Tool Guides

  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...

  Instructors may wish to add TEACHING ASSISTANTS or other individuals to their Quercus course. Quercus allows you to select from a number of  course roll types, each with different levels of access.   Course roles include: student,...

  Groups can be used used to form smaller groups within a class to facilitate collaboration on group assignments, wiki pages, discussions and any activity that would benefit from having a smaller group of participants. Groups can also...

  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...

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...