Course Management
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EDLI is offering mid-semester course feedback with Mid-FACT
Every instructor wants to create a meaningful and engaging learning experience, but how do we know if students genuinely connect with the material? Traditional student evaluations often come at the end of the semester, leaving educators with valuable insights—but no opportunity to act on them for the current students. This is where MidFACT—Midsemester Feedback for…
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Listening to Students When It Matters: How MidFACT can Transform Teaching at MSU
MidFACT—Midsemester Feedback for Actionable Course Transformation Every instructor wants to create a meaningful and engaging learning experience, but how do we know if students genuinely connect with the material? Traditional student evaluations often come at the end of the semester, leaving faculty with valuable insights—but no opportunity to act on them for the current students.…
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Generative AI Use Codes
By Stephen Thomas, Evidence Driven Learning Innovation (EDLI) The following is a proposed system of “Generative AI Use Codes” (GAUC) for academic assignments to provide clearer communication between instructors and students. These can be used to communicate the allowed level of generative AI assistance and desired degree of citation in academic tasks. The codes are meant to…
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Returning to Instruction – February 2023
This post provides some resources for faculty resuming courses in February 2023. Per guidance from the Provost’s office, faculty are encouraged to be flexible and accommodating with themselves and their students. Some courses may resume as planned, and others may need to make pedagogical changes in order to accommodate faculty and student needs. These changes…
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Guidance for students attending remotely
With the implementation of hybrid classroom technologies on MSU’s campus, all University classrooms now have the ability to stream your course to remote students. While the choice to do this remains with each instructor, if you do choose to stream the course to students as an option you may want to provide some specific guidance…
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Template & Considerations for Student Notification – Temporary Course Modality Change
Below are some suggestions and sample text you may wish to use when communicating with your students about a temporary modality change of your course due to illness, etc. Before you make the decision to change your course to online please consider your goals and objectives for the particular session(s) you are changing, and what…