Maine's Public Universities - University of Maine System

How to take action

Please notify Education 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.

Use the Textbook order form 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.

New faculty must submit faculty policies by going to with the Faculty Policies form

Returning faculty should review their published policies; let Faculty Liaison Services know of any changes.

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.

 

Because each campus of the UMS follows its own schedule, see the system-wide Academic Calendar to help you determine on which dates your broadcast class will meet and on which dates campuses, your broadcast campus or receive locations, may be closed for breaks or holidays.

Optional telephone conferencing for in-class group work for single-student sites.  This limited resource is available “first-come-first-served.”

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

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

10 days prior to student use, submit camera-ready original of handouts or exams; 7 days if you provide copies for distant students. Please complete the proper exam policy form for each exam.
for pen-and paper exams.
for computerized, proctored exams.

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.

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.