Quercus Rich Media Files – Videos and Pictures
Many instructors use rich media files (videos and pictures) as part of their teaching. While Quercus does not have the capacity to host many files, we have other institutional solutions that can provide a solution.
The Academic Toolbox helps you...
The tools in your Quercus Academic Toolbox can assist with your course delivery by Organizing Content, helping you Connect and communicate with your students, Assessing student work and providing feedback, and allowing you to Teach from a distance.
Typical Course Format?
Most tools in the Academic Toolbox can assist in both online and face-to-face courses. Many tools can provide benefits in either synchronous or asynchronous teaching. Some tools have been primarily designed for one format or another (synchronous/asynchronous), however, may be adapted for any format depending on your pedagogical goals.
To learn more about different teaching modalities, please consult our Online Teaching & Learning page, arrange a consultation with a CTSI Teaching Liason, or contact your Divisional support representative.
Where can I get more support?
How to Get Started
We recommend alternative hosting solutions for hosting pictures and videos due to Quercus size limitations.
How to Use This Tool
Many instructors use rich media files (videos and pictures) as part of their teaching. Quercus does have some capacity to locally host such files (up to 3 gigabytes per course), however, Quercus should not serve as a media repository, because it is a specialized application suite and not a cost-affordable storage service.
Luckily, U of T provides a variety of hosting and streaming services that are meant explicitly for media, and we are actively looking at other solutions as well. For more information, download the Streaming Tools Comparison Chart.
Instructions
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Federated Academic Digital Imaging System (FADIS)
Federated Academic Digital Imaging System (FADIS)
The Federated Academic Digital Imaging System (FADIS) from U of T Libraries was originally designed to house high-resolution art and architecture images, but has expanded to serve all disciples. Images loaded into FADIS can be linked to from a Quercus course. Please visit FADIS for more information.
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Video Streaming Service - MyMedia
MyMedia
MyMedia, also from U of T Libraries, is an archival storage and streaming solution that provides an interface for uploading a wide array of video and audio file formats and for managing and sharing your media. It can be linked to from a Quercus course. Please visit MyMedia
for more information.
For support with MyMedia, please contact the Information Commons Help Desk – help.desk@utoronto.ca
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Video Streaming Service - OneDrive MS Stream
OneDrive / MS Stream
Faculty and staff can use MS Stream to share video content using your OneDrive space. When logged into Microsoft 365 OneDrive, faculty and staff will find Stream as a playback option for any videos uploaded to your OneDrive. Please visit the Microsoft Stream video hosting Tool Guide
for more information.
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Video Streaming Service - YouTube (not supported at U of T)
YouTube
Not supported at U of T. Please see the Tools Beyond Quercusresource for more information.
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TSpace
TSpace
A third option may be TSpace, a free and secure research repository established by University of Toronto Libraries to disseminate and preserve the scholarly record of the University of Toronto community. Instructors may have already curated an integrated collection that includes multi-media components, and can use TSpace to make that collection available to their students. Again, a TSpace collection can be linked to from a Quercus course. Please visit TSpace
for more information.
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OneDrive in Microsoft Office 365
OneDrive in Microsoft Office 365
Instructors may also want to leverage their personal OneDrive (part of their Office365 account) to store media files, that can be linked to from their Quercus course. Each instructor has up to 1 terabyte of storage in their OneDrive account. Please visit the OneDrive
support site for more information.
Last Modified:
5 September, 2024
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