Teaching Academy

A student guide to using Piazza.

Step-by-step instructions for setting up Piazza for your course.

A student guide to submitting an assignment using Turnitin.

This page explains some of the common terms used in online marking.

This article offers a comparison between Blackboard assignments and Turnitin assignments, and explains the common features and considerations that might influence the choice of tool.

Turnitin and the Blackboard Assignment tool can be set up to allow any file type. However, only supported file types can be checked for similarity or graded online. Read more about supported files here.

This video details the process of setting up an individual (as opposed to group) assignment in Blackboard.

This video shows the step-by-step process of creating a group assignment in Blackboard.

This short video comes from James Brooks (Faculty of Science and Engineering Academic Lead for Pedagogy) who will discuss the structure of online courses.

In the first in a series of weekly videos Associate Vice-Dean Steve Pettifer discusses the various terms and concepts associated with Blended Learning.