Faculty & Staff Resources

General Information

Banner system for faculty -- enter course grades, check course enrollments, change employee info, & more
Faculty Assistance Center for Teaching (FACT) -- Blackboard Vista & teaching technology
USU Office of Human Resources -- employee information
USU Vice President for Research -- research & grants support
USU Registrar's Office -- course information & online forms
Distance Education Library Services

Best Practices Teaching Series
Academic policies of USU
Check course schedules
Official academic calendar
Syllabus resources - academic policies, University procedures, and example syllabi from USU Academic Affairs
- Plagiarism definition and USU policy (can be directly used in syllabi)
- Required ADA syllabus statement for disabled students
- Withdrawal and Incomplete policies
- Develop a more effective syllabus - handbook and online workshop (Brown Univ.)
Student code of conduct
Online forms from the USU registrar-- add/drop, change grades, hold privacy, etc.
- Course incomplete agreement form
Department approval of courses

Links to Centers for Teaching advancement from colleges and universities throughout the country
Carnegie Academy for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (CASTL) - national higher ed. program for advancement of teaching
Achieve better student learning outcomes - USU Academic Resource Center
Assessment and evidence of excellent teaching
- Create a teaching portfolio
- Student course evaluation summaries
Excellent collection of teaching tips from Honolulu Community College
Improve student writing in your courses - help from the USU On-line Writing Center
- Handouts for students to learn writing & research skills
Guide students to prepare better student presentations - handout of main ideas from Brown University Sheridan Teaching Center
Motivate your students
Principles of teaching adult students
Effective questioning techniques
Different teaching methods
- Get feedback from students after every class
- Use of problem-based learning to promote critical thinking
- Just-in-time-teaching -- spend more time teaching what students don't understand vs. what they do understand
- Engage your students by use of active learning techniques
- Cooperative/collaborative learning workshop -- what is it? why is it useful? how to use it in your class?

USU Banner System - used for administration of grant monies
Grant Proposal Info
Publication opportunities
- National Council of English Teachers' Teaching English in the Two-Year College
- National Council of Mathematics Teachers' publications