In the intervening six years since the last institutional conversation about Audience Response Systems (‘clickers’), much has changed technologically, even for our current default supplier, i<Clicker. As a result, the University is undertaking a review of audience response solutions and has initiated a project to settle on a university-wide standard solution. It is hoped that … Read More

Saira Mall, CTSI Educational Technology Liaison, writes: “The Centre for Teaching Support & Innovation is looking for effective examples of how faculty are using technology to conduct discussions with their students outside of class. If you would like to share your experiences with us, and possibly the UofT community, please contact us at: ctsi.utoronto@utoronto.ca. Responses … Read More

Below is a link to a working document containing a running list of suggested lecture capture functionality for the University of Toronto. It is a work in progress and represents only thoughts so far (based on extensive conversations). If you have anything to add, please send it to us at <ati @ utoronto.ca> (remove the … Read More

We are starting to look at a new topic, and we’d like to hear from anyone interested … form scanning (a.k.a. Scantron services). So far we have identified 7 departments at UofT that have form scanners that are primarily used for academic purposes (test scoring, evaluations, etc.). A number of issues have arisen, and we … Read More