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EdTech Tip Sheet: July 2021
In this Issue: Prepping Flexibly for September | Reuse your video content
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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.
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Good bye FASE, hello iSchool!
Congrats to Joanna on her secondment!
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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?
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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.
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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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