Faculty Development Events & Meetups
See workshop or event descriptions here: https://canisius.atlassian.net/wiki/x/PRoYAg

Please use your Canisius  email address.

Workshops will be approximately one hour long via Teams unless otherwise noted. Links to web meetings will be emailed to signups. 

Questions? Contact us at coli@canisius.edu 

Note: The D2L Mastery Microcredential and the Accessibility Microcredential are both now available via D2L using the Discover Tab. If there are any questions or issues accessing these courses, please contact COLI using the email above.
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Online Faculty Development Course
A five-week mini-course for Canisius University 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 OFDC simulates five weeks of a 3-credit online course, so participating faculty also get the experience of the online student.
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D2L Essentials

If you are a new professor at Canisius, or if you have taught at Canisius for awhile but would like to learn or review essentials of D2L, COLI offers a workshop that’s perfect for this.
In this training session professors get the very basics of teaching in D2L:

  • Upload files so students can get them.
  • Organize your course content.
  • Set due dates so students can see them (in multiple places.)
  • Build a gradebook.

Later, you’ll discover all sorts of other features useful for teaching your classes, in your particular discipline. But this session gets you started using D2L and using the internet to save time and effort teaching. Review the COLI Calendar to see times and locations for these and other training events.

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AI and Teaching: Getting Started
Get an introduction to widely available generative AI tools that your and your students may use in instructional design, assessments, and course-related activities. 
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Workshop: D2L Grades and Feedback
In this training, Canisius faculty can discover ways to save time while providing students valuable feedback on coursework using the D2L Gradebook and providing meaningful feedback. We will also show you how to connect activities to the Gradebook for even faster grading.
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 Workshop: Panopto and D2L
Faculty who use video in their classes may want to consider using Panopto, a video content management system. Whether you are interested in learning the basics or some more advanced features, Panopto can help you easily record, edit, and share video to your students-- all from within D2L!
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Workshop: Hypothes.is in D2L
Hypothes.is is a toolset build right into D2L, that allows students to collaborate as they annotate documents and web-based resources they read together.  This is an excellent alternative to discussion boards or forums, and can be ideal for helping students prepare for classroom discussions.
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Microsoft Excel Basics
Excel is a powerful spreadsheet application that empowers users to create simple-to-sophisticated data management tools.  Whether you're tracking day-to-day operations, making complex calculations for research, or just keeping track of some basic financial records for your office, Excel makes working with and reporting data much easier.  In this workshop, you learn basic- and intermediate-level skills in data entry, calculations, and organization.  You'll learn how to manage an existing data problem, and after becoming more familiar with Excel, probably think of a few more uses for spreadsheets, too.
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Microsoft Excel Intermediate
Building on the Introduction workshop we will look at:
  • Creating tables and pivot tables as means to filter and interpret data
  • Creating charts and graphs to present data and assist decisionmaking
  • Building more complex formulas to automate data monitoring and reporting.
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Microsoft Teams for Virtual Meetings
In this 30 minute workshop, we will go over how to conduct virtual meetings with Microsoft Teams including starting a meeting, recording a meeting (and where to find said recording), screen sharing, and breakout rooms. If there is time, we will also go over how to share documents (that you and participants can edit live!) and Microsoft Whiteboard.
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Microsoft Teams: Chats and Teams
In this 30 minute workshop, we go over how to start a Chat in Microsoft Teams. Similar to text messaging, this helps prevent the need for a flood of emails, saving our inboxes. We will also go over how to create a Teams, which is useful for offices and departments for organizing chats, securely sharing files, and more.
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Workshop: Copyleaks for Plagiarism and AI Detection
A brief, 30 minute overview of using Copyleaks for Plagiarism and AI Content Detection. We go over: 
  • The Copyleaks Assignment Tool
  • Teacher Scan Tool
  • Scan Settings
See the Copyleaks Wiki page for more tutorials.
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Canisius Wiki Introduction
A 30 minute introduction on using the Canisius Wiki. What we cover:
  • Creating pages
  • Editing pages
  • Viewing Permissions settings
  • Viewing page/space analytics
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