The Academic Side

Course Assignments

Associate Department Head (DH) will send out letters to the individual instructors about which course(s) they will be teaching next semester.
The location (classroom) of a course is in the letter and posted on the Timetable of Classes. Most of the classrooms are locked until a week before the semester begins. Contact Classroom Audio Visual Services or Akiko Nakata at ISE, anakata@vt.edu, if the instructor wishes to check the audio/visual systems at the scheduled classroom earlier.
The faculty instructors have swipe card access to the audio/visual systems in the general classrooms, but students don’t have access. The instructors are responsible for assigning the course GTAs to the classroom audio/visual access. Contact Akiko Nakata for more information.

Timetable of Classes

Classroom Audio Visual

Classroom A/V Access

Instructors need to reserve a classroom if needed outside of their regular scheduled class period (e.g., make-up classes, review sessions, double-time exams, alternative exams).
Email Akiko Nakata (anakata@vt.edu) with the following information for a classroom reservation request:

Course Number (e.g., ISE 2014)
Purpose (e.g., alternative exam, weekly review sessions)
Date and Time (e.g., November 14, 7 - 9 pm; Tuesdays, 6:30 - 7:30 pm)
Minimum number of seats required in the classroom (e.g., 120 seats are needed if 60 students will take an alternative exam with their laptop at the desk).

Classrooms are reserved on a first-come, first-served basis. Larger classrooms (60+ seats) are reserved sooner (therefore, unavailable), especially at the beginning and during the last several weeks of a semester. Almost no large room is available on Mondays & Wednesdays from 9:05 am to 5:15 pm, and Tuesdays & Thursdays from 9:30 am to 4:45 pm throughout the semester.
Consider the standard class meeting time for planning classroom reservations. For example, fewer classrooms are available if a course-related event (e.g., a review session) is scheduled on Mondays from 5 to 6 pm. That’s because it goes over 2 class meeting times (4 - 5:15 pm and 5:30 - 6:45 pm). More classrooms are available if the event is planned for 1 class meeting time (e.g., 5:30 - 6:30 pm) or a later part of the day (e.g., 7 - 8 pm).
Plan course-related events ahead of time, ideally during the first week of a semester when more classrooms are available for reservations. Student organizations are allowed to reserve classrooms from the 6th day of a semester and tend to reserve large rooms in the evenings.

Student Perceptions of Teaching (SPOT) is Virginia Tech’s centrally supported method for gathering student feedback on course and instruction.
SPOT opens for students the last 2 weeks of classes in the spring and fall semesters. Encourage students to provide constructive feedback to our course by completing the SPOT.
SPOT results of the instructor’s course are available on the instructor’s CANVAS account a few weeks after the semester is over. The SPOT results of all ISE courses are reported to the DH and Associate DH via the ISE SPOT administrator (Akiko Nakata).

SPOT

CANVAS

Email the ISE textbook coordinator (Akiko Nakata, anakata@vt.edu) if you will assign a textbook or not to your course. It is necessary to let her know even though you don’t assign any textbook to your course. She will report the textbook information to the University Bookstore and post it on the textbook page of the ISE website.
Email the ISE textbook coordinator if you would like to have a copy of the textbook that you assign to your course. She will first check with the publisher for an instructor copy and request a copy from the publisher’s sales rep for VT. If an instructor copy is unavailable, she will request the ISE Fiscal Team to purchase a copy on your behalf.
GTAs can borrow required textbooks from the ISE department. Contact the ISE textbook coordinator if the required textbooks will be necessary for the GTAs to perform their job. She will request the ISE Fiscal Team to purchase copies, and contact GTAs when copies are available for them to borrow for a semester.

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