Scheduled Teaching
This screen may be used in:
- Faculty profile pages
- College and department reporting (i.e. annual reviews, promotion and tenure)
Any scheduled curriculum instruction is recorded in this screen (See Screenshot). Basic course information is automatically imported from our University Goldmine/Banner system, and faculty just have to:
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Confirm all their sections are listed. If there are any courses missing or that should no longer be listed, please contact your Digital Measures campus administrator for removal. Keep in mind the information may need to be updated in Goldmine/Banner first for Digital Measures to stay current as well.
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Enter any additional information you want to document or keep track for reporting purposes. This includes the syllabus.
See the different field descriptions in the sections below.
This section is mostly locked for faculty members. Apart from a few fields you can edit, like adding a co-instructor, the information is populated from what exists in the scheduling system (Banner/Goldmine). Contact your Digital Measures campus administrator for any modifications/updates at digitalmeasures@utep.edu. Keep in mind these modifications may need to be addressed by your department or program in Banner/Goldmine first.
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Term and Year when the section was offered.
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Course Name is the title of the course available in Banner/Goldmine. Sometimes it contains abbreviations.
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Course Prefix and Course Number, as it is listed in the catalog.
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Course Reference Number (CRN). Also known as section number. This is assigned for a specific term and year.
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The Team Taughtt field allows you to enter the names of assigned instructors of record as well for this section. You can select them from the drop-down menu, if this is a UTEP registered user (in most cases).
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The Official Census Day and Weekly Updated Enrollment Numbers are carried over from Goldmine/Banner. These are only unofficial numbers, though. Any official enrollment data must come from the Center for Institutional Evaluation, Research and Planning at UTEP (CIERP).
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Lower or Upper Division information is also carried over from Banner/Goldmine.
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Course Level information is assigned within Banner/Goldmine.
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Schedule Type. As assigned in Banner/Goldmine, this identifies the way this course was scheduled. The most common ones are Lectures (LECT) and Laboratory (LAB).
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Instructional Method. Also, as assigned in Banner/Goldmine. These identify the format in which the section is offered, whether just making basic use of classroom technology or having a fully online learning experience.
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UT System Calculated Faculty Effort Allocation (TLC) and College/Department Calculated Faculty Effort Allocation (TLC) are currently not being captured in Digital Measures.
This section captures information teaching-related information that is useful for faculty evaluation reporting. This means it can impact current or future reports that individual faculty, colleges, and departments can benefit from when maintaining up-to-date information in Digital Measures. More specifically, this section allows faculty to document teaching and learning design (and-redesign) work for a particular course/section.
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Select "Yes" if preparation time was allocated for the course.
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New course Preparation? Select "Yes" if this section required allocation of part of your workload to develop. This has to be a brand new course approved/added to the curriculum.
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New format for existing course? Select "Yes" if you were assigned to redesign an existing course in the curriculum. A good example of this is converting a face-to-face course to fully online.
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Provide a percent of the course you were responsible for. Usually, this is automatically populated based on what exists in Banner/Goldmine and has been assigned by your program or department when scheduling the section offering. In most cases you will enter 100%, unless it is a co-taught section.
- In some departments or programs, course leaders or coordinators are assigned when sections are taught by a group of faculty members. This occurs mainly for Nursing or Pharmacy courses.
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Provide a description of any pedagogical innovations you introduced in this course. These can be strategies like a flipped classroom, or student-centered activities that were not previously implemented.
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Along the lines of pedagogical innovations, describe as well any new materials or technologies implemented to make the teaching and learning experience more effective for students.
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You can incorporate student related goals as well. These are the learning goals you use in your syllabus.
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Finally, to round up the pedagogical innovations and new materials, describe any aactivities in your course that enhanced student learning and/or student contact with the business community (e.g., guest speaker, SBDC, SBI, or outside projects, field trips, field projects, etc.)
This section focuses on Texas House Bill 2504 (HB 2504), adopted in 2009, which requires all public institution of higher education in Texas to provide public access to certain course information, including course syllabi and faculty CV. The University complies with this law through its faculty profile pages, available at https://facultyprofiles.utep.edu (also available as https://hb2504.utep.edu).
Part of the information compliant with HB 2504, specifically about the syllabus and course-related information, is captured in this section of the screen. It includes:
- a brief description of each major course requirement, including each major assignment and examination
- the learning objectives for the course
- a general description of the subject matter of each lecture or discussion
- and, list of any required or recommended readings
CV information is captured in the Personal and Contact Information screen, under the Personal Vita/Personal Vita URL section. Find out how to upload or update your latest information there.
Faculty may use the HB2504 related fields provided or they may have these items included in their syllabus upload or syllabus URL share. Uploading a syllabus is as easy as attaching a file to an email. Additional documents that support syllabus and teaching strategies and practices can be uploaded in this screen. These can be rubrics, peer evaluation instructions, etc.
A quick video on how to upload your syllabus is available in the Guides and Videos section in this site. Keep in mind the syllabus and CV should be uploaded no later than the 7th day after the first official day of classes.
If you have any questions on HB 2504, contact the Provost Office at 747-5725. You can send your questions to digitalmeasures@utep.edu, and the Digital Measures campus administrator will channel your inquiry with the appropriate contact.