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 services that are meant explicitly for media, and we are actively looking at other solutions as well.

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Federated Academic Digital Imaging System (FADIS)
Video Streaming Services
TSpace
OneDrive in Microsoft Office 365

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.

Video Streaming Services

Download the Streaming Tools Comparison Chart .pdf

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.

MS Stream

Faculty and staff can use Stream to upload and share video content, students can view videos but cannot upload and share. When logged into Office 365, faculty and staff will find Stream in the suite of available apps. Please visit the Stream support site for more information.

YouTube

Not supported at U of T. Please see the Tools Beyond Quercus resource for more information.

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.

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.

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