Faculty Instructions for Approving Honors Contracts

Thank you for supporting our TAMUG Honors students. Course contracts provide our students an opportunity to go beyond the scope of the traditional classroom and coursework to engage with you, our faculty, and pursue independent research.

How honors contracts work:

Both at the beginning and at the end of the semester, you will receive an email requesting your approval of honors course contracts.

Within the first two weeks of the new semester, honors students will access the TAMU Portal and enter their contract information. As the instructor of record, you will receive an email prompting you to approve this contract. If you do not receive the email within the first three weeks of the semester, please contact the TAMUG honors chair.

During the last two weeks of the semester, and once the contract has been completed, honors students will again access and update the contract information by accessing the LAUNCH Portal.

Within the same time period, instructors should receive an email prompting them to access and provide final approval for the course contract. If you do not receive this email by the week of final exams, please contact the TAMUG honors chair.

Overview

By accessing the TAMU LAUNCH Portal

Students should be able to

Submit one or more contracts for classes they are registered for, for the current semester
Receive emails when the contract receives a response from the Instructor and Honors

Instructors should be able to

Receive emails both at the beginning and at the end of the semester when a contract is requested and finalized.

Instructor Contract Response

Instructors can access only contracts that have been submitted to them. When a student submits a request for a contract the Instructor is sent an email with a link to the specific contract. In lieu of using the link, the Instructor can use the Academic Course Contract link to log in.

The email prompt and accessing the contract:

An email is sent to an Instructor when a student submits a contract for a course they are listed as Instructor on.
To respond to the request, the Instructor can select the Approve Request link provided in the email. Instructor will be asked to CAS Authenticate. The link will redirect to the page below:

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To access honors contracts through the LAUNCH Portal, login using your NetID at http://launchportal.tamu.edu.

Click the Honors Course Contract Link

The Instructor can then add comments and Approve or Reject the contract request.
The Instructor can click the View All My Requests link to see all contract requests received.
To view the details of any individual contract the Instructor can click on the View link next to the contract to be viewed. When a contract is Approved or Rejected, an email is sent to the student along with any comments that may have been provided.