Timeless teaching credit

“Timeless” teaching credit

Teaching is an important part of academia, and teaching experience shows you have the communication and organisation skills important in any job. If you are a Postdoc involved in teaching, you should be able to get credit for this, even though the teaching responsibilities might officially lie at a PI. Since 2016, the university uses the Timeless application for this, found at https://timeless.service.rug.nl.

Every course coordinator can and should enter the people that were responsible for any teaching activities (including supervision of students) with the right amount of hours spent on teaching (under My Activities). Only the coordinator can enter this data and it is used to allocate teaching budgets, so it is important and official. If you are not the course coordinator, please check if they have correctly entered the hours you spent on teaching, because this record serves as evidence for your activities. If any coordinators haven't done this, please remind them to do so during the active academic year, as you can't go change previous years anymore, they are required to accurately enter these records by FSE rules. Supervision of BSc, MSc or PhD students should also be entered in the system, although this is somewhat more elaborate because of the lack of course codes and official allocated time.

As the FSE Postdoc council, we have made sure all Postdocs are automatically added to the Timeless system so they can get the credit they deserve for teaching. We recommend (PDF) printing your Timeless records from time to time for future reference or support of applications outside the University of Groningen. More information and a point of contact in the case of issues can be found at https://myuniversity.rug.nl/infonet/medewerkers/fse/onderwijs/timeless/