Turnitin Within D2L
Turnitin software includes an originality checker that can help students avoid plagiarism. Turnitin also has tools so professors can provide detailed feedback to students about their writing. Faculty can easily employ Turnitin within their D2L dropboxes. Both...
Professional Development in COLI Workshops
In Spring 2019, 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...
Spring 2019 Online Faculty Development Course
In the Spring, 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...
D2L Quizzes: Now At Full Screen!
Many courses at Canisius have online quizzes or even exams through D2L's Quizzes tool. But for students it has been occasionally frustrating that D2L displayed quiz questions to them in a relatively limited portion of their screen. This "letter-box" sometimes meant...
Workshop: D2L Essentials
Toward the end of the Fall Semester the Center for Online Learning & Innovation will offer workshops covering the essentials of using D2L. If you are a new professor at Canisius, or if you have taught at Canisius for awhile but would like to learn or review...
Administrative Associates Lunch Workshop
Almost everyone at Canisius College uses Microsoft Word for something. But probably most of us haven’t learned to create templates, or use styles and headings. These tools are easy to learn and can save lots of time in creating documents ranging from everyday...
Faculty Meetup: Student Writing
The Canisius College Writing Center and the Center for Online Learning & Innovation (COLI) are hosting a faculty meetup focused on student writing, taking place on Monday, October 29 from 12:00 p.m. – 2:00 p.m. in the Regis Room. More than ever, college faculty are...
Auto-Saving in D2L Quizzes
After Wednesday, October 24th, 2018, D2L will automatically save student answers or choices within quizzes: when the student clicks a radio button or checkbox, the student clicks in the neutral space outside a text entry window. Students will notice that the "Save"...
End of Life for D2L’s Binder App
Over the next several months, D2L is phasing out the Binder mobile app. On November 1, 2018 D2L will no longer keep a copy of a user’s Binder content and annotations in the cloud. This data will only remain on the device where the app is installed. The web-based...
Replace Your Flash Content Before It’s Too Late
Adobe Flash, a popular technology for streaming video and interactive content, will gradually be phased out of use by Adobe and the major web browsers. If you have any web content that is dependent on Flash, plan to make arrangements to replace or convert it within...
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.