Teaching Tips

Grading

• Enter your grades at https://ssc.adm.ubc.ca/fsc/servlets/SRVFSCFramework.
• An explanation as to what the percentage grades translate into in terms of letter grades can be found at http://students.ubc.ca/calendar/index.cfm?tree=3,42,96,0.
• There has been a departmental policy that if a student fails a course because of a failed final exam, failed project, or other component of the course that must be passed in order to pass the course, the student's mark is the minimum of the computed mark for the term and a mark of 45. (If this is misquoted or no longer the case, someone please edit this entry.)
• Grad students must have an average of 80% and at least 72% in each course for it to count for their breadth requirements (see http://www/grads/affairs/Handbook.pdf)

Other

• There's a great set of resources for undergrad teaching at https://secweb.cs.ubc.ca/local/views/ta.shtml, including the great instructor manual at https://secweb.cs.ubc.ca/local/views/instructormanual/
• the Faculty of Science teaching page can be found at http://www.science.ubc.ca/index.htm?http://www.science.ubc.ca/teaching.htm
• You can use https://ssc.adm.ubc.ca/fsc/servlets/SRVFSCFramework to give you a classlist for the classes you're teaching, or you can use the command "classlist [classnumber]" to give you a quasi-up-to-date listing.
• There's a calendar of dates at http://students.ubc.ca/calendar/download/IDatesandDeadlines.pdf. This calendar is awful. Surely there exists a better one. Does anyone know of a better one?
• The AMS has a database of old exams from classes at http://www.ams.ubc.ca/exams/index.cfm?subject=CPSC. Currently they only have exams from 315 and 430, but you may want to check there if you're planning on reusing things.
• Have more to add? Click the edit button below and play around!

-- RachelPottinger - 10 Apr 2005