Academic Toolbox for 2024-2025

Available in PDF Format: Academic Toolbox Categories and Tools 24-25

As instructors begin their planning for the 2024-2025 academic year, we wanted to give you this quick reminder of what teaching tools are available with support as part of the University’s Academic Toolbox.

Tools listed are Quercus-integrated unless indicated with an asterisk (*).

Getting Started

This section contains resources to help you get started with the Academic Toolbox, including a quick start guide for Quercus, the University’s central learning management system (LMS). This section also contains resources for general-purpose Microsoft 365 and generative AI tools that have multiple teaching and learning applications.

 

Building, Organizing, and Maintaining 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

 Multimedia Content

 Library and Publisher Apps

 Discipline-Specific Apps

 

Connecting, Communicating, and Collaborating with Your 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 

Collaboration Tools 

Discussion Tools 

Student Response Tools 

Online Meeting Tools 

 

Assessing Student Work and Providing Feedback 

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 

 

Designing and Fostering Accessible and Inclusive Teaching and Learning

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

 

Analyzing Teaching and Learning Data and Insights

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