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ETO Studio Doors Open and Demo Sessions

May 30, 2025

The ETO is hosting a series of “Doors Open” (check out the studio and meet some of our staff) and demo sessions (learn about specific video setups) this summer for the FASE community to visit our space and ask us any questions about the different setups that we do.

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Faculty Question of the Week (May 29, 2025)

May 29, 2025

Q: My course has ended, and I am calculating the final grades. I just noticed that we never set up assignment groups with their respective weights in Quercus. Is it […]

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Stuff we learned from the 2025 conference season

May 28, 2025

Each ETO staff member shared their memorable moments from the 2025 conference season.

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Faculty Question of the Week (May 15, 2025)

May 15, 2025

How can I share grades and comments with all group members after setting up the group project as an individual assignment in Quercus? 

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FASE Faculty Perspective: Planning and recording an on-location instructional video

May 14, 2025

As one of the instructors for MIE100 Dynamics, Assistant Professor Fatemeh Jazinizadeh is interested in developing educational media for first-year undergraduate engineering courses. For the Winter 2025 term, she wanted […]

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Lessons learned from The Centre of Teaching and Learning Celebration of Teaching Showcase 2025

April 30, 2025

Maggie and Yun discuss their key takeaways from the Centre of Teaching and Learning Celebration of Teaching Showcase 2025. They discuss how instructors are putting students first by understanding their perspective and working with them on key projects.

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Quercus Updates (May 2025)

April 30, 2025

This update: Changes to ‘Assign To’ interface, Announcement timestamps, Discussion editing, SpeedGrader tools, and Group navigation.

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Building Interactive Case Studies in Asynchronous Professional Development Courses

April 25, 2025

ETO’s Learning Module Designer, Maggie shares best practices for building case studies in asynchronous courses. She will use the example of a case study built for the Environment, Social, and Governance course for the Mining Industry Management Program (MIMP). Explore how interactivity, metacognition, and collaboration can be purposefully built into online modules.

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MADE for U of T | Ep. 12 | Developing Online Courses

April 24, 2025

A new podcast episode on a new podcast platform (Spotify)! In the 12th episode of MADE for U of T, we hear from LinkedIn Learning instructor and author, Curtis Frye, who shares some of his experience developing online courses, and how his approach has evolved over time.

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Faculty Question of the Week (April 24, 2025)

April 24, 2025

“How can I assign a quiz/survey to different course groups?”

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Faculty Question of the Week (April 17, 2025)

April 17, 2025

“How can I change the group membership mid-course without affecting anyone’s work?”

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