ITS will be applying Banner Software upgrades to its production environment on Sunday December 20, 2020 from 6:00 a.m. – 10:00 a.m. During this maintenance window, the Banner Application will be unavailable, with a brief service interruption for the self-service banner environment. All other systems will be accessible.
The ITS systems status page, found in the dark blue top section of the portal, will be updated accordingly.
If you encounter any issues post upgrade, please contact the help desk at helpdesk@canisius.edu or at 888-8340.
Submitted by: Michele Folsom, director, Administrative Computing / ITS
D2L allows you to give students extra chances at questions they get wrong on quizzes. This feature may be useful if you are trying to get students to accomplish some form of self-assessment or another type of assessment. Instead of having them complete the whole quiz again, you can instead have the student look over the wrong questions and try to correctly answer them. This tutorial will show you how to use this feature. It will also mention some tips in testing and previewing how this feature will work for your students as well.
Submitted by: Tyler Kron-Piatek, Academic Technologist, Center for Online Learning and Innovation
Using the video here, you can export information about your students in a given course in D2L. This information can include students’ first and/or last name, which can be used for an attendance roster outside of D2L. The information can also include grades, which must be kept for five-years minimum for ease of access. This is because, while D2L does keep those grades for the five-year minimum, it becomes more difficult to access those grades after a student graduates. You can also export student Email addresses, which can be a way to easily share a file or folder on the Google Drive if needed. All that and more information can be exported from D2L should you choose. Information exported this way can be in either CSV format or Excel Spreadsheet.
Submitted by: Tyler Kron-Piatek, Academic Technologist, Center for Online Learning and Innovation
