Faculty Resources
There are a variety of resources to assist faculty and support them in their teaching efforts. Included on this page are the most updated faculty handbook and links to documents and websites related to: professional development; teaching resources; health and wellness matters; experiential learning support; assessments of learning and teaching; and awards and recognitions.
- Faculty Handbook
- Part-Time Faculty Instructor's Guide (PDF)
- Academic Accommodations, including Note Taker Accommodation Process
- Syllabus Disclosure Template
- Recommended Sample Syllabus and/or SpartanLearn (powered by Canvas) Language for Student Support
- Provides sample language for a variety of types of student support, both academic and personal
- Recommended Sample Syllabus and/or SpartanLearn (powered by Canvas) Language for Inclusive Teaching/Classrooms
- Provides sample language for setting expectations regarding inclusive classrooms
- UT Pet Policy
- Generative AI
UT Resources
Faculty can access their insurance through MyUTampa.
- Fitness and Recreation Center
(Faculty can join for a nominal annual fee.) - Intramural Sports
- Dickey Health and Wellness Center
- Smoking Policy and Cessation Information
- Wellness Center
Research Resources
Florida Undergraduate Research Council
- Council on Undergraduate Research - Learning Through Research
- The Qualtrics Success Kit contains useful tools developed by leading researchers to help you address today's most pressing research challenges along with survey templates that can be used immediately.
Research articles
- Research Experiences for Undergraduates by the National Science Foundation
IRB Information and Forms
- UT's Institutional Review Board Webpage for required forms
Citation Managers
- Zotero is a free and open-source citation manager. Watch this demo on Zotero.
- Mendeley is a free reference manager and academic social network.
- Refworks is an online research management, writing and collaboration tool with tutorials located on the UT Library Web page.
- Directory of Open Access Journals has a large number of freely accessible and shareable journals and articles on a range of topics. You can browse subjects also.
Internet Resources
- Tomorrow’s Professor is an e-newsletter produced by Stanford University's Center for Teaching and Learning. The center provides 100 e-newsletters a year and offers a free subscription service.
- Faculty Focus provides higher ed teaching strategies and several blogs.
- National Education Association provides best practices in teaching and learning strategies.
- Insider Higher Ed contains a teaching and learning section with ideas and information on teaching with technology.
- The Chronicle of Higher Education offers current news, top global stories and many blogs such as ProfHacker - a blog on teaching, tech and productivity.
- American Association of University Professors provides guidelines for academic research and other fundamental professional standards for higher education.
- Educause highlights focus areas on teaching and learning.
- Merlot – Multimedia educational learning and teaching is a collection of teaching, learning and faculty development services provided by an international education community.
- Video – What is a MOOC? Massive Open Online Course
- SoTL Teaching-Focused Faculty project explores issues experienced by teaching-focused faculty of various roles as they seek to engage in SoTL.
Technology Tools and Apps
- Online communication using VoiceThread, a web-based platform that allows online group communication.
- Making handouts with notes from PowerPoint.
- Jing: A Tool for Screen and Video Capture allows you to select any part of your screen for ease of copying.
- Poll Everywhere: Using Mobile Response Technology with ease in the classroom during presentations.
- Twitter Shortcuts and Advanced Features
- Canva: An Amateur Graphic Design Tool
- Tagxedo: Multiple uses for this word cloud tool
- Shortening Long URLs
- Socrative student assessment tool - laptops, tablets and smartphones accessible
- Teacherkit: An app to keep up with attendance and grades
- Story Map is a free tool to help you tell stories on the Web that highlight the locations of a series of events. It's a great way to integrate and make public research and writing for the Web.
Teaching Articles
- Teaching, Learning and Sharing: How Today’s Higher Education Faculty Use Social Media
Mike Moran, Jeff Seaman, Ph.D., Hester Tinti-Kane
April 2011 - Blogs and Wikis as Instructional Tools: A Social Software Adaptation of Just-in-Time Teaching
Jude Higdon and Chad Topaz, 2009 - Video: What is a blog?
