Quercus is available as a mobile application by searching your device’s app store for “Canvas Student”
The Canvas Student mobile app allows instructors and students to conveniently access their course content,...
Tool Guides
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.
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...
The Opencast Content Capture System (OCCS) allows for lectures to be recorded live within a classroom and stored, edited and shared within a Quercus course.
Opencast software is for automated content capture, processing, managing, and...
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.
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...
Quizzical is an on-line, multiple-choice question writing and testing tool. Students are selected at random to author questions and can be required to meet criteria for taking quizzes. Student authored questions may be directed to...
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...
Microsoft Teams is a chat-based collaborative work space that brings together people, content, and conversations. MS Teams Meetings can be used to hold classes or record webinars for both synchronous and asynchronous online...
The Outcomes tool allows instructors to input learning outcomes directly in their Quercus course and map these outcomes to course assessments.
The Library Resources integration provides quick access to commonly used library links, including the library’s article and catalogue search. Request a customized course research guide by contacting your liaison librarian.
MyMedia, maintained by the University of Toronto Library, is a service that can host your videos. Videos can be shared through a link or embed code without needing to add a list of approved viewers, or sharing the video with the...
