Discovery Commons

Conversion of media files (audio, video) from one format to another.

The Faculty’s major learner information systems—MedSIS (UME), POWER (PGME) and GradSIS (Graduate Studies)—were all developed in partnership with and are supported by Knowledge4You.

Discovery Commons has bookable meeting room facilities, some equipped with laptops and internet access.

The University of Toronto has negotiated a Microsoft Enrollment for Education Solutions (ESS) Program at no charge for all faculty and staff.

The MADLab is a student-centric facility, at the heart of the Downtown campus, devoted to accelerating mobile software development at UofT.

Discovery Commons has a limited number of laptops which are available for short-term, on-campus rental for emergencies, visiting staff, lectures, meetings and conferences.

Help users encrypt a mobile device to protect the data on it from unauthorized access.

Discovery Commons offers a mobile device integration service which consists of recommending and supporting the operating systems for mobile devices (smartphones and tablets) which provide the features necessary to meet security and functionality standards currently in effect at Faculty of Medicine.

Network connectivity support includes connecting computers to the University’s network (within Faculty-managed buildings and spaces), as well as IP address assignment and basic infrastructure (switch, firewall) management.

The Faculty’s network file server provides individuals (the M: drive) and departments (the N: drive) with a business-class secure central repository located on Faculty’s local area network, or LAN.