Staying up-to-date on teaching and supporting students

Dear Aggie,

How can we make sure we are up to date on any new information about teaching and supporting students?

~Keeping Current

 

Dear Keeping Current,

First of all, welcome back and welcome to all of our new colleagues! The start of the semester is always exciting (and sometimes overwhelming). Hopefully everybody has already found and used the syllabus resources: https://syllabus.nmsu.edu/  (and definitely bookmark that for future semesters).

If you have any questions about Canvas or Zoom, Academic Technology is your place to go. They offer a Zoom Help Desk with regular hours, including a few Saturdays (Sept. 6^th and 13^th). They also offer on-going and recorded workshops on a variety of topics and tools as well as answers to FAQs. Visit them at https://learning.nmsu.edu/.

If you have students who are not engaging in your class (have not attended and/or have not logged into Canvas), please reach out to them. You can also use the Navigate system to issue an early alert: https://navigate.nmsu.edu/ (see the Actions section beneath your profile picture when you log in).

If you have students with questions about bills, advising, housing, financial aid, student records etc., please refer them to Aggie One-Stop. This is a student service center that can help students with a variety of questions, all in one place. Refer students to  https://onestop.nmsu.edu, have them call 575.646.NMSU or email onestop@nmsu.edu .

For health and wellness, the Aggie Health and Wellness Center provides integrated comprehensive medical and psychological services to NMSU students. Timely Care offers 24/7 virtual access to self-care and wellness tools (https://app.timelycare.com/auth/login). And 988 is the national suicide and crisis hotline (https://988lifeline.org/). Please remember that if a student is threatening imminent self-harm, call 911 and let them know that it is a psychiatric emergency. See https://honors.nmsu.edu/for-students/mental-health-resources.html for more information.

For professional development related to teaching and learning (e.g., workshops, resources), the NMSU Teaching Academy is your destination: https://teaching.nmsu.edu/. You can also find archives of pervious Dear Aggie posts: https://teaching.nmsu.edu/dearaggie/ .

Have a great semester! And please don’t hesitate to let me know what topics you’d like to learn more about (dearaggie@nmsu.edu).

~Aggie