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Moody College Faculty & Staff Resources

(Booking rooms, branding guidelines, contact ITS, etc.)
https://moody.utexas.edu/faculty-staff-resources

Moody Service Desk

• 512-471-1199 
• Press 1 for the Service Desk  

Most Used Faculty Resources

New Faculty

• New Employee Checklist

• Mandatory New Faculty Orientation

• RTF Faculty Bio Page: We need to add your bio to the RTF faculty web page. Please fill out the new faculty web profile form with your headshot, bio, and CV so that RTF Sr. Programs and Communications Coordinator, Elana Wakeman, can create the page for you.
  

• Send official utexas email address and office hours to Teresa Valente.

Links

• Academic Integrity Violation / Dishonesty - Faculty Disposition / Referral Form
• ADA Accommodations policies (HOP)
  
• App Space Wiki
• Canvas
• Center for Advancing Teaching Excellence (CATE) - Moody College resource on online learning
• Course Instructor Surveys 
• Course Evaluation Surveys (results for all evaluations conducted after Summer 2022 can be found here)
• Course Evaluation Surveys - information
• Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion / Campus Climate / Title IX
  
  • Accommodations for Students

  • Campus Climate Team Bias incidents

  • Campus Climate Incident Online Report Form

  • Disability and Access
  • DEI - UT
  • DEI - Diversity, Equity & Inclusion (Moody College)
  • Non-discrimination Policy
  • 2022 Proposed RTF Strategic Action Plan for DEI
  • Title IX office

  • Title IX Report

  • Voices Against Violence

• Faculty Activity Reports (FARs)
  
  • Instructions
  • Publications Database 
  • Faculty Activity Report website
• Faculty Innovation Center
• Finals schedule
• Grade changes / Grade reporting deadlines
• Grading / Writing - Faculty Assistance for Grading Papers & Improving Students' Writing
• Graduate Student Employment Rules - 
  • Employment rules for graduate students can be complicated. Please consult with Mallory Nimis before making any decisions regarding graduate student employment.
  • ADA Accommodations
  • Also see: Best Practices for Working with Graduate Students with Dependents.
• Logo - RTF Logo
• Longhorn Production Directory
• Main RTF Department Office hours
• Moody Faculty and Staff Portal 
• Ombuds
• Parking and Transportation Services
  • Occasional Parking Program
  • Sure Walk - If you are on campus late (7 pm to 2 am) and have concerns about your safety, all students, faculty, and staff can request Sure Walkers to accompany them on their walk home or to their campus destination. Call 512-232-9255. 
  • UT Night Rides - Lyft rideshare service
• Prerequisite Waiver Form
• Room reservations - App Space
• Reservations - Outdoor Moody College Spaces
• Syllabus boilerplate
• Teaching Review Requirements
• Telephones - how to request redirecting existing office phone to MS Teams
• Texas Moody Media Events listings
• Textbooks
  • Authorization to Use One's Own Textbook
  • Request Digital: Longhorn Textbook Access (LTA)
• The Hub

RTF Business Services

Find guidelines and request forms for purchasing, travel, hiring, paying guests/lecturers, and other accounting-related procedures.

Studies-Related

• ♦ TA/AI Evaluation Form
• ♦ TA Job Duties Form (10 hr)
• ♦ TA Job Duties Form (20 hr)
• 301N Guidelines
• 307_308_317_AI Guidelines
• Classroom Observation Peer Review Assessment Guidelines
• MA and PhD Admissions/Review Process
• Continuing Fellowship Guidelines for PhD
• ♦ PhD Annual Review Form
• ♦ Admissions Faculty Feedback Form

Production-Related

• RTF Production Handbook

Other Forms/Resources

• Door Sign Templates
• Fall 2023 Office Hours/signs/directory
• ♦ Talent release form
• ♦ Moody College Prerequisite Waiver Form for Undergraduate Courses

Student Support

• Academic Advising
• Behavioral Concerns Advice Line 24-hour: 512-232-5050
• Counseling and Mental Health Center
• Counseling and Mental Health Center 24-hour Crisis Line: 512-471-CALL (2255)
• Moody Writing Support Program
• Sanger Learning Center (tutoring)
• Services for Students with Disabilities

• Student Emergency Service

• University Health Services

• University Writing Center

Syllabus Requirements/Boilerplate

Please include the following in all of your syllabi: Syllabus Boilerplate

Here is an editable UT syllabus, to support an easier syllabus development/revision process, the CATE team has created a Moody College syllabus template containing all required UT information and additional specific information for Moody College students. 

TEACHING GUIDE for RTF Faculty, Lecturers, & AI's

The following includes a lot of information you'll need to prepare to teach in RTF: Teaching in RTF

Policies and Procedures

Boilerplate for Grant Proposals

College facilities summary

Teaching Policies & Procedures

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  Absence - Failing Reports
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  Class Attendance
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  Classroom Tech Support
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  Communication and Culture Class Guidelines
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  Final Exams - UT Policy
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  First Class Day
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  Grades
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  Information for New RTF Faculty
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  Lecturer Information
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  Office Hours
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  Overload Teaching Policy
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  Plagiarism
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  Prerequisites
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  Privacy of Student Information
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  Registration
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  Returning Exams and Assignments
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  RTF Faculty Absence Policy
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  Substantial Writing Component Guidelines
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  Syllabus Requirements
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  Teaching Information for New Lecturers in RTF
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  Teaching Reviews
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  Working with TAs and AIs

Other Polices and Procedures

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  Department Committees 2013–2014
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  RTF Media Library Acquisition Policy
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  Permanent Faculty (tenure, tenure track) Equipment Use
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  Taking Equipment Off Campus
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  Release Time Grants Policy
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  Outside Employment & Conflict of Interest
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  RTF Safety Policy - Film Productions
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  Travel Procedures for RTF Faculty and Staff
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  Consensual Relationship Policy
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  Phones and Long Distance

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Resources and Help for You and Your Students

Moody College Emergency Procedures

Calendars

(Please see Calendar Access Instructions  for more details.)

RTF Office Manager Teresa Valente can help you out with subscribing to Outlook Calendars

• Outlook calendars:
  

  • RTF Faculty/Staff Calendar (Meetings and Deadlines)

  • RTF Department Calendar (Events & Screenings)

• RTF Public Events via Texas Moody Media
• UT Austin Events Calendar
• Publicize news: Email RTF Sr. Programs & Communications Coordinator Elana Wakeman at ewakeman@austin.utexas.edu

Staff Info

• RTF Staff Contact List
• Staff Org Chart
• Staff Guide
• Staff Duties (In Detail)
• RTF Accounting/Purchasing email: RTF-Accounting@austin.utexas.edu
• RTF Internships: RTFInternships@austin.utexas.edu
• Moody Production Team: comm-production@austin.utexas.edu
• Moody Tech Services/Help Desk: comm-help@austin.utexas.edu
• Moody Equipment Checkout: moody-checkout@austin.utexas.edu
• Moody Marketing/PR (including Moody Messenger notices): MoodyCollegePR@austin.utexas.edu
• Moody Undergraduate Advisors: commstudentadvising@austin.utexas.edu 

Faculty Emails & Listservs

• Guidance on UT Mail
• RTF Faculty & Staff individual emails*
• Faculty Profiles
• Media Studies Faculty
• Production/Screenwriting Faculty
• Faculty Listservs (emails may funnel through a moderator for approval; all conversations are preserved in archives)
  
  • RTF Faculty (ALL current semester's full-time and part-time faculty, except for AIs; updated by RTF office manager) - rtf-faculty@utlists.utexas.edu
  • Assistant Instructors  (current semester's AIs; updated by RTF office manager) - rtf-ais@utlists.utexas.edu
  • Extended Budget Council (EBC) (only for faculty on EBC; updated by Rachel Walker) - rtf-budgetcouncil@utlists.utexas.edu
  • Media Studies Faculty (only for faculty who teach in the media studies area of our dept.; updated by Rachel Walker) - rtfstudiesfaculty@utlists.utexas.edu
  • Production Faculty (only for faculty who teach production courses; updated by office manager and managed by production area head): rtf-prodfaculty@utlists.utexas.edu
  • UTLA Faculty (only for faculty who teach at our Los Angeles program; updated by Rachel Walker): utla@utlists.utexas.edu

*If you change your official UT email address, please do the following:

1. Update Workday.
2. Update UT directory
3. Request Rachel & RTF Office Manager to update listservs and contact lists.
4. Ask Elana to update your faculty profile page on the RTF site.

Graduate Student Info & Resources

• Graduate Student Resources Wiki (includes grad handbooks)
• Graduate Student Profiles
• Graduate Student Organization (GSO)
• Grad Student Listservs (managed by graduate coordinator):
  • RTF Graduate Students (ALL) — Rtfgradstudent@utlists.utexas.edu
  • MFA Production — rtfmfa@utlists.utexas.edu
  • MFA Screenwriting — rtfscr@utlists.utexas.edu
  • MA Media Studies— rtfma@utlists.utexas.edu
  • PhD Media Studies— rtfphd@utlists.utexas.edu

UT Tools

• Qualtrics survey tool
• UT Box login (Like DropBox for transferring files)
• UT Box wiki
  
  

RTF Department

• Website:
• Facebook: UT Rtf Austin 
• Twitter: @UT RTF
• Instagram: @utexasrtf
• RTF LinkedIn
• RTF Flickr
• RTF Vimeo
• Media Library
• RTF Logo
• Letterhead