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University of Toronto students, faculty, and staff have access to Office 365, which includes Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, and OneNote. Access Office 365 by clicking on the waffle icon in the top-left corner of your online Outlook/UTmai…
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ResourcesMultimedia Learning Principles and Tips
Multimedia: Use words and pictures rather than just words
Pre-training: Describe names and characteristics of key elements before lesson
Coherence: Remove excess material
Signaling: Highlight essentia…
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ResourcesWhat is Quercus?
Quercus (Canvas) is the University of Toronto’s academic toolbox. Quercus offers an advanced content design, a variety of student communication tools, easy-to-use course administration features and mobile applications for a…
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ResourcesIt is no secret that online classes differ from those with face-to-face instruction. Even the most well-designed and well-taught online courses will require students to develop a slightly different set of competencies. Students that thrive …
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ResourcesRepresentation Matters
Why is representation important?
Representation refers to the basic idea that if students see people like them reflected in course materials, they are more likely to identify with and be able to imagine themselves as …
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ResourcesAssessment writing can be a very difficult thing. Many times we have certain expectations and presumptions about our assessments. Moreover, there seems to be a multitude of ways to create and administer an assessment. This resource is aimed…
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ResourcesAs TAs, the task of preparing students to write examinations often falls on our shoulders. Preparing a successful exam review takes time and preparation on your part. You should view exam preparation as a process with several steps. Below a…
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ResourcesPurpose
Low stakes writing exercises can be used to get the class thinking, to open the class, as here, and to make connections between previous learning and the new day’s activity. Low-stakes writing exercises are not graded – rather, they…
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ResourcesBelow is a compilation of some of the best advice from teaching-award winning professors that they give to their TAs. The more time you spend (or have spent) crafting your teaching, the deeper and more diverse your interpretation of this ad…
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ResourcesCommunity building activities are extremely useful in breaking down barriers between students in order to build a sense of community and facilitate class participation. They are particularly important if you plan to have your students inter…
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ResourcesWhy Ask Questions?
Asking and answering questions is a key ingredient in the learning process and in effective teaching. Using a variety of questions in the classroom can serve many different purposes — they can be used to:
diagnose studen…
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ResourcesWhat Does It Mean to Facilitate for Equity?
Facilitating for equity means that we pay attention to historic and contemporary experiences of marginalization and how they manifest in our classrooms, and we work to actively combat patterns whe…
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