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...
Tool Guides
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.
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...
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 Library Reading List application manages course reserves material reserved through the University of Toronto Library’s Course Reserve and Syllabus Service System. This tool creates a single list of all the course materials you...
Instructors can download a class list for their administrative records. This will also allow them to manage grades offline.
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...
The Microsoft Copilot service is currently available to the public, but the public version does not have full privacy and data protections; instead, the University has access to an enterprise edition, which does conform to the University’s...
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...
Access Pearson is an optional integration in Quercus that provides instructors and students with access to course materials and learning activities developed by Pearson.
“MyLab and Mastering” and “Revel” are...
UT Optical Mark Recognition (OMR) Grade Upload tool is used to upload grades produced from optical mark recognition software such as Remark Office and OpScan in to the Quercus Gradebook.
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...