Groups can be used used to form smaller groups within a class to facilitate collaboration on group assignments, wiki pages, discussions and any activity that would benefit from having a smaller group of participants.
Groups can also...
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The Gradebook helps instructors enter, view, filter, and distribute grades for students.
Depending on the Grade display type, grades for each assignment can be viewed as points, percentage, complete or incomplete, GPA scale, or...
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 student...
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. Course roles include: student,...
The Outcomes tool allows instructors to input learning outcomes directly in their Quercus course and map these outcomes to course assessments.
MasteryPaths in an option that can be enabled in Quercus. It allows instructors to customize or differentiate learning based on student performance. Instructors identify different activities for each learning path to help students...
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 flexibility on how to display course...
Quizzes in Quercus are assignments that can be used to challenge student understanding and assess comprehension of course material. The quiz tool is used to create and administer online quizzes and surveys. Quizzes can also be used to...
The Redirect tool allows instructors and course staff to add custom links to the course navigation menu. The custom links can be created for external web resources or other Quercus pages. This tool will save students from having to...
The Rich Content Editor (RCE) is the editor used in Quercus that allows you to enter text, links, images, files, and other forms of content.
The Rich Content Editor can be used...
A Sandbox course is a space created for an individual instructor to experiment with Quercus, the Canvas-based teaching and learning environment.
This Quercus course is setup with an enrolment of 1, yourself, so you are free to experiment...
Quercus Assignments can be created to collect student work online (or on paper) and provide students with grades and feedback. Assignments can also be created to add columns in the Gradebook to enter grades for no-submission activities...