Instructional Design and Classroom Support
Class rosters are available online when you log into Banner. The Registrar provides a tip sheet.
The list is updated daily until the end of the semester. Instructors should run a roster weekly to reflect any changes (late add, withdraw from course, etc.). Run the roster just before and during the first week of classes. The roster allows instructors to communicate via e-mail to any student individually or to all students. Only students listed on the class roster are allowed to sit in the class.
Refer also to Banner and Student Registration.
Faculty are required to submit their textbook adoptions for each academic term by the provided deadlines. Buffalo State utilizes the Adoption Insights Portal (AIP) for textbook adoptions. The AIP link is provided in Brightspace under Faculty Resources.
Receiving textbook adoptions by the deadlines, or earlier, allows the bookstore to assist the campus in its compliance with the Higher Education Opportunity Act by posting book information on the website at the time of student registration. Timeliness also allows the bookstore to deal with common problems such as out-of-stocks, out-of-prints, edition changes, and vendor changes. Having textbook information earlier enables the bookstore to pay higher prices to students for their used textbooks during buy-back season and increases the supply of used textbooks available to students for the upcoming semester. The bookstore offers digital textbooks, textbook rental, and used and new textbook options to give students money-saving choices.
Faculty can email the bookstore at sm337@bncollege.com with questions regarding textbook adoptions.
New instructors, refer to Getting Started-Ordering Textbooks and Supplies.
First Day Complete (coming soon) is a partnership program between Buffalo State University and Barnes and Noble that allows all students to have their course materials ready for the first day of classes. This program provides students with their course materials for one flat fee billed to their student account so every student can start the term equally prepared to learn. Faculty should view the online informational presentation.
Faculty may designate courses they are teaching in fall 2022 and spring 2023 that have zero textbook costs (ZTC). ZTC courses do not require students to purchase textbooks or other learning materials; instead, they use open educational resources (OER), library resources, faculty-created resources, and other materials that are freely accessible to students. Gathering this data enables Buffalo State to meet SUNY reporting requirements. When faculty designate their course as ZTC, they help make the costs of higher education more transparent to students and increase equitable access to the materials students need to succeed.
Faculty should contact the Faculty Librarian for a brief survey so that ZTC courses will be designated in Banner and easily identifiable by students during registration that takes place during the fall and spring semesters. Surveys should be completed, if possible, by March 1 for upcoming fall registration and by September 1 for upcoming spring registration, though surveys may be requested and completed at any time.
See Daily Bulletin announcement.
Instructors are expected to meet their classes each scheduled time during the semester and for the full allotted time scheduled, including during CEP (Critique and Evaluation Period). Students cannot be faulted for leaving the classroom if the instructor fails to arrive within a reasonable time.
Should an instructor need to cancel a class meeting time unexpectedly, the instructor should notify the department office as soon as possible so a note can be placed on the classroom door. In addition, the instructor should, if possible, attempt to notify students via e-mail or Brightspace.
Instructors may not change their assigned meeting rooms without official notification to the Registrar through their department offices. To move a class without formal notification to the Registrar's Office means that both you and the students in your class may be unreachable in case of an emergency. In addition, rooms showing as empty on the campus database may be assigned to other activities by the Events Management Office. Once an official change has been effected, notes should be placed in the old room directing students to the new room once the semester has started.
The Registrar's website provides a summary of rooms and type by building. R-25 Building and Room File
Instructors are required to notify students of their academic standing no later than the end of the ninth week of the semester, or after two-thirds of a summer session or J-Term so that students have reasonable time to withdraw from a course. See Mid-Semester Evaluations.
Refer to the Undergraduate Grading Explanation Sheet and the Graduate Grading Explanation Sheet on the Registrar's Resources page for assigning grades to students who do not officially withdraw from a course and fail to continue with the course or never show.
Refer to Campus Confidentiality Statement
Refer to Religious Observance Policy for students because of religious belief unable to attend classes on certain days.
The Dean of Students collects documentation to send a notification e-mail out to faculty for student absences. These absences are for medical emergencies, medical appointments, and deaths in their immediate family for periods of less than two weeks. Anything beyond that, the Dean of Students Office will direct students to speak with their faculty members and academic adviser. Contact deanofstudents@buffalostate.edu.
https://dailybulletin.buffalostate.edu/notifications-students-absences
Handbook for Faculty and Librarians
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