Pre-course challenges

Please complete these challenges before our training day on Thursday 05 June 2025. The purpose of these challenges is to become familiar with the applications we will be using during the course so you can make the most of your learning time.

You can find instructions, guidance and helpful hints and tips for the tools we will use during the course in the help sheets section of this handbook.

Challenge 1 – Slack

Please access the course Slack workspace (using your full name as the username) and click on the #social-chat channel.

Add a hello message to this #social_chat channel, and let us know which country you will be dialling in from. Bonus points if you leave us a cool fact about your location!  

Challenge 2 – Pre-course reading

Please read the following tutorials suggested by the trainers to help you prepare for the course: