
D2L: New Quiz Grading Screens Coming
With D2L's latest update comes a new grading experience for the Quiz Tool. Many faculty will find it familiar, particularly if we have grading dropboxes recently. The new grade screen is currently in opt-in mode (eventually will change to opt-out mode in late April)...

Copyleaks: Tutorial on Students Viewing Instructor Comments
Using the Copyleaks Assignment Tool, Instructors can leave specific comments as well as General Feedback for students. All Instructors need to do is ensure that the option to “Expose originality report to students” is ticked. This can be done either when creating the...

Call for Session Leaders for Summer FacDev 2025!
COLI, in partnership with Academic Affairs, is looking for Session Leaders for the upcoming Summer Faculty Development Week! This year, Summer Faculty Development will be from August 11th to 14th. Topics usually are centered around Pedagogy and range from novel...

AI and Pedagogy Lunch and Learn Open Invitation
Faculty and staff are invited to the monthly AI and Pedagogy Lunch and Learn! During these Teams meetings, we discuss the current state of AI, new or interesting AI tools, how AI can be used in our pedagogy, and more! Feel free to enjoy your lunch at the same time...

Microsoft Teams Workshops
COLI is offering two new 30-minute workshops dealing with Microsoft Teams: The first is Microsoft Teams for Virtual Meetings. In this workshop, we will go over how to conduct virtual meetings with Microsoft Teams including starting a meeting, recording a...

Midterms in D2L
It's nearing that time of the Semester again! 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...

Copyleaks Issue? Try these Troubleshooting steps!
Running into issues accessing Copyleaks Assignments? Students saying they are unable to access the Copyleaks Assignment to submit their paper? Here are a few quick tips to try: Keep your browser up to date. Not only could this prevent a web-page from being viewed...

Celebration of Scholarship, 2025
We are happy to announce an update to the Celebration of Scholarship event! Save the date: Wednesday, April 2nd from 4:30PM to 6:15PM. This event will be held in the Science Hall Atrium, after Ignatian Scholarship Day! If you are interested in having your...

Hypothes.is: Auto-Grading Assignments
In Hypothes.is, faculty can use the Auto-Grading feature to automatically grade students based on their participation. Note that, if you want Hypothes.is to send the grade to the gradebook, you will need to connect it. Check out the Hypothes.is Wiki Page for more...

Copyleaks AI Assessment Overview & Adding Assignments to the Gradebook
If faculty want to see a quick overview or dashboard of all Copyleaks Assignments in their course, you can do so with the AI Assessment Overview. A bit of a misnomer, as it shows not only Average AI Content Detected, but also the Average Plagiarism score. Curious...