Instructor responsibilities

A member of the EDGE team will contact you at the beginning of the term in which you're teaching to share and confirm the following details:

• Where you’ve placed the workshop and associated tutorial in your course schedule and/or syllabus;
• The date, time, and location of the workshop and tutorial;
• The WatPD and Centre for Career Action staff supporting the workshop;
• Whether or not TA training and/or additional resources will be required.

A member of the EDGE team will contact you at the beginning of the term in which you're teaching to share and confirm the following details:

• The number of students enrolled in your course who have opted into EDGE;
• Contact information for your course’s industry or community partner;
• Whether or not you and your industry or community partner already have an evaluation framework in place;
• The appropriate time during the term at which your industry or community partner should evaluate the EDGE students in your course.

Some of these details don’t represent any additional work. For example, the EDGE team tracks student enrolment in the certificate through Quest; we share this information with experiential learning course instructors for informational purposes. 

If you’re teaching a special course and want one of your students to submit their coursework for approval as an EDGE milestone, please encourage the student to complete the independent studies and special topics enrolment form on the EDGE website. Submitting this form will allow the EDGE team to vet the course on a one-off basis and determine whether it not it meets the standards governing EDGE’s work or community experience milestones. If your student submits the form, someone from the EDGE team may reach out to you for further details regarding the nature of their experience in the course.

If you're supervising a student and want them to submit their work for approval as an EDGE milestone, start by sending the EDGE team an email at edge@uwaterloo.ca. You can expedite the vetting process by including the following information:

• The position title;
• A description of the position, if available;
• The number of hours students will work per week, or the number of hours students will be expected to work over the course of a term;
• Terms in which the position is available (i.e. fall, winter or spring);
• Whether or not the position’s availability is contingent on funding;
• Whether or not you’d be willing to evaluate students’ performance at the end of each term the position is available.