Updates course info including venv session details

Author: philiptharrison

course.md

@@ -15,17 +15,15 @@ programme that will teach you a whole range of skills.
 - **[Better Software for Better Research: Introduction to the Research Coding Course](#better-software-for-better-research-introduction-to-the-research-coding-course)**, Wednesday 22nd October 2025, 2pm to 3pm, online - [slides][intro_slides], [video][intro_video] Passcode: 2u##$=Dv
 - **[Version control: Introduction to Git and GitHub](#version-control-introduction-to-git-and-github)**, Wednesday
     5th November 2025, 2pm to 5pm - [slides][git_slides]
-    - Repeated <span style="color: #ff0000">Wednesday 21st</span> January 2026, 2pm to 5pm
+    - Repeated Wednesday 21st January 2026, 2pm to 5pm
 - **[Software lifecycle planning](#software-lifecycle-planning)**, Wednesday 19th November 2025, 2pm to 3pm, online - [slides][lifecycle_slides], [video][lifecycle_video] Passcode: aPD37!B. (includes full stop)
 - **[Software design](#software-design)**, <span style="color: #ff0000">Date TBC</span>
-- **[Testing and Continuous Integration](#testing-and-continuous-integration)**, <span style="color: #ff0000">Wednesday 18th</span> February 2026 - [sign up form][session5form] (UoY accounts only)
-- **[Documentation](#documentation)**, <span style="color: #ff0000">Wednesday 4th</span> March 2026
-- **[Reproducible computational environments](#reproducible-computational-environments)**, <span style="color: #ff0000">Wednesday 18th</span> March 2026
-- **[Packaging](#packaging)**, <span style="color: #ff0000">Wednesday 1st</span> April 2026
+- **[Testing and Continuous Integration](#testing-and-continuous-integration)**, Wednesday 18th February 2026 - [content][testing_lesson], [files][testing_files]
+- **[Documentation](#documentation)**, <span style="color: #ff0000">Date TBC</span>
+- **[Reproducible computational environments](#reproducible-computational-environments)**, <span style="color: #ff0000">Wednesday 18th</span> March 2026 - [sign up form][session6form] (UoY accounts only)
+- **[Packaging](#packaging)**, <span style="color: #ff0000">Date TBC</span>
 - **[Publishing a software paper in JOSS](#publishing-a-software-paper-in-joss)**, <span style="color: #ff0000">Wednesday 15th</span> April 2026
 
-(Dates after November are provisional and to be confirmed)
-
 ### Target Audience and Prerequisites
 We welcome everyone working with research software, from undergraduates to professors, from beginners to experts, and from people who create analysis scripts on their laptops to those who run first principles modelling on supercomputers. Each session will have some individual prerequisites. Some experience with
 developing research software or scripts, for example in Python or R, might be
@@ -44,7 +42,7 @@ apply them to software and present a global review of the training programme.
 ### Version Control: Introduction to Git and GitHub
 
 **Wednesday 5th November 2025, 2pm to 5pm, in-person**<br>
-**Repeated <span style="color: #ff0000">Wednesday 21st</span> January 2026, 2pm to 5pm, in-person.**
+**Repeated Wednesday 21st January 2026, 2pm to 5pm, in-person.**
 
 If you’ve never heard of or used version control and Git before this is the
 course for you. We start by introducing version control and exploring how it can
@@ -79,7 +77,7 @@ quality code is actually quite straightforward when you understand how to do it
 and what tools are available to make your life easier.
 
 ### Testing and Continuous Integration
-**<span style="color: #ff0000">Wednesday 18th</span> February 2026, in person. [Sign up form][session5form] (UoY accounts only)**
+Wednesday 18th February 2026, in person.
 
 This course aims to equip researchers with the skills to write effective tests
 and ensure the quality and reliability of their research software. No prior
@@ -93,7 +91,7 @@ bugs early and saving you time.
 **Course materials:** [lesson][testing_lesson], [files][testing_files]
 
 ### Documentation
-<span style="color: #ff0000">Wednesday 4th</span> March 2026, in person.
+<span style="color: #ff0000">Date TBC</span>, in person.
 
 Well-documented software promotes reproducibility, maintainability, and
 increased research impact through wider adoption and citation. This course
@@ -102,16 +100,18 @@ accessible and understandable to others. It covers topics such as writing
 readable code and usage instructions.
 
 ### Reproducible computational environments
-<span style="color: #ff0000">Wednesday 18th</span> March 2026, in person.
+**<span style="color: #ff0000">Wednesday 18th</span> March 2026, hybrid - follow-along. [Sign up form][session6form] (UoY accounts only)**
 
 Ensuring that others are able to take your code, run it, and are able to produce
 the same (or equivalent) results is one of the key tenets of FAIR and
-reproducible research software. This course will provide you with an overview of
+reproducible research software. This session will provide you with an overview of
 different ways to make your code reproducible and then focus on virtual
-environments as a specific tool for computational reproducibility.
+environments as a specific tool for computational reproducibility. This session
+will be hybrid and 'follow-along', and cover Python and R, as well as more
+language agnostic solutions.
 
 ### Packaging
-<span style="color: #ff0000">Wednesday 1st</span> April 2026, in person.
+<span style="color: #ff0000">Date TBC</span>, in person.
 
 Packaging your software is one of the important steps in a software project to
 make it both findable and accessible. This course will provide you with an
@@ -120,7 +120,7 @@ exist to package Python and R projects and take you through each step of the
 packaging process.
 
 ### Publishing a software paper in JOSS
-<span style="color: #ff0000">Wednesday 16th</span> April 2026, hybrid.
+<span style="color: #ff0000">Wednesday 16th</span> April 2026, hybrid - Date confirm, sign-up link to follow soon!
 
 Did you know that you can actually publish a paper about your software? This is
 an ideal way to get recognition (and citation) for the software you have spent
@@ -175,6 +175,7 @@ We'd love to hear your (anonymous) feedback: please fill in our [feedback form][
 [feedbackform]: https://forms.gle/t4oJMCPi8wuzJtik7
 [session4form]: https://forms.gle/fC2XVFSxfcb2KsyQ9
 [session5form]: https://forms.gle/8tbkbNXyhwasnhGg7
+[session6form]: https://forms.gle/3ohpUuCEasVLcPB77
 
 [intro_slides]: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1P5dHCa6yvODlx7i6l89083gR-PpTCYsTQI1QgcqGS2k
 [intro_video]: https://york-ac-uk.zoom.us/rec/share/RNQpldj13NL53AoEl0F0Y2OyVHImt0m_hmLHVZVSXOqq4XwNUd9mc8eWLWkbLHnz.HQpZ8VwJWr11mr17