Smith Center Templates

• Course Design Template
  This is a chart that helps you connect your learning outcomes to your content, your assignments, and your assessments.
• Syllabus Template
  This syllabus template provides all the critical components of a syllabus, including suggested language for key policies, links to student resources, and links to calendar structures you can choose (already created with this fall’s dates and OWU academic calendar items).

Smith Center Guides

• Student Attendance & Engagement
  If you’ve ever wondered whether it’s worth the effort to incentivize or require attendance, this guide discusses a variety of studies and meta-analyses on attendance & learning
• Transformative Learning for Today’s Students
  This guide provides insight into the learning challenges of students today along with discussions on how to strategically address these experiences
• Course Design from a Strengths-Based Lens
  This guide provides four strategies for using Gen Z strengths as a lens for designing courses
• Early Semester Formative Feedback
  This guide discusses how formative feedback can provide clarity for students on course understanding, progress, and concept learning, along with feedback for faculty on student performance.
• Deep Learning Formative Assessment
  This guide discusses how to improve academic performance using formative assessments and the deep learning concept test to measure student understanding of concepts.
• Learning Outcomes Focused Design
  This guide walks you through the steps to create strong learning outcomes that meet the goals you have for your course.
• Syllabus Best Practices
  This guide gives best practices in syllabus design and provides additional resources to help you create a syllabus that is clear and engaging.
• Building Academic Integrity (Brief)
  Four concise suggestions to improve student integrity in the classroom
• Building Academic Integrity (Detailed)
  More extensive principles and categories of strategies to help students build self-efficacy and engage in their learning process
• Engaged Learning
  This guide explains levels of learning and provides strategies to deepen student learning in each level.
• Interactive Lecturing
  This is a guide on adding student learning engagement within your lectures. It also includes several helpful resources.
• Academic Belonging & Accessibility
  This guide describes research-based strategies for these critical components of deep learning (including a list of references for further study).
• DEI Council Guide | Inclusive Language & Pedagogy