Information Technology Services (ITS)
Academic, Research & Collaborative (ARC) technologies
Academic, Research & Collaborative (ARC) technologies is a partnership between the Office of the Chief Information Officer, Information Technology Services and the Centre for Teaching Support & Innovation (CTSI) at the University of Toronto.
ARC provides strategic, tactical and operational leadership in the development and implementation of enterprise services and systems that support the University’s academic, collaboration, communications and research missions.
ARC works with instructors, academic administrators, librarians, students and professional staff (including teaching support units, instructional technologists and divisional IT staff) to advance the University’s mission and in particular, its commitment to teaching, enhanced learning opportunities and research.
Visit the following ARC resources for further information:
- ARC website
- Quercus support resources
- MADLab and mobile at U of T
- Suggest new teaching tools
- Office 365
- ARC twitter
- ARC journal
- Quercus for students blog
- Director’s blog
- Artificial intelligence
Key responsibilities
Teaching and learning
- Quercus and Academic Toolbox (LMS)
- Course evaluation system
- Learning analytics
- Plagiarism detection
- Assessment tools
- Audience response (clickers)
- Online learning infrastructure
- Other tools (blogs, wikis, surveys, etc.)
Video-mediated communications
- Lecture and video capture
- Webinar services
- Video-conferencing
Research and web support
- Content management systems
- Custom web development
- Small application development
- Web analytics
- Web-based data collection and surveys (i.e., REDCap, MS Forms)
Mobile
- Mobile application development
- U of T’s main mobile app
- MADLab
Collaboration
- Office 365
- MS Exchange
ARC provides training and professional and faculty development for all of the above.
