New teachers checklist

Teaching and learning roles

Be sure to find out who holds the following positions in your school and faculty:

• Associate Dean (Academic)
• Head of School
• School Director of Teaching and Learning (previously known as Chair of Teaching and Learning)
• Chief Examiner
• School Integrity Officer.

These roles have specific responsibilities described in the Teaching and learning roles and responsibilities policy.

Professional staff supporting teaching and learning

Faculties and schools have a range of professional staff to support your teaching, learning and assessment requirements. Most schools have staff to help with some of the administrative processes around teaching. All faculties and some schools have Learning Designers to help advise and co-design learning and assessment material. Your school and faculty may also have eLearning specialists or other specialist support staff too.

Find out who they are and how they can help you

The UQ Library has Faculty Service Librarians who can partner with you to develop impactful resources and experiences which support research and teaching and enable student learning.

Information Technology Services (ITS) provides a wide range of IT services to support you in your work. Visit IT support to browse IT solutions or to request assistance.
 

• You can find policies and processes related to teaching at UQ in the UQ Policy and Procedures Library.
• The eLearning website provides detailed guides on using UQ’s teaching and learning technologies.
• ITaLI is UQ’s Institute for Teaching and Learning Innovation. We provide teaching and learning expertise and support services for all UQ staff. We can provide guidance in all areas of teaching and learning, assessment, curriculum, analytics, educational research, teaching recognition and student evaluations.
• Many schools and faculties provide guidance for their specific context. Talk to your colleagues to identify the resources available.
• Subscribe to UQ’s Teaching Community Update to stay up to date with teaching and learning events and news across UQ.

• Orientation for all academics new to UQ: provides essential information about the University and your role as an academic (academics new to UQ are invited to attend this session).
• The eLearning Systems and Support team offers a range of online and in-person workshops, personal consultations with an eLearning Adviser and technical support.
• The Learn.UQ (Blackboard) Basics course, either live or self-paced, introduces UQ's Learning Management System.
• Teaching@UQ: this course provides an introduction to teaching and learning at UQ for lecturers and course coordinators (four sessions over one semester).
• Staff Academic Integrity Modules (SAIM): you are encouraged to explore these modules developed to promote a robust culture of academic integrity at UQ. SAIM is a companion resource to the Academic Integrity Modules (AIM), modules that all students new to UQ are required to complete in their first semester.
• Workday Learning Content website: find a range of teaching, learning and assessment professional development learning opportunities scheduled throughout the semester.
• Open Course Scheme: the Open Course Scheme gives you the opportunity to visit classrooms to observe how others teach at UQ.

View more teaching career development options