# UC Davis

**Source**: https://www.ucdavis.edu/academics/our-faculty/faculty-resources/teaching-resources
**Parent**: https://www.ucdavis.edu/admissions/undergraduate/international

## Giving Faculty the Tools to Teach

UC Davis is dedicated to helping faculty grow as effective educators in undergraduate and graduate teaching. Through the Office of [Undergraduate Education](http://ue.ucdavis.edu/), faculty members are supported by have access to  campus initiatives and units that support instruction.

### Contacts

- [Undergraduate Education](http://ue.ucdavis.edu/contact/index.html)
- [Graduate Studies](https://gradstudies.ucdavis.edu/about-us/contact-us)
- [Office of the University Registrar](http://registrar.ucdavis.edu/contact/index.cfm)
- [Academic Technology Services](https://iet.ucdavis.edu/units/enterprise-iet/academic-applications/ats)
- [Student Affairs](http://studentaffairs.ucdavis.edu/about/directory.html)

Undergraduate Education is also charged with academic planning in support of course availability and classroom management. [Academic Technology Services](http://ats.ucdavis.edu/) offers instructional technology and media services, both independently and in partnership with Undergraduate Education. Other units that support faculty in teaching include the [University Registrar](https://registrar.ucdavis.edu/), [Graduate Studies](https://gradstudies.ucdavis.edu/) and [Student Affairs](http://studentaffairs.ucdavis.edu/).

### [Academic Calendar](https://www.ucdavis.edu/calendar/)

### Advising resources

Academic advising is a responsibility shared by faculty and UC Davis’ professional advising staff. More than half of our students will change majors, many of them transferring from one college to another.

- [Office of Academic Advising](http://academicadvising.ucdavis.edu/): Although advising is administered within each college, this office provides a centralized organization to establish shared standards, enhance training opportunities for all who advise, share information, and develop cross-college advising communication and technology.
- [OASIS](https://students.ucdavis.edu/) (Online Advising Student Information System): Also information about advising committees (technology, assessment, etc.), conferences, contacts, and a robust program of workshops, coffee talks, etc.
- [Workshops, training, and professional development](http://academicadvising.ucdavis.edu/professional-development/index.html)
  - [Advising Technology](https://academicadvising.ucdavis.edu/advising-technology):  Links to OASIS and the Advising Technology Task Force
- College academic advising
  - [College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences](http://www.caes.ucdavis.edu/students/current/advising)
  - [College of Biological Sciences/Biology Academic Success Center](http://basc.ucdavis.edu/)
  - [College of Engineering](http://engineering.ucdavis.edu/undergraduate/advising/)
  - [Letters and Science](https://www.ls.ucdavis.edu/advising/)
- [Graduate Student Mentoring at Critical Transitions](https://gradstudies.ucdavis.edu/faculty-staff/mentoring-critical-transitions)
- [Advising for international students](http://iae.ucdavis.edu/prearrival/module_4.html):  Each college has at least one designated academic adviser for international students.  The Pre-Arrival Guide for International Students also links to presentations for incoming international students.
- [Career Preparation Advising](https://www.ucdavis.edu/majors/blog/career-preparation/advising)
  - This page also has information about advising committees (technology, assessment, etc.), conferences, and a program of workshops, coffee talks and contacts.

### Classrooms

- [Classroom Guide](https://registrar.ucdavis.edu/faculty-staff/classroom/): Listing the 129 campus general assignment classrooms and assists faculty in meeting their instructional goals
- [Facilities Customer Support Center](https://facilities.ucdavis.edu/customer-support): Renovations, reporting issues with facilities
- [Report a classroom problem](https://registrar.ucdavis.edu/faculty-staff/classroom/resources.cfm)
- [Scheduling Guide](https://registrar.ucdavis.edu/faculty-staff/scheduling-guide/index.cfm)

### Grades, courses, textbooks

- [UC Davis Canvas learning management system](http://movetocanvas.ucdavis.edu/)
- [Integrated Curriculum Management System](http://registrar.ucdavis.edu/faculty-staff/icms/index.cfm): To submit new, update or discontinue course requests; courses published in the General Catalog
- [Online Grade-Change Tool](https://registrar.ucdavis.edu/faculty-staff/ogc.cfm)
- [Final grade submission](http://classes.ucdavis.edu/grading/)
- [ACE: the Online Tool for Course Evaluations](https://eval.ucdavis.edu/Home/About)
- [General Education Requirements](http://catalog.ucdavis.edu/ugraded/gereqt.html)
- [New/Modified Course Approval Submission](http://academicsenate.ucdavis.edu/committees/committee-list/coci/policies-and-procedures.cfm)
- [Textbook adoptions](https://ucdavisstores.com/SiteText?id=63388)
- [Academic Senate Committee on Course & Instruction](http://academicsenate.ucdavis.edu/committees/committee-list/coci/index.cfm)
- [More resources from the University Registrar](http://registrar.ucdavis.edu/faculty-staff/index.cfm)

### Graduate education

- [TA’s Guide to Effective Teaching at UC Davis](https://cee.ucdavis.edu/docs/2017/2017_TAGuide_Final_accessible.pdf)
- Workshops and Communities for TAs
- [International and Academic English](http://iae.ucdavis.edu/graduate/index.html): Information for international graduate students preparing to serve as TAs

### Technology

- [Academic Technology Services](http://ats.ucdavis.edu/)
- [Computing resources](https://www.ucdavis.edu/academics/our-faculty/faculty-resources/computing-resources)
- [EdTech Commons: Resources for Teaching with Technology](http://edtech.ucdavis.edu/)
- [Report a problem in a computer classroom](https://computerrooms.ucdavis.edu/secure/report-problem.html)
- [Faculty Technology Guide](http://ftg.ucdavis.edu/)

### Undergraduate education

- [Center for Educational Effectiveness](http://cee.ucdavis.edu/) (formerly the Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning) offers consultations, workshops, grants and other resources.
  - [Instructional success](http://cee.ucdavis.edu/teaching-support/index.html): Consultations, workshops, grants, teaching communities
  - [Course innovation](http://cee.ucdavis.edu/teaching-support/courses.html): Course redesign, teaching with technology, innovative classrooms, adaptive learning
  - [Evaluating learning](http://cee.ucdavis.edu/testing-services/index.html): Testing services, support for assessing student learning
  - [Educational analytics](http://cee.ucdavis.edu/educational_analytics/index.html):  Tools for evidence-based decision making in curricula and instruction

- [Academic Assessment](http://assessment.ucdavis.edu/): Consultations, information and tools to for inquiry into student learning and educational effectiveness, inform program improvement, and increase opportunities for students to learn
- [Instructional Needs Funding](http://ue.ucdavis.edu/faculty/instructional-needs.html)
- [International and Academic English](http://iae.ucdavis.edu/): Consultations and publications for faculty needing support for teaching students for whom English is a second language