Summary
This page includes links to Minn State documentation of all D2L updates, and a summary of the highlights for each month.
D2L updates occur on the 3rd Thursday of every month.
Body
Highlights include:
- Assign zero points to a quiz question (such as, a survey-type question or academic honesty statement agreement)
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- Set a Due Date on Discussions, in addition to an End Date, which might be later.
- Use case for this feature:
- Set a "Due Date" for students to create an original thread.
- Set a later "End Date" for students to reply to classmates.
- You will now see if their first post was "late."
- CAVEAT: The first post could either be a thread or a reply. If you want to enforce that their first post is an original thread, select the option for "Learners must start a thread before they can view or reply to other threads ."
- Find this setting in the "Post & Completion" tile.
- Remember that if desired, you can still allow them to read all posts & replies after the End Date, even if they can no longer post or reply.
- M365 OneDrive Integration through "Existing Activities"
- In the Current (Classic) Content Experience, find this in the "Existing Activities" menu of any Content module.
- In the "New Content Experience", find this in the "Add Existing > More" menu
- Learn more about M365-D2L integration here.
January 2026 D2L Updates - PDF
Highlights include:
- D2L Announcements that include images will transfer the images to the email version of the Announcement.
- Export Classlist to a CSV file
- This can be great for creating an Attendance list!
- Lock a Quiz to a single login session
- Increases Quiz security
- Prevents students from being able to share login info to a 3rd party