Teaching Activities

Types of Teaching Activities

Fall 2025: No profile or activity updates required. January 2026: Faculty will be asked to review and revise their teaching activity. 

Teaching activity data sources:

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  • Clark Honors College (research-based supervision)
  • Division of Graduate Studies (research-based supervision, graduate examinations)
  • CV transcription (CVs provided by units in 2024)

Refer to your unit policy or discuss placement of teaching activity with your unit head. 

Course Taught (locked data; cannot edit) 

  • Face to face
  • Online and web based
  • Credit bearing supervision (e.g., student teacher supervision)
  • Onload and offload teaching  

Degree supervision (locked data; cannot edit) 

  • Credit bearing supervision 

Course Developed/Revised 

  • Develop new course
  • Revision to existing course
  • Curriculum development
  • Teaching fellowship  

Research supervision 

  • Thesis/project supervision
  • Dissertation supervision
  • Undergraduate research project supervision
  • Honors thesis supervision 

Graduate examination 

  • Graduate student examinations for MA or PhD
  • Written examination
  • Oral examination 

Clinical Teaching and supervision 

  • Clinical supervision
  • Conference teaching 

Program Developed 

  • Develop new program
  • Revision to existing program
  • Curriculum/programmatic development
  • Teaching fellowship 

Mentoring 

  • Academic advising
  • Internship/externship supervision
  • Mentoring fellowship 

Other Teaching 

  • Non-credit instructional activities
  • Continuing education
  • Teaching conference presentation
  • Teaching conference participation
  • Self-published course materials (may also be placed in scholarly activity based on unit policy)
  • Instructional manual, instructor materials, study guides, case studies
  • Course assistance (librarians, etc.)
  • Librarianship
  • Guest lecture
  • Course coordination 

Non-UO Teaching 

  • Courses taught at other institutions or for non-UO programs
  • Courses developed at other institutions or for non-UO programs
  • Guest lecture 

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Reviewing Your Teaching Activities

WATCH THE REVIEWING YOUR TEACHING ACTIVITY TUTORIAL VIDEO

Teaching Activities are coming into Elements via an automated internal data feed that is updated every term. Please review your Teaching Activities periodically to ensure they are correct and complete. You can view a record by clicking on it. Then, click on the dots in the right corner of the record to view details. 

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Editing Your Teaching Activities

Teaching Activities are coming into Elements via an automated internal data feed that is updated every term. Only Research Supervision and Graduate Examination records can be edited. Note: Courses taught and Course-based degree supervision records are locked. If you believe any of the locked records need editing, please use the Elements IT ticket process to do so. 

  • Click on the three dots in the right-hand corner of the record you wish to edit and select “View Details.”
  • Then click on the pencil symbol in the top right corner to edit. 
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Adding Teaching Activities

You may wish to add teaching activities from your CV that were not automatically imported into Elements by the internal teaching feed. 

  • Go to the Teaching activities box on your homepage, select +ADD NEW and select the Teaching activity type you wish to add.
  • You can find additional guidance here Teaching Activity Types.
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  • Complete all of the necessary information in the form and click SAVE. 
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