EdTech Blog
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!
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.
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?
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!
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?
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.
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.
Weekly Quercus Updates (February 4, 2021)
This Week: Turnit-in Issue Resolved, BB Collaborate Issue Resolved, and Canvas Deploy Notes, This Week’s Faculty Question: How can I give my students from last term access to view their final exam responses?
Adapting Group Projects and Software Skills to Online
Working in groups remotely can be difficult for students. Join Professor Drake as she shares her experiences with online groupwork for CIV550!
February EdTech Events
Upcoming events: Click to register for Prof. Drake Case Study | Sync & Async Discussion in Online Environment | Select Your Online Assessment Tool
Weekly Quercus Updates (January 28, 2021)
This week: Turn-it-in Issues, BB Collaborate Issues, This Week’s Faculty Question: I have a student writing a deferred exam for Fall 2020 in Quercus quizzes. How can I give them access to the course now that the course is over?
Weekly Quercus Updates (January 21, 2021)
This week: BB Collaborate Issues, Canvas Update, This Week’s Faculty Question: I want to assign students to project groups in a large class. How can I do this quickly in Quercus?