The McBurney Disability Resource Center partners with the UW-Madison community to apply their expertise in disability and higher education to serve students, faculty, and staff.  Please reach out to their expert staff to learn more about the resources available for instructors as well as how you can best support your students with disabilities.

All digital learning tools including software, cloud services, and simulations should be approved by the UW-Madison vetting process before being used in a course. All Learn@UW suite tools have been approved. Others will need vetting, which requires: a cybersecurity assessment, a Data stewardship, Access, and Retention policy review by all associated campus data stewards, and an expert review by the Center for User Experience, and if the tool is procured it also needs purchase authority.

All WSB courses should have a published Canvas course site. The site should minimally include:

• Current syllabus posted in Canvas that complies with UW-Madison syllabus requirements;
• The homepage will provide critical information for students that minimally includes a course description, instructor contact information, office hour details, course overview, and learning outcomes.
• Canvas course is published and accessible to students at least 7 days before the beginning of the first class session.

If you would like assistance with your course Canvas site, such as crosslisting/merging multiple courses and copying over a course from a previous semester,  or with other Learn@UW suite tools, please contact Teaching and Learning Support at (teaching@wsb.wisc.edu) for help.

BBA students are highly encouraged to bring their own Windows computer and software to their business classes that use computers during class. A low-cost rental option is available through DoIT and students can also do short-term equipment loans through the general library system.

With the increased use of recordings in classes, questions have been raised about student privacy and instructor intellectual property. Below is draft language you can use in your syllabus to address these issues:

Dear Students,

Protecting student privacy and instructor intellectual property are equally critical to creating and fostering safe and meaningful campus learning environments — both physical and virtual. Just as UW-Madison instructors have a responsibility to protect your privacy as students, you have a responsibility to adhere to campus and course expectations as a class participant. For your benefit as students and for mine as your instructor, please read this statement below regarding the appropriate use of course materials. Please let me know if you have any questions.

Lecture materials and recordings for this course are protected intellectual property at UW-Madison. Students in this course may use the materials and recordings for their personal use related to participation in this class. Students may also take notes solely for their personal use. If a lecture is not already recorded, you are not authorized to record my lectures without my permission unless you are considered by the university to be a qualified student with a disability requiring accommodation. [Regent Policy Document 4-1] Students may not copy or share lecture materials and recordings outside of class, including posting on internet sites or selling to commercial entities.  Students are also prohibited from providing or selling their personal notes to anyone else or being paid for taking notes by any person or commercial firm without the instructor’s express written permission. Unauthorized use of these copyrighted lecture materials and recordings constitutes copyright infringement and may be addressed under the university’s policies, UWS Chapters 14 and 17, governing student academic and non-academic misconduct.

 Thank you!

Electronics are integral to the daily life of students and new technologies constantly emerge to assist with teaching and learning, so the WSB needs to remain flexible in how we address the use of electronics in class. The decision for how or if students are allowed to use electronics in class is up to each instructor.  The School policy is that students are not permitted to use personal electronic technology unless specifically permitted by the course instructor.  In establishing restrictions, instructors are expected to make reasonable accommodations for students with disabilities.

The university started a practice of placing textbook information in the timetable to assist students.  Your textbook information is entered via the Faculty Center in MyUW or you can work directly with the University BookStore.

If you use a course packet instead of a textbook, please read this course packet announcement for details. If you have copyright questions, (what should go into course packets, what can be linked in course pages) please contact Michael Enyart (michael.enyart@wisc.edu).

How do I provide student access to Harvard Business School Publishing material? 

There are different answers to this question dependent on which program within the School of Business that you are teaching.

1. If you are teaching in the Executive or Professional MBA program, the program office will handle the details on getting your students access to the Harvard Business School Publishing material.
2. If you are teaching in the full-time MBA, MS, or undergraduate program you have two avenues to make HBSP material available to students.
   • The first recommendation is to Utilize HBSP’s Educators’ Website.  You can put cases and other HBSP material that you want the students to have on a course page on HBSP’s instructors’ website.  You can put the url for that page on the canvas page.  Students will go to that page and will have the capability to purchase the material with a credit card.  As an instructor, you can register with the Harvard Business School Press (https://hbsp.harvard.edu/home/).  This process is not instantaneous since HBSP will have to verify your status as an instructor at the University of Wisconsin.

The other method to provide your students with access to HBSP material is to employ a printed course packet that the students would purchase from Digital Publishing and Printing (DPSS).  If you communicate to DPSS on which HBSP material you want in your course packet they can handle the details to acquiring and paying for that content.

Digital class rosters are available in Faculty Center, which is also where you will be posting grades (more info under “Assessment & Grading”).  Effective Fall 2022, WSB moved to a first-come, first-served waitlist policy. Therefore, if any students email you prior to class or attend the first class and request your approval to add the class, you should direct them to add themselves to the waitlist or to submit a service request/JIRA ticket if seeking an exception.