Get a Head Start on Building Your Course

Online Essentials Starter Pack: Build courses using a pre-designed template   The Office of Online Learning has created a “Starter Pack for Building Your D2L Course.” The Starter Pack is available to help faculty begin building a new course site in D2L Brightspace. It contains an initial course framework with placeholders, examples, and editable templates. It is not intended to be a full course, but […]

Online Course Design Essentials: A support resource

A basic checklist   Please find linked a document titled, Online Course Design Essentials. The Office of Online Learning synthesized practices from the instructional design community to create a quick, one-page reference guide for faculty as they begin to consider teaching summer and, potentially, fall courses online.   This checklist contains basic building blocks and does not serve as a comprehensive approach to […]

Office of Online Learning is here to help

The Office of Online Learning is here to help during these times of change. If you are unable to answer your question by viewing training videos and/or support materials, please submit a Help Desk ticket to support@mnstate.edu. The Office of Online Learning will triage incoming requests and assign them to the appropriate team member. Please expect a response within a 24-hour window, M-F, 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.  The Office of […]

Faculty awarded $19,561 for ‘Shark Tank’ Presentation

MSUM faculty were awarded $19,561 (full funding) for their Minnesota Innovation Grant “Shark Tank” Presentation, “Finding Refuge: Using GIS Technology to unite natural, historical, cultural, and creative experiences in the Tamarac National Wildlife Refuge.” The Finding Refuge grant committee includes: Professor Travis Dolence (Distance Learning/Web Librarian), Professor Alex Fogarty (Graphic Communications), Professor Tonya “TJ” Hansen (Economics), Dr. David Kramer (Technical […]