EdTech Blog
Faculty Question of the Week (August 28, 2024)
How can I de-cross-list the sections of my Quercus course?
Faculty Question of the Week (August 22, 2024)
Why can’t I turn off notifications from a Quercus course?
Quercus Updates (August 2024)
In this Update: This month’s update highlights important changes to the ‘Assign To’ feature in Quercus. These updates include both interface changes (i.e., where and how the ‘Assign To’ option […]
Ouriginal to Turnitin Transition (as of Sept 01, 2024)
The University of Toronto is transitioning its plagiarism detection tool from Ouriginal to Turnitin, effective September 1, 2024.
Faculty Question of the Week (July 17, 2024)
Why can’t I extend the end date of a Quercus course from 2022?
Thoughtfully Crafting a Blended Course (Card Activity)
In this activity, you’ll consider the differences between onsite, blended, and online learning, visualize your course’s existing modalities, explore what modalities are – and aren’t – working, and experiment with different modalities to see what makes sense for your specific teaching context. This can feel overwhelming; re-design is a time and energy consuming prospect. We all know how many tools there are out there and no one has idle minutes.
Stuff we learned during the 2024 conference season
We each pulled out memorable moments from the Teaching and Learning Symposium (TLS), the IT@UofT conference, Adobe World Conference, and the Crowdmark Community Conference to share.
Let us know how we’re doing
To help inform the ETO’s service and support planning for the upcoming 2024/2024 academic year, we’d like to hear from you!
Using Lighting to Transform a Room for Impactful Interviews
ETO’s Education Media Specialist, James, will talk about what went behind the filming of the two-person interview videos created for one of the modules in Environment, Social, and Governance (ESG), an online course in the Mining Industry Management Program (MIMP).
MADE for U of T | Ep. 11 | Luke Hobson
In the 11th episode of MADE for U of T (see all episodes), we hear from instructional designer and author, Dr. Luke Hobson, who shares his experience working as an instructional designer and suggests what other designers can do to level up their skills and offerings.
Faculty Question of the Week (May 23, 2024)
How can I download a Quercus rubric in SpeedGrader?
Faculty Question of the Week (May 16, 2024)
How can I embed an interactive word cloud into a PowerPoint presentation?