Dear Humber staff,

Last week, the Ontario government has enacted a province-wide shutdown which began over the weekend and will last for a period of at least four weeks.

Teaching and learning at Humber remains unchanged and will continue as scheduled with the current protocols in place.

During this period, staff on campus must be limited to only those necessary for the delivery of in-person learning and campus operations.

For those working on campus, we wanted to take this opportunity to remind you of the health and safety protocols that we have in place and ask for your continued cooperation in helping to make our campuses as safe as possible.

Health and safety measures include: 

• Masks or face coverings are mandatory on campus. Exceptions include staff in personal workspaces in which 6 feet/2 metres of physical distancing is possible, or those with a medical exemption. Mask exemptions necessitating accommodations will require verification or medical documentation. This will help determine appropriate accommodation measures specific to the individual. Please use this resource for how to wear a mask safely.
• Physical distancing is to be maintained as much as possible, particularly as cases of variants of concern increase in the community. Where physical distancing is not possible, additional health and safety protocols will be introduced.
• Screening protocol in place each time learners and employees access facilities.
• Required health and safety training and orientation.
• Reduced class sizes based on required class size caps and physical distancing.

In addition to the measures outlined above, staff and students on campus are asked to practice proper, regular hand hygiene by washing their hands and/or using hand sanitizer.

You can find information on how and when to report COVID-19 here. Remember that if you have COVID-19 symptoms, are feeling unwell or have been in contact with someone who has tested positive for COVID-19, contact the COVID Reporting Health Team at covidreporting@humber.ca or 416.675.5007.

If any of these apply to your situation, do not come to campus until you have heard back from the COVID Reporting Health Team.  

For the latest information, visit humber.ca/updates.  

As health and safety is a shared responsibility, we appreciate your ongoing support and commitment to keeping our community safe.  

Take care and be well,

Lori Diduch 
Vice-President, Human Resources and Organizational Effectiveness

There are so many advantages to using OneDrive over the H-Drive.

Availability: Anywhere, anyhow – on your laptop, a public computer, or your mobile. As long as you have a connection to the internet, you have access to your files.

Space: Staff and students are provisioned with 500 mb of H-Drive space and 1 tb of OneDrive space – that’s 1,000,000 mb!

Collaboration: OneDrive allows a better process for sharing a document.

Learn the basics of a variety of Microsoft 365 apps and WebEx by signing up to 1:1 Virtual Coaching at its.humber.ca/coaching.

Humber College has a Professional Development Policy provision that awards scholarships for post-secondary, degree and graduate programs. All full-time (admin, support, academic) employees are eligible to apply for a scholarship up to 50 per cent of their annual tuition fees, up to a maximum of $5,000 per year. The scholarship award is available for a program for up to four (4) years in duration.

The application deadline is May 31, 2021. All full-time employees interested in applying can find more details on the application process and forms in the links below:

• GAP Call for Applications
• GAP Overview
• GAP Application Steps

Visit the HROE Learning and Development site for details on all Professional Development offerings.

Questions? Please email us at oe@humber.ca.

Testing Services is pleased to announce that we will be open over the final exam period for Guelph-Humber learners from April 15 to 27, 2021 and for Humber learners from April 26 to May 5, 2021 from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.

We are opening with the understanding that a majority of the assessment delivery for courses will continue to support learners and provide testing, which was done over the Winter 2021 midterm period. However, we understand that the accommodation needs of some learners cannot be met in this manner, and it is in these unique circumstances that we will focus on during this period. Those unique accommodations include, but are not limited to:

• Supervising extra breaks
• Invigilation conflicts with assistive technology needs
• Paper based examinations
• Environmental/space considerations
• Computer assisted testing which is not possible at a learner’s home
• Require a reader/scribe

We will continue to be in compliance with public health guidelines and will operate with a maximum capacity of 10 persons in our spaces at any given time, including staff. Therefore, we will be able to serve no more than seven (7) learners at both centres at any given time.

The request to write in Testing Services must be done in consultation with the learner’s Accessibility Consultant, professor, and/or Associate Dean/ Program Head prior to submitting the test to Testing Services in sufficient time.

We require faculty to provide submissions to us using the Blackboard Test Referral Form or through the Online Test Submission portal through Register Blast. We will not be accepting any physical test submissions at either centre nor will we be allowing faculty to pick up completed tests during this time.  

Faculty that have registered with our Online Submission Service will have any completed exams returned to them via their Humber or UGH email addresses. Remote invigilation is also available through the use of MS Teams or another platform, if necessary.

Any questions regarding our Online Test Submission service or remote invigilation can be forwarded to us by email at testingservicesnorth@humber.ca or testingserviceslake@humber.ca.

In order to avoid any delays and mitigate any barriers to the test process, we ask that faculty submit their final exams to Testing Services as per the following deadlines:

Learners that will be completing their final exams at Testing Services will be required to schedule an appointment in advance on our website. As we did during the winter midterm exam period, we will not be able to accommodate walk-ins during this time.

For booking at North Testing Services, please have students click here, and for Lakeshore Testing Services click here.

Learners are asked to bring only the supplies or items that they need to complete testing and adhere to all physical distancing and COVID-19 protocols as required to maintain a safe testing environment for all.

We look forward to supporting our learners during this time. 

Shane Bentham
Manager, Testing and Integrated Services