Quercus (Canvas) Portfolios can be used for collecting, organizing, and sharing evidence of learning. Instructors can use it to create Evaluation Portfolios for structured assessment or Showcase Portfolios to curate and share work more...
Tool Guides
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...
Cogniti enables the authoring of generative AI virtual tutors tailored for students to engage with course content and facilitate their learning. Cogniti incorporates key educational features designed for instructors to gain insight into...
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...
iClicker (commonly called “clickers”) is a classroom response system currently supported at the University of Toronto. iClickers are a great way to increase student engagement, especially in large classes, and provide immediate feedback...
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...
This section is for instructors currently using Quizzical who need to access or export existing course content.
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...
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...
Quizzes in Quercus are assignments that can be used to challenge student understanding and assess comprehension of course material. The quiz tool is used to create and administer online quizzes and surveys. Quizzes can also be used to...