Faculty and Classroom Integration Tools
For many institutions, integrating voter registration efforts into the classroom is an optimal way to systematically Ask Every Student about their democratic engagement plans. We know that strategically engaging faculty is essential to meaningfully integrate into the classroom. We also understand that for most institutions, the “classroom” will take the form of a Learning Management System, such as Canvas or Blackboard this academic year due to COVID-19.
Tools on this page:
Faculty Champion Toolkit
Ask Every Student Learning Management Module
The below resources were created with the Ask Every Student Codesigner Campuses, with special thanks to Mesa Community College, University of Michigan, University of Nevada, Reno, Arizona State University and the TX Votes team at University of Texas at Austin.
Need any help troubleshooting? Reach out to maddie@slsvcoalition.org.
Faculty Champion Toolkit
What is a Faculty Champion? A faculty champion is a professor or lecturer that is integrating democratic engagement activities into their classes and helping their students engage with their community through voting and other activities. They serve a vital role in engaging students in the democratic process at their institution.
Through this guide, we encourage you to customize your program to fit your campus context, including any language or design elements.
This toolkit includes:
Customizable template to create your own menu of opportunities to present to faculty
Customizable templates to offer tiered rewards and recognition to faculty champions for implementing prepared activities
Email template for outreach
Sample google form for outreach
Example back end organizing spreadsheet
8 sample classroom voter registration and democratic engagement opportunity ideas
Different faculty organizing models to choose from
We encourage you to adapt this resource to your campus context and make any changes needed, including through the design and language. However, please make sure to include this citation somewhere on your adapted resource:
This is a resource of Ask Every Student, a project of the ALL IN Campus Democracy Challenge, the Campus Vote Project, NASPA, and the Students Learn Students Vote Coalition. Learn more about Ask Every Student at studentvoting.org.
Examples of Faculty Champion digital badges
Ask Every Student Canvas Module
Use this template to create a module for your campus’ learning management system (LMS). The module can function as a one-stop-shop for students to access information and support for participating in the voting and democratic engagement processes. Faculty can add these onto their class courses and ensure their students have full access to the information that you want students to know.
This module is currently live on the Canvas Commons and you can easily access it through the button below if you use Canvas.
This tool is only compatible with Canvas. However, a great alternative is to edit the Voter Info Walkthrough Template to your context and share the embedding link with faculty to add as a page on their Course.
We encourage you to adapt this resource to your campus context and make any changes needed, including through the design and language. However, please make sure to include this citation somewhere on your adapted resource:
This is a resource of Ask Every Student, a project of the ALL IN Campus Democracy Challenge, the Campus Vote Project, NASPA, and the Students Learn Students Vote Coalition. Learn more about Ask Every Student at studentvoting.org.