Coding Bootcamp Cohort

Server structure

Overview

A full-time coding bootcamp running one cohort at a time, with instructors, teaching assistants, a career coach and an alumni network that stays after graduation. The COHORT category is the working day: #daily-standup takes one message per student each morning with yesterday, today and blockers, #lecture-links and #exercises are read-only feeds from the instructors, #exercise-help and #code-review-requests are where students ask, #pairing-board matches pair-programming partners, the Cohort Classroom is a stage for the live lecture and Breakout 1 and 2 are the rooms pairs split into. Projects live in a forum, #projects, tagged by week and by state so a capstone thread runs for its whole three weeks, with #demo-day-signups and #capstone-teams beside it. CAREER SERVICES is run by the coach: #job-board and #hiring-partner-events are read-only, #resume-and-portfolio-review is a drop box where a student posts a CV that only staff can read, and the two-seat Mock Interview Room is where practice interviews happen. Alumni lose the cohort channels when they graduate and gain the ALUMNI wing, #alumni-lounge, #referrals-and-openings and #mentor-a-student, so graduates keep helping without crowding the current cohort. Staff have a hidden area with #student-progress, #curriculum-drafts and a Staff Sync room.

When to use it

The cohort's standups, the instructor's links, the career coach's job posts and last year's graduates all share three channels, and a student's CV was posted where the whole cohort could read it. This layout gives the working day its own category, puts projects in a forum that lasts as long as the build, makes CV review a drop box only staff can read, and moves graduates into an alumni wing where they can refer and mentor without reading the current cohort's standups.

What makes it different

• #daily-standup with a slowmode gives every student one morning post and stops it becoming a chat.
• #resume-and-portfolio-review is a drop box where students post a CV that only the coach and instructors can read.
• #projects is a forum tagged by week and state, so a capstone thread runs for its full three weeks.
• Alumni are hidden from the COHORT category and get their own wing for referrals and mentoring.
• The Cohort Classroom is a stage and Breakout 1 and 2 are voice rooms, so a lecture splits into pairs cleanly.

Recommended Vetox setup

• Streaks

  Turn on Streaks for #daily-standup so a student who posts every morning builds a visible run and a missed day is noticed by them first.

• Reminders

  Schedule a Reminder in #daily-standup at the start of each day and in #demo-day-signups a week before demo day.

• Self-Roles

  Post a Self-Roles panel in #orientation for Frontend Track, Backend Track and Data Track so the coach can ping the right students about a job.

• Logs

  Send role changes to #bootcamp-logs so the lead can see when a student was moved from Student to Alumni.

• Temp Voice

  Point Temp Voice at Breakout 1 so a cohort of thirty splitting into fifteen pairs gets rooms on demand instead of two.