Canvas
Canvas has replaced D2L Brightspace as MSU’s Learning Management System.
We offer several learning pathways, including videos, web-based tutorials, and in-person training (both live and virtual).
Requests to migrate courses outside the migration schedule will close on Friday, May 16.
The following are not automatically migrated and outside of the migration schedule:
If you would like any of these courses migrated, please make your request by Friday, May 16, 2025.
Do you need student data, submissions, or grades from this year or the past? Unfortunately, student data, submissions, or grades in D2L Brightspace will not migrate to Canvas.
If you want to retain this information, download it from D2L Brightspace before it goes offline on Sunday, June 1, 2025.
How to assign an I-grade in Spring 2025 for courses hosted in Brightspace
Assign an I-grade.
Course shells from Banner are now live in Canvas. Now’s the time to copy over your content from a previous course, master course, or practice shell.
Use YuJa Panorama to make your course content accessible.
More about YuJa Panorama
MSU faculty and staff: offer non-credit online learning opportunities with our special instance of Canvas.
Non-credit Canvas
See the status of milestones in the Canvas transition.
Milestones in the Canvas TransitionWe have migrated your summer 2022 through fall 2024 courses to Canvas. Log into Canvas and confirm that your courses migrated as expected.
Learn how to review your auto-migrated courses.
We will migrate Spring 2025 courses in July. You can also migrate those courses independently.
Beginning May 19, the start of the first summer session, Canvas will be the learning management system (LMS) used for teaching and learning at MSU. Canvas will enhance the university community's educational experience and meet the diverse needs of our students and faculty. More >>>
Your summer 2022 through fall 2024 courses are now in your Canvas account. Please log in to Canvas today to confirm that your courses migrated as expected. You must review all courses in Canvas as soon as possible. There will be no access to D2L Brightspace after June 1. More >>>
The university's automated migration process to Canvas only copies course content from the D2L Brightspace learning management system. It does not migrate student submissions or grades, including assignment submissions, discussion posts, quiz responses, and other student work. More >>>
