The History TA Resource Page is intended as a resource space for History Department TAs and Professors.
TA Workload Form (Allocation of Hours Form)
Link to Download: TA Workload Summary Form (Fall & Winter Term)
Link to Download: TA Workload Summary (Summer Term)
Instructions for Professors
An allocation of hours form must be completed for each employee. One copy must be placed in the employment file of the employee and one copy given to the employee.
- Please fill out the TA Anticipated Workload Summary (Allocation of Hours Form),
- Meet with your TA(s) to discuss your workload expectations, and;
- Email a copy (hist.grad@ubc.ca) of the form to the History Graduate Student Support for the TA’s employee file.
Sample TA Workload Form
General Information about TA Workload Form (Allocation of Hours)
(From: https://cupe2278.ca/how-we-help/hours/allocation-of-hours-form/)
As per Article 12.02(a) of our Collective Agreement, at the beginning of the term, all instructors are required to provide their TAs with an itemized allocation of hours for the term. This form documents the allocation of hours anticipated to be assigned to the Teaching Assistant for the duties itemized below. You, the TA, and the instructor of your course should keep a copy of this form for your own records.
The purpose of this form is to help both the TA and instructor allot adequate time for the duties of the TA. It is a tool to help plan the term and should facilitate discussion between the TA and instructor. It will also delineate reasonable expectations for the course. This form recognizes that courses can evolve over the length of a term and supports ongoing discussion between the instructor and the TA as to the ongoing allocation of hours.
Additional Notes about History Department TA Workload Form
A. For New TAs only: In-Service Training/TA workshops.
All new TAs are required to participate in one cycle of the History Department's TA Training Program.
Number of Hours to Allocate on TA Workload:
- Please refer to the TA Orientation/Workshop Schedule below (Item #2), or;
- Contact the TA Director.
The TA Orientation Day, and TA Workshops is scheduled by the TA Director in the summer session before the academic year begins in September. The schedule will be updated on the TA Resource Page as soon as it is available.
B. Vacation Hours
Number of Hours to Allocate on TA Workload:
- All TAs have some vacation hours: 8 hours per term (4-months), prorated for smaller appointments.
C. Online Anti-Bullying Training (Certificate)
Number of Hours to Allocate on TA Workload:
- For new TAs only: 0.5 hours
All new TAs are required to complete the online anti-bullying training within the first two weeks from the start of their very first teaching assistantship. Training consists of an online presentation and a small quiz. Once your Job Appointment is set up on the Human Resource System (called Workday), students will receive a Workday notification to complete the online training. If students have completed this previously, they do not need to take it again.
D. Online Privacy Fundamentals Training (Certificate)
Number of Hours to Allocate on TA Workload:
- For new TAs only: 0.5 hours
All new TAs are required to complete the online Privacy Matters training within the first two weeks from the start of their very first teaching assistantship. Training consists of an online presentation and a small quiz. Once your Job Appointment is set up on the Human Resource System (called Workday), students will receive a Workday notification to complete the online training. If students have completed this previously, they do not need to take it again.
New Teaching Assistants in the History Department are required to participate in the TA Training Program (TA Orientation Day and Workshops).
The TA Orientation Day, and TA Workshops are organized by the TA Director. If you are a new TA, and haven't received information about the TA Training program, please contact the TA Director (Professor Laura Ishiguro) for more information.
If Professors have TA(s) that need access to your course(s):
- TAs need to be hired into the HR system to show up as an eligible TA to add to a CANVAS course.
- Jason Wu (hist.grad@ubc.ca) is your department timetable representative (T-Rep), and will enter your TA(s) into the SIS system as the final step after the TA job appointment has been approved and appears in the HR system. Once the TA is assigned on SIS, this will automatically grant access to CANVAS.
- In terms of a timeline, TAs are entered into the system approximately 1-2 pay periods before the course starts.
How can professors check to see if your TA(s) already have access to their Canvas Site:
- Go the People tab in your Course Navigation menu.
- If you do not see your TA(s) listed, please contact your T-Rep (Jason Wu is T-Rep contact to assign TAs for HIST courses.)
To help your TAs get ready for to support your classroom, please let them know that Arts ISIT has TA focused workshops and ensure they self-enrol in the Arts Teaching Assistant Training site in Canvas.
Contact Person if the professor’s TA does not appear on CANVAS:
If you have any questions about adding your TAs to CANVAS, please contact your Department T-Rep (jason.wu@ubc.ca or hist.grad@ubc.ca). If you contact ARTS IT for assistance with adding TAs to CANVAS, your request will get forward to Jason Wu (History Department T-Rep).
Location:
Rooms 143, 145, 147, 149
Auditorium Annex A
1924 West Mall V6T 1Z2
Instructions for TAs:
- Please find your TA Room Assignment below.
- Please email your office hours (Day and Time) to hist.grad@ubc.ca and this information will be inputted into the Room Assignments below.
Room Assignment:
Room 143 |
Room 145 |
Room 147 |
Room 149 |
Dane Allard
|
Peter Jones |
Ella Bishop |
Jinsung Kim |
Nathan Deschamps
|
Emily Leischner |
Seung Soo Yoon |
Sze Sze Yap |
Sean James, Friday, 2:00-2:30pm |
Noah Taylor |
Lucy Warrington |
Andrew Candela |
Kira Razzo
|
Stanley Chia |
Calvin Lin |
Nila Utami |
Jane Willsie
|
Sophia McGhie |
Katherine Cao |
Adrian Wawrejko |
Ryan Iu
|
Emily Cadger |
Josh Timmermann |
Mercedes Peters |
Sean MacPherson
|
Naomi Louie |
Lewis Page |
Hannah Facknitz |
Balie Tomar
|
Philip Karangu |
Hamad Nazar |
Sanad Tabbaa |
Archa Neelakandan Girija
|
Georgia Twiss |
Bianca Chui |
Laura Jones |
Nicole Yakashiro
|
Manimugdha Sharma |
Haley Seven Deers |
Emily Witherow |
Coltin Lillico
|
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Important Notes about TA Office:
- Each TA’s Physical UBC Card will serve as the swipe key card for access to all of the rooms.
- Each TA is assigned to one of four TA Offices.
- Please note the fridge in 143 is for all TAs to use (hence, shared access).
- Each office shares 5-10 TAs per term. TAs are assigned at random and evenly distributed across all of the rooms.
- TAs work out their office hours with the other TAs in the shared room.
- TAs are assigned a primary/designated room, but have access to all rooms in case there are unforeseen circumstances (For example, a TA can use an adjoining empty room to meet with their students if their designated room is temporarily occupied by another TA.
- TA offices are primarily for Office hours. Office space not being used for office hours may be used for TA prepping, marking, etc.
- Due to close proximity with other student offices, please be respectful of noise. Casual conversations should take place outside of the office area.
If you are not able to access the TA rooms with your student card, please send an email to hist.grad@ubc.ca to check if your student card is activated for Swipe Card Access.
The History Department Teaching Assistant Offices are located at:
Auditorium Annex,
1924 West Mall,
Vancouver, BC,
V6T 1Z2
The TA Office rooms are 143, 145, 147, 149 and 152.
The entrance is Door H (143A).
For your reference, 143A is shared common area out front.
The TA Invigilation Schedule updated (during the middle of the term) once the end of term exam schedule is released by UBC Scheduling services:
2021-2022 Term 2 Exam & Invigilation Schedule (History Department)
Please find below the Exam & Invigilation Schedule for History Department Courses.
Note for Professors & TAs:
Please find below the Exam & Invigilation Schedule for History Department Courses.
Exam Schedule as of March.15.2022
(Exam Rooms have been assigned to the TA Invigilation Schedule)
The location of the exam will be updated later in the term. Please check the official UBC exam schedule for the location: https://students.ubc.ca/enrolment/exams/exam-schedule
For your reference, please find links below for the following information:
- UBC Invigilator’s Cover Sheet
- UBC Exam Invigilation Guidelines (or PDF link)
- UBC Student Conduct During Exams
For courses without TA(s) assigned to it:
- If professors need a TA invigilator, please contact the TA director in charge of hiring TAs for assistance. If there are enough funds in the TA Budget, the TA Director could hire additional TAs for invigilation work.
For courses with TA(s) assigned to it:
- TA Invigilation Assignments (below) are based on the TA Workload Forms filled out by the professors.
- If professors did not assign invigilation hours for their TA(s), but need a TA invigilator, professors should adjust hours on the TA Workload form and communicate this with their TA(s).
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Course | Date | Time | Location | Instructor
(Course Invigilator) |
TA Invigilator |
HIST103, Section 001 | April 21, 2022
|
7:00 pm | IRC 2 | Steven Lee | Seung Soo Yoon
Sean James
Sze Sze Yap
|
HIST103, Section 002 | April 25, 2022 | 8:30 am | SEE PROF | Benjamin Bryce
|
Andrew Candela
Noah Taylor
Lucy Warrington
|
HIST 106, Section 201
|
April 25, 2022 | 3:30 pm | BUCH A102 | Tina Loo | Dane Allard
Sophia McGhie
|
HIST 108,
Section 201
|
April 23, 2022 | 12:00 pm | LIFE 2302 | Maria Munoz | Note: Course has a TA, but no invigilation hours assigned on Workload Form.
|
HIST 202B,
Section 201
|
April 24, 2022 | 3:30 pm | SEE PROF | Courtney Booker | -
|
HIST 220A,
Section 201
|
April 26, 2022 | 3:30 pm | SWNG 121 | Michael Lanthier
|
Note: Course has a TAs, but no invigilation hours assigned on Workload Form.
|
HIST 236,
Section 201
|
April 12, 2022 | 12:00 pm | SEE PROF | Tamara Myers | Georgia Twiss
|
HIST 237A,
Section 201
|
April 27, 2022 | 3:30 pm | BUCH A102 | Jessica Wang | Naomi Louie
Lewis Page
|
HIST 241,
Section 201 |
April 21, 2022 | 8:30 am | BUCH B213 | Robert Brain | Balie Tomar
|
HIST 250A,
Section 201
|
April 26, 2022 | 8:30 am | SEE PROF | Bill French | - |
HIST 271,
Section 201
|
April 19, 2022 | 12:00 pm | SEE PROF | Avram Agov | Kira Razzo |
HIST 312,
Section 201
|
April 20, 2022 | 3:30 pm | SEE PROF | David Morton | - |
HIST 319,
Section 201
|
April 22, 2022 | 3:30 pm | BUCH A203 | Michael Lanthier | - |
HIST 370, Section 201
|
April 14, 2022 | 8:30 am | BUCH A102 | Michael Lanthier | Note: Course has a TA, but no invigilation hours assigned on Workload Form.
|
HIST 386A,
Section 201
|
April 20, 2022 | 12:00 pm | SEE PROF | Avram Agov | - |
HIST 419, Section 201 | April 22, 2022 | 3:30 pm | IBLC 261 | Bradley Miller | - |
HIST 425,
Section 001 |
April 20, 2022 | 8:30 am | IBLC 182 | David Gossen | Haley Seven Deers
Emily Witherow
|
HIST 432,
Section 001 |
Exam Date Cancelled | - | - | Heidi Tworek
|
Exam Date Cancelled |
Standard exam length is 2.5 hours
* Exam length is 3 hours as requested.
Payroll Operations recently created a FAQ to answer the community’s most common questions, ranging from when you get paid and how to understand your pay statement, to why your net pay might be lower at the beginning of the year.
The information in the link above includes everything you need to know about how and when you get paid, including how to understand your pay statement and other pay-related information.
1. How are TAships paid out? Who to contact if you have questions about pay?
Teaching Assistantships, set up on the Human Resource System (Workday), are paid out semi-monthly (middle of the month, and end of the month). Once the TA job appointment is set up on Workday, employees will receive a notification to complete an on-boarding process which includes instructions on how to set up their direct deposit payment on Workday.
2. Who provides the TA Workload Form? What if you don't receive one?
As per Article 12.02(a) of our Collective Agreement, at the beginning of the term, all instructors are required to provide their TAs with an itemized allocation of hours for the term. This form, called the TA Workload Form, documents the allocation of hours anticipated to be assigned to the Teaching Assistant for their duties. If you do not receive a TA Workload form at the beginning of the term from your professor, please contact the TA Director for assistance.
3. Are there TA Mailboxes in History Department Office?
Each History Department TA is assigned a mailbox in the History Department Office (Buchanan Tower, Room 1297). TA mailboxes are located just inside the main office entrance on the left hand side.
4. How to set up UBC email for professional capacity?
Once your TA Job Appointment is set up on Workday, the TA will receive a notification to go through an on-boarding process which includes instructions on how to set up an employee email (designated as "(at)mail.ubc.ca"). If TAs set up an employee email, this will be the default contact email that will appear on the UBC course schedule for the TA. If the TA chooses not to set up a UBC email, they can use their UBC student email (designated as "(at)student.ubc.ca") as their employee email.
5. What about re-applying or renewing your TAship for next year?
Anticipated TA positions for the next academic year are posted by ~March 31st. The anticipated TA positions will be be posted on the Department's Physical TA Bulletin Board, and on the Department Website's TA Opportunities Page. Returning TAs should renew or re-apply for next year's TAships by filling out the online application/renewal form on the TA Opportunity page by the April 30th deadline.
6. Am I eligible for a UBC Zoom License if my professor requires me to hold online tutorials as part of my TA work?
UBC has a campus-wide license for Zoom as a platform for delivering courses online and larger meetings. Instructions on how to request a UBC zoom account can be found here (Learning Technology Hub), here (UBC IT), or here (UBC Zoom).
7. Where can History TAs get "whiteboard markers" to use in their tutorial sections?
Option #1: History Department TAs can ask (in-person) the front desk administrative support person in the History Main Office (Buchanan Tower, Room 1297) for "whiteboard markers". The main office is open Mondays to Thursdays from 8AM - 4PM.
Option #2: Fill out the contact form to ask the front desk administrative support person to leave extra whiteboard markers for "pick up" in your TA mailbox located in the History Main Office (Buchanan Tower, Room 1297). The main office is open Mondays to Thursdays from 8AM - 4PM.
Teaching Assistantships (TA) positions are available to graduate students in the Department of History. All students who have been accepted into the graduate program will be automatically considered by the graduate committee for Teaching Assistantships; no application is required.
For all other graduate students, the department welcomes TA applications throughout the year. If you would like to be considered for any teaching assistantship positions in the upcoming academic year, please see the TA Opportunities Page to view the anticipated TA position list and instructions for submitting a TA application.