Guidelines Concerning Coordination of Courses:
The School of Mathematics and Statistics adopts the following items for information and guidelines concerning course coordination:
(i) the course coordinator, in consultation with other course instructors, will determine and order the common textbook(s) to be used for the course;
(ii) the course coordinator will be responsible for providing regular guidance, to ensure that each course section covers the official syllabus for the course;
(iii) for course sections offered in the same term, there will be one common final examination, to be prepared jointly by the course instructors under the direction of the coordinator;
(iv) the course coordinator, in consultation with the other course instructors, will determine the weighting of term mark and final examination mark in the calculation of the final course grade; this weighting is to be the same for all sections;
(v) the course coordinator, in consultation with the other course instructors, will allocate the marking of the final examination to the course instructors who are teaching the course in that term, in proportion to the number of lecture sections taught by each course instructor;
(vi) the course coordinator is responsible for reminding the course instructors to put the students’ final examination scripts on file in the School, and also place the students’ term marks on file.
Finally, all instructors are encouraged, either verbally or in writing, to inform their students of TA opportunities within the School for future terms. Information on how to apply can be found on our School web page.
In hiring undergraduate TAs, the priority shall first be given to students who have passed some of the following Honours courses: MATH 1002, 1102, 2000, 2100, STAT 2655, 2559 with grades A- or better.
Academic Integrity
Instructors are encouraged to look at the academic integrity policy.
Academic Accommodations
The Department of Equity Services requests that you also make students aware of the procedures regarding more general accommodation requests such as pregnancy or religious obligations. For more information…
Religious Accommodations
Carleton University accommodates students who, by reason of religious obligation, must miss a compulsory academic event such as an examination, test, assignment deadline, laboratory session. To assist members of the University community to meet our obligation to provide reasonable accommodation, Equity Services has prepared a list of holy days most commonly cited as conflicting with academic obligations and so require religious accommodation.
Copying Material
Contract Instructors have access to the Faculty Workroom (4390HP). The Workroom maintains the following equipment:
- High speed copier with the following features; stapling, collating, fax, scan and email
- Two computers
- Network printer
- Risograph
Note: The copier in the Mail Room (4313HP) is not available to faculty and instructors.
For training on use of the copier, see Tracie in the main office, 4302HP.
IMS Electronic Classroom
IMS provides technical support for classroom instruction. 112 classrooms have been equipped as electronic classrooms providing technology to facilitate the display of computer and video resources. 56 of the rooms are fully equipped electronic classrooms with a teaching console – the remaining 56 rooms are similarly equipped but with an equipment rack rather than a teaching console. For more information…
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Library Resources
You may use reserves for those books and materials that you expect to be in particularly heavy demand for the duration of the course. Reserve items will be kept at the circulation desk. You may place library books, photocopied articles or your own personal books on reserve.
Materials can be given a variety of loan periods: 2 hours, 4 hours, 24 hours, or allowing greater access to all students in a course.
You will need to submit your “reserve request” forms well in advance of the time your students will need the material. Deadline dates are provided before each semester. Material submitted after the deadline can take up to four weeks to be processed. For more information…
Class Cancellation
University policy is that class instruction will be held regardless of weather conditions unless a general announcement is made (usually by radio) that all classes are cancelled. It is extremely rare for Carleton to take such action.
Classes should not be cancelled except when it can’t be helped e.g. Last-minute illness. Finding a substitute is preferable to cancelling. The director should be consulted if you find yourself in either of these situations.
Teaching Evaluations
University regulations require that a student teaching evaluation be carried out during the last two weeks of courses. Contract Instructors are required to have all of their courses evaluated, of which one must be “designated”. The scores on the designated teaching evaluation are used by administration for performance assessment and career decisions.
The contract instructor must leave the classroom during the evaluation. Students complete course appraisal forms that are then sealed in an envelope, signed by a student volunteer and returned to the school. The signed/sealed envelopes are forwarded to the office of institutional research and planning for results to be tabulated.
Once final grades have been released, a report is forwarded to the instructor and copied to the director of the school. All evaluations, including student comments, will be returned to the instructor.
The evaluations must be administered in such a way as to afford all the students in a given class a reasonable chance to respond. It is not acceptable, for example, to distribute the questionnaires without advance notice during a lecture that the instructor has reason to believe many students won’t attend.
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