ULC Assistant Instructional Aide, Humanities

🇺🇸 Remote - Tempe, Arizona 🕑 Part-Time 💰 $17 - $18 per Hour 💻 Teaching 🗓️ September 20th, 2026

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Edtech.com's Summary

Arizona State University is hiring a ULC Assistant Instructional Aide, Humanities to grade assignments and provide feedback for the Learning Enterprise's Universal Learner Courses. The role supports faculty across Humanities disciplines by monitoring course discussion boards and hosting live sessions for large-scale, remotely delivered courses.

Highlights

Grade learner assignments and provide substantive feedback across Universal Learner Courses (ULC) that can enroll 200 to 1,000+ students each.
Support grading in Humanities disciplines including History, Political Science, Global Studies, Criminal Justice, and Religious Studies.
Monitor and engage in course discussion boards to help learners navigate challenges within the course shell.
Host live sessions with learners as assigned by faculty members teaching the course.
Complete mandatory synchronous or asynchronous training and calibration sessions before and during each session.
Work within the Canvas Learning Management System or a comparable platform to manage grading and learner communication.
Advance Learning Enterprise's mission of education equity for scholars in underserved communities through consistent learner support.
Undergo a mandatory fingerprinting process as part of the university's hiring requirements.

ULC Assistant Instructional Aide, Humanities Full Description

The Learning Enterprise at ASU seeks creative, highly motivated, self-directed, detail-oriented candidates with strong written and verbal skills to assist with grading and course management for Universal Learner Courses (ULC), which are delivered remotely. ULCs are scalable and delivered asynchronously, and can have between 200-1,000+ learners in each course. Hours are not guaranteed and can vary between 5-20 hours per week, per 8-week session.

The ULC Assistant Instructional Aide(s) for Humanities will support faculty with learner assessment in online courses by providing feedback and grade support to learners on in-class activities and assignments, and may be tasked to help learners navigate challenges within the course shell.

Areas/Courses of Interest

The successful candidate will be able to grade in one or more of the following areas: History, Political Science, Global Studies, Criminal Justice, Social Science, Religious Studies, Social Work, Communications, Education, English.

Essential Duties

Feedback and Grading: Provide substantive feedback and grade learner assignments in a timely manner.
Learner Support: Address learner challenges within the course shell via discussion boards, and host live sessions with learners as assigned by faculty.
Training: Participate in initial training sessions as well as other calibration sessions as needed (synchronous or asynchronous).

Minimum Qualifications

Associate's degree and one (1) year of experience appropriate to the area of assignment/field; OR, any equivalent combination of experience and/or training from which comparable knowledge, skills, and abilities have been achieved.

Additional Notes

This is a temporary part-time (PRN) position, with maximum hours of 19.5 per week.
ASU will not sponsor this position; the applicant must be eligible to work in the U.S. without sponsorship.
This position requires fingerprinting as a mandatory step in the hiring process.
This role will be based in the state of Arizona; special permissions for out-of-state employment are required and may not be granted.