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This page includes links to resources, policies, and forms to assist faculty with teaching needs and course planning.
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Attendance
Course Requirements
- Beginning Fall 2024 - The Provost’s Office will enforce a minimum Canvas presence policy for all organized courses with more than 5 students. Minimum presence involves:
- posting the official course syllabus in the official Syllabus tab on Canvas course page and
- conducting all electronic communication related to grading within Canvas (or a Canvas-integrated tool).
Evaluations of Teaching
Course Evaluation Surveys (results for all evaluations conducted after Summer 2022 can be found here)
Grading & Exams
Registration Planning
Course Description for website - Send to both Teresa Valente & Elana Wakeman to update databases and these pages:
Flags
Center for the Skills & Experience Flags - Faculty Resources. The Writing Flag division of the UGS Center provides these resources for Skills & Experience Flags. They offer faculty workshops and consultations with individual instructors.
Students - Support & Protect
Teaching Materials - Textbooks, Media, & Learning Management Platform
Resources & Policies
- Canvas - UT's official web-based learning management system for hosting and sharing all course materials.
- Beginning Fall 2024 - The Provost’s Office will enforce a minimum Canvas presence policy for all organized courses with more than 5 students. Minimum presence involves:
- posting the official course syllabus in the official Syllabus tab on Canvas course page and
- conducting all electronic communication related to grading within Canvas (or a Canvas-integrated tool).
- Official courses are automatically created in Canvas at least two months before the semester begins. They are not available to students, however, until the instructor publishes it.
A sandbox course allows you to test Canvas features in a safe environment. In your sandbox course, you can add files, create quizzes, etc. and easily copy this content into your official course when you're ready.
Need help with Canvas? Some options...
Visit the Canvas Training Center.
Seek consultation from the Moody College's Center for Advancing Teaching Excellence (CATE).
- Contact the UT Service Desk at 512-475-9400.
- Beginning Fall 2024 - The Provost’s Office will enforce a minimum Canvas presence policy for all organized courses with more than 5 students. Minimum presence involves:
- Articles/publications - digital versions
- The department copier can send digitized copies of materials to your email address or flash drive, which you can then post on Canvas.
- To link to materials at the library, please see find, borrow, or request
- A/V Media / Videos
- Reserve material from UT Libraries - find, borrow, or request
- To access older student films - Reach out to Caroline Frick.
- If you need digitization services, please note that you must supply the physical media to digitize.
Procedures:- Obtain a DVD/BluRay from the PCL or from your personal collection.
- Email Moody College's Assistant Director of Production Services, Keefe Boerner, to request digitization.
- Leave the media in your mailbox and inform that Keefe that it's there.
- Once he has finished the project, he will share a link to the digital file with you and return the physical media to your mailbox.
- Photocopying & Printer
- Textbooks
- File storage. Please use Canvas for sharing files with your students. However, you may want to use Box for sharing files with colleagues and TAs or for storing and sharing large files such as videos.
- UT Box login (Like DropBox for transferring files)
- UT Box wiki
Teaching Support
- Center for Advancing Teaching Excellence (CATE) - Moody College resource on teaching and online learning
- Center for Teaching and Learning
- Provides online resources, consultations, and events to support faculty at all levels. They host a new faculty orientation in August and a teaching colloquium in January.
- The new faculty may find New Faculty Resources helpful.
- Faculty Central
- Access instructional resources, promotion and tenure processes, research and funding opportunities, and more at UT's new one-stop website for faculty-related information, resources, and forms. Read more about this new hub to make it easier for faculty to navigate work and life on campus.
- TAs and AIs, Working with
- Tech - Classroom Tech Support
- Writing
- Substantial Writing Component Guidelines
- Moody Writing Support Program
- offers writing assistance specifically for students in our program, whether they need help with a research paper or writing a screenplay.
- University Writing Center (UWC)
- Presentations - Any faculty member or TA can schedule a University Writing Center (UWC) Presentation, in which presenters visit their class to discuss specific aspects of the writing process or lead interactive peer review and revision workshops. For instructors. You can schedule a presentation here.
- Info for Instructors
- Handouts & Videos on Writing - cover a variety of writing topics. Instructors are welcome to use these handouts and circulate them to their students, and they're also helpful for grading papers.
- Center for the Skills & Experience Flags - Faculty Resources. The Writing Flag division of the UGS Center provides these resources for Skills & Experience Flags. They offer faculty workshops and consultations with individual instructors.