by Mark Gallimore | May 8, 2019 | Uncategorized
D2L has some admittedly complex toolsets. But it also has features that are easy to use and can help you teach, without investing a lot of extra time or effort. Due Dates You can enter due dates for assignments, quizzes, or just about anything else into D2L’s...
by Mark Gallimore | Apr 4, 2019 | Uncategorized
One of the jobs of the Center for Online Learning & Innovation (COLI) is to support faculty teaching online and hybrid courses. COLI has recently created and updated resources for faculty teaching (or considering teaching) online: canisius.edu/teachonline has the...
by Mark Gallimore | Apr 4, 2019 | Uncategorized
In May 2019, D2L is ending support for it’s Binder mobile app. The app will no longer be available in iOS and Android stores, and D2L will supply no more updates to it to match changes to those mobile operating systems. If you have the app installed, and use it...
by Mark Gallimore | Mar 20, 2019 | Adjuncts, Faculty, Innovation, Online Learning, Technology in Teaching & Learning, Uncategorized
Now Available! The COLI Guide to Teaching Online! The COLI Guide is a resource for faculty building and teaching online or hybrid courses. It is the basic “text” for the Online Faculty Development Course, and is now available separately. The guide contains...
by markwpadm | Jan 4, 2019 | Uncategorized
Early Friday Morning, January 4th, Canisius ITS updated the campus WordPress sites to WordPress 5.0. If you operate one of these sites, take some time to learn to use the new block editor. The block editor allows you more options to organize and format text, images,...
by Mark Gallimore | Oct 22, 2018 | Adjuncts, Faculty, Innovation, Online Learning, Staff, Students, Technology in Teaching & Learning, Uncategorized
After Wednesday, October 24th, 2018, D2L will automatically save student answers or choices within quizzes: when the student clicks a radio button or checkbox, the student clicks in the neutral space outside a text entry window. Students will notice that the...
