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Weekly Quercus Updates

This week: BB Collaborate Issues, Canvas Update, This Week's Faculty Question: I want to assign students to project groups in a large class. How can I do this quickly in Quercus?

In this Weekly Update:

  1. BB Collaborate Recordings Reminder
  2. Canvas Deploy Notes
  3. This Week's Faculty Question

BB Collaborate Recordings Reminder

As a reminder, BB Collaborate recordings can take up to 24 hours to process during peak periods. If your recording exceeds 24-hours in the processing state, please contact fase.edtech@utoronto.ca.

Canvas Deploy Notes

Multiple Link Removal

You can now remove all links at once by highlighting the text [1], clicking the Links menu [2], and selecting the Remove Links option [3].

Direct Share and Past Dates

Previously, courses were not displaying in the Copy To, Send To, and Import menus. Concluded courses where instructors have active enrollments will now be included in Direct Share drop-down menus.

This Week's Faculty Question

Q: I want to assign students to project groups in a large class. How can I do this quickly in Quercus?

A: You can use a combination of the UT Advanced Group tool as well as the Groups function in Quercus to incorporate large group projects in your courses. Never heard of UT Advanced Group tools? See our guide on How do I use the UT Advanced Group tool to create project groups in large classes?


Have a Quercus (or EdTech) question? Please contact FASE's EdTech Office.


 

Article Category: Quercus Updates