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...
Tool Guides
Microsoft Clipchamp is a video playback and editing tool built into the Microsoft 365 environment.
It offers a range of features, including drag-and-drop editing, customizable templates, and AI-powered tools for tasks like...
Microsoft 365, available to University of Toronto faculty, students, and staff, offers a variety of tools and applications, many of which can be used to support teaching and learning goals. These tools can enhance student...
Microsoft’s Accessibility Checker is a tool available in various Microsoft 365 apps like Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, and OneNote. It helps ensure that your documents are accessible to people with disabilities by identifying...
Microsoft Immersive Reader is designed to enhance reading comprehension and accessibility within Microsoft applications, including Word, OneNote, Outlook, Microsoft Teams, and more. Immersive Reader supports language learners and...
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...
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 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 Rich Content editor Icon Maker allows instructors to create simple icons for their courses.
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...
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...
