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

From Laurie Harrison, Director IT, OISE/UT, and Project Manager, Online Courses Pilot, Office of the Provost: Online Teaching Resources: http://www.teaching.utoronto.ca/topics/teachingcontexts/online-learning.htm Includes an Instructor Toolkit, available services, and examples of innovative teaching practices. __________

Thursday, May 12th, 2011 at 10:12 am »   Reminder – Blackboard Upgrade Starts Tonight! The University of Toronto will upgrade Blackboard to version 9.1 beginning at 12:01 a.m. on May 13th, 2011. The upgrade is scheduled to be completed not later than 11:59 p.m. on May 14th, 2011. Please note that Blackboard will be … Read More

This is just a quick note to let folks know that the technical team for our Learning Portal / Learning Management System (Blackboard) is starting the process of planning for a late-spring early-summer hardware upgrade. This process is independent of our software upgrade plans (click here for more details on the software upgrade in May). … 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

From Jeremy Graham, Technical Manager for Blackboard Learning System Operations: “In what has become an annual event, staff from CTSI and I+TS will be performing an upgrade on the University’s Blackboard Learn portal (https://portal.utoronto.ca) on Friday May 13th and Saturday May 14th 2011. The upgrade will bring Blackboard up to the most recent, and now … Read More

Starting the beginning of March 2011, we have begun a retrospective review of Audience Response Systems (‘clickers’) here at University of Toronto. We are initiating this conversation for a few reasons. A number of years ago, CTSI purchased iClicker brand clickers and in the subsequent years, that brand has become the unofficial default brand at … Read More

Lecture capturing refers to any technology-mediated process that allows instructors to record what happens in their classrooms and make those recordings available digitally. Lecture capture systems are used to describe a wide array of software, system capabilities and hardware that can simultaneously record the audio and/or video from a presentation or lecture, and often the … Read More