Course Design Playlist

Quick Educator Resources by Theme

This is a collection of high-level resources for educators who are getting started with their career, the academic year, or their course.

Visit our list of Quick Educator Resources by Theme for information and tools related to:

• Accessibility
• Inclusion
• Educational Technologies
• Classroom Teaching Tools
• Building Community

Guidance, Guidelines, and Policies

Resources here represent campus-wide guidance on important course-level considerations.

• GenAI: MSU-specific Guidance and [Non]Permitted Uses
• Guidelines for Course-Level Online Camera Rules
• MSU Grief Absence Policy

Academic Advisor Planning Support

Explore planning ideas, tools, and support specific to academic advisors. This includes ideas for creating events for your students and managing higher volume student contact during different points in the academic year.

• Preparing for Higher Volume Advising Periods
• Event Ideas and Resources for Academic Advisors
• MSU Grief Absence Policy

Spartan Studios Playkit

This playlist introduces the Spartan Studios’ Playkit, a resource for MSU faculty about planning, implementing, and assessing experiential interdisciplinary courses. The first post below links to our Playkit as a navigable PDF. If you would prefer to browse by topic, the following articles each present one or two topics from the Playkit.

• Spartan Studios Playkit Download (Start Here)
• Spartan Studios Playkit: Introduction
• Spartan Studios Playkit: Co-Teaching
• Spartan Studios: GORP for High impact Experiential Teaching
• Spartan Studios: Planning
• Spartan Studios: Partnerships
• Spartan Studios: Coaching
• Spartan Studios: Assessment
• Spartan Studios: Research and Next Steps
• Spartan Studios Playkit: Appendix

Mid-semester Feedback

This is a collection of resources to help guide educators through the process of collecting mid-semester feedback, interpreting the data, and making an action plan!

• What is formative feedback
• Mid-semester Feedback General Process
• Mid-semester Feedback Sample Questions
• Building Anonymous Surveys for Formative Feedback
• Preparing Students for Providing Mid-semester Feedback
• You’ve Asked Students for Mid-semester Feedback. What’s Next?
• Quick Tips on How to Interpret Mid-semester Feedback Data
• Checking in Throughout the Semester

Teaching After Crisis

A compilation of resources that served as guides for Spartans in February, 2023. Many of these resources were shared by other institutions and members of the higher education community at large.

• Trauma Informed Resources:
  • Teaching after Tragedy– Managing Academics 
  • Managing the trauma of tragedy [an expert Q&A] 
  • Trauma-Informed Response Training for Advisors [webinar recording]
• Resources for Instructors and Classroom Practices:
  • Teaching in the Face of Tragedy
  • First Class when a Classmate is Gone
  • What to Say: Strategies for Supporting Our Students (when returning to class)
  • 6-step approach to starting class [a message from institutional leaders]
• Resources to Support Students:
  • College students coping after the recent shooting [a resource from the National Child Traumatic Stress Network] 
  • Affirming Ways to Communicate 
  • How to Respond in the Classroom: Moving Forward after Tragedy and Trauma
• Resources on Course Modality & Flexibility:
  • Course Policy Modifications After a Crisis: Practical Strategies for Returning to Class 
  • Online Learning: Moving Forward after Tragedy and Trauma