We will be using Slack in addition to email to keep in touch between class sessions, particularly around your Pathogen Project. If you are not familiar with Slack, it makes it easy to have one-on-one chats via direct messages and to group discussions of specific topics under individual channels. UM provides access to Slack and the University of Michigan Slack organization to all students, staff and faculty.

If you have already set up UM Slack and are currently enrolled in PUBHLTH 405, you should be able to add the workspace for our class to your Slack account.

To get Slack set up for class, take the following steps:

• Download and log into Slack using your UM account. (If you haven't already)
• There will be a pulldown menu at the top of the Slack client (or in your browser if you are using the web version) where you can select your active workspace. When you select the one labeled PUBHLTH 405 F24 you will be able to see the channels associated with our workspace:

• There are several channels set up for communication with the entire class. I will post important announcements and updates in the #general channel.

If you have things you’d like to share with the whole class that are relevant to the topics of the course (i.e. anything in the scope of infectious disease history), please feel free to put them in the #resources channel. If you have questions about course preparation, assignments or other logistics of the course that you are comfortable sharing with the class, please put those in the #questions channel. This can be useful because if you are confused about something, it is likely your classmates are as well! Finally, if there are slightly off-topic (but classroom/workplace appropriate!) things you’d like to share with the class, you can put those in #random.

• For anything else you would rather not share with the whole class, please never hesitate to email me or send a direct message!