{"id":1012,"date":"2025-10-02T08:00:54","date_gmt":"2025-10-02T13:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mtsu.edu\/canvas\/?p=1012"},"modified":"2026-06-24T00:32:49","modified_gmt":"2026-06-24T05:32:49","slug":"october-2-2025-email-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mtsu.edu\/canvas\/2025\/10\/02\/october-2-2025-email-2\/","title":{"rendered":"October 2, 2025 &#8211; Email #2"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Good Morning, Faculty Colleagues \u2013<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Thanks to so many who were able to attend our Canvas session on Monday. You were a fantastic audience, and we heard some great questions, comments, and feedback. If you couldn\u2019t make it, then I invite you to review the<a href=\"https:\/\/mtmailmtsu-my.sharepoint.com\/:v:\/g\/personal\/bhinote_mtsu_edu\/ETa4fb7cHvJIl9eDEJ_J6ggB7i1qNtsy8IkjDKPPXRP3jA?nav=eyJyZWZlcnJhbEluZm8iOnsicmVmZXJyYWxBcHAiOiJPbmVEcml2ZUZvckJ1c2luZXNzIiwicmVmZXJyYWxBcHBQbGF0Zm9ybSI6IldlYiIsInJlZmVycmFsTW9kZSI6InZpZXciLCJyZWZlcnJhbFZpZXciOiJNeUZpbGVzTGlua0NvcHkifX0&amp;e=07vSBK\">&nbsp;recording<\/a>&nbsp;and<a href=\"https:\/\/mtmailmtsu-my.sharepoint.com\/:b:\/g\/personal\/bhinote_mtsu_edu\/ETv_eUCnqCBFpw7PJWFivaABlQkvo0oe1Tx0o0dd02ujbQ?e=k9d07X\">&nbsp;slide deck<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Three quick items to share today:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol start=\"1\" class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>F25 teaching faculty can now log in to Canvas&nbsp;with their MTSU single-sign-on credentials&nbsp;at&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/mtsu.instructure.com\/\">https:\/\/mtsu.instructure.com<\/a>. As noted on slide 20 of the linked slide deck:\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list is-style-compact-list\">\n<li>These are \u201cempty\u201d course shells to use as a \u201csandbox\u201d for getting to know Canvas features, navigation, and functionality. These are not your migrated courses!<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>You can import content from D2L, develop new content, and more in these course shells.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>You can use these sandbox courses in conjunction with other available resources on our&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mtsu.edu\/canvas\/resources\/\">website<\/a>&nbsp;or in one or more of our&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/ctm.mtsu.edu\/canvas\/\">training sessions<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Speaking of training\/support resources, you can now access the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mtsu.instructure.com\/enroll\/DFKYDR\">MTSU \u201cGetting to Know Canvas\u201d course<\/a>,\u00a0in which you can self-enroll (in the Canvas environment).\u00a0<br><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>I encourage you to review this&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/mtsu.instructuremedia.com\/embed\/7db8ae05-001b-4862-8d05-22f85c0be3f5\">D2L\/Canvas Import how-to video<\/a>, which you can use to work with content in Canvas, import content from D2L, or otherwise experiment in Canvas. Remember that this is only your first access to the new LMS, so these are not your migrated courses. Our teams will provide significant additional support in migrating\/converting courses. More information to come about this important work.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p>Special thanks to Cheri Webster, Trey Martindale, Lauren Neal, and the rest of our training crew for the resources linked above, and for continually developing and delivering top-notch faculty training and support.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As always, contact our team at&nbsp;<a href=\"mailto:canvas@mtsu.edu\">canvas@mtsu.edu<\/a>&nbsp;if we can assist, or you can e-mail me, Trey, or Cheri directly anytime.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Good Morning, Faculty Colleagues \u2013 Thanks to so many who were able to attend our Canvas session on Monday. You were a fantastic audience, and we heard some great questions, comments, and feedback. If you couldn\u2019t make it, then I invite you to review the&nbsp;recording&nbsp;and&nbsp;slide deck. Three quick items to share today: Special thanks to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1012","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-emails"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mtsu.edu\/canvas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1012","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mtsu.edu\/canvas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mtsu.edu\/canvas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mtsu.edu\/canvas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mtsu.edu\/canvas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1012"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.mtsu.edu\/canvas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1012\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1382,"href":"https:\/\/www.mtsu.edu\/canvas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1012\/revisions\/1382"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mtsu.edu\/canvas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mtsu.edu\/canvas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mtsu.edu\/canvas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}