EdTech Blog
Quercus Updates (September 23, 2021)
This week: Plagiarism Detection Tool (Ouriginal) known issues, This Week’s Faculty Question: Is there an alternative to the UT Advanced Group Tool for getting a list of emails for the students in my course?
Introducing M.A.D.E. for U of T
Connecting educational media makers and designers across U of T.
Introducing Eric & Ryan!
The ETO’s Content Production team has two new staff members – Eric McMullan and Ryan Spooner. The ETO is back on campus for in person filming! Can you tell we’re excited?
Quercus Updates (September 16, 2021)
This week: Update to Assign to field (Assignments, Quizzes, and graded Discussions),This Week’s Faculty Question: How do I set up the Quercus calendar so students can easily see the monthly calendar just for my course?
Teaching with Zoom
This blog post provides the recording and session files from the Teaching with Zoom session by Inga Breede on August 31, 2021.
Ouriginal replaces Turnitin!
From the August 27, 2021 Academic and Collaborative Technology Memo (see University of Toronto’s Plagiarism Detection Tool memo for full version):
Supporting Accommodations for Students
Do you have students in your course that you’re accommodating online until they can arrive on campus?
MathMatize Your Classroom: A Webinar by Prof. Jonathan Herman
MathMatize is a new online math-learning platform co-developed by Prof. Jonathan Herman. This reviews his Lessons Learned Webinar.
Transitioning from Bb Collaborate to other webinar tools
Bb Collaborate’s contract with UofT will be ending on August 31, 2021. There will be no access to this tool past this date. The ETO is available to help you transition from Bb Collaborate to the alternate webinar tools available (MS Teams and Zoom).
Quercus Updates (August 5, 2021)
This week: Crowdmark grading features updates,This Week’s Faculty Question: I’ve been assigned to teach a course in September 2021 but I don’t see the course on my Quercus Dashboard yet. Can you help me find my course?
Tips and Tricks Learned Teaching Math Online: A Webinar by Prof. Mark Ebden
Prof. Ebden joined us on Zoom to share some of the Tips and Tricks he learned while teaching his Probability and Statistics course, ECE286, online.
Quercus Updates (July 22, 2021)
This week: Quercus Assignments Update, This Week’s Faculty Question: I am trying to upload lecture video recordings (from last year’s BB Collaborate) to my current course. I created a module for them and managed to upload a few but now I am getting an “Error 400” message for the rest.