Menu: Starknet Basecamp Hub | Organize your own Basecamp

When a Basecamp course organized by the community is completed, we at the Starknet Foundation (SNF) perform an assessment to know how successful it was based on 3 metrics:

1. Effectiveness: Measured by the number of graduates of the cohort. The more people graduate the more effective the cohort was as an onboarding mechanism.
2. Efficiency: Measured by the average cost per graduate based on the amount of money granted for the course by the SNF. Lower cost per graduate is better as it makes for a better return on investment.
3. Quality: We watch all the recordings of the classes and perform a quality assessment of one of them that gets rolled up into a quality score for the whole course.

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All these metrics are publicly shared in the Starknet Basecamp Hub

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Quality Guidelines

What follows are the guidelines we use at the Starknet Foundation to assess the quality of individual Basecamp sessions once they are published to Youtube or a similar streaming platform.

High Speed Internet

When organizing a remote Basecamp cohort you have to make sure that all teachers have access to high speed internet to prevent interruptions during the session or low quality video/audio. You can’t control the quality of the internet connection of the students but you can do dry runs with teachers to make sure their internet connection is fast enough for a session.

If connectivity is an issue, consider setting up one location with high speed internet and invite teachers to physically travel to that location the day of the session. We expect you to use part of the grant money for this purpose.

Turn on the Camera

As a teacher or an organizer, you have to make sure to keep your camera on at all times so the students can see you. As a student, being able to see the teacher makes the session more engaging as a good deal of human communication takes place with body language.

Also, a benefit of teaching Basecamp is to build your own brand and for people to get to know you. They need to see your face in order to get to know you. Basecamp is anon-friendly with students but we expect teachers to be publicly recognizable.

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Exceptions can be made if the teacher is in a country that is hostile to crypto

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Use a Dedicated Microphone

More important even than having your camera on is to have a decent microphone so people can hear you clearly. Most embedded microphones on laptops and earbuds offer low quality audio recording which makes the session hard to follow, specially if the teacher is not a native speaker of the language chosen for the course. A dedicated microphone even if it’s on a budget can go a long way in improving the quality of the session. Use part of the grant money for this purpose if needed.

Record at High Resolution

It’s very important to choose a streaming platform that would give you a high resolution video that you can then upload to Youtube. We’ve found that 720p is not good enough quality for a sessions specially when sharing code. Aim for at least 1080p although 4K would be ideal.

Google Meet only gives you 720p while Zoom Webinar gives you 1080p but you have to pay for the license. Use part of the grant money to get a license for at least the duration of the course.