Copyright Statement for AU Teaching Commons
You may submit original or modified resources that you think may be helpful to other faculty; however, you may not infringe upon anyone’s copyright when submitting items to the AU Teaching Commons. You acknowledge you own the copyrights for any original work you submit or that you have permission from the copyrights holder to submit a teaching resource under the AU Teaching Commons copyrights terms.
Although copyrights holders retain ownership of all items published in the repository, they agree to license their work under the latest version of Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike. According to the Creative Commons website, “This license lets others remix, adapt, and build upon your work non-commercially, as long as they credit you and license their new creations under the identical terms.”
Submitting to the AU Teaching Commons
You can submit using our online submission form.
Please note that although we accept submissions year-round, the summer may be slower review times. All new submissions will go through a peer-reviewed process.
Criteria for Acceptance of Original Work
| Criteria | Meets Expectation | Needs Improvement | Does Not Meet Expectation |
| Title | The title accurately reflects what the original educational work is | The title somewhat reflects what the original educational work is | The title does not accurately reflect what the original educational work is |
| Description of Teaching Resource | The description clearly states what the original work is and how it was implemented step-by-step. The description has 250 words or less. | The description clearly states what the original work is and how it was implemented step-by-step. However, the description has more than 250 words | The description does not clearly state what the original work is or how it was implemented step-by-step |
| Impact Statement | The statement clearly explains the impact of the work on student learning in the original course | The statement somewhat explains the impact of the work on student learning in the original course | The statement does not clearly explain the impact of the work on student learning in the original course |
Criteria for Acceptance of a Modified Work
| Criteria | Meets Expectation | Needs Improvement | Does Not Meet Expectation |
| Title | The title accurately reflects what the teaching resource is | The title somewhat reflects what the teaching resource is | The title does not accurately reflect what the teaching resource is |
| Description of Teaching Resource | The description clearly states what the teaching resource is and how it was implemented step-by-step. The description has 200 words or less | The description clearly states what the teaching resource is and how it was implemented step-by-step. However, the description has more than 200 words | The description does not clearly state what the teaching resource is and how it was implemented step-by-step |
| Impact Statement | The statement clearly explains the impact of the resource on student learning in a course | The statement somewhat explains the impact of the resource on student learning in a course | The statement does not clearly explain the impact of the resource on student learning in a course |
Removing or Updating Work in the AU Teaching Commons
If you would like to remove or update any items you have submitted to the AU Teaching Commons, you can contact the repository’s editorial board by emailing FAC4FAC@augusta.edu with your request. Please note that removing items from the AU Teaching Commons only means that these items will no longer be available in the repository. However, other users may have already downloaded, modified and shared the items with others. In addition, removing items from the repository does not alter the copyright and license agreement you have accepted when you first submitted them to the AU Teaching Commons.
