hey there,

true to form, the university of toronto is as sprawling online as it is in person. there are as many separate websites related to this school as there are individual uoft buildings, and they’re just as hard to navigate.

in fact, i’m always surprised that anyone can find askastudent at all?in this mess.

however, there are a few key pages which most students go back to over and over, so i’m just gonna list them now for any first-years (or extraordinarily absent upper-years) who feel like they’re drowning out there in the academic cybersea.

1. the course calendar

this document lists courses, course descriptions, the requirements for every?subject POSt at the faculty of arts & science, and the breadth requirement each course meets. read it?a lot.

also in the calendar: degree requirements?for B.Com., H.B.A. and H.B.Sc. students.

also also in the calendar: rules and regulations (contains information about literally every administrative thing related to your academics, including but not limited to: extra courses, credit/no-credit, late withdrawal, petitions, the dean’s list, and academic standing i.e. probation and suspension stuff). this page is like your daily multivitamin of essential uoft information.

here are the course calendars for other faculties at uoft, and for the other two campuses:

• applied science and engineering
• music
• kinesiology
• utm
• utsc

2. the timetable

second only to the course calendar in usefulness, the timetable lists all the courses offered in a certain session, as well as the days/times they’re offered, and the instructor of the course. don’t be put off by the fact that it looks like it glitched out and is only showing the skeleton of its HTML code – this website is the faculty of arts and science’s?holy book. (here are utm‘s and utsc‘s timetables).

3. fees

the fees website is its own snarl of interconnected pages, so here are a few important highlights:

• the deadlines to pay the minimum payment to register
• how to pay the university
• refund schedules AND fees for 2014-2015 for every college in the faculty of arts & science

4.?student life

student life’s main page is a springboard into a host of useful departments at uoft, like accessibility services, the first nations house, and hart house. give that a quick browse for services that may be relevant to you.

and here is ulife’s main page, which lists pretty much every club, organization, committee and team you at this university. you’d be hard pressed to find nothing that piques your interest here.

good luck on your internet odyssey, my intrepid warriors.

cheers,

aska

Hey I’ve been trying to get into the uoft facebook groups lots of different times but I’m always redirected to the “enter your email and we’ll send a confirmation email” page. All my emails are re routed to this gmail account. I receive emails saying go to my mail.utoronto account to confirm my wanting to join but the inbox is always empty.

Any ideas as to whats going on?
Thanks

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hey there,

as i understand it, you have to join the central uoft facebook group before you can be allowed to join any of the smaller ones that are under its umbrella (like your graduating class group, or specific club pages, etc). that page is here. just enter your utoronto e-mail (make sure you select the right extension, either @mail.utoronto or @utoronto), click ‘Confirm e-mail,’ and then it should send a confirmation to your utoronto inbox.

if you did all that and it’s still not sending, i’d suggest calling central IT at 416-978-0299 and asking them what’s up. i don’t know who exactly runs the facebook group, but if you call them, they can likely direct you to the person who’s behind all these SHENANIGANS.

i hope you are eventually able to join the virtua party on facebook, full of people desperately trying to unload last year’s textbooks and complaining about the distance between two of their classes.

no really, this messing around with e-mail and tech support will eventually be worth it – just don’t go on facebook during class. i’ll come over to wherever your lecture is and swat you over the head with a newspaper if you do. trust.

have a happy Monday!

aska

Hello,

I’m planning to go to UC. Do you know if students can get their own wifi plans in a (dormitory style) residence? Do you know anyone who does? I am a computer engineering student and have a couple projects that require high bandwidth and data usage.

Thanks,
Adrian

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Hi Adrian,

So I don’t know about getting your own plan, nor do I know anyone who one, but omg, I’ve been trying to research your question for ages.

Then I just gave up and asked someone from engineering for help.

Basically, after chatting with that person and then two other engis, you’ll be happy to hear that there won’t be any need for your internet plan. No one’s ever had a problem with a lack of data or bandwith, so what the university supplies for you should suffice.

Likewise, if you’re in engineering, you actually get access to a lot of buildings at all hours including the science hotspot Bahen Centre that has the engi lounge or whatever it is where you can find a bunch of computers and tired stressed students. So if you accidentally use up what the university allows you from too much streaming, you can always go there. 🙂

Cheers!

aska

Hi Aska,
I got this e-mail and was sketched out. I tried to Google what it was before clicking it, with no success. So I clicked it and got a sketchy website.
What is it? A scam? It was sent to my uoft email!

<insert a forwarded email here>

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spam?

Hi Aska,
Will I still have access to my utoronto email account after I graduate or should I give all my school friends my hotmail address??
Thanks.

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Hasn’t this question been answered already? Anyway, yes, your utoronto email will still be around after you graduate… that is, unless the world ends or something. But in that case, I think you PROBABLY wouldn’t need an email account.

And everybody knows that gmail and even yahoo mail are miles ahead of hotmail. Do yourself a favor and switch.

Does University of Toronto have facebook?