

1. For all IBM courses, the educators can open a self‑service support ticket or chat with Support at this LINK. This link can be found within the designated course page at the bottom.  
2. For all IBM Z Xplore - please use the IBM Z Xplore Q&A forum at https://ibmzxplore.influitive.com/users/sign_in 

hello Educators, we are midway through our experience going on to Week 7!!
Please complete Check-in #1 in your email inbox, by end of day March 6th.
We had 2 terrific demonstrations from Paul covering -
Introduction to z/OS Commands and Panels on IBM Z course to close the module, and started  Introduction to System Programming on IBM Z  answering all your questions on the topics!!
Do not miss watching this recording as one of our educators shared material they had created for their class!!

Any questions/clarifications?? Please post here.

Hello Educators, we’re halfway through our Educator Experience! We are going to Week 8 the last week of Introduction to System Programming on IBM Z course. Don’t miss the session recordings! We’ve covered JCL, JES, System Logs, Data Sets, and VSAM so far. We’ll be scheduling our 1:1 mid-program check-ins with you this week. Feel free to post any questions here.

Hello all! I asked Paul Newton on the call yesterday but off  hand he didn't immediately know of any recommendations so I thought I would ask here!  

 in the Intro to Sys Prog you do a lot of stuff with data sets, allocate, new members, compress etc etc, but it's all very abstract. I'm looking for any recommendations or materials that go through using these concepts I've learnt but applying them to a scenario - because that will help it sink in better for me. Maybe you are a lecturer and you could share activities you've made for class with me.   I will go back and redo some of the Zxplore stuff as I feel I'll get even more out of them now.    But.. even so... any recommendations for tutorials/walkthroughs with scenarios - that would be super useful as I'm not at the point where I could just 'make up' my own scenarios yet! Many thanks!

Hello Educators,

We have completed Introduction to System Programming on IBM Z course. We’ve covered many topics with demonstrations - JCL, JES, System Logs, Data Sets, VSAM, RACF and z/OS Initial Load Program Process. Check out the recordings and the tough Kahoot quiz.

In the coming Week 9 it is very important for you to join the Live Sessions, as the project is required to earn the IBM Z Educator Experience badge. 

Useful links and information:

1. Please schedule Check-in #2 call (email in your inbox) with the team if you haven’t done so.

2. IBM Redbooks short videos: http://ibm.biz/zosintro

3. Instructions to Request Access to Marist Mainframe https://ibm.box.com/v/z-academic-cloud

4. Feel free to drop any course related questions here.