This page outlines steps taken to plan courses for an upcoming semester
Scheduling
- February
- Begin planning fall semester
- October
- Begin planning Spring Semester
- Begin planning Spring Semester
- Once draft schedule is in place, confirm all dates, times, rooms, etc with teaching faculty.
Data Entry
- Schedules get entered into the Class Room Planning App
Teaching Assistants
- Follow the process to solicit requests for Teaching Assistants
Textbooks
- Faculty must submit required and recommended textbook information, including author, title, edition and ISBN through the Coop AIP portal: http://www.tinyurl.com/MITCOOPadopt.
- The system is ties to their MIT account so they have to do this themselves.
Canvas
- All courses automatically get a Canvas site. It will link to the faculty on record.
- Reach out to all faculty (new faulty in particular) to see if they need assistance setting up their site.
- Check on special topics as it sometimes will list that faculty member who most recently taught a course using that number and not the current faculty.
- You will need to update instructor assign but if the former faculty is still listed in Canvas, reach out to Canvas-Support <canvas-support@mit.edu> and ask that the name be removed.
- Materials from a previous semester can be copied over to the current semester.
- Make sure to invite Teaching Assistants to the Canvas course. This will not happen automatically.
Field Trips/Special Events or Speakers
- Capture details on any Field Trips/Special Events or Speakers to add to the MSRED Student Calendar.
- Make note of any major conflicts with other events or with any CRE Events and inform relevant parties.
Syllabus Collection
- Collect syllabi in advance of registration.
- Students often request syllabi of courses they may be interested in registering for.
- It is also important for historical documentations.
- Syllabi are kept in the Academics shared drive under Course Content
Final Exams/Presentations
- Reach to inquire if anyone is hosting a final or presentation after the end of classes.
- These are scheduled by the registrar.
- See exception for RED studio