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: unless you contact Jayrah Trapp to opt out, students in ENGL 1010 courses will have First-Day access to the custom online version of Everyone’s an Author, by Andrea Lunsford, et al. This textbook will be embedded in ENGL 1010 D2L shells and be accessible immediately upon purchase. Collaborative annotations and teacher-highlights are possible. Students and faculty are also encouraged to draw from the 1010 OER, The Muse: Misunderstandings and Their Remedies.
- ENGL 1020: unless you contact Jayrah Trapp to opt out, students in ENGL 1020 courses will be required to purchase the GEM: Gen Ed Magazine from the Phillips Book Store (here), but will primarily depend on the The Ask: A More Beautiful Question, the free ENGL 1020 OER, for critical readings and pedagogical resources.
- ENGL 2020/2030: textbooks for literature courses must be ordered by the teaching professors. Check with Jayrah Trapp for sample desk copies of anthologies for ENGL 2030.
