Participating in an Desire2Learn course means that you may have access to personal information and academic work produced by other students and faculty members, such as discussion board postings, drafts of papers and other work produced in the course.

What is my NetID? Forgot Password. For questions or comments contact the Ask Us Desk.

Enter the same username and password for D2L that you use for the MSU Portal. If you have just registered for courses, your D2L account will create the following day. Courses will not show up in D2L until the first day of the semester. Problems logging in or other D2L issues?

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If you have forgotten your MSU NetID password, you may reset it here. If you have forgotten your MSU Guest Account password, find information on how to reset it here.

D2L Brightspace Known and Fixed Issues. To access the link, you’ll need to create a free Brightspace Community account. By linking directly to Brightspace’s page, we avoid redundancy on our website and ensure that users have access to the latest and most accurate information.

Information about Desire2Learn, MSU's primary Learning Management System (LMS). Find information on how to use the system, find your courses, etc.

D2L Brightspace provides the platform and tools for online and web-enhanced courses at MSU. D2L Brightspace tools allow access to course materials, collaboration, submission of assignments, online testing, grades, and other resources from a single interface.

There is a D2L community that students can self-enroll and complete called “Students – Getting Started with D2L”. This community will give students practical application within a D2L community using the various D2L functions.

This site houses various apps to support online education at Michigan State University. The tools may be listed here at some point, but mostly are not intended to be accessed directly. Rather, they are linked from the D2L learning environment.