Adjunct Faculty Information Session, Summer/Fall 2025
COLI is hosting two Adjunct Faculty Information Sessions for the Summer and Fall 2025 semesters. New and returning part-time faculty can learn about resources available to them at Canisius University. This includes HR services, the Library, teaching support, and...
Graduate Student IT Information Session
Whether face-to-face or online, graduate students at Canisius make extensive use of internet tools and services. Come learn about the core information technologies you will use at Canisius. Begin the semester confident in your use of Canisius Gmail, D2L,...
Spring ’25 Start of Semester Checklist
The start of the semester is almost upon us! Here is a quick checklist of things to do before the start of the semester: Overview Video – Transcript If you are teaching two sections with identical content, you can have these sections merged within...
Scheduled Panopto Maintenance
Panopto will be conducting some maintenance on their Canadian Servers Saturday, January 25th, starting at 10:00AM and ending at 1:00PM. While this should not affect our Panopto instance, please keep in mind that you and your students may not be able to access Panopto...
D2L January Supported Browser Update
The following browsers are the minimum browser versions that are supported by D2L: Minimum Supported Browsers Chrome 129 Edge 129 Safari 18 Firefox 130 Supported Legacy Browsers Chrome 94 Edge 94 Safari 15 Firefox 92 Unsupported browsers Chrome 67 Edge 80 Safari 12...
New Copyleaks Tutorials
There are several new video tutorials for Copyleaks. Check them out below: Create an Assignment in D2L (Video) - Transcript Learn how to create a Copyleaks Assignment, useful for automatically scanning all documents submitted by students. Teacher Scan Tool in D2L -...
Adjunct Faculty Information Sessions
COLI is hosting two Adjunct Faculty Information Sessions for the Spring 2025 semester. New and returning part-time faculty can learn about resources available to them at Canisius University. This includes HR services, the Library, teaching support, and information...
Podcasting in Courses
Through our Digital Media Laboratory Initiative, COLI has available a podcast studio and podcasting mobile kits for students. The studio is in OM 402, and the kits are available for checkout in Bouwhuis Library. If you plan to assign podcasts as assignments in your...
Qualtrics Email Fault
Due to a back-end problem, surveys using the Qualtrics Email Distribution Tool may have experienced errors sending. This issue seems to have started November 14th, 2024 and was resolved early December 3rd, 2024. Example error message when sending Qualtrics Survey If...
Final Exams in D2L
Final exams are fast approaching! It may be useful to review these features of D2L Quizzes and Dropboxes. D2L Quizzes provides a robust tool to grade quizzes easier and quicker. Some features can help prevent cheating to a degree, like basic question...