For Faculty

The Following Information and Links are to help you with preparing and conducting your classes more efficiently.

Course Tools

• Blackboard request form-how to request a Blackboard site for your course, users manual, etc.

• Blackboard-available for every class.  Very useful to distribute course material and lecture notes.  Requires a Pennkey.

• Bookstore Request Form--Go here to request text books for your course and desk copies.  Click on faculty at top of page

• CIT (Courses in Touch)-Access for class list, pictures of students, and online grading

• CIT Instruction Manual--Instructions on how to use CIT

• Classroom Assignment for courses in LPS (MES and MSAG courses)
  • ENVS Courses
  • GEOL Courses

• Classroom finder--Allows you to see what technology is available in your classroom and see your room in a 360 degree revolving movie.

• Reserve Computer classrooms

• Final Exam Schedule NOTE Point 11 on Page 1.

• Due Date for Grades

• Fall 2009 LPS Academic  Calendar (these dates are the ones to follow when there is a conflict with the 3 year calendar)

• 3 Year Academic Calendar

• SAS Computing Links -Links to help with your computer, courses, and email.

• Obtaining an email account-once you have your PennKey you are eligible for a sas email account on the Facstaff server.

Student/Faculty Resources

• Writing Center--Direct students with poor writing skills here.

• Info Commons-direct students with group projects, posters, and special project needs here.

• Speaking Center-direct students with anxiety about speaking or who need presentation improvement here

• ENVS/GEOL Library Research Page--useful starting place for students with research projects

• Melanie Cedrone -Our Library liaison.  She can set up a library session for your class in Van Pelt or your classroom or she can work with your students individually to help them find sources for papers and projects or call: 215-898-1862

Contacts

Need a van?

Contact Arlene Mand or 215-573-3164

Problem with Pay?

Contact Yvette Bordeaux or 215-898-9191

Need a different classroom?

Contact Joan or 215-898-5724 or do it yourself!

Need an honorarium for a guest lecturer?

Contact Yvette Bordeaux or 215-898-9191

Need to be reimbursed for a field trip?

Contact Valessa or 215-898-6336

A note about Incomplete Grades

Incompletes affect the number of credits earned in the short term, and can have an impact on financial aid, athletic eligibility, visa status for international students, and tuition reimbursement by employers.

The decision as to whether to grant an Incomplete or not is solely that of the faculty teaching the course.

If the work for a course is incomplete as a result of the student's unexplained failure to hand in assigned work or to take the final examination at the regularly scheduled time, the instructor will issue a grade of F for the course.

Instructors deciding to grant an extension to students who have not completed a course at the end of the semester may grant either a short Incomplete (I) or a long Incomplete (II). The short Incomplete must be made up within the first four weeks of the next regular semester in which the student is enrolled. The long Incomplete must be made up by the end of the next regular semester in which the student is enrolled. In either case, if the Incomplete is not made up by the deadline, it will become an F. The Incomplete is made up only when the official grade is submitted in COursesInTouch. After a grade is converted to an F, the instructor may choose to change it.

A student will not be graduated until all Incompletes are converted to a letter grade.

Please let us know if there are additonal items you would like to see here:

Yvette 215-898-9191 email

Valessa 215-898-6336 email