Tool Guides
Gradescope is a collaborative online platform for exam administration, grading, data recording and analysis, returning exams and handling regrade requests, and data visualizations of student performance. Contact your divisional...
Proctortrack offers an online proctoring service to support the testing process for students who are completing exams online and from a distance. In their live proctoring service (ProctorLive), a professional proctor observes the entire...
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...
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.
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...
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...
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...
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...
Team Up! is a web-based group assessment tool made to encourage group/team work, peer teaching, engagement with course materials, and active learning.
The assessment tool is designed to make students work together to reach a...
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...