Teaching Guides and Resources

Course Planning

• Selecting and Ordering Textbooks from the MSU Bookstore
• Making your Blackboard course available
• Access the University Academic Calendar
• Review Faculty Responsibilities in Instruction and Curriculum
• Creating a Syllabus
• What's In A Good Syllabus?
• Syllabus Template, Sample Syllabus
• Writing Goals and Objectives
  • Bloom's Taxonomy Video
  • Bloom's Writing Objectives
  • Bloom's Action Verbs
  • Don Clark's NWlink.com - Bloom's Taxonomy
• Constructing Effective Assessments
• Final Exam Policy
• Evaluating Your Course
  • Evaluation of Teaching Performance
• Attendance
  • Faculty Attendance Policy
  • Student Attendance Policy
• Academic Misconduct Reporting
• Grade Appeals
• Student Resources
  • Student Counseling Services
  • Student Support Services
  • Student Policies and Procedures
  • Student Honor Code

Teaching Tools

• Journaling

Tenure/Promotion Resources

• Creating a Portfolio
• Tenure/Promotion Resources

Library Resourcess

• Place Materials on Reserve
• Rent Equipment
• Book Library Instructional Session for Your Course
• Copyright Information