Create a DEV Course or Community

MSU Faculty, Staff and Graduate Assistants have the ability to create D2L Development Courses and Communities.

You can use these spaces to test ideas or prepare materials before your department has taken the steps necessary to have the "real" course space created. The contents of development courses can be moved to the "real" (created by the Registrar which contains student roster) course space when you are ready. You can add any NetIDs you wish to have access, but student class lists from the Registrar will never be imported into development space. Communities provide the same functionality but they are ideally group or case specific areas created for users to learn and collaborate.

For Faculty and Staff:

On your My Home page, locate and click the a link entitled Create a Development Course or Create a Community. Enter a Title for the course. Click the Create Course button when done. The link that generates below will take you to the course.

Quick steps:

1. Navigate to your My Home page.
2. Click on the Create a Development Course or Create a Community link.
3. Type a unique name in the Title field.
4. Click the Create Course button when done.
5. When you receive the following message "Course creation successful. Your new development course is available at:" click the link below to be taken to your D2L Development course.

Graduate Assistants:

1. Please click this link to Create a Development Course (https://apps.d2l.msu.edu/create/devcourse) or Create a Community (https://apps.d2l.msu.edu/create/community)
2. Log In with your NetID and Password.
3. Type a unique name in the Title field.
4. Click the Create Course button when done.
5. When you receive the following message "Course creation successful. Your new development course is available at:" click the link below to be taken to your D2L Development course or Community.