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There are three 1-hour lectures each week, starting 11am Monday, 9am Tues, and 9am Thursday.
Due to the pandemic, Tues. and Thurs. will always be pre-recorded, so you can watch them at your pace or preferred time-of-day. Monday's lecture will be either pre-recorded or given remotely using video-conferencing, depending on, and responding to, student needs and interests. Additional "office hours" can be scheduled.
Our preferred video-conferencing program is Jitsi, which is free open-source. We try to support the open-source community whenever possible.
We'll begin by using http://meet.jit.si/ECE516/
Regarding quality, reliability, ease-of-use, etc., we rank Jitsi first, Bb Collaborate is our second choice, and Zoom is our third (last) choice.
The class will begin Monday January 11th, at 11am, on http://meet.jit.si/ECE516/
Due to the pandemic, there is a slight modification to the University of Toronto Engineering winter timetable: ECE516H1S LEC0101 2021/01/11 Mon 11:00 12:00 ECE516H1S PRA0101 2021/01/11 Mon 12:00 15:00 ECE516H1S LEC0101 2021/01/12 Tue 09:00 10:00 ECE516H1S LEC0101 2021/01/14 Thu 09:00 10:00 Due to the pandemic, lectures will be posted online as videos, and we will reserve Monday's time 11am to 12noon slot as an online meetup initially. Once we get going, if attendance is low, we may migrate Monday's lecture to pre-recorded as well (like Tue and Thu lectures), or we may switch back-and-forth depending on student needs and interests. Labs will be online as well.Labs begin starting 2021jan25 (no labs 1st and 2nd week), as indicated by curly brace bracket parentheses on the Mondays indicated below:
mann@eyetap:/mann/a/a/htdocs/ece516$ cal
2021
January February March
Su Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa Su Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa Su Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa
1 2 1 2 3 4 5 6 {1} 2 3 4 5 6
3 4 5 6 7 8 9 7 {8} 9 10 11 12 13 7 8 9 10 11 12 13
10 11 12 13 14 15 16 14 reading week 20 14{15} 16 17 18 19 20
17 18 19 20 21 22 23 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 21 22 23 24 25 26 27
24{25}26 27 28 29 30 28 28{29}30 31
31
April
Su Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa
1 2 3
4 5 6 7 8 9 10
11 12 13 14 15 16 17
Final Exam is pending, and will depend on the state of the pandemic, and Departmental decisions regarding the final form of evaluation.
The week of April 12th is our last week of classes (April 16 = last day of UofT engineering)
There are 5 labs, and they occur on these dates in 2021:
Jan 25; Feb 8; Mar 1, 15, 29.