Quercus and Academic Toolbox

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Quercus Updates (October 2022)

October 27, 2022

This update: Schedule Page Publication, Enhanced Gradebook Filters (Preview)

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Register now for upcoming CRT Vendor Demos

October 26, 2022

Academic, Research, & Collaboration (ARC) Technologies ARC (formerly Academic and Collaborative Technologies(ACT)) has announced Classroom Response Tool (CRT) vendor demonstrations!

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Quercus Updates (August 2022)

August 27, 2022

This update: Quercus Rich Content Editor & Gradebook Updates and Crowdmark Randomized Questions

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Quercus Updates (April 2022)

April 30, 2022

This update: Assignment Due Dates and Times

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What are your thoughts on online grading tools?

March 29, 2022

Submit your feedback on requirements for an online grading tool (think solutions like Crowdmark or Gradescope).

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What are your thoughts on collaborative annotation?

March 1, 2022

Submit your feedback on requirements for a collaborative annotation tool!

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What are your thoughts on classroom response tools (CRT)?

March 1, 2022

Submit your feedback on requirements for a classroom response tool!

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Calling Discussion Board/Q&A tool users!

February 14, 2022

UofT is currently in a procurement process to select the instutional discussion board/Question and Answer (Q&A) tool that will be licensed by the University. ACT, the group running the procurement process, are looking for your thoughts and feedback.

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Quercus Updates (January 2022)

January 21, 2022

This week’s Canvas Updates: Gradebook & SpeedGrader. This Week’s Faculty Question: We have been recording our Zoom lectures and saving the recordings to the Zoom cloud.

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Quercus Updates (December 2021)

December 9, 2021

This week: Canvas Updates, This Week’s Faculty Question: I created manual sections in my Quercus course and now my student list is not updating properly from ACORN.

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Quercus Updates (November 11, 2021)

November 11, 2021

This week: Canvas Profiles Reporting Interface, Crowdmark Download Text Responses, This Week’s Faculty Question: How can I invite a guest speaker from another University to my Zoom lecture?

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Quercus Updates (November 4, 2021)

November 4, 2021

This week: Canvas updates, This Week’s Faculty Question: I used the Copy to function to send a quiz from my 2020 course to my 2021 course, but when I open the copied Quiz it has no questions in it.

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