2025 October Cybersecurity Month
October is Cybersecurity month! Canisius ITS would like to invite you to spend some time thinking about your online presence and how you can make it more secure. Is It Really Them? Every now and then we receive emails, or even text messages, that purport to be...
Call for Session Leaders for 2026 Winter Faculty Development Week
COLI and Academic Affairs is looking for session leaders/presenters for this upcoming Winter Faculty Development Week (WFDW). This year, WFDW will be from January 5th through the 8th. Topics usually are centered around Pedagogy and range from novel practices to...
Copyleaks: New D2L Dropbox Integration
Copyleaks can now be activated right in the D2L Dropbox-- no more stand-alone assignment needed. In the D2L Dropbox Editor Screen, simply go to the Evaluation & Feedback section. From there, click on Add External Tool. It should automatically default to the...
Copyleaks Maintenance Events
Copyleaks will be doing routine server maintenance on October 12th and 19th, both starting at 3:00AM. Both are expected to last approximately 4 hours. As such, Copyleaks may not be able to process submissions during this time, nor will faculty be able to review...
Microsoft Teams: Team Membership Settings
In Teams, by default Members (i.e., anyone who is not an owner/did not create the Team) can create channels, add apps, create private channels, and more. We can restrict Members from modifying the Team by following the steps found below: In a Team, click on the three...
Midterms in D2L 2025
It’s nearing that time of the Semester again! 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,...
Upcoming D2L Workshop on Data and AI-Driven Instruction
On Tuesday, September 23rd, D2L is offering a free Live Webinar titled Teaching Smarter: Building a Culture of Data and AI-Driven Instruction. From the Webinar description: "As institutions increasingly adopt GenAI tools and analytics platforms, the question isn’t if...
Microsoft Teams: Teams for Office Hours
Microsoft Teams can be used for office hours. However, unlike Zoom, we do not have a persistent default link we can send to students. Instead, we have a few different options to us: Create a recurring Teams link (and change some Meeting Settings for extra privacy)...
Post-Summer Faculty Development Week Survey
Thank you to all who attended the 2025 Summer Faculty Development Week (SFDW)! And a special thank you to our session leaders: Dr. Mike Wood Dr. Jonathan Lawrence Yvonne Widenor Dr. Sue Margulis Dr. Erin Robinson Dr. Irene Holohan-Moyer Rachel Massaro Dr. Jonathan...
Microsoft Teams: Disable Chat for Web Meetings
Organizers of a Teams Web Meeting can disable Chat feature. This may be useful to have participants focus on the content of meeting (i.e., instruction, presentations, etc.) and help the organizer not get bogged down with having to check the Chat constantly. This also...