EdTech Blog
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?
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?