CON Undergraduate Course Coordinator Role Description

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UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA MEDICAL CENTER COLLEGE OF NURSING
Course Coordinator Role Description	Subsection: 4.4.2
Section 4.0 - Faculty Policies	Originating Date: May 2013
Responsible Reviewing Agency: Undergraduate Curriculum Committee Executive Council	Revised: May 2016 (changes) Revised: January 2023 (changes) Revised: May 2024 (changes) Revised: November 2024 (changes)

General Position Description

The undergraduate course coordinator is primarily responsible for planning and facilitating implementation of the curriculum relative to the course assigned. The course coordinator communicates with the undergraduate faculty team members, students, administration, and agency personnel as appropriate to facilitate the effective implementation of the course. The course coordinator must communicate with the assistant dean in the case of any conflict. The assistant dean assigns the role of course coordinator on each respective division.

Responsibilities of the Course Coordinator include:

Scheduling Tasks

• Scheduling rooms (class, skills labs, simulations, seminars, exams, meetings)
• IT needs (Zoom and Echo 360)
• Scheduling faculty (skills lab coverage, lectures, clinical groups)
• Scheduling guest speakers (invites, logistics, parking)
• Coordinating and scheduling large-scale clinical activities (IPE, poverty sim, HEROES, QPR, Mental Health First Aid)
• Scheduling all onboarding and access to all clinical sites
• Creating and maintaining schedules for clinical sites/units
• Track student’s absences/rescheduling experiences for absences
• Make a plan for campus closures

Exam Tasks

• Coordinating exam dates across the semester
• Coordinate the development of exam blueprints for faculty and students
• Creation of the course exam
• Ensure each exam question is tagged appropriately in the testing management system.
  • Undergraduate includes: Concepts & Exemplars, NCLEX category, Blooms
  • Professional Graduate includes: AACN Essentials, Blooms
• Coordinate student accommodations
• Provide exam information to each proctor
• Rescheduling of exams
• Coordination of exam review sessions
• Post-exam review with pertinent instructors

Grading Tasks

• Collaborate with course faculty to ensure course assignments are graded timely
• Ensure final grades are submitted in the grade reporting platform
• Manage midterm down slip notifications and student meetings
• Meet with students at risk.
• Tracking students' success and referring them to resource

Course Management Tasks

• Complete course syllabus and syllabus addendum updates
• Managing the Canvas course
• Planning, implementing, and monitoring changes that result from the course evaluation
• Complete the end-of-semester review and submit to the staff support of the undergraduate director
• Manage student concerns
• Manage Teams site for student evaluations
• Scheduling course recordings, editing, downloading, posting, and/or emailing to students

Course Faculty Coordination Tasks

• Coordinate meetings with course faculty to ensure consistency and course expectations
• Mentoring and onboarding any new faculty
• Ensure all faculty have access to resources
• Communicate instructor needs for the course to assistant dean
• Communicate regularly with clinical/course faculty to facilitate consistency in grading/ evaluation
• Meet with semester faculty to discuss student or class concerns

Additional Clinical Tasks

• Ensure contracts with clinical facilities are current
• Identify clinical resources for students and faculty
• Communicating with each clinical site
• Revise clinical paperwork
• Provide oversight of clinical GA’s, ensure clinical evaluations and course assignments are graded/signed by clinical faculty