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The CCDMD’s WeBWorK server gives you access to a new library of 450 English-language math problems (English Problem Library). The new problems were developed by Heritage College math teachers Marie‑Claude Bonneau and Robert Hart. This library was added to the existing 3,046 French-language problems. The problems are generally diversified [...]

The Collegial Centre for Educational Materials Development (CCDMD) revealed the names of the winners in the 9th World of Images Intercollegiate Photo Contest during an online event on June 3. Ten students shared scholarships worth a total of $3,000 as well as five subscriptions to Photo Solution magazine. The CCDMD has been holding the [...]

In an effort to support the collective goal of ensuring the effective resumption of teaching activities, the Collegial Centre for Educational Materials Development (CCDMD) will help the college community to meet the challenge of continuing courses remotely. For over 25 years, the CCDMD has been producing educational resources for teachers and [...]

Teachers from the college network are invited to five virtual information sessions. Each one-hour session will focus on different CCDMD digital resources.  Several CCDMD team members will host these sessions on Zoom during the week of April 13, 2020. They will demonstrate how these valuable resources will be particularly helpful in carrying [...]

The CCDMD is pleased to present the latest version of its popular tool for creating, posting and managing online questionnaires, Netquiz Web+. The latest version of this comprehensive tool works similarly to the previous one (Netquiz Web), except for the following significant improvements: New summative section with the possibility [...]

A new version of Cantare is now available in the CCDMD catalogue. Cantare is an application that allows users to synch lyrics or captions with audio files. This tool is intended for teachers who wish to create language-learning activities by having students listen to music, or other types of audio files, with captions that appear onscreen. [...]

We are pleased to announce the 15th Francojeu des cégeps, which runs until March 31, 2020. Held in collaboration with the Office québécois de la langue française (OQLF) as part of the Francofête, the competition is exclusively for the students, teaching and non-teaching staff of the Québec college network. This year, Francojeu invites [...]

On January 15, Collège de Maisonneuve offered all its staff a lecture called “Carboneutrality 101” on issues related to the carbon cycle, carbon neutrality and the effects on our climate. The lecture was presented by Claude Villeneuve, a biologist and the director of the Carbone boréal Chaire en éco-conseil et de l’infrastructure de [...]

Updates of several teaching games are available on the CCDMD’s Amélioration du français website. Défi : Constructions fautives can be found in the Jeux pédagogiques/Vocabulaire et expressions section. This exercise detects not only common vocabulary and syntax errors (pleonasms, anglicisms, inappropriate words, etc.) but also errors [...]

The CCDMD team would like to invite teachers in the college network to its 2020 call for projects virtual information session, at 1:30 p.m. on January 16. Several members of the CCDMD staff will be there to answer questions about the call for projects: project eligibility, production process, etc. Anyone who wishes to attend the [...]