- Getting Set Up
- Getting Ready to Teach
- Getting Help with Your Teaching
- Additional Resources for Teachers
- Resources for Your Students
Welcome to our blended online orientation! Below you will find a series of resources that will help you prepare to teach at Carleton. Please be sure to review these materials in advance of attending the face-to-face session(s), which will be spaces for you to get to know people at Carleton and to ask any follow-up questions that the materials below may raise and/or that aren’t addressed in these resources.
Getting Set Up
While TLS provides an orientation to teaching and learning at the institution, it’s important to consult the items below so that you have everything you need as a Carleton employee.
- The Onboarding Checklist for New Academics: A complete overview of resources you will likely need to consult in your first year as a full-time instructor (CUASA) at Carleton
- Information Technology Services’ New Academics webpage: A brief overview of the steps you will need to take to get set up on Carleton’s various platforms
- Human Resources’ Orientation and Onboarding webpage: A brief overview of HR’s orientation and onboarding resources
- Payroll and Banking Information webpage: A brief overview of the steps need to set up your bank account for automatic deposit – be sure to provide a completed TDI form
- Campus Cards for New Staff and Faculty webpage: Step-by-step instructions for securing your Campus Card
Getting Ready to Teach
Once you are set up on Carleton’s platforms, it’s time to start thinking about designing and teaching courses in the Carleton context. As you design your courses and prepare you syllabi, be sure to consult the following resources:
- Videos: Key Dates and Policies Instructors Need to Know: A series of videos (<1 hour) overviewing some of the key policies and dates at Carleton (slides are available here)
- Teaching Resources: A collection of teaching tips on a wide range of subjects, including preparing for your first course, assembling course materials, and navigating FIPPA
- Academic Regulations: A description of policies that will impact your teaching decisions, especially on the subject of assessment (regulations four and five)
- Academic Year Calendar: A calendar with all of the important deadlines for each term of the year
- Accommodation Statements: A list of the standard accommodation statements to be included on every syllabus
- Brightspace Support for Instructors: A detailed step-by-step support page for using Brightspace
- Video: Brightspace Overview: A brief video highlighting the main functionality of Carleton’s learning management system
- Learning Spaces: A detailed support page for Carleton’s classroom, with virtual tours of classrooms and in-person classroom Orientations
- Carleton’s Educational Technology Website: A detailed support page for Carleton’s supported Ed Tech tools
- Instructor Manuals for E-Grades: Manuals that provide step-by-step instructions for using E-Grades to submit final grades, change of grade requests, and deferred final grades
- Carleton’s Adoption of Technology Enhanced Learning Resources Policy: Carleton’s policy guidelines for instructors considering adopting third-party tools
- D2L Brightspace Asynchronous CI Training: One-time paid Brightspace training for contract instructors.
- Experiential Learning Hub: A centre dedicated to supporting experiential learning using extended reality technologies (e.g., Virtual Reality) and media production tools (e.g. podcasting) – book a consultation to get started
Getting Help with Your Teaching
As you prepare for the start of the term and/or once you start teaching, you may find you need support for some aspect of your teaching. Below is a list of resources and services you can access.
Self-Help Resources
- TLS Teaching Resources: A collection of teaching tips on a wide range of subjects
- Brightspace Support for Instructors: A detailed step-by-step support page for using Brightspace – check out our Brightspace Course Set Up Resources in particular
- TLS Workshops: A listing of all upcoming TLS workshops, on subjects ranging from educational technology to pedagogy
- TLS MediaSpace Channel: A collection of recordings of past TLS workshops on subjects ranging of educational technology to pedagogy
- HyFlex Teaching: A support page for HyFlex teaching, with recommended practices
- Zoom at Carleton: A support page for Zoom, with FAQs and information for one-on-one support
- Video Recording and Hosting with Kaltura: A support page for Carleton’s main video recording and hosting tools, Capture and MediaSpace
One-On-One Support
- TLS Brightspace Instructor Support Requests: A central hub to connect you with the support you need for Brightspace-related issues
- D2L Brightspace Instructor Support Requests: An email request form to connect you with additional support with Brightspace-related issues. Also available via phone: 1-877-325-7778.
- Course Consultation Request: A form on our TLS Jira Support Portal, which will connect you to a TLS partner.
- A to request one-on-one support for any aspect of designing and/or teaching your course
- Equity and Inclusive Communities: A department where you can get support from the EDI Learning Specialist to design equity-driven and inclusive courses, and connect with Equity Education and Service Coordinators to discuss discrimination, harassment, and accommodation support and sexual violence prevention and support
- The Centre for Indigenous Support and Community Engagement: A department where you can get support from the Indigenous Curricula Learning Specialist (LaneBourbonniere@cunet.carleton.ca) to help design Indigenous-Specific materials and pedagogies that provide safe and inclusive courses. This specialist can support course outline development, resource support, and advisement on best teaching practices.
- ITS Service Desk: A central hub to connect you with support for all other technical issues
Additional Resources for Teachers
In addition to TLS, there are a number of other offices on campus that offer resources and services that can help you in your teaching:
- Faculty Affairs: Navigating all aspects of your academic career, information for new full-time academic hires
- Teaching Mentors: Department-specific teaching/course design advice
- CUASA: Knowing your rights and benefits as a full-time faculty member
- CUPE 4600: Knowing your rights and benefits as a part-time contract instructor
- MacOdrum Library: a series of services for faculty, including assistance with course reserves, course copyright, research specialists in your discipline,
- Care Report: Getting support for a student potentially in crisis
- Scheduling and Examination Services: Support for examinations, booking space for PMC students to write in-term tests
- Paul Menton Centre (PMC): Understanding Letters of Accommodation, advising on alternate assignments, support for faculty and accessibility tips for courses
- Carleton Bookstore: Course textbook adoptions
- Campus Safety: Emergency preparedness, safety concerns, medical emergencies, and other safety services
- Equity and Inclusive Communities: Support for instructors on human rights issues in the classroom, sexual violence prevention and support, and on designing equity-drive and inclusive classrooms
- Sexual Assault Support Centre: Advising survivors of sexual violence
- Office of Risk Management: Information on training, programs and resources to ensure safety by mitigating risks and impacts to the Carleton community
- Centre for Indigenous Support and Community Engagement: Consultation and mediation support in relation to course outlines, resources, and materials – consult this resource for more details
- Centre for Student Academic Support: Academic support programs / services that instructors can connect students to via their courses, including the Incentive Program, Learning and Writing Support Workshops, and in-class presentations
- TLS Newsletter: A monthly newsletter for regular updates regarding teaching and learning news, teaching tips, and information about upcoming events and professional development opportunities
- University Affairs: A (free) monthly publication connecting you to important news and opportunities across the university sector in Canada – consult this resource for more details
Resources for Your Students
Throughout the term, you may find it helpful to connect your students to other departments for support. Below is a select guide of the most relevant resources. For a more complete list, consult the Office of the Vice-President (Students and Enrolment)’s Student Referral Guide.
- Registrar’s Office: All course registration related issues, applications for deferrals
- Academic Advising: Advising students on course selection and related matters
- Centre for Student Academic Support: Learning and writing support for students – consult this resource for more details
- Peer-Assisted Study Sessions: Study sessions for select courses
- From Intention to Action Program: Helps students to manage stress and improve academic performance
- Science Student Success Centre: Academic support, especially for students in the sciences
- Math Tutorial Centre: Academic support, especially for students studying math
- Elsie MacGill Learning Centre: Academic support, especially for engineering students
- Centre for Indigenous Support and Community Engagement: Support resources for Indigenous students – consult this resource for more details
- Health & Counselling Services: Counselling services for students
- Campus Safety: Emergency preparedness, safety concerns, medical emergencies, and other safety services
- Mental Health and Well-Being: A collection of tools and resources to support mental health and well-being – check out the Wellness Services Navigator in particular
- Equity and Inclusive Communities: A website where student can access information about discrimination, harassment, and accommodation support and sexual violence prevention and support
- Co-operative Education: Carleton’s Co-op program is one of the largest in Ontario, with options for students in many of Carleton’s academic programs
- Brightspace Support for Students: Support for students using Brightspace, short video tours and demonstrations to help navigate the interface
