by browkaa | Feb 17, 2021 | Faculty
Online tools and resources are a necessity. With Independent Health, staying active and connected is now easier and more convenient than ever. As a member of Independent Health, you have access to two online resources:
- Online Account Tools: By registering online, members can get quick and easy access to their benefits, available tools and resources right at their fingertips.
- Health Hub: Take advantage of free programs and classes. Stay active and achieve your wellness goals from the comfort of your home (or office).
Submitted by: Bethany Voorhees, executive associate, President’s Office
by browkaa | Feb 17, 2021 | Faculty
This week is Week 3 of the February Go Move Challenge!
It’s still not too late to register for the challenge. You can backlog any minutes missed from weeks 1 and 2.
To register and log your minutes, click here.
All faculty and staff are invited to join with a chance to win a $50 gift card to the Canisius College Bookstore for achieving the most number of minutes by the end of the challenge.
Planning to participate in any fun winter fitness activities soon? Make sure to document these moments, and share your photos on social media by tagging #GoMoveChallenge. Send them to Bethany Voorhees at voorheeb@canisius.edu to be shared in The Dome.
There is an option if you’d rather stay inside! Click here if you are interested in signing up for the FREE fitness channel, hbFIT, during the month of February. To start planning out your fitness schedule, take a look at the live class schedule here.
The challenge runs from February 1 – 28 and all minutes must be logged by the end of the month.
If you have any questions, please contact Bethany Voorhees at voorheeb@canisius.edu or 716-888-2100.
Submitted by: Bethany Voorhees, executive associate, President’s Office
by browkaa | Feb 17, 2021 | Faculty
The Center for Online Learning & Innovation (COLI) offers a five-week mini-course for Canisius College faculty, that prepares professors to teach online and hybrid courses. This course provides many practical tips for teaching online, but more importantly, helps faculty explore new pedagogies for active learning, social presence and community building in courses on the internet.
The Online Faculty Development Course (OFDC) can help professors craft engaging, interactive online experiences for students that go hand-in-hand with limited use of the classroom. This spring semester, we are offering two courses, one starting on February 22 and ending on March 26, and a second one starting March 29 and ending on April 30.
To RSVP for either, please check out the COLI faculty development events here.
Submitted by: Tyler Kron-Piatek, Academic Technologist, COLI
by browkaa | Feb 17, 2021 | Faculty
A few updates concerning the Canisius College Wiki:
- After March 1, 2021, the gray left-hand sidebar will be minimized by default. Although still available, it will not automatically appear to users on desktop or laptop computers. While the sidebar appears to provide a navigation menu, it does not always do this in the most efficient way. More importantly, the sidebar does not appear on mobile devices, and it should not be relied upon to assist users in navigating wiki pages and spaces. Use the tools outlined here to provide better navigation within your own pages: https://wiki.canisius.edu/x/gwYoBg.
- If you have not done so recently, revisit your wiki pages and update the materials. This includes files attached to pages. Note that if your pages are available to anyone, so is any out-of-date information posted there or in attached files, even if they are not linked on visible pages.
- As part of an effort to assist offices and departments across the college, the Center for Online Learning and Innovation (COLI) has updated and augmented our guide to using the Canisius College Wiki. The guide provides information on how to improve your wiki pages, as well as some time-saving tools and tips. Access the guide here: https://wiki.canisius.edu/x/tA-KB.
- If you don’t have a wiki page yet, you can request that COLI create one. Then you can add content, create subsequent pages and manage access.
Email helpdesk@canisius.edu for any questions concerning the wiki.
With the overwhelming volume of Emails crowding into faculty, staff and student inboxes, information distributed solely through Email will likely get buried and users will later struggle to find it. Trying to distribute important information by Email can be problematic. Consider including it in the wiki, where users can continually refer back to it. Save time by emailing links to wiki pages that users can bookmark in browsers.
Submitted by: Tyler Kron-Piatek, academic technologist, COLI
by browkaa | Feb 17, 2021 | Faculty
This is the second and final part of using the “Registration” feature in Zoom. If you have not yet watched part 1, click here.
In part two, we cover more options of the “Registration” feature. Some examples of these options include changing the contact Email and personalizing the confirmation Email and registration page.
You can view the video for part two here.
If you are interested in exporting the registration list, follow the steps listed here.
Submitted by: Tyler Kron-Piatek, academic technologist, Center for Online Learning and Innovation
