Quercus and Academic Toolbox
Quercus Updates (September 23, 2021)
This week: Plagiarism Detection Tool (Ouriginal) known issues, This Week’s Faculty Question: Is there an alternative to the UT Advanced Group Tool for getting a list of emails for the students in my course?
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Quercus Updates (September 16, 2021)
This week: Update to Assign to field (Assignments, Quizzes, and graded Discussions),This Week’s Faculty Question: How do I set up the Quercus calendar so students can easily see the monthly calendar just for my course?
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Quercus Updates (August 5, 2021)
This week: Crowdmark grading features updates,This Week’s Faculty Question: I’ve been assigned to teach a course in September 2021 but I don’t see the course on my Quercus Dashboard yet. Can you help me find my course?
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Quercus Updates (July 22, 2021)
This week: Quercus Assignments Update, This Week’s Faculty Question: I am trying to upload lecture video recordings (from last year’s BB Collaborate) to my current course. I created a module for them and managed to upload a few but now I am getting an “Error 400” message for the rest.
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Quercus Updates (July 15, 2021)
This week: Crowdmark Dashboard Update, This Week’s Faculty Question: I used the Link Validator to check all my course links and it brought up some links with the error messages. What do these messages mean? Do I need to check all these links? All the links seem to work for me!
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Quercus Updates (July 8, 2021)
This week: Latest Canvas updates, Upcoming Crowdmark maintenance, This Week’s Faculty Question: I have noticed that recordings that I have recently uploaded to MyMedia start muted by default and that I need to manually cancel muting each time I view them. Is there something that I can set so as to start them unmuted?
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Quercus Updates (June 24, 2021)
This week: Speedgrader Comment Library, Upcoming Crowdmark maintenance, This Week’s Faculty Question: I am having issues properly calculating the final grades in Quercus. I see a discrepancy between the marks that I am calculating in my own Excel spreadsheet and the final marks that are coming up in Quercus in the Total Grade calculation.
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Quercus Updates (June 17, 2021)
This week: Bb Collaborate update, This Week’s Faculty Question: Is there a setting I can select so that the students only see a letter grade until I’m ready to share the numerical grade? If that’s not possible, how can I at least make sure that they’re not assigned the highest possible grade in the category?
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Quercus Updates (June 10, 2021)
This week: Rubrics update, ePortfolios update, This Week’s Faculty Question: I saw a memo (ACT memo regarding Collaborate Recordings) that on June 30, 2021, all recordings made before May 1, 2021 using Bb Collaborate will be deleted. Is this correct? If so, what can I do to download the recordings I want to keep?
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Quercus Updates (June 3, 2021)
This week: Discussions interface update, Crowdmark’s new Sort Roster feature, This Week’s Faculty Question: I want to release the Winter 2021 final exam grades and comments back to all the students in my course for viewing. But how do I do this on Quercus where the final exam was set up as a quiz?
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Quercus Updates (May 20, 2021)
This week: Canvas Known Issue with New Quizzes, This Week’s Faculty Question: I created a group set for an assignment and set it up so that students could self sign-up for their groups. I followed all the steps outlined on the Canvas Community Guide How do I create self sign-up groups in a group set?. However, my students can’t see the +Group button that would allow them to add/join groups on Quercus as described on the student guide How do I join a group as a student?. Do I need to create the groups myself?
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Quercus Updates (May 13, 2021)
This week: Canvas Release Notes, This Week’s Faculty Question: I want to export my Quercus course so I can reuse the content in a new course next term. There are 2 […]
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