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Information Technology at MSU provides an overview of available classroom technology, including active learning classrooms.

Join us for the 2025 MSU Educational Technology Summit Monday, June 2 through Thursday, June 5.
 
Visit the D2L learning community to enroll and visit the course home page to find the complete schedule and register for the sessions you plan to attend.
 
This four-day virtual event highlights the technologies that enhance teaching and learning and promote student success. In addition to demos from partner vendors, MSU educators and support staff will present and discuss the use of the powerful and helpful educational technology available at MSU.
 
Sessions include:
 
·      Online white boards: Enhancing teaching, collaboration, and community building
 
·      Call us irresponsible: Designing online curricula for the AI era
 
·      The best of both worlds: The academic security of in-person assessments and the ease of digital grading
·      And many more!
 
Sessions will take place each day in the morning and afternoon. Attend and engage in as many sessions as you wish. Participating vendors scheduled to present include TechSmith, Packback, and iClicker.
 
Hosted by MSU IT’s Educational Technology department, the MSU Educational Technology Summit is open to the MSU community for the purposes of increasing awareness of supported educational technologies, promoting IT services available to our MSU communities, and sharing useful strategies for using these technologies.

IT Services at MSU provides many avenues for training in technology usage for members of the MSU community.

Blended Learning Instructional Skills: In the Classroom was a workshop offered by the Center for Teaching and Learning Innovation (CTLI) presented by Jay Loftus and Ellie Louson. Below we have an outline, the workshop's takeaways, links to further resources, and to the slide deck and recording of our workshop. Please feel free to be in touch with Jay or Ellie with any follow-up questions about this topic.
OutlineThe seminar includes the following sections:

What do we mean by ’blended learning’?​
Design of blended learning​
Best Practices​
Strategies​ / Tips and Tricks
Wrap-Up​
Questions 

Takeaways

Importance of Explanations and Instructions – What? How? Why?​
Ensure that activities don’t become more important than the goals of instruction.​
Ensure activities adhere to equitable learning experiences – technical and social.

Further ResourcesOther blended learning resources from the CTLI (including a previous webinar) are available here.Slide DeckSildes from the workshop are available here which include many resources. Seminar RecordingThe recording of our 58-minute seminar is available below.Photo by Campaign Creators on Unsplash

Below is a list of resources that promote student success. All links provided are direct links (ONE CLICK) connecting you to contact information or an educator who can respond to your questions and/or help your students who need technology assistance. Thank you for helping our students achieve their goals.
Technology Help

Net ID and Password
D2L Help
Wifi Help
Loaner Laptop
Other

[MSU] Tech StoreOnline Learning Resources 
Image attribution:Geek Field Trip - WKAR at Michigan State University by Betsy Weber is licensed under CC-BY 2.0

AI Brief Guide by Jay Loftus
 
Photo by Steve Johnson on Unsplash

This article provides some resources for faculty resuming courses in February 2023 and is a cross-post from the original post on the Enhanced Digital Learning Initiative (EDLI) website.
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 may be very different depending on your specific course and will require some flexibility in thinking through options. As you assess the needs of your students and courses we encourage you to adopt a flexible and student-centered approach.

During the first week of returning to classes, you may wish to hold conversations or conduct activities that allow you and your students to understand where you are at and what your needs are for the remainder of the semester. You may wish to provide a survey to your students to allow those who may not be attending classes in person to contribute and to allow for anonymous contributions as you plan for any changes you wish to make.

Ideas for what you might do during this first week back include:


Reflect on where you are.  Reflect on where your students are.
It is ok to not require any academic work this next week. Students may not want to, or be able to, work on academic material in the first days/weeks.
Don’t make any large adjustments. Don’t rewrite the syllabus now but do take notes on what you are hearing or thinking in terms of longer-term changes.
Provide opportunities that allow students to come together, but without the necessity to speak. You could show a film or do some other activity that allows students to engage as they wish.
If you are feeling a particular way, talk about it, and be open about it.


As you consider what changes you may need to make in your courses remember that you may need to reset expectations, but do keep in mind the following:


Keep your course goals and learning objectives at the forefront of any redesigned assignments or activities.
Communicate your plan to your students. (link includes template and email language that may be useful to copy/paste)
Discuss needs with your students and try to be flexible with accommodations.
Adopt practices and approaches that enable students to engage with you and other classmates as much as they are comfortable and able, and in ways that work for you and for them.


Some examples of changes you may wish to make either temporarily or in the long-term best interest of your course and students:


Modify attendance policies to allow students to attend remotely or to take the time they need to process the events. 
Consider changing assignment due dates or the number/length of assignments. If you need to drop an exam or assignment, just do so.
Recording or streaming class sessions to allow students who may need opportunities to revisit course content to do so or to allow students who were not able to be present on campus to access course sessions. 
Accommodating students who are not able to be on campus can be as simple as opening a Zoom session and/or recording your class. Most MSU classrooms are equipped with cameras and software capable of facilitating this style of teaching. 


Some Additional Resources that may be helpful are listed below. 

Making changes to your class


Adapting a Syllabus During the Semester (provided by Ellen Moll, Director of Integrative Studies in Arts and Humanities)
Guide to Modifying Your Course Mid-Semester
Multimodal instructor guide - Contains recommendations for classroom set-up in a multimodal or hyflex-style course.
EDLI Online and Hybrid Course Development Process - Considerations and guidelines for creating online or hybrid courses.


Capturing and Streaming Your Class


MSU Hybrid Classroom Support & Tips - Guide to using MSU Classroom equipment to capture or stream your class.
Live streaming in-person classes Guide - a short guide to learning the process of live streaming in-person classes.
Zoom Meeting Top Ten - A reminder of the top ten most important settings on Zoom.
Preferred Zoom Settings - Recommended Zoom settings for teaching.
Recording Videos in Zoom and Uploading to MediaSpace - Learn how to record your Zoom Meetings to the cloud and then upload them to MediaSpace


Communicating With Your Students


Template & Considerations for Student Notification in Temporary Course Modality Change - A guide to communicating with your students in the event of a temporary course modality change.
Whole Spartan Framework


Further information and resources can be found on the #iteachMSU website. These resources will continue to be updated in the coming days so please check back if you do not find what you are looking for at first.

This post was co-authored by Makena Neal, Scott Schopieray, Jessica Sender, and Jeremy Van Hof.

Click here to open the video in a new window and watch it at https://mediaspace.msu.edu


Michigan State University named Brightspace by Desire2Learn as its centrally supported Learning Management System (LMS) in July 2012. Since then, Brightspace (generally shortened to D2L here on campus) provides the platform and tools for online and web enhanced student experiences. This video gives you a quick overview of not only the D2L platform and built-in accessibility helper Spartan Ally, but also other academic services and technologies available on campus. You'll also meet a team of academic technology support folks who can help you as you learn to leverage MSU-provided digital tools in your teaching. 

Timeline of video

Introductions
1:40 - D2L Overview
31:00 - Spartan Ally
44:48 - MSU Core Academic Technologies Overview
1:10:05 - Getting Help
1:17:05 - Assessment Services Overview
1:19:11 - Q&A Fun Part 2