D2L: Annotation tools in Dropboxes
If you collect student assignments via D2L dropboxes, you can now put in-line annotations directly in or on student-submitted files. Check out this new tutorial video showing how to use these tools, and how your students will see your feedback....
COLI Pedagogy Primer Podcast
COLI has published the first two episodes of it's Pedagogy Primer Podcast! In episodes roughly 20-25 minutes long, this podcast helps new faculty get started teaching in higher education. It features tips on course design, activity development, class management, and...
Workshop: Zoom for Web Conferencing
Learn to Web Conference! Meeting via the internet is now popular across campus, as more and more faculty and staff adopt web conferencing to save time and expense, and bring guests from around the world into classes. In general, knowing how to schedule and...
Workshop: Smarter Forms with Qualtrics
If you use Qualtrics for simple surveys or data-gathering, you can easily add features to make your forms more interactive. Create smarter forms that adapt to respondents based on their early responses. Your form can skip irrelevant questions, ask them...
Online Faculty Development Course
The Center for Online Learning & Innovation offers 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, helps...
Adjunct Faculty Information Session
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 Fall 2019 semester. Learn about employee resources, the library, the...
COLI Trainings: D2L Essentials
If you are a new professor at Canisius, or have taught at Canisius for awhile but would like to learn or review essentials of D2L, the Center for Online Learning & Innovation (COLI) is offering daytime and evening D2L training sessions in August. In each of these...
D2L Maintenance: August 17th-19th
Your Fall 2019 course spaces are now available to you to begin building or adding course content. However, between August 17th and 19th, 2019, D2L is undergoing technical upgrades that may yet impact Fall 2019 course spaces. During the maintenance period between...
Activating Turnitin within D2L
At Canisius, we can use Turnitin's toolset within our D2L Dropboxes. This short tutorial video shows how to activate Turnitin's GradeMark and Originality Check within D2L. https://youtu.be/KHA1FtIJVUU Additionally, Turnitin has tutorials for how to use the individual...
How to find and Grade Student Quiz Submissions in D2L
If you use the D2L quizzes toolset, you know it's pretty easy to find and grade or otherwise provide feedback on student quizzes. If you've never used D2L's quizzes before, though, check out this video tutorial! https://youtu.be/vLnWjC1J-Bw