The Network for Educational Development (NED) provides educational development opportunities that are designed by Minnesota State faculty and staff for Minnesota State faculty and staff. These opportunities help build awareness, develop knowledge, skills, and abilities, and provide space for reflecting and revising.
Spring 2026 | Summer 2026 | NED Course Catalog | NED Resource Site
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Copy Course Materials to a New Course with Ease
OnlineDescription Copy Course Components is a tool in D2L Brightspace that enables you to copy materials from your existing courses into another course. When copying components, you can choose all or select individual items to copy into your course. Learn how you can save... Continue Reading →
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Manage Course Dates on a Single Screen
OnlineDescription The Start, End, and Due dates from most tools can be managed on a single screen in the Manage Dates tool. Instead of going to each individual tool and... Continue Reading →
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Virtual Reality Workshop @ Rochester Community and Technical College
RCTC - Coffman Hall 206/208 851 30th Ave SE, Rochester, MN, United StatesDon't miss out on this free opportunity for Minnesota State faculty, staff, and administrators to learn more about virtual reality and how you can use it in the classroom. Get an introduction to VR Learn about how VR is used in education Gain awareness of VR opportunities in Minnesota State Discover how to incorporate VR... Continue Reading →
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Skills to Facilitate Your Course Efficiently using D2L Brightspace Tools (3 week start date)
OnlineDescription The Quality Improvement Process site provides examples of ways to to support student-to-content interaction in courses. Fixing courseware glitches, such as broken links, typos, and mistakes, as needed. Monitoring... Continue Reading →
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Video Based Assessments for Personalized Feedback
OnlineDescription Want students to give a presentation or demonstrate a skill through video? Video Assignment could be a great fit. Learners record or upload a video presenting on a topic... Continue Reading →
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Accessibility Webinar – We Don’t Have Enough Staff Assigned to Making IT Accessible!
OnlineTopic: We Don’t Have Enough Staff Assigned to Making IT (Digital/Web Information) Accessible! Recorded Presenter: Sheryl Burgstahler, Director, Accessible Technology Services, University of Washington In this session the speaker will engage with attendees on promising practices for making the most of limited resources toward a more accessible campus environment. Topics will include such things as... Continue Reading →
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Quiz Creation Strategies and Timesaving Tips
OnlineDescription Interested in exploring how to save time when creating quizzes? You can learn how to shuffle questions, randomize them, draw from a set of questions, and more! The formerly... Continue Reading →
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Quick and Effective Feedback
Description Grading isn't just about giving your students a numerical score. It's also about providing formative feedback to help students improve their learning. During this session we will review some... Continue Reading →
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D2L Brightspace Workshop: Gradebook
St. Cloud State University - Miller Center, Room B31 (basement) 400 6th St. S., St. Cloud, MN, United StatesHave you always wanted to find the most efficient way to set up your gradebook in Brightspace? Have specific questions you’d like answered? Join us for the Gradebook workshop where we will spend one hour reviewing the features and functions of the tool, and then an hour working on your own gradebook in one of... Continue Reading →
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D2L Brightspace Workshop: Rubrics
St. Cloud State University - Miller Center, Room B31 (basement) 400 6th St. S., St. Cloud, MN, United StatesDo you want to provide consistent feedback to students in a timely manner? Do you get bogged down in the process of evaluating and commenting on student work? Learn how the Rubrics tool in Brightspace can save you time, provide students with meaningful feedback, and encourage growth in students’ abilities. We will spend one hour... Continue Reading →
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Assessment of Student Learning (3 week start date)
OnlineDescription How do you really know that your students are learning what you had intended? In this course, you'll get an opportunity examine the learning objectives in your course (something your students should know or be able to do) and the assessments that are aligned to help measure and evaluate student achievement on this learning... Continue Reading →
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Release Conditions to Guide the Learning Path
OnlineDescription Release conditions enable the instructor to guide the path for student learning by releasing items to students in a prescribed order, encouraging the student to attain mastery of skills and knowledge before moving on to new concepts. Release conditions can be used almost anywhere in Brightspace, so the world is at your fingertips. Attend... Continue Reading →
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