Course Planning and Grading
The following links and may be helpful for planning and grading your courses.
Jump to information about:
- Scheduling courses;
- Requesting classrooms;
- Writing course descriptions;
- Ordering textbooks and course packs;
- Managing student grades and evaluations.
Scheduling courses
- Teaching schedule: annually the Dean’s Office requests the planned course offerings and additional teaching requests from departments and programs for the next academic year. See the detailed submission instructions.
- CLSS is the online course scheduling system beginning for Fall 2015 class planning.
- Office of the Registrar's new courses and room scheduling information—Find schedule proofing and room request deadlines.
- Upcoming class schedule on CAESAR—The upcoming quarter’s class schedule is published approximately one week before pre-registration. From CAESAR choose "Search for Classes".
- Yearly Course Planner—Courses are entered and edited on the Registrar’s Yearly Course Planner.
- Registrar’s Office contact:Alison Phillips, a-phillips@northwestern.edu, 7-4463.
Requesting classrooms
For regularly scheduled classes
- Guidelines for scheduling classes for the quarter.
- NUIT supported classrooms on the Evanston Campus (including technology and seating capacity).
Rooms for one-time use
For one-time classroom reservations (for events, lectures, etc.) the Registrar’s Office requests that you use the online system, which will provide you with both an automated confirmation and an email from personnel in the Registrar’s Office.
- Reserve non-classroom spaces on campus.
- Registrar’s Office contact for room scheduling: Patrick Boateng, p-boateng@northwestern.edu, 7-1977.
Writing course descriptions
Weinberg class schedules and registration information are posted on CAESAR two to three weeks before each quarterly registration, so course descriptions should be entered prior to that time.
- Department and program assistants need access to the Course Description Editor to enter and revise descriptions for the department/program.
- Course Description Archive.
- Registrar’s Office contact for course descriptions: Alison Phillips, a-phillips@northwestern.edu, 7-4463.
Ordering textbooks and course packs
Textbook orders through Norris Center Bookstore
- Contact: Textbook Manager, norrisbooks@northwestern.edu, 847-491-3992.
- Desk copies for faculty are ordered through the individual publishers online, through the publishers' sales representatives, or via fax for no charge.
Course Packs
- Quartet Copies—825 Clark Street. Evanston, IL 60201, quartetcopies@ameritech.net, 847-328-0720.
- Norris Center Bookstore—Contact: Textbook Manager, norrisbooks@northwestern.edu, 491-3992.
Managing student grades and evaluations
Grading
- Instructions for Grading in CAESAR.
- Registrar’s Office contact: Oralia Gomez, o-gomez@northwestern.edu, 1-8457.
Student evaluations
- Instructors/courses are evaluated by students each quarter via the mandatory CTEC Surveys (Course and Teacher Evaluation Council).
- Registrar’s Office contact for CTECs: Alison Phillips, a-phillips@northwestern.edu, 7-4463.