Paid “Students as Partners” Wanted for Fall/Winter Online Course Design Projects

The Students as Partners Fall/Winter Student call is now open for student applicants to the Online Course Design Stream, and Social Sciences students are encouraged to apply.

Running during two cycles per year, the Student Partners Program (SPP) provides undergraduate and graduate students with paid opportunities to participate as partners with faculty, instructors, and staff on projects that contribute to the enhancement of teaching and learning at McMaster.

This call for student partners is specific to the Online Course Design Stream. Student partner online course designers will work with faculty to assist with the creation of high quality, engaging, and accessible online learning experiences. These may include:

• Mapping course content.
• Developing multimedia resources, open educational resources, and/or learning objects (e.g. H5P)
• Designing and developing assessments.
• Organizing and uploading content to an Avenue to Learn course shell
• Ensuring course content meets accessibility standards—this includes choosing accessible course content, adding alt text to images, using readable fonts and colours, providing captions or transcripts for videos, and designing inclusive learning materials.
• Testing all course components for usability from a student’s perspective.

Students of any level are encouraged to apply to the positions listed in the Fall/Winter Project Description Document. Projects run from September 2025 to April 2026 and focus on teaching and learning in the classroom. 

Please review the full list of project descriptions, as interdisciplinary application and collaboration is highly recommended by the faculty and by the Student Partners Program. Social Sciences students can apply to any project originating in any faculty.

How to Apply

To apply, identify your preferred project by reviewing the Fall/Winter Project Description Document on Sharepoint. Then, when you are ready, fill out the Student as Partners Fall/Winter Application via Microsoft Forms by the July 21 deadline.

If you have questions about the call or the Student Partner Program in general, please contact mi_sap@mcmaster.ca. Otherwise, please contact the noted project leads in the project description document for project specific questions.