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Quercus Updates (November 4, 2021)

This week: Canvas updates, This Week’s Faculty Question: I used the Copy to function to send a quiz from my 2020 course to my 2021 course, but when I open the copied Quiz it has no questions in it.

Quercus Updates (October 21, 2021)

This week: Canvas updates, This Week’s Faculty Question: I accidentally deleted most of my previous course announcements. Is there a way I can restore those announcements so that students can access them again?

Nice to meet you, Sandra!

Sandra Duong joins the EdTech Office (ETO) as our new Educational Technologist. At the ETO, Sandra will be our first point of contact when you contact us.

Quercus Updates (October 7, 2021)

This week: Importing SCORM packages into Quercus, This Week’s Faculty Question: How can I export a roster of the student groups in my course?

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.

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