Program Overview
Welcome to the Gen Ed English Program at MTSU!
We are thrilled to have you on our team.
If you are just joining us, here are some guidelines and basic information to help you get started:
At MTSU, we use D2L (also called “Desire2Learn,” “Brightspace,” or “eLearn”) as our Learning Management System (LMS). You can access D2L at elearn.mtsu.edu and use your MTSU email and password to sign in.
Once your paperwork is processed and you are in the university system, you may access PipelineMT (pipeline.mtsu.edu) for administrative needs, such as attendance and grade submission, class rosters, and course assignments and schedules.
If you do not yet have D2L access for the courses you will be teaching, you may also request a class “development shell” on D2L where you can build your courses and learn the interface, and then import your “practice” shell once you have access to your courses. Please contact the Gen Ed English office to request a development shell.
If you would like to teach courses that are fully online, you may enroll in Instructional and Development Training with MTSUOnline. Click here for more information on how to access the required self-registered training course. The first time you teach a fully online course, you are required to use the pre-approved D2L shell.
The textbooks are different for each Gen Ed English course:
- ENGL 1010: GTAs and faculty are also encouraged to draw from the 1010 OER, The Muse: Misunderstandings and Their Remedies.
- ENGL 1020: Instruction will primarily depend on the The Ask: A More Beautiful Question, the free ENGL 1020 OER, for critical readings and pedagogical resources.
- ENGL 2020: There is no required/recommended textbook for ENGL 2020, since it is a theme-based course. Texts should be appropriate for the thematic focus of the course and must be ordered by teaching professors.
- ENGL 2030: The textbooks is The Compact Bedford Introduction to Literature, 12th edition.
- Additionally, The Gen Ed English Magazine (GEM) includes award-winning student essays and projects from each course by year. We encourage you and your students to consult the magazine for class examples and discussion.
Check with Jayrah Trapp for questions about ordering alternate texts for your course or for sample desk copies of anthologies for ENGL 2030.
