Advising Sheets
Click below to view advising sheets for the master and doctoral degrees. You can use these to plan your own term-by-term plan of the coursework you'll need to complete for your degree. Once completed, you should consult with your advisor before using it to complete your program of study form for the graduate school. This form is due after you have completed 12 credits of study in your program.
Master Degree Advising Sheet
- Course Listings/Rotations
Ph.D. Advising Sheet-No IDT Master's Degree
Ph.D. Advising Sheet-WITH IDT Master's Degree
Graduate School Masters Handbook
Graduate School Doctoral Handbook
Teaching & Learning Doctoral Handbook
Class Registration Instruction Sheets:
Registering for Classes
Dropping Classes
Swapping Class Section
Requesting Incompletes (Also see Registrar's policy here)
IDT Student Web Server Space
All IDT students now have their own web space on the IDT server. You can host your own website (idt.und.edu/~ plus your first name, a period, last name as one word, (e.g., idt.und.edu/~joe.smith) and serve up streaming video from the 2GB space provided. The documents below will help you get started on mounting your server space as a hard drive that you can copy files to and from using drag and drop, and show you how to use FTP from Dreamweaver or other programs.
To Mount Server Space From Windows Computers (5 pages)
To Mount Server Space from Apple Computers (1 page)
FTP Instructions (1 page)
Wiki Instructions (1 page)
Blog Instructions (1 page)
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Internship
All M.S. and M.Ed. students are required to complete a 2 credit Internship in instructional design. Students may ELECT to do a practicum (Directed Studies in IDT). The following forms describe the requirements and differences for these experiences. Students are encouraged to identify internship possibilities that are close to them in proximity and which represent opportunities consistent with their career goals and interests. IDT has relationships with several organizationswhich have hosted paid and unpaid internships in the past, and a couple of them will consider "virtual" internships where students telecommute for a portion of the experience. Use the resulting documents to learn more and to complete the documentation requirements for the Internship and Practicum courses.
Internship Description (Describes the process.)
Internship Proposal form (Student submits this to advisor for approval prior to internship.)
Project Supervisor LOA (Supervisor where internship will occur completes this AFTER proposal is approved.)
Student Midterm Evaluation (Completed by student at mid-way point.)
Student Instructions: Please save this form to your computer and email the completed form to your professor.
Supervisor Midterm Evaluation (Completed by supervisor at mid-way point.)
Supervisor Instructions: Please save this form to your computer and email the completed form to the student's supervising UND professor.
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Practicum
Students may ELECT to do a practicum (Directed Studies in IDT). Read the description of practicum experiences, and use the proposal form to start the approval process for a practicum experience.
Practicum Description (Describes the process.)
Practicum Proposal form (Student submits this to advisor for approval prior to internship.)
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Scholarly Project
The scholarly project (IDT 995) is the capstone experience for the masters' programs, and is required of all students. This process involves the full instructional desing process from analysis through evaluation, must be conducted independently by the student, and is presented to and defended before the full IDT faculty and program advisory team. Unsuccessful defenses result in revisions to the project and delayed graduation. It is not possible to graduate without successfully defending your scholary project. Read the description below for more information, and use the proposal form to propose your scholalry project. NOTE: Be sure to check the graduation steps and requirements on this page to understand fully all the steps needed to apply for graduation, including those relating to the scholarly project.
Description of the Scholarly Project
Assessment Rubric
Scholarly Project Proposal Form
Tips for Planning, Conducting, and Defending
Scholarly Project Binding Instructions (Post Defense)
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Additional Information
IDT 592: Supervised Research in IDT
This required (for M.S.) course provides you with experience in research IDT by pairing you with an ongoing research project. Please see the expanded description for more details.
Graduation Steps
Graduating from the IDT Master's program is a little more complicated than collecting your credits and donning your cap and gown. You'll want to start planning long before you reach your last term.
Graduate School Forms
Follow the link to the UND Graduate School's list for forms for Master's students. Here you'll find the forms required for submitting or changing a program of study, proposal forms for the independent study, internship, scholarly project, and thesis, and other forms that may be useful to you.
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