Teaching Online? Help Your Students Prepare
If you are teaching an online, hybrid or blended course this semester, help your students better prepare for the particular challenges and opportunities of online learning. Drop the link to COLI's handy Readiness for Online Learning Guide into your syllabus: ...
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 Spring 2019 semester. Learn about employee resources, the library, the...
Spring 2019 Online Faculty Development Course
In the Spring, the Center for Online Learning & Innovation is running an Online Faculty Development Course, to help prepare faculty to teach online and hybrid classes. Learn how to build engaging, rigorous online and hybrid courses that are powered by your...
Coming in January: WordPress 5.0!
ITS plans to update all Canisius WordPress sites to WordPress 5.0 on Friday, January 4th, 2019. The major change for users is the new block editor, which will replace the traditional editor for creating posts and pages. This will also change the process for using...
Save Your Zoom Videorecordings!
At Canisius College, those who use Zoom for web conferencing, meetings, and courses frequently make recordings of their online sessions. Our Zoom license includes plenty of room to house these recordings online, but there is a limit to our total storage for all...
Turnitin Within D2L
Turnitin software includes an originality checker that can help students avoid plagiarism. Turnitin also has tools so professors can provide detailed feedback to students about their writing. Faculty can easily employ Turnitin within their D2L dropboxes. Both...
Workshop: D2L Essentials
In January the Center for Online Learning and Innovation (COLI) will offer workshops covering the essentials of using D2L. If you are a new professor, or have taught at Canisius for a while but would like to learn or review essentials of D2L, this is an ideal...
D2L: New Rubric Experience
D2L is upgrading its rubric toolset. If you use rubrics now you may have noticed that you needn't install rubrics in both a discussion or dropbox, and its associated grade item in the gradebook. Now, rubric data (your grading) appears to students as a linkable item...
Workshop: D2L Essentials
Toward the end of the Fall Semester the Center for Online Learning & Innovation will offer workshops covering the essentials of using D2L. If you are a new professor at Canisius, or if you have taught at Canisius for awhile but would like to learn or review...
Professional Development in COLI Workshops
In Spring 2019, the Center for Online Learning & Innovation offers Canisius faculty and staff plenty of opportunities to learn new things for teaching, research, and administrative work. See our list of workshops, meetups, and other events. And check back as we...
The Center for Online Learning & Innovation
at Canisius College
Technology in Teaching & Learning
Providing outstanding faculty development experiences for technology use in teaching.
Online Learning
Serving as a central point of contact for distance learning needs, coordinated departmental efforts for online learning, quality assurance and consistency in online courses, and online innovation endeavors.
Innovation
Encouraging innovation across campus through technology and new processes, including in teaching and learning and everyday work.