Teaching & Professional Development Resources

Human Resources

Prior to your first day, review the new employee resources from the Department of Human Resources.

HR provides guides for:

• Your First Month of Employment
• Your Second Month of Employment
• Your Third Month of Employment

Canvas

For many instructors, Canvas is the key way that information, lessons, and quizzes are provided to their students. At UNC Charlotte, we have many resources readily available for you to learn to use, set up, or solve issues in Canvas.

• UNC Charlotte has a Canvas FAQs page.
• Canvas provides several guides to follow.
•  The Center for Teaching and Learning provides workshops on using Canvas.

Center for Teaching and Learning

The Center for Teaching and Learning provides learning opportunities for instructors and faculty at UNC Charlotte. The Center provides a variety of resources on topics from online teaching to hybrid learning. Resources include:

• Canvas Training
• Classroom Tutorials
• Teaching Guides
• Self-Paced Workshops
• Innovate Your Teaching Workshops

Atkins Library

UNC Charlotte’s Atkins library provides a wide variety of resources, including:

• Faculty and Staff Resources
• Course Reserves (electronic and print)
• eTextbooks
• Alternative textbooks
• Research support and data management
  • Interlibrary loan
  • Subject librarians
  • Request Items for Pickup
  • Research Guides
• Classroom development
  • Library instruction program
  • Avoiding plagiarism module
  • How-To Videos

Faculty & Advisor Self-Service

Self-Service Banner is the system used by all active faculty and staff to perform various functions. These functions include entering grades, viewing course information, and viewing student information for advising. Self Service Banner is accessed by logging in to My.Charlotte.Edu.

The links below guide you through accessing information in the system.

• Viewing your faculty course assignments
• Viewing your faculty detail schedule
• Viewing your detail class list and wait list
• Faculty grade entry instructions
  • Midterm Grades (for entering unsatisfactory Midterm grades)
  • Final Grades (official)
• Faculty and Advisor Self Service Banner Manual

Academic Calendar

The Academic Calendar is provided by the Registrar’s Office and will give you an overview of the academic year or semester. You will see key dates, including university holidays, listed there.

IT Help

The IT Service Desk‘s goal is to help faculty, staff, and students use the technology provided by UNC Charlotte.  Support is available via phone and online.  You may contact the Service Desk by:

• Calling 704-687-5500 (or 7-5500 from a campus phone)
• Using your NinerNET credentials, log in to HelpDesk Online to request assistance by submitting a ticket

Click here for more information.

Learning & Development Portal

Did you know that UNC Charlotte provides a wide variety of free training workshops to employees? Visit the Learning & Development Portal to sign up for workshops, covering topics such as:

• Introduction to Google Sheets, Google Forms, and Google Docs
• Overview of Zoom AI Companion
• Organizing Your Gmail
• Mental Health First Aid
• Increasing Your Productivity
• Positive Psychology in the Workplace
• Dynamic Listening Skills
• Fearless Decision Making
• Green Dot Training

Assessment and Accreditation

The mission of the Office of Assessment and Accreditation is to support the assessment and professional development needs of the University community.  Two of their major objectives include:

• Encouraging the adaptation of best practices in assessment
  • Form collaborations by offering consultations and workshops on best practices in assessment
  • Tell the story of student learning by triangulating multiple measures for institutional level and general education level outcomes data
• Fostering connections between assessment staff and the campus community
  • Use the Faculty Showcase to create faculty-to-faculty relationships, educational opportunities, and classroom learning models
  • Support faculty in classroom research through Scholarship of Assessment Grants 

Connect

Connect is an academic early alert and advising connect software system. It allows instructors to send systematic notifications to students regarding their academic progress in their courses referred to as flags, kudos, and referrals.  Academic advisors are able to access this information to better connect with students, and use the system for maintaining advising notes.  Students use the online system to conveniently make appointments with their academic advisor, instructor, and student support services such as tutoring and career advising.

Check out the University Advising Center’s website for more information about Connect, upcoming trainings, and a getting started guide.