2024 Summer Online Faculty Development Course
The OFDC (Online Faculty Development Course) offered by COLI is for full-time and part-time faculty, whether new to D2L, or experienced with technology for teaching. This five-week mini-course prepares instructors to teach online and hybrid courses. The OFDC...
Final Exams in D2L
Final exams are fast approaching! It may be useful to review these features of D2L Quizzes and Dropboxes. D2L Quizzes provides a robust tool to grade quizzes easier and quicker. Some features can help prevent cheating to a degree, like basic question...
The Grading Conference
The 2024 Grading Conference, organized by various higher education institutions across the US and based in California, is now open for registration! This online Conference is from June 13th to 15th, from 11:00AM to 6:00PM EST daily. The Grading Conference centers...
Faculty Meetup, AI and Teaching
Another AI and Teaching Faculty Meetup is coming up! The meetup is on Tuesday, April 23rd at 10:00AM in the Faculty Lounge. RSVP for it from the Faculty Development Opportunities page! While there, feel free to sign up for our other workshops too!
Panopto Desktop Application
Panopto has another application for recording other than Capture. Panopto Recorder allows you to download an application and record video without needing to have an internet application. The controls and settings are also somewhat easier to grapple than Capture. Take...
Summer Courses Tips
If you are teaching a summer course this year, hear are a few things to check. Check that the Start Date Starts at the appropriate time All summer courses, regardless if they start in session one or session two, open up at the end of May First 6-week, 10-week, and...
Upcoming Workshops
COLI has upcoming workshops! The next workshop is Microsoft Excel: Intermediate. We also have a handful of workshops in starting in April: Online Teaching and Learning: Updates, April 19th Faculty Meetup: AI and Teaching, April 23rd D2L Essentials, April 29th ...and...
Panopto at Canisius University
Panopto is an easy-to-use video hosting service that Canisius University has contracted with-- think of it as a Canisius-branded, private, YouTube. With Panopto integrated into our D2L instance, instructors can use it all without the need to leave D2L. With it's...
ScreenPal Phase Out
Due to cost and reliability concerns, the Center for Online Learning and Innovation is not renewing ScreenPal at the end of the 2023-2024 academic year. The last day faculty or staff can use Screenpal is May 14th, 2024. In the last decade ScreenPal, or previously...
Complete Cybersecurity Training
Canisius University employees must complete a cybersecurity training each year. This is practically necessary for several reasons. There is a wide variety of motives - more than you can imagine - for cybercriminals to try to access the university's online spaces,...