The university supports a range of educational technologies to facilitate your teaching.
At Arts & Science, instructors, staff and teaching assistants can connect with the Teaching & Learning team for consultations to help you choose the best tools for your teaching and learning activities and to support you whether you’re teaching online, in person or somewhere in between. Our Digital Teaching & Learning Studio also helps staff and faculty members develop multimedia content.
We offer in-depth support and implementation for several of the technologies below. For others, we can help you get started, and more detailed technical support is offered by the vendor. Contact the Teaching & Learning team for consultations and support at teachinglearning.artsci@utoronto.ca.
Students are supported by the U of T Information Commons Help Desk.
Tools, Platforms & Resources: A to Z
Check out the Arts & Science Digital Teaching & Learning Studio for help with your multimedia teaching content. This is a unique space and support for Arts & Science instructors for on-site recording, live capture, software and instrument demonstrations, and lecture recordings.
| Platform or Topic | Description | Support & Resources |
|---|---|---|
| Academic Integrity System | The platform for academic integrity case management and submission. A&S instructors and academic units can use this system to access templates for communicating with students and submit academic integrity cases. Note: VPN required. If you are entering a case for the first time, please complete the MS Registration Form, or contact your academic unit's administrative staff to ensure you have access. Please provide your full name, UTORid and email address. | Academic Integrity System Training Materials |
| Course Evaluation System | U of T courses (undergraduate and graduate) must be evaluated by students. A&S typically uses U of T’s centralized course evaluation framework and online delivery system, which provides a customizable course evaluation form with eight core institutional questions and three A&S questions. Academic units and instructors may each add up to three questions drawn from a central question bank. Data are shared with divisions, academic administrators, instructors and students through email and Quercus. Responses to instructor-selected questions are only shared with the instructor. | General support & ROSI Express configuration: U of T Course Evaluations | course.evaluations@utoronto.ca |
| Course Evaluation Practices and Resources | ||
| Request access to course-evaluation reports: phil.rudz@utoronto.ca or a.logue@utoronto.ca | ||
| Subscribe to email reminders of important course evaluation dates: phil.rudz@utoronto.ca or a.logue@utoronto.ca | ||
| Crowdmark | A grading tool designed for group grading of paper-based exams and tests. Suitable for large classes with multi-TA grading teams. | Crowdmark: User Support |
| Crowdmark: Instructors' Insights | ||
| Educational Technology | Assignment workflow design across Quercus, Microsoft 365 and other tools — leveraging existing platforms to support your teaching | teachinglearning.artsci@utoronto.ca |
| Managing large courses in Quercus | ||
| Effective teaching online with Zoom — best practices and meeting setup | ||
| Zoom for office hours and other administrative teaching tasks | ||
| Managing large courses in Zoom and centralizing recordings and reports | ||
| Hypothes.is | A platform for collaborative annotation of text, images and media | A&S Hypothes.is Resources |
| teachinglearning.artsci@utoronto.ca | ||
| Instructional Design | Custom interactive modules to reinforce core course and program learning objectives | teachinglearning.artsci@utoronto.ca |
| Custom assets for print or digital upload to courses adding visual impact to course materials | ||
| Leganto (Library Reading List) | A collaborative annotation tool offered by the U of T Libraries as part of their Library Reading List service. Leganto allows social annotation on content from the U of T Libraries system. | Library Reading List Resources and Support |
| Microsoft 365 | The Microsoft Office suite (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, etc.) | ITS M365 Support Resources |
| Course Content Storage Solutions: OneDrive/Stream | ||
| teachinglearning.artsci@utoronto.ca | ||
| MyMedia | U of T’s video-hosting service | MyMedia Help Resources |
| Course Content Storage Solutions: MyMedia | ||
| teachinglearning.artsci@utoronto.ca | ||
| peerScholar | Advanced peer review platform that goes well beyond the built-in Quercus peer-review function. | peerScholar: CTSI Tool Guide |
| peerScholar: Vendor Documentation | ||
| Piazza | A community-edited discussion forum organized around a Q&A model. Features collaborative editing, optional anonymity and LaTeX, code and tagging functions. | Piazza: CTSI Tool Guide |
| Piazza: Vendor Documentation | ||
| Quercus | U of T's learning management system. Quercus is the main platform to host your course presence, distribute and collect assignments and materials and conduct online quizzes and tests. | A&S Quercus Support Resources |
| teachinglearning.artsci@utoronto.ca | ||
| TeamUP | Geared to in-person teaching and allows teams of students to answer on-screen questions using their phones after collaboratively arriving at an answer using a gamified interface. | TeamUP: CTSI Tool Guide |
| Video and Audio Production | End-to-end production services for instructors and administrative staff including ideation, storyboarding, recording, editing and motion graphics through the Digital Teaching & Learning Studio | A&S Digital Teaching & Learning Studio |
| Full suite of services for course introduction videos, course trailers, lectures, technical demonstrations, lab process videos and any other ideas for recorded content | ||
| Stand-alone podcasting station with two microphones for recording interviews, voiceovers and podcasts | teachinglearning.artsci@utoronto.ca | |
| Zoom | U of T's official web conferencing and online teaching platform | A&S Zoom Support Resources |
| teachinglearning.artsci@utoronto.ca |