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Quercus Notifications
  Canvas notifications is an automatic way to stay on top of activity in your courses as well as contributing to communication with your students. Individual users have the ability to customize their Quercus 

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Tools Beyond Quercus
If an instructor wishes to use social media, third party and/or cloud-based technologies to enhance a course, what steps can be taken to reduce risk and ensure the security of student data? Full reliance on a third-party service that is not…

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Quercus Rich Content Editor
The Rich Content Editor (RCE) is the editor used in Quercus that allows you to enter text, links, im

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Quercus Quizzes
Quizzes in Quercus are assignments that can be used to challenge student understanding and assess comprehension

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Multiple Choice Question and Quiz Tips
This information is also available to download as a printable pdf:   Multiple-Choice-Question-and-Quiz-Tips.pdf Vocabulary Multiple choice questions consist of a stem or question, and alternatives or options including the correct respo…

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Quercus Course Analytics
  Quercus Course Analytics provides individual and comparative data regarding student activities in the Quercus course.  It can help instructors to Identify grade patterns (e.g., lowest, highest, average, median

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Quercus Modules and Pages
  Quercus course content can be presented in two ways: Pages and Modules. Modules can link to Pages, and Pages can link to Modules. Modules are a way to organize course content. Pages give flex

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Quercus How to Add People
  Instructors may wish to add TEACHING ASSISTANTS or other individuals to their Quercus course. Quercus allows you to select from a number of  course roll types, each with different levels of access.   Co

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Quercus Groups
  Groups can be used used to form smaller groups within a class to facilitate collaboration on group ass

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Quercus Gradebook
  The Gradebook helps instructors enter, view, filter, and distribute grad

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Quercus Download Student Emails
  Quercus provides several built-in options for communicating with your students, including 

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Quercus Discussions
  Online discussion with and between students in a course can be a very powerful and effective teaching tool. Quercus Discussions can be used to support online (asynchronous) discussions. Instructors can create prompts for st

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Institutional Resources 

Undergraduate Research Hub: a resource for faculty, librarians, staff and students to help them navigate undergraduate research at U of T. For faculty, topics include recruitment, management of student researchers, funding opportunities and opportunities to support students in research.

Experiential Learning Hub: a resource for faculty, librarians, staff and students to help them navigate experiential learning at U of T. It shares a typology for the different types of EL found at U of T along with resources for faculty, staff and librarians as they plan and implement an EL initiative.

Folio: is a new system that helps students elevate their University of Toronto experience; from exciting events and enriching clubs to personalized peer mentorship, supports to enhance their academic journey and experiential learning programs. Students are able to explore activities that align with their skills and interests, and seamlessly track their achievements via their Co-Curricular Record.

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