by markwpadm | Dec 18, 2018 | Adjuncts, Faculty, Innovation, Technology in Teaching & Learning
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...
by Mark Gallimore | Dec 15, 2018 | Adjuncts, Faculty, Innovation, Online Learning, Staff, Technology in Teaching & Learning
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...
by Mark Gallimore | Dec 15, 2018 | Adjuncts, Faculty, Innovation, Online Learning, Technology in Teaching & Learning
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...
by Mark Gallimore | Dec 12, 2018 | Adjuncts, Faculty, Online Learning, Staff, Technology in Teaching & Learning
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...
by Mark Gallimore | Dec 12, 2018 | Adjuncts, Faculty, Innovation, Online Learning, Technology in Teaching & Learning
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...
