D2L Grades
A fairly lightweight, manageable place to upgrade your courses in Spring 2021 (or even now, in Fall) is the D2L Gradebook. You're probably already using it, but in our D2L Grades workshop, and Self-Paced Training Video Set, we offer a bunch of tips for making it...
Google Calendar for Student Appointments.
Within Google Calendar, faculty have a toolset to manage appointments with students, such as for office hours or advising. This requires no third-party apps or additional logins. And you won't violate Canisius ITS policies or security recommendations by supplying your...
Download and Save your Zoom Recordings
Videos recorded to and saved within Zoom's cloud storage space are subject to deletion 30 days after the date and time of recording. Develop a regular routine of downloading these videos soon after recording, and if they need be shared (with students, or colleagues)...
Online Faculty Development Course
The Center for Online Learning & Innovation 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,...
Finding your Zoom Recordings
Recording meetings on Zoom can be very beneficial. If a student is unable to make it to a class or perhaps you are teaching a hybrid course, you only need to record the lecture once and post it to D2L. Maybe you are recording a lecture instead for your online course...
COLI Faculty and Staff Offerings
This is a friendly reminder that COLI offers Workshops on D2L, Zoom, and Google Suite throughout the semester. You can register here for workshops events. For more information on these workshops, you can click here. COLI also offers Faculty and Staff meetings at 2:00...
Making a Portfolio Website Using Google Sites
Now more than ever, students need to have an online presence-- particularly for applying to jobs and prospective employers. In the YouTube playlist linked here, your students will receive a comprehensive 30-minute crash-course in using Google Sites to make a...
Using Links in D2L
When teaching online, you will likely use online resources such as YouTube, Educational Websites and Tools, Online Databases and Articles, and so on. The easiest way to get your students to engage with these useful resources is to provide them with the web address. In...
Tips for Successful Zoom Use
Zoom is a tremendous resource for teaching and learning, offering remote - social distanced - real-time conversation with a bunch of other features. It seems easy to use, when everything works correctly. But this is real-time technology that relies on hardware...
Workshops for Faculty
This Fall, the Center for Online Learning & Innovation is running a range of workshops covering D2L, Google, Zoom, and other digital tools available for teaching. See our Faculty Development wiki page for a list of these opportunities.