Teaching Preparation List

Available as a Word document for downloading and printing

Course Name and Number ____________________________________________ 

Meeting Days/Time__________________ Location ________________________

Note: Not all checklist items may be appropriate for your course.

For new faculty:

• Complete personal items such as benefits paperwork and parking permit. Go to http://www.uky.edu/Provost/APFA/Recruitment/what_first.php

• Personal Link Blue/Email information known (check with your department or call Information Technology Customer Service at 218-4357)

For all instructors:

• Syllabus created

• See policies needed at: http://www.uky.edu/Ombud/reminder_syllabus.php

• UK Syllabus Template available at syllabus.php

• Course competencies, objectives, activities and assessments match

• Posted to Blackboard (or another web site) and/or handouts prepared

• Blackboard shell ready to use (https://elearning.uky.edu/webapps/portal/frameset.jsp)

• Course materials added to Blackboard

• Back-up copy made by archiving the course (this should be done periodically)

• (Note: For Blackboard questions call the Information Technology Customer Service at 218-4357)

• Textbook(s) ordered (order form at http://www.uky.edu/AuxServ/textbookinfo)

• Course Reserves to library (http://www.uky.edu/Libraries/page.php?lweb_id=537)

• Pre-semester email to students about the course

• Guest speakers, facilitators, teaching assistants contacted

• Course is accessibility/ADA ready (Disability Resource Center: 257-2754, http://www.uky.edu/StudentAffairs/DisabilityResourceCenter/faculty.html)

• Folders (physical or electronic) created for e-mail, electronic files, printed papers

• Classroom checked for:

• Location

• Supplies needed for whiteboard or chalkboard

• AV and computer technology equipment present in room and functional

• Familiarity with use of AV and computer technology equipment in room

• Additional AV requests submitted to http://www.uky.edu/TASC/AV/request.php

• Rooms reserved for non-classroom activities such as review sessions (257-4903)

• Check class list (click on "link blue" on UK home page, click on "myUK," sign on, click on "Faculty Services," click on "Class Rolls," enter year/term and course designation, choose your section, list can be printed and exported to Excel)

• 1^st day planned (See suggestions at firstday.php)

• First day materials prepared (syllabus, handouts, student survey, ice breaker)

• Plan for a mid-semester course evaluation conducted by CELT (feedback.php)

• Make a reminder to submit midterm grades for undergraduates in October

• __________________________________________________________________

• __________________________________________________________________

• __________________________________________________________________

Suggestions for additional items? Contact Kathryn Cunningham (kdcunn2@uky.edu).

Questions about items not covered on this checklist? Contact Bill Burke (burke@uky.edu).