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...
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Copy Content from another Course in Quercus
Reuse existing content from one of your courses to another.
The import feature is available to Teacher, TA, Course Staff, Designer and Librarian roles.
Instructors can download a class list for their administrative records. This will also allow them to manage grades offline.
Cross-listing allows Instructors to combine the enrolments from multiple sections into a single course. Instructors who teach multiple sections of the same course (such as multiple lecture, tutorial, practicum, or lab sections) may wish to...
Instructors may want to access course data from Quercus to better understand student course interactions, the effectiveness of quiz questions or assignments, or review academic integrity related concerns. Reports can be generated...
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...
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 Redirect tool allows instructors and course staff to add custom links to the course navigation menu. The custom links can be created for external web resources or other Quercus pages. This tool will save students from having to...
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.
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...
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...
The University’s JupyterHub is an open-source, web-based platform that offers an interactive standardized Python and R computing environment without burdening users with installation and maintenance tasks. Instructors and students can work...
