Hey folks, tines noob here. I have a use case that may be nice to leverage Tines for, but not sure if it's the right way to do it. I teach a class a few times a week, and there are some annoying repeatable tasks that I have to do before and after each session. Here's a TL;DR: 1. Run a

git pull

on the instructor repo (on Cloud GitHub) an hour before class in case the content mgmt. team updated the curriculum. 2. Add some of the contents to the student repo (on Cloud GitLab) (e.g., exclude in-class activity solutions, the instructor's lesson plan, etc.). 3. Open the file for the day's lesson plan and extract + visit the link for the Google Slides, then export that to PDF and add it to the student repo. 4. Commit & Push the changes. 5. After class, go back to the instructor repo and copy the solution guides to the student repo, then commit & push. a. Willing to just share the extracted Google Slides link via Slack. 6. After class, go to my instructor Zoom account and check if the cloud recording of the day's session is there. a. Rinse & repeat until it's available. 7. Share the Zoom recording link with the students (I'll start doing this via Slack since I don't have the right level of API access to our LMS). I'm considering writing this in Bash or Python and throwing it on a VPS, then scheduling via cron, but would love to know if there's an easier way 🙂

@adventurous-manchester-53286 FYSA

If you have cloud GitHub, this is potentially doable, the only tricky bit will be the PDF export, though you can probably export that straight to Drive and then retrieve it from there

Hmmm... at this point, I'd settle for just sharing the link to the slides on Slack, since the death by slide decks are read-only.

this is awesome – and I think it all might be doable. how’s it going so far @silly-magazine-24417? anything we can help with?

@sticky-queen-64012 put something together for me, but I haven't hand a chance to take a look yet. I'll report back once I give it a go. It's a simple and repeatable task that a ton of instructors have to go through, so automating it would be legit.

@silly-magazine-24417 @sticky-queen-64012 Would personally be very interested in seeing how you approach many aspects of this!