Microsoft Immersive Reader is designed to enhance reading comprehension and accessibility within Microsoft applications, including Word, OneNote, Outlook, Microsoft Teams, and more. Immersive Reader supports language learners and...
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Microsoft Teams is a chat-based collaborative work space that brings together people, content, and conversations. MS Teams Meetings can be used to hold classes or record webinars for both synchronous and asynchronous online...
Microsoft Teams Meetings sessions can be used for online/remote course delivery. This allows instructors to quickly enable remote learning for students by creating an audio or video meeting. Advantages of using MS Teams...
MyMedia, maintained by the University of Toronto Library, is a service that can host your videos. Videos can be shared through a link or embed code without needing to add a list of approved viewers, or sharing the video with the...
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...
The peerScholar peer assessment tool enables students to provide constructive feedback on each others’ work and facilitates critical reflection on how they might improve their own work. peerScholar targets meta-cognitive...
PeppeR is an online discussion tool where students can engage in in-depth inquiry supportive of their efforts to share information, identify key ideas, and progressively work to improve those ideas.
Piazza is a platform for instructors to efficiently manage class Q&A. Students can post questions and collaborate to edit responses to these questions. Instructors can also answer questions, endorse student answers, and edit or...
The University’s Plagiarism Detection Tool is an electronic resource that assists with detecting textual similarities between compared works. Instructors must exercise their independent professional judgment in looking at the...
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...
The Quercus Accessibility Checker, integrated within the Quercus (Canvas) Learning Management System, offers several key features to help ensure content is accessible to all users by scanning course content for accessibility issues, such...
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...