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...
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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...
The Rich Content editor Icon Maker allows instructors to create simple icons for their courses.
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.
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...
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...
