Prof Wladis' office hours are: Office hours:
(fall 2023) Thurs 9am-12pm
These are virtual office hours. Text or call me on my office phone (212-220-1363) during this time.

To Join the Class Slack Page:

To get to the correct workspace for your class, please follow the link I shared via email and in Blackboard the first week of classes.

Instructions:

To contact me during my office hours, first ensure that you have joined the Slack class page. You only need to do this once. This link is posted in Blackboard and was emailed to the class during the first week of classes. It expires one month after classes have started, so be sure to do this right away.

• Once you have joined the class slack page, you can post messages to the whole class using the #general channel.  Please use this only for questions pertaining to the course. 
• To contact me during office hours (you can also try this outside office hours, but I cannot guarantee that I will answer outside of office hours--outside of office hours, if it is not an emergency, please email me questions at profwladis@gmail.com, or at my bmcc email address):  Send me (profwladis) a DM (or direct message). Do NOT send a message to the whole channel. 
  • We can then directly phone each other privately inside Slack, or if necessary move to a Zoom room. 

General Instructions on How to Use Slack:

• Understanding DMs (direct messages) in Slack: https://slack.com/help/articles/212281468-Understand-direct-messages
• Understanding channels in Slack (only if you want to post to the whole class): https://slack.com/help/articles/360017938993-What-is-a-channel
• Sending and receiving messages in Slack (either privately to me or to the whole class): https://slack.com/help/articles/201457107-Send-and-read-messages#:~:text=Send%20messages&text=Open%20the%20channel%20or%20DM,Press%20Enter%20to%20send%20it.
  This page also explains how to attach files or photos to messages. Please attach photos of your work of of the original problem whenever you send me a math question (either via Slack or via email).
• How to start a call within Slack (this is called a Huddle--be sure to first DM me, and then start the Huddle there): https://slack.com/help/articles/4402059015315-Use-huddles-in-Slack