RRS_Series: Courses

Activity
II.01. ACADEMICS, INSTRUCTION AND RESEARCH/Curriculum and Instruction
Series Name
Courses
Series ID
201-10-205
Description

Document preparation, delivery, and evaluation of courses.  Does not include courses offered by Continuing and Professional Education or as part of employee training; see Related Series field for more information. These records found in all media (paper, digital, or other) may include but are not limited to: 

  • room assignment requests and scheduling; 
  • book orders; 
  • syllabi; 
  • bibliographies and reading lists; 
  • hand-outs; 
  • Online Course Reviews or similar assessments of course site readiness; 
  • quizzes and exam questions; 
  • course evaluations; 
  • course related recordings; 
  • canvas.uoregon.edu course sites; 
  • related documentation and correspondence, including e-mail.

    This series only applies only to course records retained by the university and does not cover faculty’s personal copies of syllabi or lecture/presentation material kept by faculty for their dossiers and/or portfolios, which faculty preserve at their discretion. This series also excludes graded homework and exams not stored in Canvas; see Related Series. 

    Retention and Disposal Instructions

    (a) 1 year after end of term for book orders and room scheduling, purge; 

    (b) 10 years after end of term for academic departments’ copies of syllabi, purge; 

    (c) 5 years after end of term for canvas.uoregon.edu course sites, purge;  

    (d) 5 years after end of term, unless educational need persists, for course videos uploaded to streaming platforms, including but not limited to content in Panopto, Zoom, and Stream, purge;

    (e) 1 term after end of term for routine related correspondence not in Canvas, including email, unless educational need persists, purge; 

    (f) 5 years after end of term for all other records, including course material not uploaded to Canvas and not part of faculty’s personal copies of syllabi and teaching material, purge. 

    Exception: In the event of a subpoena, audit, legal hold, public records or similar state or federal information request, halt until further instructed any scheduled disposal activities, including purging or transferring material to University Archives.