This page includes links to resources, policies, and forms to assist faculty with teaching needs and course planning.

• Attendance Policies
  
  

• 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:

• Office Hours - Guidelines & Expectations for Faculty

• Syllabus Requirements

• Course Evaluation Surveys - information

• Peer Teaching Reviews
  
  

• Exams. You are required to retain unreturned student material (assignments and exams) for one long semester after the semester in which the work is done. However, one year is recommended. A long semester is either the fall or spring semester.

• Grading

• Academic Integrity

• Resolving Academic Misconduct

• Course Description for website - Send to both Teresa Valente to update databases and these pages:

  • Undergraduate Courses

  • Graduate Courses

• Flags

• Prerequisites

  • Prerequisite Waiver Form
    
    

• Canvas - UT's official web-based learning management system for hosting and sharing all course materials.

  1. 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:

     1. posting the official course syllabus in the official Syllabus tab on Canvas course page and

     2. conducting all electronic communication related to grading within Canvas (or a Canvas-integrated tool).

  2. 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.

  3. 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.  

  4. Need help with Canvas? Some options...

     1. Visit the Canvas Training Center.

     2. Seek consultation from the Moody College's Center for Advancing Teaching Excellence (CATE).

     3. Contact the UT Service Desk at 512-475-9400.

• 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

  • 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 arrange.

• Photocopying & Printer

• Textbooks

  • Authorization to Use One's Own Textbook

    • Please use the following routing process: 

      1. Department Chair - Cynthia McCreery (Cindy.McCreery@austin.utexas.edu) sign

      2. Dean's review Team - Cassandre (cassandre.alvarado@austin.utexas.edu) Initial

      3. Dean - Anita Vangelisti (vangelisti@austin.utexas.edu) sign

  • Request Digital: Longhorn Textbook Access (LTA)

• 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

• 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.

• TAs and AIs, Working with

• Tech - Classroom Tech Support

• Writing

  • 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.