Traffic in a Storm
February 11, 2019
by Marco Di Vittorio Manager, Application Administration Academic & Collaborative Technologies (ACT) Most traffic moves slower during a snow storm. Pedestrian, vehicle and airline routes typically grind to a halt … Read More
Quercus Quirks
January 10, 2019
A new semester is upon us, and we now move into our second full semester in our new teaching environment Quercus. As with all new systems, there can be a … Read More
New Engine for Academic Toolbox Selected
October 19, 2017
The University of Toronto is committed to continuing its leadership in digital learning and providing resources to our faculty, librarians, staff, and students that assist them in pursuing excellence in … Read More
Varsity Articles about Portal
September 13, 2016
Our student newspaper, The Varsity, has been covering our Academic Toolbox Renewal Initiative. Read what they have to say: The Portal to the Future (Feb. 2016) http://thevarsity.ca/2016/02/01/the-portal-to-the-future/ UofT Seeks New … Read More
LME RFP
June 1, 2016
As many of you know, the University of Toronto has been going through an extensive process we’ve been calling our ‘Academic Toolbox Renewal.’ As part of that process, we recently … Read More
166 Countries!
March 14, 2016
We were just skimming our monthly Google Analytics numbers for the Portal. We are on pace to surpass 40 million sessions this year (based on currently monthly numbers). But even … Read More
EWS versus Webmastering: ACT’s Role
October 14, 2015
Our group continues to get calls about building websites for departments, so I wanted to clarify what we do and don’t do here in ACT. We are responsible for deploying … Read More
Pilot Projects
June 2, 2015
A couple of our colleagues, Fareed Teja and Simone Laughton, recently suggested that it would be great to have a place to list pilot projects being conducted by different units … Read More
Publisher integrations
September 8, 2014
A number of instructors at UofT are interested in using various teaching and learning tools produced by various publishers, especially for assessment activities. In many cases, instructors have asked us … Read More
Growing our Teaching Technology Toolbox at UofT
August 6, 2014
Innovative approaches to teaching and learning are evident throughout the University of Toronto. People at UofT are constantly discovering (or sometimes building) and evaluating new applications that enhance teaching and … Read More
