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...
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....
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...
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...
Faculty Development Community
See the new Faculty Development Community Resource, for upcoming workshops, events, and opportunities provided by the Academic Affairs division. These events also appear on campus calendars in the MyCanisius portal, but at this page you can find faculty development...
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....
Small-Group Asynchronous Discussions in D2L
In the classroom, small group discussions can have a different dynamic than a classwide conversation. So, too, with online asynchronous discussions. If you want to change your online discussions a bit, consider having D2L organize your students into small groups for...
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...
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...