The CTLI’s Designing Your MSU Syllabus workshop and its resources are meant to introduce MSU educators to the role of the syllabus at MSU, its required and recommended components, and institutional resources for writing and improving syllabi. In August 2024, this hybrid workshop comprised part of our Semester Start-Up programming for MSU educators during the CTLI’s first-ever Plan-a-thon, a day dedicated to course and assignment planning. The takeaways from these sessions were:
- Think about your syllabus as a learning tool AND an agreement within your classroom community.
- Some syllabus components are required while others are recommended (try not to overwhelm!)
- Consider inclusion and flexibility
- MSU and departments / colleges have many resources available to help support you build your syllabus
You can access the slide deck for this workshop here (requires MSU login) including links to many resources for course instructors, including sample statements and policy language. We also have an Creating Your Syllabus iTeach Playlist of further syllabus resources, including the CTLI’s new Inclusive Syllabus Template created by Bethany Meadows.
The recording of this hybrid workshop is available below.
Feel free to reach out to Ellie Louson and/or Monica Mills in the CTLI if you have any questions about the Designing Your MSU Syllabus workshop or our syllabus resources.
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