Start of semester tasks for instructors

Instructors: Your D2L Brightspace shells for Fall 2018 have been created. If you don’t see your course or need courses merged, please email support@mnstate.edu. For helpful tips on preparing for the new term, please refer to the following links: Start of Semester Tasks Getting Started in D2L Brightspace Online Courses: Starting Well If you have questions, please contact the Office […]

D2L Brightspace Course Shells for Fall 2018

All Fall 2018 courses are now being created daily as single section courses (not combined with any other sections). Any changes and/or merge requests can still be processed up until the first day of class (August 27, 2018) by emailing support@mnstate.edu. Once student work exists in a course it cannot be merged with another course. If you need a development/sandbox […]

Office of Online Learning welcomes Heather Schneiter

The Office of Online Learning would like to welcome its newest member Heather Schneiter. Heather joins the team as an ITS1 – Instructional Technologist and will be working with faculty, staff and students on D2L Brightspace, Qualtrics, and Scantrons. Heather S. is a Dragon alumna (Speech Communication ’02) and has degrees from NDSU and Rasmussen, as well. She joins us […]

Request your Fall 2018 D2L Brightspace Course Shells

Instructors can request their Fall 2018 course shells using the D2L Brightspace Request Form (https://my.mnstate.edu/ITS/Forms/RequestD2LShell). IMPORTANT DATES: Fall 18 shells can be requested April 27-August 7. On August 8, all unrequested fall sections will be created as single section course shells. COMPLETING THE REQUEST FORM: You will be required to use your StarID and password to log into the D2L […]

D2L Brightspace unavailable June 1-2

D2L Brightspace will be unavailable starting Friday, June 1 at 8 p.m. through Saturday, June 2 at 12 p.m. (noon). This downtime is required to move to D2L’s cloud hosted services and update to the latest version. Additional information about the update is located on the Office of Online & Extended Learning blog.