This short guide lists essential teaching resources for getting started in the fall semester each year.
Upcoming Events
- For college-level events, you’ll receive email invitations or calendar invites from the dean’s office or your Department.
- MSU OFASD Events Listing – A listing of upcoming events and opportunities from the MSU Central Faculty and Academic Staff Development Office.
- MSU Center for Teaching and Learning Innovation (CTLI) Events Listing – Upcoming events from the CTLI.
Contacting Your Class
The Registrar maintains a registrar’s instructor systems page you can use to contact your class, which you will use for grading and other tasks. You can often access your class list and the email tool before your D2L access is enabled. If you have trouble seeing your course in D2L, please contact your department or Academic Operations (contact info below).
Teaching Tools & Support
MSU provides many teaching tools. Most of these tools are on the MSU A-Z Teaching Tools list, but we have highlighted a few essential tools below.
D2L Brightspace
D2L is MSU’s centrally supported learning management system.
Kaltura Mediaspace
Mediaspace is MSU’s streaming media server for uploading and streaming videos for course use.
MS365 Tools Suite
MSU provides access to the MS365 suite of tools, including the full MS Office suite and several other teaching and learning tools, such as MS Teams and MS Bookings.
Getting Further Help
Should you need further help, some resources below can help.
Schedule a teaching consultation with the CTLI for instructional support.
Contact MSU IT Teaching and Learning Group for assistance with learning to use educational technology tools on campus.
Contact the EDLI team to learn more about our upcoming programming or opportunities to think about research in your classroom.
For College-Level assistance with teaching and learning, please contact me at schopie1@msu.edu, or if you require technology assistance with your laptop or computer equipment, you can file a help request in the MSU Help Portal
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