Despite COVID-19’s significant challenges, Information Technology Services (ITS) , in partnership with your faculty IT units, was able to embrace the opportunity to drive and deliver transformative work needed to provide technology-enabled services and support University-wide throughout 2020.

Now, University of Toronto (U of T) staff and faculty can look back on and review this progress and other updates in the IT@UofT Strategic Plan Annual Report (2020), released by ITS on Nov. 26. The report highlights — selected from more than 300 initiatives currently in progress —align with the strategic plan thematic pillars: People, Solutions and Collaboration.

Quick facts:

• Quercus help tickets since March 2020 increased by 104 per cent over the same period last year.
• SharePoint site creation was up 75 per cent in 2020 vs. 2019.
• MS Teams creation volume since March 2020 increased by approximately 400 per cent over previous levels.
• Starting in March 2020, the number of virtual Microsoft Teams meetings dramatically increased to 26,364, up from 973 the previous month. In October 2020, that number reached nearly 100,000.

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