Academic Toolbox for 2025-2026

Available in PDF Format: Academic Toolbox Categories and Tools 25-26

Visit the following links to get started with the U of T Academic Toolbox:

All tools listed in this guide are Quercus-integrated unless indicated with an asterisk (*).

Build Your Course

Quercus facilitates building, organizing, and maintaining your course and making your course materials available to students so they can access them with ease. A well-organized and structured course supports students in their learning journey so they can spend their time learning the materials rather than trying to find the materials.

Course Administration

Content Development

Generative AI

Multimedia Content

Library and Publisher Apps

Discipline-Specific Apps

Connect With Students

Quercus and educational technologies for connecting, communicating, and collaborating with your students foster community in the learning environment. An environment that promotes connection, communication, and collaboration empowers students and helps them know they belong.

Communication Tools

Collaborative (or Collaboration) Tools

Discussion Tools

Student Response Tools

Online Meeting Tools

Assess Learning

Quercus and educational technologies for assessing student work and providing feedback facilitate accepting submissions, offering action-oriented feedback, and assigning and calculating grades. Timely action-oriented feedback throughout the term helps students prepare for assessments and attain the learning outcomes.

Assignments, Quizzes, and Tests

Group and Peer Assessment

Feedback and Grading

Design for Inclusion

Quercus and educational technologies for designing and fostering accessible and inclusive teaching and learning reduce learning barriers and welcome learner variability. Accessible and inclusive course designs acknowledge the impact of identity on student learning and promote equity, diversity, inclusion, accessibility, and belonging.

Accessibility Checkers

Multimodal Engagement

Analyze Engagement

Quercus and educational technologies for analyzing teaching and learning data and insights facilitate pedagogical reflections, improvements, and innovations. Teaching and learning data and insights help unpack how students are progressing through a course—what content they are engaging with, what concepts they are struggling with, and insights into how learner variability intersects with course design.

Learning Progress

Learning Analytics

Student Feedback and Course Evaluations