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The academic calendar is viewable online at http://www.utexas.edu/calendars/
Canvas
UT offers Canvas Course Management Software to faculty to use to organize their classes. You will appoint your TA on Canvas, so s/he can help you upload course materials, enter grades, post class announcements, etc.
Class Rosters
You can access your class rosters and many other teaching tools on-line via CLIPs.
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At the close of the course all instructors are required to administer the teaching evaluation surveys provided by the University’s Measurement and Evaluation center. The Department staff will alert you to the procedures for administering this survey.
Digitizing course materials
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
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Faculty should not be away from classes for more than an absolute maximum of four days, and should not miss more than two days of classes at a time, widely spaced, with an absolute maximum of two such absences per session. It is essential that faculty be in residence for the first and final days of class. Please do not plan to leave Austin prior to the day that your class officially ends (e.g., last class day or final exam day), and plan to be available to students, at least via email, for a few days' time after you have posted and turned in your grades.
Faculty Handbook
Please review the department policies and procedures in the RTF Faculty Handbook available through the Department website: This should be your "go-to" place for information you need to work in RTF, and you are responsible for being familiar with this information.
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- If you choose to give one, it must be on your assigned final exam day (go to the course schedule, choose the current semester, then click “final exams”).
- If you instead give a final exam on the last class day, it must be for less than 30% of the total grade.
- It is recommended that the due date for final assignments be on the last class day of the semester. However, you may also choose to make your official UT final exam date the official due date.
- You cannot schedule required class activities during the exam preparation days (“dead days”) at the end of the semester (see http://registrar.utexas.edu/calendars for dates). You may have “optional office hours” during these dead days (including reserving a room for those that wish to attend).
Grades
Faculty members are free to develop their own methods of evaluating the performance of students in their classes, but they are required to make the methods of evaluation to be used known in writing before the end of the fourth class day each semester and the second class day each summer term. Responsibility for assuring adequate methods of evaluation rests with departmental faculties and is subject to administrative review. In courses with multiple sections, departments should provide for necessary coordination. Materials used in evaluating a student’s performance must be collected by the instructor at or before the regularly scheduled final examination. The final examination is a common method of final evaluation in courses.
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You will have the opportunity to pay for a garage space at faculty orientation (info to come). The closest garages are the 27th St. Garage and the San Antonio Garage. More info at http://www.utexas.edu/parking/parking/garages/.
Payroll
Official payroll semester dates are different from actual course dates and are Sept. 1 - Jan. 15 for the Fall semester and Jan. 16 - May 31 for Spring. Pay dates for the fall semester are on the first of the month in Oct., Nov., Dec., Jan. and Feb. The Feb. paycheck covers the Jan. 1 - 15 pay period. Pay dates for the spring semester are on the first of the month in Feb., Mar., Apr., May and June. The Feb. paycheck covers the Jan. 16 - 31 pay period.
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Tenured and tenure-track faculty and Lecturers: please send a recent picture, preferred contact details, and brief bio to Elana for the RTF faculty website: http://rtf.utexas.edu/faculty .
Reading packets
Should you wish your students to have a class packet of readings, we strongly recommend that you have these prepared at a nearby copier company, such as Paradigm Books (512.472.7986 or www.paradigmbooks.com) or Jenn's Copy and Binding (512.473.8669 or jennscopies.com - directly across the street from our building). Your students will be responsible for purchasing the packet from them. We are simply not equipped to have large class packets copied on the departmental copier. These companies prepare copyright checks and prepare your packet from your originals within a few weeks’ time before the semester begins.
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