Syllabus, Office Hours, and Textbooks Submissions

Submitting Your Syllabus

Each semester faculty are asked to upload the class syllabus from every class they teach. We do this for a couple of reasons. Accreditation standards require that in every class section students receive a course syllabus that includes student learning outcomes from the institution's officially approved course outline of record. This provides evidence to show that we are meeting the standard.

And as a practical matter, we get request from students—sometime years later—seeking a syllabus as part of a course equivalency at another institution. This allows us to provide that information without needing to contact the instructor or even if the instructor has retired.

Please upload a syllabus for each separate CRN, even if teaching multiple sections of the same course.

Submit Course Syllabus

Submitting Office Hours

For full-time instructional faculty, five office hours per week are to be scheduled and posted for the convenience of students. The hours may be held in your office, online, and/or at appropriate District locations reflecting the range of delivery modes of your assignments. If half of your teaching assignments are online and half in-person, then half of your office hours should be held remotely and half on-campus, etc.

Submitting office hours is not required for part-time faculty or for any faculty teaching during the summer session. For full-time counselors and librarians, please follow the practice as communicated by your educational administrator for scheduling and posting the required five hours of preparation time.

If you have any questions about the number of office hours to hold or where to hold them, please consult your faculty chair, your union rep, or your educational administrator.

Submit Office Hours

Adopting Textbooks

Textbooks are an enormous factor in the decisions students make about how to enter school, stay on their path, and get to graduation. Timely and accurate adoption of textbooks is vital so that students can plan ahead. It can help them save money by showing upfront what the cost of instruction is as they select classes and by giving them time to search for the best deals and evaluate options like rentals and e-books.

Every semester:

1. Research your textbook options early,
2. Make your adoptions by the communicated deadline,
3. Check your adoptions early and often leading up to the start of the semester (sometimes gremlins are in the system), and
4. Let your educational administrator or faculty chair know right away if you encounter problems.

Adopt Textbooks