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About
The Digital Media Projects (DMP) team supports faculty, staff, and graduate students (who are teaching or assisting professors) in effectively using educational technologies to enhance teaching and learning. Our mission is to empower faculty to create engaging and accessible learning experiences across traditional, blended, and online learning environments.
Our team is based within Computing and Communications Services (CCS) and is a primary resource area in the Centre for Excellence in Learning and Teaching (CELT).
Educational technology
- We support D2L Brightspace, TMU’s learning management system, along with a variety of other tools, including Stream (our video streaming and hosting platform), WordPress (our blogging platform), and a range of assessment and student engagement platforms. For a complete list of supported tools, visit the Educational Technology Toolbox.
- We maintain the Educational Technology website, which includes updating documentation and creating tutorials for various tools.
- We research and facilitate the procurement of new digital teaching and learning tools, and provide ongoing operational support of those tools. Learn more about how new tools are added.
Accessibility
- Our team’s IT Accessibility Specialist provides consultation, support, and training on everything digital accessibility related for all of TMU; ensuring all systems and websites adhere to the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines and AODA. He also chairs the campus-wide Access TMU IT Working Group.
- We also help maintain many of the resources on the Accessibility website, in collaboration with the Office of the Vice-President, Equity and Community Inclusion.
- We maintain an open source accessibility checker called Sa11y (external link) , used internally at TMU and used at various institutions abroad.
Consultation and support
- We provide consultation and support to help you integrate learning technologies into your teaching. Explore the educational technologies our team supports.
- We offer workshops throughout the year on using various educational technology tools and integrating them into your teaching, including sessions on digital accessibility.
- We’re involved in various working groups and committees on campus, such as the Access TMU IT Working Group, Generative AI Working Group, Exams Committee, Supporting Digital Learning staff group.
Our history
- The Digital Media Projects team was founded in late 1996 with funding from the Office of the Vice President, Academic, CCS, and the Rogers Communications Centre (formerly Rogers Centre).
- You can view our very first website from 1998 with the Wayback Machine! (external link)
- Our work has evolved over the years to adapt to the fast-paced changes in educational technology. Some of the services we previously offered included multimedia training and production, and web application development.
- Currently, faculty and staff can utilize the Tech for Teaching Studio within the CELT to produce high quality multimedia content.
- The Application Development & Support team in CCS can be engaged for custom web application development at TMU.
- In January 2020, the Digital Media Projects team became a primary resource within the Centre for Excellence in Learning and Teaching located in the Daphne Cockwell Complex (DCC).
Projects
Discover the projects the DMP is currently exploring, working on, and has recently completed.
