All,
This week was a long one, but I have a feeling the next will be a five-Friday week (as in, “is it Friday yet?” every day). A few quick notes:
1. The CAS advising website is live. Go in with low expectations. We don’t want to replicate other sites, so it’s mostly links, but we’ll keep updating as we go. There is a short FAQ with some of the most common questions we heard from advisors last week. The goal is a place you can go when you forget the details to answer a student or faculty question, etc.
https://admin.artsci.washington.edu/advising/covid-19-resources-advisors
We’ll be updating, so send us other content (e.g., resources you know) you can think to add.
2. There will NOT be a change in the deadline to add/drop without fee. It was discussed extensively at the university level, but proved technically impossible. If you know our systems, that is entirely expected, and now confirmed.
3. Since it came up this week in the Registrar forum: there is now clarification on the synchronous vs. asynchronous question, among other topics on the CTL page on remote teaching.
https://www.washington.edu/teaching/topics/teaching-remotely/
4. On a related note, the usual “first day of class” churn will be complicated by the fact that everything is remote, and key course information (e.g., how the course is graded, whether it is synchronous or asynchronous, etc.) is not easily available to students. Whatever we can do to get information from faculty to students will help facilitate that.
One suggestion is to encourage your faculty where possible to make the “syllabus” page of their course canvas site public, so students can find that information in MyPlan.
Take care and rest up! Let us know what comes up next week (or before)….
best,
Kevin