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

• Quercus Class List
• Quercus Copy Content from Another Course in Quercus
• Quercus Cross-Listing
• Quercus Download Student Emails
• Quercus How to Add People
• Quercus Mobile Apps

Content Development

• Microsoft 365 OneDrive – Access and Share Files
• Quercus Modules and Pages
• Quercus Redirect Tool
• Quercus Rich Content Editor
• Quercus Rich Content Editor Icon Maker
• Quercus Sandbox Course

Generative AI

• Microsoft Copilot Chat
• Chat GPT Edu
• Cogniti

Multimedia Content

• Microsoft Clipchamp*
• Microsoft Stream Video Hosting*
• Microsoft Teams Video Recording*
• MyMedia Hosting and Sharing*
• Opencast
• Quercus Rich Media Files – Videos and Pictures
• Snagit*

Library and Publisher Apps

• Library Reading List
• Library Resources
• McGraw Hill Connect
• Pearson MyLab and Mastering
• WileyPLUS

Discipline-Specific Apps

• JupyterHub*

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

• Quercus Announcements
• Quercus Download Student Emails
• Quercus Inbox
• Quercus Notifications

Collaborative (or Collaboration) Tools

• Hypothesis
• Microsoft 365 OneDrive Collaborations
• Microsoft Whiteboard*
• Quercus Page as a Wiki
• Quercus Groups

Discussion Tools

• PeppeR
• Piazza
• Quercus Discussions

Student Response Tools

• iClicker
• Microsoft Forms*

Online Meeting Tools

• Microsoft Teams Meetings
• Zoom*
• Zoom – Quercus Integration

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

• Quercus Assignments
• Quercus Quizzes
• Quizzical
• WeBWork
• Microsoft 365 OneDrive Assignments

Group and Peer Assessment

• peerScholar
• Team Up!

Feedback and Grading

• • Crowdmark
  • Gradescope
  • Plagiarism Review – Turnitin
  • Quercus Gradebook
  • Quercus Rubrics
  • Quercus SpeedGrader
  • Remark*
  • UT Optical Mark Recognition Grade Upload

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

• Microsoft Accessibility Checker*
• Quercus Accessibility Checker

Multimodal Engagement

• • Captioning Videos*
  • Microsoft Immersive Reader

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

• Quercus ePortfolios
• Quercus Learning Outcomes
• Quercus MasteryPaths

Learning Analytics

• Quercus Data Insights Dashboard
• Quercus Course Data and Reports
• Quercus New Analytics

Student Feedback and Course Evaluations

• • Course Evaluations in Quercus