EdTech Blog
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.
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July EdTech Events
Upcoming events: NEW! Lessons Learned Webinars | U of T Events (CTSI, CPP) | Events beyond U of T
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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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Quercus Updates (June 10, 2021)
This week: Rubrics update, ePortfolios update, This Week’s Faculty Question: I saw a memo (ACT memo regarding Collaborate Recordings) that on June 30, 2021, all recordings made before May 1, 2021 using Bb Collaborate will be deleted. Is this correct? If so, what can I do to download the recordings I want to keep?
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EdTech Tip Sheet: June 2021
In this Issue: Deletion of Bb Collaborate Recordings · Start Strong for Fall 2021 · Quick Tip: Namedrop · EdTech Workshop Recordings
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Quercus Updates (June 3, 2021)
This week: Discussions interface update, Crowdmark’s new Sort Roster feature, This Week’s Faculty Question: I want to release the Winter 2021 final exam grades and comments back to all the students in my course for viewing. But how do I do this on Quercus where the final exam was set up as a quiz?
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June EdTech Events
Upcoming events: U of T Events (CTSI, CPP) | Events beyond U of T
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Recognizing the many hats we wear
Lessons shared at the 14th Annual UofT Teaching and Learning Symposium on recognizing each other’s whole identities as teachers and learners.
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Care and Culturally Responsive Pedagogy
Looking for ways to support students who finds learning in English challenging? Consider the Care and Culturally Reponsive Pedagogy.
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Implementing Remote Experiential Learning
Interested in new and engaging projects for your class? Read four experiential learning examples that can be used in both in-person and remote settings for you and your students’ benefit!
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Meet our 2021 Online Learning Assistants
This summer, the EdTech Office has hired five amazing UofT students to join them in supporting online course management, design, and video editing.
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Quercus Updates (May 20, 2021)
This week: Canvas Known Issue with New Quizzes, This Week’s Faculty Question: I created a group set for an assignment and set it up so that students could self sign-up for their groups. I followed all the steps outlined on the Canvas Community Guide How do I create self sign-up groups in a group set?. However, my students can’t see the +Group button that would allow them to add/join groups on Quercus as described on the student guide How do I join a group as a student?. Do I need to create the groups myself?
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