Posts By: ETO Team

Transitioning from Bb Collaborate to other webinar tools

Bb Collaborate's contract with UofT will be ending on August 31, 2021. There will be no access to this tool past this date. The ETO is available to help you transition from Bb Collaborate to the alternate webinar tools available (MS Teams and Zoom).

Quercus Updates (August 5, 2021)

This week: Crowdmark grading features updates,This Week's Faculty Question: I've been assigned to teach a course in September 2021 but I don't see the course on my Quercus Dashboard yet. Can you help me find my course?

Quercus Updates (July 22, 2021)

This week: Quercus Assignments Update, This Week's Faculty Question: I am trying to upload lecture video recordings (from last year’s BB Collaborate) to my current course. I created a module for them and managed to upload a few but now I am getting an "Error 400" message for the rest.

Quercus Updates (July 15, 2021)

This week: Crowdmark Dashboard Update, This Week's Faculty Question: I used the Link Validator to check all my course links and it brought up some links with the error messages. What do these messages mean? Do I need to check all these links? All the links seem to work for me!

ePump: Patching the Leak in the STEM Pipeline

This article is about the ePUMP project - the goals, the project team (what the project team is doing and what the ETO is doing), and how the project has maintained momentum through a very momentous year.

Quercus Updates (July 8, 2021)

This week: Latest Canvas updates, Upcoming Crowdmark maintenance, This Week's Faculty Question: I have noticed that recordings that I have recently uploaded to MyMedia start muted by default and that I need to manually cancel muting each time I view them. Is there something that I can set so as to start them unmuted?

New Module Series: Start Strong

Join us this summer the EdTech Office releases a series of self-directed modules, short demos, and hands-on workshops, designed to get you ready to teach your Fall 2021 courses. The ETO's Senior Instructional Technologist, Anna Limanni, has designed a thoughtful and flexible resource to help you design a partially or completely online/remote course.

Quercus Updates (June 24, 2021)

This week: Speedgrader Comment Library, Upcoming Crowdmark maintenance, This Week's Faculty Question: I am having issues properly calculating the final grades in Quercus. I see a discrepancy between the marks that I am calculating in my own Excel spreadsheet and the final marks that are coming up in Quercus in the Total Grade calculation.

July EdTech Events

Upcoming events: NEW! Lessons Learned Webinars | U of T Events (CTSI, CPP) | Events beyond U of T

Quercus Updates (June 17, 2021)

This week: Bb Collaborate update, This Week's Faculty Question: Is there a setting I can select so that the students only see a letter grade until I’m ready to share the numerical grade? If that’s not possible, how can I at least make sure that they’re not assigned the highest possible grade in the category?
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