COLI is offering two half-hour Excel trainings in June. After lunch, come learn some quick Excel tips that can make your work easier and increase your productivity!

Excel Lunch Learning Sessions, Old Main 115:

• Wednesday, June 5, 2024, 12:30 PM
• Thursday, June 27, 2024, 12:30 PM

Due to cost and reliability concerns, the Center for Online Learning and Innovation is not renewing ScreenPal at the end of the 2023-2024 academic year. The last day faculty or staff can use Screenpal is May 14th, 2024.

In the last decade ScreenPal, or previously Screencast-O-Matic, has been a great toolset to help faculty easily record and edit screencast videos. However, since we acquired Screencast-O-Matic, a variety of new video tools have appeared that are more capable and reliable, and are better integrated into our daily web platforms, such as D2L. Plus, ScreenPal has been problematic for users in the past two years due to an awkward licensing procedure. Over the last year, usage of our license has declined. It simply no longer is the best option for Canisius faculty who record screencast videos.

Faculty can record videos using a variety of options:

• Panopto is built into D2L, and provides a web-based recorder and simple editor for making cuts. We find this is the most efficient solution for most faculty and staff, and it can even be available to students in classes.
• Mac users have QuickTime and iMovie.
• PC users can try Clipchamp, a Microsoft Product.
• OBS and Adobe Premiere Pro are advanced options for recording and editing, respectively.

Additional tips, tutorials, and information can be found on the Web-Based Video for Teaching Wiki page.

Submitted by: Tyler Kron-Piatek, Instructional Designer, COLI

If you are teaching a summer course this year, here are a few things to check.

1. Check that the Start Date Starts at the appropriate time
   • All summer courses, regardless if they start in session one or session two, may not open at the correct time
   • First 6-week, 10-week, and 12-week sessions begin on May 20
   • First 5-week session begins on May 28
   • Summer session two (second 5-week and 6-week courses) starts on July 1
2. Check that the End Date does not end before your course is supposed to end.
   • June 29 is when the first 5-Week and 6-Week courses end
   • July 29 is when the 10-Week session ends
   • August 3 is when the second 5-week session ends
   • August 9 is when the second 6-week and 12-week sessions end
3. Keep in mind important holidays over the summer
   • May 27, Memorial Day, No Classes
   • June 19, Juneteenth, No In-Person or Synchronous Online Classes
   • July 4, Independence Day, No In-Person or Synchronous Online Classes
   • July 5, President’s Holiday, No In-Person Classes

Follow this tutorial to change Course Start and End Dates. Other tutorials about D2L are available on the D2L Self-Paced Training for Faculty and Staff Wiki page.

For additional important dates, such as when session grades are due, please see the Canisius Academic Calendar.

Submitted by: Tyler Kron-Piatek, Instructional Designer, COLI