Course Coordinators

Who should I get to know?

Relationships should be established with:

• Program Director and Year Coordinator (if applicable)
• Members of the teaching team
• Academic Unit administrative staff
• Academic Unit Library Service
• Academic Unit Executive Officer or General Manager
• Teaching Innovation Unit
• Student Engagement Unit
• Campus Central Team Leader
• Students enrolled in your course
• Local learnonline advisor (Technology Enhanced Learning Team)
  
  

Further Information:

• Student Engagement Unit
• Campus Central
• Students enrolled in course 
• Teaching Innovation Unit

You should to be aware of the following:

• Assessment Policies and Procedures Manual
• Codes of Good Practice
• Confidentiality of student information
• Students with disabilities
• Copyright
  
  

Further Information:

• Policies and Procedures website
• Assessment Policies and Procedures Manual
• Codes of Good Practice
• Code of Conduct (students)
• Confidentiality of students’ personal information
• Students with disabilities
• Copyright

You are encouraged to familiarise yourself with the following systems:

BI Reporting and BI Hub

MyUniSA (Staff Portal)

• My Teaching
• My Courses
• Student Course List
  
  

Program and Course Management System (PCMS)

A central repository for all Programs and Courses offered by the UniSA.

Course Outline
Provides students with all information about undertaking the course in which they have enrolled.

Learnonline

UniSA's primary environment for delivering and engaging students with online teaching and learning. It includes:

• Course Site
• Assessment and Gradebook
• Turnitin
• Lecture Recording System
• ePortfolio
• Virtual Classroom
• myCourseExperience
• Analytics Dashboards
  
  

Result Entry

The Teaching Innovation Unit’s Technology Enhanced Learning Team, local IT support and administrative staff in your Academic Unit can provide assistance with the above systems.

Further Information:

• Assessment
• Academic Integrity Tools
• BI Hub
• BI Reporting
• BI Hub Training Resources
• Course Coordinators BI Report
• MyUniSA (Staff Portal) 
• My Teaching
• My Courses
• Student Course List
• Program and Course Management System (PCMS)
• Course Outline Help
• Ask learnonline (students)
• Ask learnonline (staff)
• eReserve
• Gradebook
• Lecture Recording
• ePortfolio
• Virtual Classroom
• myCourseExperience
• Analytics Dashboards
• Marking/Results Entry
• Technology Enhanced Learning Team
• myUniSA SMS application
• UniSA Media Library

You should be aware of dates such as:

• University dates (eg census, withdraw and withdraw fail dates)
• Timelines for course review and amendment
• Academic Unit dates (e.g. regular Academic Unit meetings)
  
  

Further Information:

• Academic calendars (key dates and timetables)
• Academic Unit dates and course amendment timelines – General
  Manager

Responsibilities include:

• Ensuring teaching practices are consistent with the Code of good
  practice for University teaching
• Ensuring that the course is evaluated each time it is taught using tools
  such as the myCourseExperience tool
• Reporting on processes and outcomes
• Ensuring assessment practices are consistent with University policies
  and procedures and
• Code of good practice: principles of student assessment
  
  

Further Information:

• University teaching and Codes of good practice
• Quality assurance and improvement: Programs, courses and teaching arrangements
• myCourseExperience
• Authentic Assessment
• Curriculum design

Responsibilities include:

• People, Talent & Culture management and administration, in collaboration with the Program Director or Executive Dean, including:
  • Recruitment
  • Induction
  • Supervision and performance development and management of sessional staff
• Managing workload allocations
• Organising guest lecturers or workshops
  
  

Key Contacts:

• Program Director
• Executive Dean
• General Manager
• Academic Unit CAS (Casual Administration System) Administrator
• Local PTC Manager/Officer
  
  

Further Information:

• Sessional (casual) Academic Staff information
• Quick Guide for Sessional (casual) Academic Staff
• Online Casual Administration
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP)

Responsibilities include:

• Ensuring students understand course requirements e.g. class attendance
• Providing academic counselling for individual students and referring to support services (e.g. Student Engagement Unit) and/or Program Director when required
• Student Referrals (including e-referral). Students can be referred to the SEU when you are concerned about: 
  • their academic progress, or for language and learning support
  • their well-being or health, including mental health, a disability or medical condition that may be impacting their study
    
    

Further Information:

• Teaching Innovation Unit
• SPARK plus - Self & Peer Assessment Resource Kit
• Academic Integrity resources
• Working Collaboratively (online course)
• Student Engagement Unit
  
  • Student Referrals
  • Academic skills and help for students

Responsibilities include:

• Adherence to Assessment Policies and Procedures Manual
• Notifying students about procedures for submission and return of assignments, such as the use of learnonline grade book.
• Discussing assessment procedures with the teaching team, including moderation
• Results entry
• Examinations and supplementary examinations/assessments
• Participation in academic review processes
• Reporting of suspected academic misconduct to Executive Dean
  
  

Key Contacts:

• Academic Unit Timetable Officer
  
  

Further Information:

• Assessment Policies and Procedures Manual
• Asklearnonline
• Marking/Results Entry
• Gradebook
• Turnitin
• Authentic Assessment
• Academic Review
• Academic Integrity

Responsibilities may include:

• Input regarding timetabling/scheduling
• Making room bookings for meetings, etc.

Assistance can be provided by the Academic Unit Timetabler. For meeting room bookings contact FM Assist.

Key Contacts:

• Academic Unit Timetabler
  
  

Further Information:

• Room bookings at FM Assist
• Timetabling at the SAS website

Responsibilities include:

• Correct information in Medici
• Course mediums established/maintained
• Organisation of assessment activities and associated grade entry

Important dates available on the Student and Academic Services website.

Further Information:

• Medici contacts
• Program and Course Management System (PCMS)
• Course Outline Help
• Student and Academic Services key dates and timetables

Responsibilities may include:

• Organising student placements in collaboration with the Clinical Coordinator or Field Placement Officer
• Support and professional development for clinical/field placement supervisors
• Informing students of clinical/field placement requirements (eg uniforms, name badges, police checks and vaccinations)
  
  

Key Contacts:

• Clinical Coordinator or Field Placement Officer
• Field Education for Psychology and Social Work disciplines
  contact your UniSA Justice and Society administration team
  
  

Further Information:

• Clinical Placement Unit for Health disciplines

Support from the Teaching Innovation Unit can include:

• Learning Advisers and Online Education Support
• Academic Development staff
• Technology Enhanced Learning team
  
  

Further Information:

• Teaching Innovation Unit
• Teaching Innovation Unit Teams
• Teaching Dashboard
• UniSA Teaching and Learning Development Grants

The SEU provides a wide variety of services and resources to enhance the university experience of all students at UniSA including:

• Study support,
• Counselling and wellbeing services,
• Career and employment advice and a range of extracurricular activities such as UniSA Sport.

The SEU also offers specialised services for students with disabilities or medical conditions, international students and Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander students.

Students can be referred to the SEU when you are concerned about:

• Their academic progress
• Their well-being or health, including mental health, a disability or
  medical condition that may be impacting their study
• You can save the eReferral form in your portal page for easy access Academic advisors are available on each of our campuses to provide advice and support and connect students with key services

Academic advisors are available on each of our campuses to provide advice and support and connect students with key services.

Further Information:

• Student Engagement Unit
• Services, supports & enablers:
  • Referring Students
  • Career Service
  • Access and Inclusion
  • Study Support
    
  • Counselling, Health and Wellbeing
  • International Student Support
  • Wirringka Student Services

Each Academic Unit and research concentration has a team of librarians who are able to:

• Identify, design and deliver training and resources to support the Academic Unit's teaching, learning and research activities
• Provide support with selecting course readings and making them available to students via the eReserve reading list system
• Ensure that academic programs are supported by appropriate information resources, e.g. databases, journals, books
• Help academic staff keep up to date with electronic information products in their area of specialisation
• Borrow resources from other libraries
  
  

Further Information:

• Library
• Library support for staff

As the frontline team for the Student and Academic Services Unit, Campus Central provides a ‘one-stop shop' of information for student enquiries.

Campus Central helps Course Coordinators and students with many processes including Academic review, eligibilities, policy advice, deferred and special consideration exams, and enrolments.

Further Information:

• Campus Central

The following can assist with professional development:

• Executive Dean/Program Director
• Local PTC Manager/Officer
• Teaching Innovation Unit
• People, Talent & Culture’s Enterprising Essentials Program Library
  
  

Further Information:

• Ask learnonline
• Enterprising Essentials
• Library programs for staff
• Various areas of the University offer face-to-face workshops via RegisterIT
• LinkedIn Learning