I am a Spanish instructor, and the undergraduate coordinator for Mississippi State University, in the Classical & Modern Languages and Literatures Department. I teach all levels of Spanish as well as organize advising for my students. I've taught both face-to-face and online courses, using Cengage products in the classroom since fall 2011.

When I began teaching at Mississippi State University, the department was using a non-Cengage textbook and online workbook system. In the fall of 2011, we started with Cengage eventually using Nexos 2nd, 3rd, and 4th editions to teach Spanish I, II and III. We also used the iLrn Language Learning Center with the Quia workbook. Since then, my department upgraded to using MindTap with Plazas to teach Spanish I-IV at MSU. I began using Plazas/MindTap in 2017 when it debuted at the ACTFL conference that fall. Though at the time we enjoyed using iLrn and Nexos, changing to Plazas/MindTap helped us take our Spanish instruction to the next level, especially in terms of teaching online.