{"id":1947,"date":"2026-10-14T08:43:47","date_gmt":"2026-10-14T13:43:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mtsu.edu\/canvas\/?p=1947"},"modified":"2026-10-22T22:33:59","modified_gmt":"2026-10-23T03:33:59","slug":"october-14-2026-canvas-lms-transition-updates-for-faculty-12","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mtsu.edu\/canvas\/2026\/10\/14\/october-14-2026-canvas-lms-transition-updates-for-faculty-12\/","title":{"rendered":"October 14, 2026 – Canvas LMS Transition Updates for Faculty #12"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Good Morning, Faculty Colleagues –<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I hope you enjoyed a restful Fall Break!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

See below for the first Fall 2026 installment of Canvas updates for faculty! You can also review archived 2025-26 Canvas updates<\/a> for more valuable information.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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  1. The most important update for faculty: <\/u><\/strong>D2L’s end-of-life is December 31, 2026.<\/u><\/strong>\u00a0That means that faculty will not be able to access any content in D2L after this date.\n
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    1. If you wish to preserve any D2L content that is not yet in Canvas, I strongly recommend<\/u><\/em>\u00a0that you import that content into Canvas using this pdf<\/a>\u00a0or video<\/a>. You can export and save the content on an external drive or import course content directly into a development shell for future access. You can request a Canvas development and\/or course shell(s) here<\/a>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    2. If you wish to preserve any student submissions, grades, or other D2L artifacts, then you must download and save such files<\/a>\u00a0for your own records. The only content that will transfer from D2L will be course content and assessments.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    3. If your D2L course has videos saved in the Files area (not in Panopto or YouTube), you should download and save those for future use. You may also upload these to your Canvas Studio<\/a>\u00a0account to use in your Canvas course(s).<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n
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      1. Our Canvas team is also archiving D2L course shells from Fall 2023 to Summer 2026. But archiving will only\u00a0include course content (i.e., not grades, student submissions, etc.), and recovering that content will involve significantly more work when compared to the solution described in point 1a above.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
      2. We continue to offer a range of support<\/a>\u00a0and training<\/a>\u00a0resources available, and I encourage you to explore them\u00a0on our Canvas page<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n

        As always, if you have questions, please contact me directly or e-mail our team at canvas@mtsu.edu<\/u><\/a>. You can also visit the Canvas implementation website<\/u><\/a> for more information regarding timelines<\/u><\/a>, Canvas resources<\/u><\/a>, training<\/u><\/a>, and more.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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        Good Morning, Faculty Colleagues – I hope you enjoyed a restful Fall Break! See below for the first Fall 2026 installment of Canvas updates for faculty! You can also review archived 2025-26 Canvas updates for more valuable information. As always, if you have questions, please contact me directly or e-mail our team at canvas@mtsu.edu. You can also […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":313,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1947","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-emails"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mtsu.edu\/canvas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1947","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\/313"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mtsu.edu\/canvas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1947"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.mtsu.edu\/canvas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1947\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1948,"href":"https:\/\/www.mtsu.edu\/canvas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1947\/revisions\/1948"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mtsu.edu\/canvas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mtsu.edu\/canvas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mtsu.edu\/canvas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}