Exams on D2L: Double-Check!
D2L's quizzes toolset is the most complex resource in D2L. There's a lot of options, but that means it's easier to overlook an important step when building quizzes or exams. If you are using D2L quizzes to conduct an exam, go in before it opens to students, and...
Extra Time on D2L Exams
You may be asked to offer extra time on your exams to certain students who are registered with the Accessibility Support Office. In the D2L quizzes tool, this is easy to do: https://youtu.be/XNfP1Hc1A1k
Online Faculty Meetup
Each Thursday at 2:00 PM, COLI Director Mark Gallimore will host a virtual meetup where professors can discuss techniques, troubles, and triumphs in remote teaching. Mark is there to answer questions, but faculty learn most great things from each other! Please RSVP...
Online Faculty Development Course
The Center for Online Learning & Innovation (COLI) is offering a five-week mini-course for Canisius College faculty that prepares professors to teach online and hybrid courses. This course provides many practical tips for teaching online but more importantly,...
Summer Email Options
You can email students in your class in two ways: within D2L's classlist, or by using Listprocs. Both are available to faculty teaching in Summer 2020 sessions. In D2L, you can email your students via the Classlist screen, either by using the "Email Classlist" button...
Preparing for the Fall Semester
We are all anxious to learn whether or not our classes will be back on campus for the Fall 2020 semester. But "back on campus" means a variety of different scenarios. What if we must conduct courses online through September? What if COVID-19 surges again in our...
D2L Tutorials: Connect the Gradebook!
If you use dropboxes, discussions, or quizzes in D2L, you can connect these to the gradebook so grades and feedback for student submissions or contributions are recorded there automatically. Additionally, your feedback is displayed or linked in their grade report,...
Helpful Links
Here is a quick list of resources that faculty may find helpful as we approach the end of an admittedly "exciting" Spring Semester, and prepare our summer courses. Many of these are updated frequently, so it's worth checking back periodically. Canisius Faculty...
Building Teaching Presence Online
A common misconception about online courses is that they must be impersonal when compared to F2F (face-to-face) learning. But in F2F, teaching presence, or the professor's presence as a teacher, mentor, and ally, does not develop automatically and must be...
Online Faculty Development Course
The Center for Online Learning & Innovation (COLI) is offering a five-week mini-course for Canisius College faculty that prepares professors to teach online and hybrid courses. This course provides many practical tips for teaching online but more importantly,...