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...
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Quercus provides several built-in options for communicating with your students, including Announcements and Conversations/Inbox.
Email is another means of communicating with your students. The instructions will explain how to...
Zoom is a cloud-based video communications tool that allows you to set up virtual video and audio conferencing, webinars, live chats, screen-sharing, and other collaborative capabilities. Instructors have additional access to Zoom Cloud...
This page refers to the Zoom Quercus Integration.
Please view the Zoom page to read information on the Zoom desktop client, mobile app or web portal.
Zoom is a cloud-based video communications tool that allows you to set up virtual video...
Hypothesis is a collaborative (or social) annotation tool that allows instructors and students to annotate webpages, PDFs, videos, images, eTexts, and online articles. Instructors can integrate Hypothesis into Quercus as part of learning...
UTsend is a secure file transfer service used for sharing content with internal or external users. All files are encrypted, authenticated, and virus-scanned.
A great alternative to Google Drive or Dropbox to share files.
UTsend is a one...
Microsoft Forms is a versatile tool that can be used in various educational scenarios:
Assessments: Create quizzes and tests to evaluate student understanding and track progress.
Feedback Collection: Gather feedback from students and...
Microsoft 365, available to University of Toronto faculty, students, and staff, offers a variety of tools and applications, many of which can be used to support teaching and learning goals. These tools can enhance student...
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...
A wiki page allows a group of people to capture and share ideas. It can be used for small group or whole class collaboration per an instructor’s criteria.
An instructor can set up the desired structure ahead of time, as a...
Many instructors use rich media files (videos and pictures) as part of their teaching. While Quercus does not have the capacity to host many files, we have other institutional solutions that can provide a solution.
We recommend alternative...
iClicker (commonly called “clickers”) is a classroom response system currently supported at the University of Toronto.
iClicker Cloud works in combination with presentation software like PowerPoint or Keynote. Instructors use the software...
