Quercus (Canvas) Portfolios can be used for collecting, organizing, and sharing evidence of learning. Instructors can use it to create Evaluation Portfolios for structured assessment or Showcase Portfolios to curate and share work more...
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Rubrics can be used for increasing grading efficiency, improving students’ understanding of expectations, and monitoring performance. Once you create a rubric, the rubric is saved in your course for future use.
You can add the rubric to...
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...
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...
Cengage MindTap is an optional integration in Quercus.
Cengage MindTap provides direct single sign-on access to Cengage online content directly from a Quercus course.
Quercus is available as a mobile application by searching your device’s app store for “Canvas”.
The “Canvas by Instructure” mobile app allows instructors and students to conveniently access their course...
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 notification settings to...
Cogniti enables the authoring of generative AI virtual chatbots tailored for students to engage with course content and facilitate their learning. Cogniti incorporates key educational features designed for instructors to gain insight into...
McGraw-Hill Connect is an optional integration in Quercus, that provides instructors and students with access to course materials and learning activities developed by McGraw-Hill.
MarkUs is a web application for the submission and grading of student programming assignments. The primary purpose of MarkUs is to provide TAs with simple tools that will help them to give high quality feedback to students. MarkUs also...
The Opencast Content Capture System (OCCS) allows for lectures to be recorded live within a classroom and stored, edited and shared within a Quercus course.
Opencast software is for automated content capture, processing, managing, and...
