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Mentoring

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Mentoring

One-to-one support from a mentor. Your first booking opens a private workspace for the two of you, and every later appointment with the same person continues in it.

How to

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  1. Open “Find a mentor”, pick a free time and say what you’d like help with.
  2. After booking you land in your workspace. The appointment is under “Appointments”.
  3. At the time of the appointment, click “Join the next appointment”: the usual live room opens, for the two of you only.
  4. Book the next appointment right in the workspace, from your mentor’s free times.
  5. Some mentors are booked through a package (for example six appointments): take a free one, or book and pay a paid one. Its appointments go to your workspace; a cancelled appointment goes back to the package.

Fields and buttons

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  • My mentorings: One card per mentoring, with the next appointment. Archived mentorings stay readable.
  • Find a mentor: All mentors with their topics and free times.
  • Overview: The goal of the mentoring (either of you can write it down), the next appointment and the next steps from the last one.
  • Video and voice calls: Call each other at any time from the workspace. The other person’s Academy rings, wherever they are; they answer or decline. The call opens the usual live room, for the two of you only, and is never recorded. A voice call starts with the camera off.
  • Chat: Write to each other, also between appointments. If you are not online, you get one email per batch of new messages (it says who wrote, not what).
  • Tasks: What each of you takes on, with a due date and a milestone. Either of you adds tasks, for yourself or the other, and ticks them off.
  • Courses: Courses your mentor assigned to you (you get access right away), with your progress. Suggest a course yourself; it counts once your mentor assigns it. Your mentor sees your progress in these courses only, never your test answers.
  • Milestones: The stages of the mentoring, set by your mentor. Their progress follows the tasks and courses that belong to them.
  • Appointments: Book, join, add to your calendar or cancel. Your mentor’s notes appear under each appointment.
  • Documents: Write together at the same time (Markdown), with each other’s cursor, for example a learning journal.
  • Whiteboards & diagrams: The Academy whiteboard and the diagram editor (mind maps, flowcharts, Kanban and more), saved as you go. The latest save wins: work on one board at a time, or together in a call.
  • Files: Everything the two of you share, chat attachments included, up to 50 MB per file. Whoever shared a file, and the mentor, can remove it.