Adjunct Faculty Information Session: January 2020
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 Spring 2020 semester. Learn about employee resources, the library, the...
Pedagogy Primer Podcast: Episode 4
COLI has published four episodes of it's Pedagogy Primer Podcast! The latest episode is the first of two back-to-back episodes focused on asynchronous discussions. In episodes roughly twenty minutes long, the Pedagogy Primer Podcast helps new faculty get started...
Workshop: D2L Essentials
If you are a new professor at Canisius, or if you have taught at Canisius for awhile but would like to learn or review essentials of D2L, COLI offers a workshop that’s perfect for this. In this on-campus training session professors get the very basics of teaching in...
Teaching Online: Updates and New Resources
Canisius College is regularly updating resources available to professors teaching online or hybrid courses. D2L, Zoom, or Google Apps may have new features that you might like to try out in your next course. Plus, COLI develops new online tutorials that may help you...
D2L: Trouble with Dropboxes?
Here are two quick tips when composing your instructions for student assignments collected through D2L dropbox: Insist on .docx It can be frustrating when students submit file types in formats you cannot quickly open. Or, perhaps you planned to use Microsoft Word's...
D2L Update: Draft vs. Published to Hidden vs. Visible
D2L's developers have steadily revised, simplified, and standardized language and features in our D2L course spaces. The latest is a minor change to simple visibility toggle, that makes it the same across tools. You may have used the "Draft vs. Published" toggle in...
ICMS/DH Speaker Series: Dr. Neil Coffee on the Tesserae Project
The Institute for Classical and Medieval Studies (ICMS) and the Canisius Digital Humanities Group will welcome Neil Coffee, PhD, Professor of Classics at the University at Buffalo, to Canisius on Thursday, November 21 at 2:00 p.m. in Grupp Fireside Lounge. Coffee will...
New in D2L: Quick Eval
Recently, D2L added a new feature for professors: Quick Eval. On the Quick Eval screen you get a list of student submissions, drawn from across your courses, for which you have not yet supplied a grade. This can be handy for quickly seeing and grading student work....
Online Teaching Workshop: Tips from the 100
The Center for Online Learning & Innovation is proud to host a workshop developed by Dr. Timothy Sawicki, focused on online teaching. This event, open to all Canisius faculty, is on Wednesday, November 13th, 2019 from 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm in Old Main 219 Dr. Sawicki...
COLI Pedagogy Primer Podcast
COLI has published three 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 other...