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Migrate to Canvas

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We are migrating to Canvas during the 2024-25 academic year

Beginning summer session 2025, we will solely use Canvas.

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Course Migration Review: Summer 2022 - Fall 2024

Your summer 2022 through fall 2024 courses have been migrated to Canvas. 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.

Review Your Auto-Migrated Courses

Content from these semesters: Will be available in Canvas by:
Summer 2022 – Spring 2024 December 2024
Summer 2024 - Fall 2024 April 2025
Spring 2025 July 2025

Migration Schedule

We will migrate all D2L Brightspace academic courses from Summer 2022 through Spring 2025 to Canvas. 

Note: Students will not have access to academic courses in Canvas until you begin teaching in Canvas in Summer 2025.

What Won't Migrate

Student Data

You cannot migrate student data, submissions, or grades from D2L Brightspace to Canvas.

If you would like to retain this information, please download it from D2L Brightspace before it goes offline on June 1, 2025.

Learn how to download student data from D2L Brightspace.

Certain Courses

We will not automatically migrate:

  • Academic courses prior to Summer 2022
  • Practice and master courses
  • Non-credit courses

If you want to have one or more of these courses migrated, please see our Request a Course to Be Migrated page.

Deadline for Requesting: Friday, May 16, 2025

Independent Course Migration

If you prefer to migrate before the dates in the above schedule, you can migrate your courses yourself. There are two methods:

Build Your Course From Scratch

Make this choice when

  • Your courses have intricate content
  • You are developing new courses for the 2025-26 academic year and beyond
  • You want to revise your course with new features and best practices

Learn how to build your course from scratch

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Migrate Your Content Yourself

Make this choice when

  • You want to choose what content you would like to migrate
  • You want to save time when reviewing and editing the exported material in Canvas

Learn how to migrate your content yourself

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Meet With Us

To schedule time with a Canvas expert, or reach us by phone or email, visit our Contact page.

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