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Santa is Coming…for Breakfast!

Canisius College faculty and staff are invited to attend Breakfast with Santa Claus with their children, grandchildren, nieces and nephews. This event will be on Saturday, December 13 from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. in the Student Center Dining Hall.

Santa will be making his annual appearance to visit with children and give them each a special gift. In addition to a hot breakfast, there will be arts and crafts and family photos with Santa.

The faculty/staff member is responsible for bringing a gift for each child (max. $15 each) that will be given to their child at the event by Santa.

Registration is required as space is limited. The cost for breakfast will be $15 per adult and for children age 11 or older; children 10 and under are FREE.

Please drop off the registration form, gift(s) wrapped and labeled with your child’s full name on the package and payment prior to the event, to Connie Pileri, pileric@canisius.edu, in the GRIFF Center (OM-013), by Monday, December 8.

For a registration form or more information, click here or you can pick up a form in the GRIFF Center.

Additionally, we are in need of volunteers to assist on that day with working 30 minute shifts at the event and cleaning up at its completion. Also, if you are able to make a gift donation for the door prize table it would be greatly appreciated.

If you can assist in any way please contact Rich Kennedy at Ext. 2181. For additional contact information about the event, contact Connie Pileri at Ext. 2192 or Anne-Marie Dobies at Ext. 3749.

Merry Christmas!

Submitted by: Connie Pileri, director, New Student Orientation/ associate director, GRIFF Center for Academic Engagement

Adopt-a-Teenager or Adopt-a-Family from St. Luke’s Mission of Mercy

Campus Ministry is partnering with St. Luke’s Mission of Mercy for Christmas. St. Luke’s provides Thanksgiving and Christmas for 2,600 families.

Adopt-a-Teenager Program:
• St. Luke’s has 200 teenagers to be adopted for Christmas. They either live in one of St. Luke’s 24 homes or in the neighborhood.
• Purchase a gift set of personal care items (cost is between $8.99-$11.00)
• If you would like more than one teenager that’s great. Whatever level is good for you.
• Just indicate how many teens and whether you prefer a girl or boy.

Adopt-a-Family Program:
• St. Luke’s has many families who are in need of adoption for Christmas. These families are large and small. Just indicate the size of the family you want and we will match you with a family. Even if you just want to buy a sweater or a few items we can let you know what items are on the families wish list.

St. Luke’s Mission of Mercy is one of the college’s closest community partners. They care for the most vulnerable and unwanted of God’s children with love and with mercy. Please contact Joe Van Volkengurg for more information at Ext. 2875 or vanvolkj@ canisius.edu

Submitted by: Joe Van Volkenburg, assistant to the director of Campus Ministry

Happy Holidays from the FacTS Center!

Wrapping Up Your Fall Courses in D2L
Here’s a checklist from FacTS Center, for wrapping up your fall course(s) in Desire2Learn:

– Do you want students to see their calculated grade when they log into the gradebook? (see the D2L Users Group tutorial on Turning Grade Calculation  for Students.)

– Export your gradebook to archive in your personal records by the week after grades are due. (see the D2L Users Group tutorial on Exporting Grades.)

– Export a backup copy of your course to a personal drive, for safekeeping. (see the D2L User Groups tutorial on Archiving a Course).

– If you will be teaching a course in the Spring semester, copy your course content from a prior semester into your new course shell. (see the D2L User Groups tutorial on Copy a Course/all Course Components from One Course to Another).

Desire2Learn January Boot Camp!
The FacTS Center will conduct a D2L Boot Camp, or two-day intensive seminar on Wednesday, January 7 and Thursday, January 8. If you haven’t used D2L very much, this is a chance to learn how to use Desire2Learn to manage your course’s online presence and activities. If you have used D2L, come to learn about new features, and ask questions about the features you’d like to use. FacTS Center staff will conduct demonstrations of D2L tools, and in between these, help faculty on a one-on-one basis to build their courses. Bring your real course content, so you can prepare it for your next course!

On January 7, the Boot Camp will be conducted in two parts with a break in between for lunch. Additionally, FacTS Center will repeat part II of the Boot Camp in the morning of January 8, for those who could not attend the afternoon session on the 7th. All sessions will take place in Old Main 115. Computers running Mac and PC operating systems are available there, but feel free to bring your own laptop, too.

You can sign up for the Desire2Learn Boot Camp on our FacTS Center Workshop Sign Up Sheet.

From all of us in the FacTS Center, we wish you and yours a safe and happy holiday season!

Submitted by: Mark Gallimore, academic technology specialist, ITS