Course Syllabus
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1. Instructor Information · 2. Course Description · 3. Learning Outcomes · 4. Learning Resources · 5. Learning Assessment · 6. Course Calendar · 7. Course Policy Document |
Your facilitators for this site are:
- Martha Buell mjbuell@udel.edu
- Dana Veron dveron@udel.edu
- Skylar Washington skywash@udel.edu
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This Canvas course is your home base for getting started at UD. It's built to meet you where you are: whether you're teaching your first semester, diving straight into your scholarship, or both.
Instead of front-loading everything at once, the course spirals a few key topics, like building your UD network, you get a light mention early on, and a deeper home base to return to once you've settled in.
By the end of this course, you'll be able to:
| ✅ | Set up your accounts, teaching tools, and campus access before your first day |
| ✅ | Identify your key contacts: dean, chair, HR liaison, and mentor |
| ✅ | Build your first course, or get your research administratively running, whichever fits your semester |
| ✅ | Locate UD's wider network of governance, community, and professional development resources |
| ✅ | Identify exactly where to come back to when you need deeper support later |
No textbook required. Everything you need lives inside the course itself, or one click away from it.
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There's no fixed schedule, but modules are built to roughly follow your first year's timeline:
| 1 | Before You Arrive · before your first day | |
| 2 | Your First Week · week one | |
| 3 | Your First Semester · throughout the term | |
| 4 | Your First Year · ongoing growth | |
| 5 | Your UD Network · home base, bookmark it |
Course-specific policies
Skip around freely. Modules don't need to be completed in order, and there's no penalty for coming back to something later.
UD standard course policies
This is an internal orientation resource, not a credit-bearing course, so standard academic policies (attendance, grading, academic integrity) don't apply here in the usual sense. If you're looking for UD's actual academic policies to reference for your own courses, those live in the Faculty Handbook.