English Department Course Scheduling Constraints

WINTER 2024

We have already gathered your course preferences.  Now we need you to please complete the following form to indicate any constraints that may affect your availability to teach, as well as any specific classroom needs.

Please remember that while every effort will be made to accommodate your requests, it may not be possible due to factors beyond departmental control. If a selection cannot be accommodated, the Chair will contact you directly.

Information and privacy: questions regarding the collection of information on this form can be directed to the form administrator.

Teaching Preferences

Although it is our intention to accommodate all selections in this section, it may not be possible to do so. If a selection cannot be accommodated, the Chair/Director will contact you to resolve the discrepancy.


Preferred Daytime Teaching Window * (required)
Please choose one. The default availability is 8:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Please also note that if you are teaching a grad course, you *cannot* select 9:00-4:30.
Preferred Evening Teaching Window * (required)
Please select at least one. The default assumption is that you are unable to teach after 5:30 p.m.
The default assumption is that you can teach back to back courses, if necessary. Click on the button below if you wish to indicate otherwise.
By default, all instructors will be given at least one day without teaching. Please select the box below if you do not require a non-teaching day.
Additional Teaching Constraints
If you have any constraints that limit your availability to teach within the provided windows, please indicate below. Level 1 constraints on availability include documented medical accommodations, or documented religious, disability, or other Human Rights accommodations. Please note that all confidential Level 1 (medical/human rights) constraints should be directed to the Chair. Please email: englchair@uwaterloo.ca
Child care, partner care or elder care constraints will be honoured if possible. It is better to foresee and communicate these constraints than to have to change schedules after they have been set. Please list these constraints (days and times you cannot teach) here:
If you have constraints based on regularly scheduled university/faculty meetings, list those (days and times you cannot teach) here:
Preferential requests (i.e. commuting) will also be honoured if possible. It is better to foresee and communicate these constraints than to have to change schedules after they have been set. Please list these constraints (days and times you cannot teach) here:
Course #1
e.g. ENGL 1XX
Please select a preferred meet time pattern.
Please indicate which building(s) you prefer. There is no guarantee that you will receive a classroom in your preferred building, but the system will look for a room in that building first.
Room Characteristics
Please indicate whether the following room characteristics are required or not. All classrooms have a blackboard or whiteboard, so please indicate if you have a preference or requirement of one over the other.
RequiredPreferredNo preference
Electronic classroom
Blackboard
Whiteboard
If you require a room characteristic that is not listed as an option above, please indicate below.