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STUDENT SPECIFIC INFORMATION
SUPPORTING OUR STUDENTS OUR STUDENT DEMOGRAPHIC Many of our students are adult learners who have returned to or started college later in life. They seek content to connect to their work and hope that a degree will advance their career or accelerate them to a new one. Academic writing is often unfamiliar to them, so they may need time to adjust to APA formatting and style. Such students may either want to talk to you about their needs or want to stay invisible. They take classes part-time and have many competing priorities. You will also have traditional-aged students in your classes. As an instructor, you will likely need to be accommodating to many types of students. STUDENT RESOURCES Students have tutoring, writing, and general support through the university. They also have access to professional advisors in their academic departments. If you’d like more details or to connect with an advisor, ask your program manager.” TEXTBOOKS UW-Platteville is part of a textbook rental system. Students pay a low per-credit fee to rent their textbooks for the semester. This also applies to digital textbooks; the same fee applies if it is a physical book or an e-book access code. Textbooks are chosen well before the term starts and in consultation with your Program Manager. A textbook change necessitates a course revision. PROGRESS REPORTS These are semesterly reports for you to complete about specific populations of students, chosen based on previous grades, probation status, whether or not they are a student-athlete, etc. You will be asked via your UW-Platteville email to use Navigate, a student success software, to respond about these students. ATTENDANCE CONFIRMATION The Registrar’s Office will ask that you confirm attendance in PASS for all of your students within the first few days of term. This conforms to federal regulations about student attendance and financial aid, academic progress, etc. You can decide what to count as attendance, but it should be something in the first week or so of class that students must submit (a discussion, assignment, etc.). It is good practice to tell them what counts as attendance for this process.
