Teaching and Learning: Staff Information

• Course and Unit Management   show / hide

  Course/unit approval deadlines

  The introduction of any new course that was not previously offered
  The introduction of any new course that was not previously offered must be Faculty approved by 28 February and enrolment approved in CMS by 31 March.  Maintenance of a new course or unit must be approved by the Faculty 4 weeks prior to the start of the relevant teaching period; this includes new versions of courses or units, those requiring new course codes or new unit codes, the introduction of new units into existing courses and minor changes to courses and units as defined by policy. Fees, student loads and marketing deadlines are to be taken into consideration. There is no second window for new courses.

  Maintenance of a new course or unit
  Courses and units must be Faculty approved no later than 4 weeks prior to the start of the relevant teaching period; this includes new versions of courses or units, those requiring new course codes or new unit codes, the introduction of new units into existing courses and minor changes to courses and units as defined by policy. Fees, student loads and marketing deadlines are to be taken into consideration.

  Policies

  Course and Unit Approval and Review Policy
  Higher Education Unit and Unitset Codes Protocol
  Note: This policy is currently under review

  B&L CMS Rules & Tips

  Business Rules for the Course Management System(DOC 44 KB)

  Unit outline changes and new units

  Unit outlines template(DOC 440 KB)

  New course proposals

  Stage 1: New course proposal template(DOC 675 KB)
  Stage 2: This documentation is also available on CMS (navigate to General > Documentation)
  New courses checklist(DOC 73.5 KB)
  New versions checklist(DOC 69 KB)

  Faculty Curriculum Teaching and Learning Committee

  Terms of reference
  Minutes

  Faculty processes

  View all of the faculty processes regarding Curiculum Teaching and Learning

  Talk about ... course management

  This is a community blog where faculty staff can share their views and information
  

• Academic Integrity  show / hide

  Process

  Flowchart (DOC 16 KB)for the suspected accademic misconduct process.

  Key documents

  Academic Misconduct Protocol
  Staff guide to academic misconduct Rules (DOC 101 KB)
  Student guide to academic misconduct Rules(DOC 81 KB)
  

  Student Academic Integrity Officers

  The role of Student Academic Integrity Officers(DOC 43KB)
  Current SAIOs:
  L&J: James McCue
  MAN: Helen Sitlington
  AFE: Kevin Vanderplank
  MTL: Ruth Sibson
  

  Workshops

  Staff may request a workshop from Academic Development at the Centre for Learning and Teaching.

  Talk about ... academic misconduct

  This is a community blog for faculty staff.  

• Academic appeals: staff guidelines   show / hide

  Process

  Student appeals process flowchart (DOC 43KB)
  Student status review process flowchart (DOC 17 KB)

  Key dates

  Appeal submission deadlines

  Documents and guidelines

  Board of Examiners protocol(PDF 98 KB)
  Unit results appeals
  Academic Progression Status Review
  Appeal to the Student Appeals Committee

• Assessment   

  The Assessment Working Party 2007 has concluded its activities. The Associate Dean Teaching and Learning will communicate relevant university level policies via Heads of Schools and the Faculty Curriculum Teaching and Learning Committee.

  Assessment policy

• Teaching awards & grants  show / hide

  • The Teaching and Learning Grant Scheme has changed in 2008 to make distribution of these funds to ECU staff more strategically targeted. The funds ($75,000) will now be either payable directly to ECU staff for their specific and relevant T&L related contributions or used to fund activities and events that will directly benefit ECU staff, for example:
    Funding ECULTURE the T&L Forum scheduled for November – primarily to fund payment of small grants to contributors of refereed papers (similar process to RAI funding)
  • Subsidising targeted Visiting Fellows with a T&L focus
  • Payment to ECU Faculty based staff for running strategic and high demand PD sessions – based on a talent search throughout ECU
  • Complementing Carrick (now ALTC) funding of initiatives within the scope of the Promoting Excellence Initiative project – a large scale Carrick (ALTC) project that will operate within ECU in semester 2, 2008 and throughout 2009
  • Payment for case study examples of good teaching & learning practice at ECU – to be aggregated as a resource publication for teachers.

  Staff can contact Sue Stoney at the Centre for Learning and Teaching for more information

• Course and unit review     show / hide

  In 2008, Aannual course reviews are conducted by the Schools and reported to the Associate Dean Teaching and Learning. In broad terms schools report on what they reviewed, how they reviewed it and any changes anticipated or implemented as a result of the review.

  Major course reviews (2 years or more) are undertaken with assistance from the Faculty Office of Teaching and Learning and the University Centre for Learning and Teaching.

  Templates

  Unit review template(PDF 342 KB)
  Major review template(PDF 630 KB)
  Course review template (PDF 630 KB)
  

• Academic leadership from the Office of Teaching and Learning

  The Office of Teaching and Learning provides advice and professional development to academics on teaching and the scholarship of teaching. Staff seeking advice or expertise on teaching and learning issues should direct their requests to the Associate Dean Teaching and Learning in the first instance.

  Staff seminars 2008: The program for staff seminars for 2008 will be made available in due course.

  Past seminars

• All Templates

  Unit outline template (PDF 440 KB)
  New course proposal template(DOC 675 KB)
  Unit plan template (DOC 267 KB)
  Grade related descriptors (written) (PDF 22 KB)
  Grade related descriptors (oral) (DOC 23 KB)
  Grade related descriptors (applied project) (PDF 22 KB)
  Staff instructions for using the Assignment manager in Blackboard (PDF 226 KB)
  Student instructions for submitting assignments online (PDF 226 KB)
  Standard Blackboard site structure (PDF 288 KB)