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Remote teaching resources

March 16, 2020 by

The following page has a comprehensive guide as to how to continue your classes online:

https://q.utoronto.ca/courses/85981/pages/keep-teaching

A few notes regarding meetings via MS Teams:

  1. If you type in an email address and it does not show up in a drop-down (i.e. it’s underlined in red) you can still leave it on the list of emails and it will accept it and send an email to that recipient.
  2. If you have a list of emails in a text file, one email per line, you can copy and paste the whole thing into the Attendees field of an Outlook meeting. This also works if you have the emails in an Excel column, one email per line.
  3. Perhaps the simplest thing is to create the meeting and just invite yourself. You can then share the link which is emailed to you with whomever you want. For example, if you have a course web page you can just schedule all the classes, invite yourself to each, and then just post the list of links on the web page indicating when they should be clicked on e.g. “Class for Monday March 24, 10am: https://path.of.url”.
Filed Under: Information

“mutt” email client updated on coxeter

April 12, 2019 by

The “mutt” email client has been updated on coxeter, from version 1.5.20 to version 1.11.4. Please revise your “.muttrc” file for any changes, the man page for which can be found on coxeter at:

/usr/local/software/mutt-1.11.4/share/man/txt/muttrc.txt

The old version is still available by running “/usr/bin/mutt”.

Filed Under: software, updates

Power outage at Bahen

April 4, 2019 by

At approximately 19:30 on Thursday April 4th there was an extensive power outage across campus which also affected the Bahen building. Power to Bahen returned at approximately 20:15, and efforts to restart the computer systems at the Mathematics Department commenced at 20:30. All systems were back online by 22:15.

Filed Under: Information, Reboots

Server updates at 4:00pm on Thursday April 23, 2015

April 22, 2015 by

The departmental servers coxeter, sphere, and the web, share, ptr, and blog/wiki servers will have software updates applied on Thursday afternoon, Apr 23, 2015 starting at 4:00pm which will require rebooting. Since some updates will be applied while the servers are still up there may be some temporary issues with some software. We hope that any such issues will be minor and by doing most of the upgrading before bringing systems down the shorter downtime will be worth the potential minor problems. Please restart any programs if you observe problems during the upgrades (and please let us know at requests@math.toronto.edu, so we can investigate). We expect the systems to be back up by 5:00pm.

Filed Under: Reboots, updates