  {"id":1165,"date":"2026-02-26T14:50:59","date_gmt":"2026-02-26T19:50:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mtsu.edu\/canvas\/?p=1165"},"modified":"2026-05-05T21:33:59","modified_gmt":"2026-05-06T02:33:59","slug":"february-26-2026-email-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mtsu.edu\/canvas\/2026\/02\/26\/february-26-2026-email-6\/","title":{"rendered":"February 26, 2026 &#8211; Email #6"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Good Afternoon, Faculty Colleagues &#8211;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>See below for the most recent monthly installment of Canvas updates for faculty. It\u2019s an exciting time as work accelerates in advance of our Summer 2026 go-live.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol start=\"1\" class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>The&nbsp;final&nbsp;batch of K16 custom course migrations will begin very soon (with&nbsp;course availability&nbsp;in mid-April).<br>\n<ol start=\"1\" style=\"list-style-type:lower-alpha\" class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>If you have a complex course to suggest for custom migration, please&nbsp;<\/strong><strong>complete and submit&nbsp;this&nbsp;<\/strong><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/forms.office.com\/r\/3s89jew3xf\">Canvas Course Migration Form<\/a><\/strong><strong>&nbsp;<\/strong><strong>by Friday, March 6.&nbsp;<\/strong>Availability is limited, so please&nbsp;submit&nbsp;only&nbsp;complex courses with significant content. Our team will prioritize submissions&nbsp;and accommodate as many as possible.<br><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Remember that due to limited resources, custom migration services are not available for all D2L courses. Recent course shells using multiple LMS features, along with 91΄σΙρ Online courses, will undergo custom migration. Otherwise,&nbsp;you should&nbsp;move courses and content using the guidelines in this&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mtsu.edu\/canvas\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/167\/2025\/09\/GSWC-Moving-D2L-Courses.pdf\">pdf<\/a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/mtsu.instructuremedia.com\/embed\/7db8ae05-001b-4862-8d05-22f85c0be3f5\">video<\/a>.&nbsp;<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<ol start=\"2\" class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Summer and Fall 2026 course&nbsp;<strong>shells<\/strong>&nbsp;are now visible in&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/mtsu.instructure.com\/\">your Canvas account<\/a>. These are just shells, without course content, but you&nbsp;can&nbsp;import content&nbsp;anytime.&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mtsu.edu\/canvas\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/167\/2025\/09\/GSWC-Moving-D2L-Courses.pdf\">Pdf<\/a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/mtsu.instructuremedia.com\/embed\/7db8ae05-001b-4862-8d05-22f85c0be3f5\">video instructions<\/a>&nbsp;for how to do so are available in the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mtsu.edu\/canvas\/facultyresources\/\">faculty resources<\/a>&nbsp;on the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mtsu.edu\/canvas\/\">Canvas website<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<ol start=\"3\" class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Students cannot access D2L after May 15, 2026, but faculty permissions are active through&nbsp;December&nbsp;31, 2026.<br>&nbsp;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>CIO Yvette Clark and I&nbsp;will soon&nbsp;finalize plans&nbsp;to archive&nbsp;past D2L courses, thereby enabling access to D2L course data and submissions past&nbsp;December 31, 2026. More information to come.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p>As always, if you have questions, please contact me directly or&nbsp;e-mail our team at&nbsp;<a href=\"mailto:canvas@mtsu.edu\">canvas@mtsu.edu<\/a>. You can also visit the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mtsu.edu\/canvas\/\">Canvas implementation website<\/a>&nbsp;for more information&nbsp;regarding&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mtsu.edu\/canvas\/timeline\/\">timelines<\/a>, Canvas&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mtsu.edu\/canvas\/resources\/\">resources<\/a>,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/ctm.mtsu.edu\/canvas\/\">training<\/a>, and more.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Good Afternoon, Faculty Colleagues &#8211; See below for the most recent monthly installment of Canvas updates for faculty. It\u2019s an exciting time as work accelerates in advance of our Summer 2026 go-live.&nbsp; As always, if you have questions, please contact me directly or&nbsp;e-mail our team at&nbsp;canvas@mtsu.edu. You can also visit the&nbsp;Canvas implementation website&nbsp;for more information&nbsp;regarding&nbsp;timelines, [&hellip;]<\/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-1165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-emails"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mtsu.edu\/canvas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1165","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=1165"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.mtsu.edu\/canvas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1165\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1378,"href":"https:\/\/www.mtsu.edu\/canvas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1165\/revisions\/1378"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mtsu.edu\/canvas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mtsu.edu\/canvas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mtsu.edu\/canvas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}