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How to take action |
Spring
Due Dates |
Summer Due Dates |
Fall
Due Dates |
- Inform us of additions to course description
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Please notify Faculty Liaison Services of any additions to your course description by filling out and submitting the form found at this link: Information for Your Distance Course. This information will be used to provide an early notice to students of requirements for the course and will allow staff to properly advise prospective students. |
Nov 1 |
Feb 16 |
May 1 |
| Order Textbooks |
- Go to http://www.learn.maine.edu/faculty/forms/bookrequest.php to place text orders online. Copies of online text orders will be forwarded to your campus bookstore for local students and the UMA bookstore (1-800-621-0083, www.umabookstore.com) for distant students.
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Oct 9 |
Mar 1 |
Mar 1 |
- Submit/Review Faculty Policies
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- New faculty must submit faculty policies by going to http://www.learn.maine.edu/faculty/forms/FacPolicies.php
- Returning faculty should go to http://www.learn.maine.edu/edservices/facultypolicydirectory.php to review their published policies; let Faculty Liaison Services know of any changes.
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Nov 9 |
Mar 24 |
Jul 7 |
- Submit materials for copyright clearance
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- Any copyrighted materials; including but not limited to articles, drawings, CDs, DVDs, must go through a clearance process before they may be copied, broadcast or posted. Submit legally-purchased originals of broadcast media (CD, DVD, videotape, audiotape, etc.) or camera-ready copies of print media to Faculty Liaison Services.
Once we have received responses from copyright holders, printed materials e.g. course packs, will be copied and made available to your students at your local campus bookstore and the UMA bookstore. Click here for tips on creating coursepacks.
- If you will be posting a course schedule/syllabus exclusively to a course website forward a file copy to Faculty Liaison Services
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Oct 19 |
Mar 24 |
Jul 7 |
- Reserve Phonebridge
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- Optional telephone conferencing for in-class group work for single-student sites. This limited resource is available “first-come-first-served.” For more information on the use of the phone bridge http://www.learn.maine.edu/faculty/phone_bridge.php.
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Dec 1 |
Apr 7 |
Jul 21 |
- Submit introductory letter (online courses only)
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- If you would like, University College Augusta will mail an introductory letter to students registered in your online course. Click here to get some ideas on what to include in this letter
- Submit a camera-ready original to Faculty Liaison Services
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Dec 1 |
Apr 7 |
Jul 21 |
- Meet with Technician (ITV courses only)
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- For instructors new to ITV your Distance Education Technician will contact you to set up a training. For instructors new to compressed video Glenn LeBlanc will contact you to set up a training
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Dec 14 |
Apr 8 |
Aug 11 |
- Submit handouts/exams
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- 10 days prior to student use, submit camera-ready original of handouts or exams; 7 days if you provide copies for distant students. Don’t forget to complete the proper exam policy form for each exam.
http://www.learn.maine.edu/faculty/forms/Exam.php for pen-and paper exams.
http://www.learn.maine.edu/faculty/forms/OnlineExamPolicies.php for computerized, proctored exams.
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10 Days Ahead for all semesters |
- Return graded assignments, exams, and quizzes to students
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- Send them to Faculty Liaison Services at UC-Augusta where they will be recorded and then mailed out to the distant sites within 24 business hours.
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ASAP
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- Changes to your course
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- If you change your course in any way e.g. postponing exams, cancelling a broadcast, starting a course late, etc. please notify Faculty Liaison Services so we may inform staff at your distant sites. This is especially important with ITV and CV courses.
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ASAP
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