Instructors: Tips for Starting Fall 2023

To help you prepare, we have curated a list of common items instructors do each term to ensure their D2L Brightspace courses are setup for success. If you have questions about any of these items, or need help getting your courses setup as desired please contact the Office of Online Learning by emailing support@mnstate.edu or call 218-477-2603 (option 2). 

Attend an Upcoming Event on Creating Accessible Documents

From students to professionals to friends in our community, digital documents are shared daily via email, on websites, etc. It is important for accessibility to be incorporated into the documents we create. Learn some of the basic but powerful techniques experts use every day to build accessibility into their documents. In partnership with the Maryland Department of Disabilities, join the […]

Pearson integration with D2L Brightspace

What is happening? Pearson was initially setup to use integration specification LTI 1.1 (legacy version), which will not be available starting in the Summer 23 term. Why? The main driver of this is a newer integration built on LTI 1.3 (commonly called LTI Advantage). It provides a more secure integration that aligns with global standards. The Pearson LTI 1.3 integration […]

Turnitin has released a new AI detection tool

Turnitin has enabled “AI writing detection” in their Originality product, a tool we license currently and have integrated into D2L Brightspace. Student papers submitted to an assignment folder that has Turnitin enabled will be automatically evaluated to determine if any portions of the work are likely to have been generated by an AI text generator such as ChatGPT. This functionality […]