Your Chair or Program Director should assign a knowledgeable Faculty Member to serve as your Mentor during your first year at UIndy.  If you have not received a Mentor from your department or unit, you can contact the Faculty Academy for assistance. 

Struggling with classroom or other technology? Simply submit a help desk request at techhelp.uindy.edu. You can also find numerous tech guides here.

​Looking for Brightspace content/tool support? In an effort to provide UIndy faculty, staff and students with 24x7 Brightspace “how to” and content support, UIndy is contracted with Desire2Learn (D2L). Their support agents are here to assist any time of day or night. Please reach out via one of the following two methods:

1. Receive Live Help with Lumi Chat (Video

2. Send a detailed email to [email protected]
    

There may be times when you must cancel an in-person class due to weather conditions, particularly if a majority of your students don’t live on campus.  First try to switch to a virtual format if you can.  Also monitor our University’s emergency communication system (texts, emails) to determine whether classes have been cancelled or delayed across the board. The campus extreme weather policy is located here.

Should you be unable to attend class due to a personal emergency or unforeseen circumstances, please contact your department Chair or Program Director as soon as possible. If it is during the regular work day, you can ask your Administrative Assistant or a colleague to post a note on your classroom door, and follow-up with your students as quickly as possible via email. If possible, you may offer students an e-learning day or alternative learning experience. You may be asked to  fill out an “Absence from Campus Form”, which is located here. Please note that you should complete this form for a planned absence and provide an alternative method of course coverage, such as a modified form of delivery, a student work day, a guest speaker from your department or the Professional Edge Center, etc.

The easiest way to help students avoid academic misconduct is by discouraging it from the very beginning. For example, to limit opportunities for plagiarism, make your assignments specific to your particular course or to the course readings rather than allowing generic approaches that are easily downloaded (like “Write a paper about a topic in sociology you find interesting”).  You can also ask students to write their papers in Google Docs and share them with you so that you can review their timestamps.

Brightspace offers an integrated version of Turnitin.com which you can learn more about here. You are also welcome to share this video with your students or post it into your class Brightspace page. It helps them understand how to properly cite and paraphrase as well as how to avoid committing academic misconduct while using Artificial Intelligence

Unfortunately, academic misconduct occasionally happens. If you suspect a student of misconduct, immediately contact your supervisor or a knowledgeable colleague for guidance.  Make sure that you collect as much relevant information as possible, including but not necessarily limited to the student’s explanation and perspective on the event.  Some issues can be resolved by addressing the issue directly with the student before initiating formal proceedings at a higher level.  Here, you will find the process by which academic misconduct is reported and the form for reporting it.

The procedures for emergencies on campus can be found on our Public Safety webpage. Our internal alert system, Watchdog, can send emergency alerts to your computer and cell phone. Sign up for Watchdog at my.uindy.edu/watchdog/