EdTech Blog
Meet Inga Breede!
Inga joins the EdTech Office as our new Senior Instructional Technologist, Content Production. She will be leading the team’s media production efforts as well as supervising the Lecture Capture and Remote Editing Services
Weekly Quercus Updates (April 1, 2021)
This week: New Assignment Interface, Book an Assessment Review, This Week’s Faculty Question: Does Quercus offer a way to categorize Announcements for different topics in separate tabs or folders?
April EdTech Events
Upcoming events: U of T Events | Events beyond U of T | EdTech Workshop 2021
Weekly Quercus Updates (March 25, 2021)
Canvas Release Notes, This Week’s Faculty Question: I want to create a 2-part Mid Term in my course using Quizzes.
Building ECE241 for Online Learning
You make the content, we do the building! Let’s explore how the ETO provided technical support to create the Quercus course for ECE241 – Digital Systems.
How to Motivate and Retain Online Learners
Dr. Curtis Bonk gives ideas on how to motivate students online, hosted by Contact North.
Weekly Quercus Updates (March 18, 2021)
This week: MathJax Enabled for Quercus, Page Refreshes between Gradebook and Individual View, This Week’s Faculty Question: I created a Quercus Quiz with a combination of multiple-choice and short-answer questions.
Six Key Takeaways from the 2020 UofT ETRAC Student Survey
Explore 6 Key Takeaways from the Educause Technology Research in the Academic Community (ETRAC) U of T Student Survey!
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.
March EdTech Events
Upcoming events: Click to register for Online tools for effective and efficient feedback (postponed) | EdTech Workshop 2021
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?
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?