Canvas Support
1-884-629-6842 OR 325-HELP Option #3, Option #1
How to Get Your Course Opened for Enrollment
- Contact your department chair for approval:
- (If the course is graduate level) The dean of the graduate college must also approve
- Once fully approved, the following information must be emailed to reneewilliams@ou.edu
- Course Name & Number
- How many sections will be offered
- Instructional Method (Online, Blended or Traditional)
- Days & times for face to face meetings for Blended & Traditional
- Max enrollment (default is 33 if not otherwise designated)
- Instructor Name
- Instructor Employee ID#
- Instructor Sooner ID#
- Instructor OU email
- Textbook ISBN#
- If this will be used to meet inload teaching obligations, this must be disclosed before section is open for enrollment
- All online courses offered by departments within the College of Arts & Sciences must also be approved by the CAS Online Programs office. Please contact Beth McCoy at (405) 325-7943 or 325-5854.
- Need help developing an online course? https://www.chronicle.com/interactives/advice-online-teaching.
- Though Winter Session courses run 4 weeks, the expectation is they are to be just as rigorous as a full 16-week course offered in the fall semester.
University Policies for Winter Session
Each credit hour must include 800 minutes of instructional time. The University requires 50 minutes of instructional time per clock hour. 10 minutes of break time must also be included. These examples do not include holidays.
Winter Session Stipends (Updated Fall 2024)
3 Credit Hour Courses: Max stipend with 30 students enrolled as of the 4th day
- Full Professor $5600
- Associate $5400
- Assistant $5100
- Adjunct, Lecturer & Instructor $5000
- GTA $4900
2 Credit Hour Courses: Max stipend with 25 students enrolled as of the 4th day
- Full Professor $5100
- Associate $4900
- Assistant $4700
- Adjunct, Lecturer & Instructor $4600
- GTA $4500
1 Credit Hour Courses : Max stipend with 35 students enrolled as of 4th day
- All academic ranks $2600
- On the " COMMIT/CANCEL " date, you will be contacted by email. You will be given your course enrollment and you will have two days to decide whether to commit to teaching your course or cancel. You will not be contacted if your enrollment is 10 or above at the time of "COMMIT/CANCEL." Once you "commit" to teach the course, you are required to continue despite any decreases in enrollment.
- Winter Session stipends are included with the end of January paystub.
I hope you will consider teaching during Winter Session, which in turn assists thousands of OU students with earning their degree in a timely fashion. If you have any questions, please contact me.
Thank you.
Renee Williams
Executive Director of Course Strategy Initiatives & Student Success
Winter and Summer Sessions
The University of Oklahoma
Office of the Provost
Fax: (405) 325-7470 (Attention: Renee Williams)
Email: reneewilliams@ou.edu
