Updated Roles in D2L Brightspace

On April 26th updates will be made to roles in D2L Brightspace to reduce confusion, ensure roles do what they intend and bring them in line with best practices. The most apparent changes include: The teacher role will be renamed to instructor. All teaching assistant roles will be renamed to better reflect what they can do. Permissions will be added/removed […]

News snafus: Employee, student news had a tough week

First, email delivery didn’t happen last week. (It was a WordPress failure.)   Second, you were unsubscribed (oops!), then re-subscribed (yay! because we don’t want you to miss important news.)  Third, we pushed all of the missed news items into an email on Friday (we’re sorry we shared old news or events that already happened.)  Long story short: We apologize […]

Save the Date and a Preview of Oct. 3 Faculty and Professional Development Day

SAVE THE DATE: October 3, 2022 – 8:30-2:30 pmFaculty & Professional Development Day: Where Are We Now? Where Do We Go from Here?  Student Engagement in Higher Education’s Next Normal Breakout sessions, collaborative workshops, poster sessions highlighting research and applied practices, roundtable discussions to share ideas and best practices with colleagues, with a goal to achieve parity between online and in-person […]

Weekly Room Requests for Next Year Now Open!

As we have done in the past, we are allowing student organizations and departments to schedule rooms in the Student Union for the entire academic year. We prefer requests be submitted using Virtual EMS. (https://minnstate.bookitadmin.minnstate.edu)  If you are experiencing difficulties with requesting space using Virtual EMS, please use this web form: https://www.tinyurl.com/msumspace/ or stop in to our office in the […]