Turing College Platform
Link: https://intra.turingcollege.com/
Platform know-how video 👉 https://www.loom.com/share/1e311e1b38e04201aba8a48516d3a776
Turing College staff will commonly refer to it simply as “the platform”. You will get an invitation to join the Platform a bit before your start date. We’ll notify you via email, and sometimes our emails go directly to the Spam folder, so if you’re waiting for our email, please check your spam folder too.
Discord
The main communication tool in Turing College. All learners, Senior Team leads, Junior Team leads, Alumni, and Staff communicates in Discord.
You will have received the link to join in during the intro week the latest (Discord auth is the 2nd step of the Platform’s onboarding process).
You are expected to, at the bare minimum, read the #rules channel at the start and follow the #announcements channel in the WELCOME category, and your batch channels (e.g. 2022-11_batch if you started in 2022 11).
What channels are on Discord and where you should post something you can find explained in this video: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1IS170YOHpVy5AXEZBQhZRC0wRfey8-jN/view?usp=share_link or read more detailed info about various channels and how to use Discord here: Communication channels
Confluence
The website you are viewing now! It contains all the information regarding all topics related to Turing College.
A full list of topics can be found here: https://turingcollege.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/DLG
Github (except for Digital Marketing & Analytics career program)
Link: https://github.com/
This is the tool that is used to submit all your work for your practical project (graded tasks).
Each project will have a separate repository created for you. Once you schedule your corrections, your reviewers will automatically get access to the appropriate repositories so that they can prepare for your review.
You will be asked to link your GitHub account to your Turing College account inside the platform. You can create your account (if you don’t have it already) when this happens.
Zoom
Link: https://zoom.us/
All meetings at Turing College happen via Zoom. Links to join the Zoom meetings are always found in the platform calendar once you click on a relevant event (e.g. a standup or a project review). Make sure that you are able to run it – i.e. that you can enable your voice and camera and that both work smoothly.
The link to Zoom activates 10 minutes before the start. Don’t worry if sometimes you click on it before the start time, and it shows an error (ex. 17:58). Try again at the exact event start time (18:00).
BigQuery (Data Analytics and Digital Marketing & Analytics career program only)
Link: https://console.cloud.google.com/bigquery
This is the tool which will allow you to conveniently practice SQL.
An email explaining how to access it with a Turing College-generated account will be sent within the first weeks of your studies. This allows you to work without needing to worry about any fees. It also gives you access to databases that we will be referring to throughout the program. If you don’t receive it by the start of your SQL sprint (sprint 3), please message us via the support chat in the Turing College platform.
Note: the account we provide for BigQuery is meant to be used for BigQuery and related work on Google Drive only. It does not have an associated email, nor can it be used to access other tools (e.g. the Turing College platform or O’Reilly).
The first time you log in with the Turing College provided account, you will be asked to change your password. Make sure to save it! The password we send you will work only once.
Coursera programs
Data Science, Data Analytics as well as Digital Marketing & Analytics learners will sometimes need to use Coursera programs. Note that in these cases, you will never be required to pay. All Coursera programs have a free audit mode – you can view a video about it here: https://sharing.clickup.com/clip/p/t2581218/6d2f36fb-75ee-49a5-9f00-ffd3bb0b474b/screen-recording-2022-08-03-20%3A26.webm. Important: Digital Marketing & Analytics learners will use Coursera and get full access paid through Google.
Various online learning and program tools (Edx, HackerRank, CodeSignal, etc.)
If any tool not mentioned above requries registration, you should create your own personal account. The resources that our programs link to should always be free. If it seems that the content is only accessible via paid access, let us know via ta platform support chat.