QM Workshops & EDDs – Spring 2017

Plan now for some professional development this spring. Two online QM workshops have just been announced. Applying the QM Rubric (APPQMR): February 21 – March 7, 2017 Improving Your Online Course (IYOC): March 28 – April 11, 2017 Instructors may qualify for EDDs following successful completion of these QM workshops! Visit the ITS blog for full details. (http://collaborate.mnstate.edu/public/blogs/itsblog/quality-matters/)

Request your Spring 2017 D2L Brightspace Course Shells

Beginning Friday, Oct. 28, instructors can request their Spring 2017 course shells using the new D2L Brightspace Request Form (https://my.mnstate.edu/ITS/Forms/RequestD2LShell). IMPORTANT DATES: December 19: Make your request by this date if you wish to combine multiple sections into a single course shell. December 20: All unrequested courses will have a course shell created automatically on this date. Auto-created courses will […]

Transfer Pathways Update

The next set of Transfer Pathways in the following list of disciplines are soon ready for input from stakeholders in the two year Minnesota State Colleges and the four year Minnesota State Universities. The Transfer Pathways are designed so students utilizing one would enter as a junior and be able to complete their baccalaureate degree with the first 60 credits […]

D2L Brightspace News

We are pleased to announce two new features that instructors may find useful when using Discussions in D2L Brightspace: Show forum description in “child” topics. Copy (or move) discussion thread and replies to a different thread.