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Information for Blended and Fully-Distance Courses at OISE

This site provides students and instructors with information about online learning and web-based distance education at OISE. With over 500 fully or partially online course offerings annually, OISE prides itself in the use of a range of collaborative technologies.

Blackboard down for maintenance - Friday May 11th and Saturday May 12th.

The dates are confirmed for a minor upgrade of the UofT Blackboard Learning Portal. Blackboard will be completely unavailable from May 11th through the 12th.

Student eMail at U of T is changing!
- Fall 2011 students & 2012 students should already be on the new UTMail+ system.
- Students currently using UTORmail should upgrade. June 1, 2012 is the deadline.
More information on UTmail+

Headlines!

New for April 2012 - the Blackboard Mobile Learn app enables students to receive course notifications and updates to course content from their mobile device. The app can be used with both wifi and cellular networks.

While Mobile Learn is not intended to replace the full browser-based interface to the Blackboard Learning Portal, the app does provide quick access to course Announcements, Grades, and contribute entries to Blogs, Discussion forums and Journals. Available on: iPhone / iPod Touch, iPad, Android devices, Blackberry (coming soon). Just search for "Blackboard" on your local app store.

Instructors

End of Semester Course Reminders

Remember, it is always good practice to download and save a backup copy of your Blackboard Portal course information, including any Grade Centre data you may have entered.

1. DOWNLOAD a copy of Grade Center
2. ARCHIVE and download a copy of your course

UofT Blackboard Portal - Getting Started

Find out more about how to get up and running with your course. in the UofT Blackboard Portal environment.

WebKF2 Replaced

As WebKF comes to a close, we recommend all instructors archive all relevant course material for future courses in the UofT Blackboard Portal and Connect 2 Create (C2C), which is WebKF's replacement. Access to previous courses will no longer be available after 2011.

Students

New student email: UTmail+

If you have an old UTORmail account, you should upgrade. June 1, 2012 is the deadline. Most new 2011-2012 students will already be on the new UTMail+ system. Current University of Toronto students with UTORmail accounts are eligible to enrol for the new UTmail+ service. With UTmail+, you get 10 GB of email storage, 7 GB of file storage, Microsoft® Office Web Applications for document sharing, instant messaging with your peers and more!.
More information on UTmail+

Uof T Blackboard Portal - access your courses online

Students - looking for assistance using the Blackboard system? Now you can find more help on the Blackboard Toolbox page, including some short online video tutorials.

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