Welcome to the 2018-2019 Year!
In a short video, COLI Director Mark Gallimore outlines some new resources and opportunities for faculty and staff in the Fall 2018 semester: https://youtu.be/YOucYIxRlnc
Faculty Meetup: Reading, Writing, and Academic Integrity
The Center for Online Learning & Innovation (COLI) is hosting a faculty meetup focused on the pedagogy of reading, writing and academic integrity on Wednesday, September 26th from 5:00 – 7:00 p.m. in the Regis Room, Student Center. Now more than ever college faculty...
COLI Workshops, Meetups, and Other Events
In Fall 2018, the Center for Online Learning & Innovation offers Canisius faculty and staff plenty of opportunities to learn new things for teaching, research, and administrative work. See our list of workshops, meetups, and other events. And check back as we add...
New COLI Resource: Google Sites
Google Sites is a simple, versatile website building toolset that's part of Google Drive. It's great for building online lesson content, or having students build websites. COLI has created a set of tutorial videos showing you how to get started in Google Sites, as...
COLI at the Buffalo Humanities Festival!
COLI Director Mark Gallimore was proud to participate in the Buffalo Humanities Festival on Saturday, September 22nd at SUNY Buffalo State. There was a fantastic array of presenters, plenty of enthusiastic attendees, and some great food! Gallimore discussed how...
Adjunct Faculty Information Sessions
The Center for Online Learning & Innovation (COLI) invites all new, returning and current adjunct professors to an Adjunct Faculty Information Session to help prepare you to teach during the 2018-19 year. Learn about employee resources, the library, the college...
COLI Workshop: D2L Essentials
If you are a new professor at Canisius, or if you have taught at Canisius for awhile but would like to learn or review essentials of D2L, COLI offers a workshop that's perfect for this. In this training session professors get the very basics of teaching in D2L: Upload...
D2L: New Quiz Tools
Among other changes this summer, D2L has added a "New Quiz Experience" for professors. You can opt in or out of it - for now. Basically, it's a few new screens for quiz construction, and an easier-to-use "question pool" alternative to random sections. These new...
D2L Update: A Better Way for Rubrics
This summer, we implemented some minor but helpful improvements to rubrics in D2L at Canisius. If you use rubrics in D2L to grade assignments submitted in dropboxes, or student contributions in asynchronous discussions, you know that the process has until now been a...
Online Faculty Development Course
In the Fall, the Center for Online Learning & Innovation is running an Online Faculty Development Course, to help prepare faculty to teach online and hybrid courses. Discover new methods, tools, and techniques for building course content and teaching online. This...
The Center for Online Learning & Innovation
at Canisius College
Technology in Teaching & Learning
Providing outstanding faculty development experiences for technology use in teaching.
Online Learning
Serving as a central point of contact for distance learning needs, coordinated departmental efforts for online learning, quality assurance and consistency in online courses, and online innovation endeavors.
Innovation
Encouraging innovation across campus through technology and new processes, including in teaching and learning and everyday work.