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Course Evaluations open from Monday, April 25th to Friday, May 6th

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 April 25th, 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

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

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 ofrecommendation.
• Parting Ways: Ending Your Course - provides strategies for ending a course with both academic and emotional closure.

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

Common Threads Meeting

Tuesday, April 19 || 12:00pm - 1:00pm || Reid 123 or

Webex: https://montana.webex.com/meet/b97x665

We will be having a Common Threads meeting on Tuesday April 19^th to discuss an new initiative called Building Family. For those who can attend in person, lunch will be provided by HHMI, thanks to Mari Eggers. The goal of Building Family is to partner Indigenous students with faculty/staff to develop relationships that build family and community during the students’ journeys at MSU. Learn more about the meeting here.

Stakeholder Meetings for the Director Position in the Diversity & Inclusion Student Commons

Senior Diveristy Officer, Ariel Donohue, and Vice President, Chris Kearns, will be hosting finalists for the Director of Diversity and Inclusion Student Commons position the last few weeks of April 2022. You are invited to attend the open forums for these candidates. The details of the forums, along with the finalists' CVs may be found on the search webpage.

This online resource is available to the MSU community free of charge. Learn more about how to register.

Guest Expert Webinar: How to Translate Your Research for a General Audience 

TODAY Tuesday, April 19 || 12:00 pm MT

This webinar will discuss how to use online platforms and social media to market your work, how to develop media content that entertains and educates viewers, and how to write effectively for viewers outside of your areas of expertise.  

Facilitated by: Danielle Bainbridge, PhD, Assistant Professor, Northwestern University

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