EdTech Blog
Weekly Quercus Updates (March 11, 2021)
This week: BB Collaborate Update, This Week’s Faculty Question: I want to share some new resources with my students and am planning to send them an announcement in Quercus.
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March EdTech Events
Upcoming events: Click to register for Online tools for effective and efficient feedback (postponed) | EdTech Workshop 2021
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Weekly Quercus Updates (March 4, 2021)
This week: Canvas Deploy Notes, This Week’s Faculty Question: I’d like my students to submit a short video as an assignment? What are the best tools for them to record and share their video?
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Weekly Quercus Updates (February 25, 2021)
This week: Canvas Release Notes, BB Collaborate Release Notes, This Week’s Faculty Question: I’m experiencing connection and audio issues in my BbCollaborate session. What can I do to address them?
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Teaching with Quercus – Managing Online Discussions of Difficult Topics
Discussing difficult subjects is challenging in both face-to-face and online/remote teaching contexts, but when done well, can result in a meaningful learning experience for you and your students!
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CTSI: Office 365 for Teaching and Learning Series
The Centre for Teaching Support & Innovation (CTSI) is a University of Toronto organization that provides support for pedagogy and pedagogy-driven instructional technology for all teaching staff. Check out their Quercus Support Resources for all of their Quercus videos and workshop recordings.
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Weekly Quercus Updates (February 18, 2021)
Canvas Deploy Notes, Training, Documentation and Communication,This Week’s Faculty Question: I need to assign a quiz only to a specific group of students in my course. How can I do that in Quercus Quizzes?
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EdTech Tip Sheet: February 2021
In this Issue: EdTech Workshop 2021 | New Crowdmark Questions Types | Watch Prof. Drake’s CIV550 Case Study Recording.
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EdTech Workshop 2021: Reduce, Reuse, Recycle
Save the date for our upcoming EdTech Workshop on May 07, 2021 from 10:00 am to 4:00 pm!
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Weekly Quercus Updates (February 11, 2021)
This week: New Crowdmark Question Types, Training, Documentation, Communication, This Week’s Faculty Question: Whenever I share an application window or my entire screen in Blackboard Collaborate Ultra, I get a hall-of-mirrors effect. How can I make this stop?
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Exploring Captioning and Transcription Tools
This blog summarizes the webinar by Tamara Bahr, Ben Poynton and Shayne Trainand on different captioning tools available to use by us.
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Helpful widgets to embed in your Quercus page
So, what exactly is a widget?
A widget is a small application embedded within an interface that provides quick access to information.