CFE Newsletter

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Course Evaluations open from Monday, November 29^th to Friday, December 10th

As you get ready for the close of the semester and the opening of course evaluations, we wanted to remind you of some resources that can help you with your students before course evaluations.

When the course evaluations open on November 29th, please encourage your students to complete the evaluations by sending them reminders and setting aside class time to complete the evaluations. Note that you can provide students with the direct link to your course’s evaluation by going to your CampusLabs account and grabbing the link underneath the course.  You can also check response rates here. 

The following resources can help you have a conversation with your students about completing the course evaluations, including how to talk to your students about the value of course evaluations and the type of feedback that is most useful.

• Giving Useful Feedback to Your Professors
• Medium.com article on Talking to Your Students about Course Evaluations
• Articles on increasing student completion of electronic course evaluations
• More resources for course evaluations

Also, take a look at the Teaching Tips for ideas on how to wrap up the semester with your students.

What Your Students Want You to Know About Emergencies and 911

Thursday, November 18 || 2:00 – 3:00 pm || WebEx – link will be sent to you before the session.

REGISTER HERE for the WYSWYTK session

Hear from professionals in the Dean of Students Office, MSU Police Department and Residential Life and ask questions about how MSU supports students in emergencies and what happens when a faculty member files a Care Report or is concerned about a student’s well-being. This important, informative session is intended to help faculty better understand how to help students in crisis situations outside of class, reveal how the MSU emergency system works, and what students experience when they are involved in such situations.

Welcoming Tribal College Student Transfers and new Tribal Students

Summary of remaining sessions for 2021 

Co-facilitators from Blackfeet Community College (BCC) are enrolled Amskapi Piikani who are BCC administrators, faculty, former MSU students

All sessions are held from 3:00 to 4:30 pm in Room 108 Plant Biosciences Building

18 November – Participants from the Workshop series present one change they will make in the classroom, research lab, advising, or engagement program to improve their tribal student welcoming environment.

REGISTER FOR NOV 18 HERE

Grant-Writing Bootcamp: From Idea to Proposal

Fridays, January 7, 14, 21, 28 and February 11 || 10:00 am – 12:30 pm
Facilitated by Nika Stoop, CFE Program Lead – Research/Scholarship

Co-sponsored by the Office of Research Development (part of the Office of Research, Economic Development and Graduate Education)

APPLICATIONS DUE BY December 15, 2021!

Go through the grant-writing process from beginning to end while working on your own grant proposal. With feedback from peers and experts, this 5-session workshop over 6 weeks is designed to help novice grant writers understand the requirements of a grant opportunity, collect and create the many parts of a proposal, organize and write about their project, connect with MSU resources, and submit a grant proposal at MSU.

A participant described it as “…a fabulous workshop and learning opportunity.” They say that it “…helped me solidify my ideas and get specific feedback about the research part of my proposal.”

• Learn more about the program and submit your application here

Visit the CFE website for the most up-to-date listing and links for registration. For a full archive of past workshops, visit the Recorded Workshop library

Development of ePortfolios for Spring 2022 Courses: Request for Proposals

Microsoft Monday Brown Bag Lunch & Learn

Every Monday from noon to 1:00, UIT MarCom staff will be hosting an online information and training session about Microsoft 365. Learn what Microsoft 365 is and what it means to you. 

November → SharePoint & Shared Document Libraries

December → Microsoft Teams

• Learn more about Microsoft Monday here

Free Speech on Campus: A Sprint Course!

Don’t miss the opportunity to attend this short informational course from our “Brown Bag Series”. Have you attended a Free Speech workshop? Would you like more information on what can and cannot be done on campus? Do you have questions or just want to learn more about policies within the university system? For your convenience, throughout the first semester there will be three 1-hour Free Speech Crash Course workshops offered during lunch time, so simply register for the time that works with your schedule and come learn something new about where you work. 

• Free Speech on Campus: A Crash Course – Tuesday, December 14^th from 11:30am – 12:30pm

To register, please visit the MSU Registration site and search for the course, Free Speech on Campus: A Sprint Course.

Resources to Help Faculty with the Box Transition to OneDrive

As the university gets closer to its transition away from the storage site Box, University Information Technology would like to remind the MSU community how they can play a part in the successful migration of their data.

• Clean up your collaborators. To make it easier for UIT to assist individuals, use the Box Shares Report folder to review current collaborators on files and folders. Learn more by visiting Box Transition How-To prepare videos  
• Reduce the number of files and folders. Delete any unnecessary documents or folders to expedite migration time. 
• Learn more about OneDrive for Business(OneDrive) and SharePoint Document Libraries.
• Attend Microsoft Monday Lunch & Learn webinars hosted by UIT MarCom (Marketing & Communications)
• Review the Box Transition Resources

In this section, we are posting some short articles with practical teaching tips:

Tips for wrapping up a course at the end of the semester:

• The Last Class Session: How to Make It Count Short article on strategies for wrapping up a course in ways that help students integrate content, prepare for exams, and request useful feedback for the course.
• Ending the Semester Includes additional ideas for wrapping up a course as well as using the course to look forward, i.e. how to reach out to you for letters of recommendation.
• Parting Ways: Ending Your Course Provides strategies for ending a course with both academic and emotional closure.
• A Tutorial for Making Online Learning Accessible to Students The tutorial provides background information about the universal design framework and guidance in making online learning accessible to students.
• 10 Ways to Tackle Linguistic Bias in Our Classrooms This short article provides 10 culturally inclusive teaching best practices for faculty to recognize and combat prejudices when it comes to how our students speak and write.
• This Semester, Don’t Forget Participation Feedback! Try these five best practices for assessing and offering feedback on participation, especially for faculty who are teaching in culturally diverse environments.

• You can also find Teaching Tips and other resources on the CFE webpage

Find graduate student resources here that you can share with your students.  Visit The Graduate School resources for faculty and staff website.

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