Practical tasks
- Attend the seminar leader meeting (usually week 4 in the spring, and weeks 34 in the autumn).
- Meet with course convenor and the other seminar leaders.
- Lead seminars
- Assess, give feedback to, and register compulsory activities in Canvas.
- Collaborate with colleagues in order to ensure identical requirements for the students across the different seminar groups.
- See description (link to UiO-webpage).
- Contribute to course evaluation, coordinated by the course convenor.
Rules and routines
Change of seminar groups (students)
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Students who wish to change seminar groups, must apply within a deadline.
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The administration reviews the applications prior to the start of the seminars.
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Students must participate in their initially assigned seminar group until their application is approved.
- Should they have questions about this, refer bachelor students to SV-info and master students to the ISV administration (post@stv.uio).
- See deadlines and guidelines for bachelor students on the faculty webpage.
Change of seminar groups (staff)
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Need a substitute teacher to cover a seminar?
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If you are a master student or a research/teaching assistant, you can ask another seminar leader to switch seminars.
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If you are a PhD/postdoc candidate etc. you can ask another colleague to cover your seminar. Together you decide whether to switch seminars or not.
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Inform Jenny de Figueiredo when you have found a substitute. Please state the seminar groups and week numbers. You can also ask Jenny for help in finding a substitute.
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Compulsory activity
- Students must complete certain work requirements to be allowed to take the exam in most courses.
- These compulsory activities are written on the course page. Additional activities are not to be presented as compulsory.
- Details about compulsory activity must be published in Canvas. Collaborate with the other seminar leaders in communicating the requirements and their deadlines clearly. For example by using Modules (see link to Canvas guide).
- You are responsible for creating submission folders in Canvas. Students must submit in Canvas so that admin and other teachers have access.
- Use 'Assignments' for submissions that only you give feedback to (link to Canvas guide).
- Use 'Discussions' for submissions that must be accessible to students within the same seminar group (link to Canvas guide).
- Register compulsory attendance in Canvas during or straight after the seminar. See guide for more info (link to UiO webpage).
- If a student is at risk of failing, the course convenor must assess it. Contact Jenny (bachelor's) or Tone (master's) when you are unsure if a student meets the requirements.
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Students who get a fail on their compulsory assignment, are entitled to get feedback that explains why. It is common to offer second attempts if their first submission fails. Ask the course convenor about whether this applies the course you are teaching.
- NB! A registration deadline will be provided for each course on bachelor's level, by which all registrations must be completed. For master's courses, all compulsory activities must be registered no later than one week prior to the first exam.
Absence and extensions
- Students must apply for valid absence from/postponement of compulsory activities.
- It is the administration who handles the students' applications. You will be notified when students are granted valid absence/postponements.
- It is important that you communicate the rules on absence clearly and unambiguously to the students. See the rules on the faculty webpage.
Individual adaptation
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Students with disabilities or special needs can apply for individual adaptation.
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You will be notified when a student have requested individual adaptation in advance. If students ask about special equipment, extra time, support, etc. during the semester, you should inform them that the faculty has an adaptation service and that they can contact SV-info (bachelor’s students) or post@stv.uio.no (master’s students) for help.
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We recommend planning alternative compulsory activities in case one of your students is granted individual adaptation or an extension after the last seminar. You can for example create a video assignment for students who have valid absence from a seminar they were supposed to hold a presentation. Collaborate with course convenor.
Cheating and plagiarism
- If you suspect cheating or plagiarism, contact the course convenor and one of the following administrative contacts:
- Compulsory activity bachelor's courses: Jenny de Figueiredo
- Compulsory activity master's courses: Tone Vevatne
- Exam bachelor's courses: L?rke Ajaaja Madsen Otzen
- Exam master's courses: ?yvind Colbj?rnsen
- Read more about cheating by artificial intelligence in teaching and assessment.
- Read more about cheating at the University of Oslo's webpage.
Curriculum
- ISV will lend you the course curriculum if the course convenor does not have extra or if it is not available at the University of Oslo Library.
- Lecturers and seminar leaders can purchase textbooks in two ways: either with their own research funds (driftsmidler) or by providing the sub-project code (delprosjektskode) for BA/MA teaching when purchasing books in Akademika.
- Books purchased with the sub-project code must be returned by the end of the semester. Books purchased with research funds can be kept.
- Contact Jenny de Figueiredo if you need the sub-project code to obtain seminar curriculum.
Important notice
We aim for equal treatment for all students, and we apply the same guidelines across seminar groups.This is why they have SV-info/the administration as their single point of contact for non-academic inquiries.
Teachers shall not approve requests about absence from/postponements of compulsory activities, change of seminar groups, or individual adaptation
Please be mindful when responding to students about administrative matters. We ask that you avoid phrases like: "It’s OK with me if it's OK with the administration", as it may create confusing situations should their request be declined later on. All are expected to adhere to faculty regulations.