When ideas and suggestions are received, they are published out to the community on this page. Tools within the idea stage have not been centrally vetted from a functional, security or privacy perspective. Ideas are discussed in a number of standing forums, such as the Toolbox End-user Support Team (TEST), the Academic Technology Reference Group (ATRG), and the Teaching, Learning & Technology Advisory Committee (TLTAC).
On a quarterly basis, using the Toolbox Decision Framework, ideas are prioritized and recommendations are made to the Executive Steering Committee for Quercus and Academic Technology, who adjudicate and approve a set of projects for the coming quarter. If an idea becomes a project, it will move from this page to the Projects page (see tab above).
| Tool Name | Description | Link | Type | Submitter | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Acadly | Acadly is a classroom response system | https://www.acadly.com/ | Communication | School of the Environment (FAS/UTSC) | Abeyance |
| Accessible Format Converters | Future AODA legislation will require the provision of content in accessible formats inside Quercus. There may be integrateable tools available to facilitate the conversion of content. Examples include Bb Ally, CidiLabs UDOIT, or Yuja Panorama. | For more about AODA Accessible Learning Resources: https://aoda.ca/accessible-learning-resources/. | Content | University-wide | Submitted |
| APA style central LTI | APA Style Central is an integrated learning product that teaches students how to conduct basic social sciences research, track their research activities, write and cite using APA style. | http://apastyle.org/asc | Content | U of T Libraries | Submitted |
| Atomic Assessments | Formative and summative assessment tool with over 40 question types. | https://www.atomicjolt.com/atomic-assessments | Assessment | DLS of Public Health | Submitted |
| Atomic Search for Canvas | Atomic Search for Canvas indexes materials and serves as a fully integrated search tool within Canvas | https://www.atomicjolt.com/atomic-search | Content | Computer Science, Anthropology | Submitted |
| Canvas Credentials (formerly Badgr) | Canvas Credentials is a subscription service that allows badge program administrators to advance their badging system using a set of more sophisticated tools. | https://badgr.com/https://community.canvaslms.com/t5/Canvas-Credentials/What-is-Canvas-Credentials/ta-p/529094 | Assessment | Rotman, Engineering, OISE, Physical and Environmental Sciences (UTSC) | Submitted |
| Bazaar | Bazaar is a framework for designing multi-party collaborative conversational agents. | http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~cprose/Bazaar.html | Communication | FAS Physics | Submitted |
| Canvas Chat | Realtime chat capability embedded in Canvas (Quercus) | https://community.canvaslms.com/t5/Canvas-Basics-Guide/What-is-Chat/ta-p/63 | Communication | Psychology | Submitted |
| Canvas Studio (formerly ARC Media) | Canvas Studio is a video player that tracks how many students have seen a particular video (and which parts they actually watched), allows students to leave comments on specific sections of the video and also features a discussion channel below the video | https://www.arcmedia.com/ | Annotation | Rotman, Music, Pharmacy | Withdrawn |
| CATME | CATME is a system of secure, web-based tools that enable instructors to implement best practices in managing student teams. | https://info.catme.org/ | Assessment | Faculty of Applied Science & Engineering | Submitted |
| Clutch Prep | Textbook specific video learning | https://professors.clutchprep.com/ | Content | UTSC Physical & Environmental Science | Submitted |
| Contexia | Contexia was specially designed by a team at UTSC to help students cope with reading their academic texts. | https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/contexia/aincdfegebfanadjgjcnbmafillofofd | Content | UTSC | Submitted |
| Crowdmark Exam Matcher | The Exam Matcher app enables professors and exam proctors to match students to their papers during an exam. | https://crowdmark.com/blog/introducing-exam-matcher/ | Assessment | FAS Mathematics | Submitted |
| DataCamp | DataCamp offers a wide range of interactive programming / data analysis courses in R, Python and data science. | https://www.datacamp.com/groups/education | Content | UTM Biology | Submitted |
| DeckChair Tutor | DeckChair Tutor is a mobile eLearning platform that measures viewing time and reaction time during the learner’s online performance. | http://deckchairlearning.com/ | Content | UTM Psychology | Submitted |
| Edpuzzle | Video vignette recording tool | https://edpuzzle.com/ | Content | FAS Mathematics | Submitted |
| edX LTI | edX is a massive open online course provider. | https://www.edx.org/ | Content | Rotman School of Management | Submitted |
| EHS Tracking App | Track EHS is a feature-rich & fully customisable EHS Management System that makes incident reporting, investigation and analysis all the more easier and efficient. | https://www.trackehs.com/ | Administrative | Submitted | |
| EON-XR | EON-XR users are able to create interactive and immersive AR and VR lessons without needing any coding or advanced technological knowledge | https://eonreality.com/platform/ | Content | Architecture | Submitted |
| FACT | The Faculty and Advisor Communication Tool (FACT) is only used as a method of providing feedback to advisors for early intervention, coaching, and assistance. | https://its.northeastern.edu/services/teaching/fact/ | Assessment | Faculty of Applied Science & Engineering | Submitted |
| Flickr | Online photo management and sharing application | https://www.flickr.com | Content | UTM Library | Submitted |
| Flipgrid | Flipgrid is a lightweight video recording tool that lets instructors and students create and share short vignettes in a class context. | https://info.flipgrid.com/ | Content | FAS Psychology, DLSPH | Submitted |
| Gather.Town | Gather.Town is an avatar-based web-conferencing software with virtual reality rooms and live video | https://www.gather.town/ | Communication | FAS Chemistry | Submitted |
| Google Education | It is an ecology of digital tools from Google designed to host and distribute digital documents, communication, and collaboration through cloud-based technology. | https://edu.google.com/?modal_active=none | Content | FAS Earth Sciences | Abeyance |
| GradeScope | Gradescope is a tool to administer and grade assessments, whether online or in-class | https://www.gradescope.com/ | Assessment | FAS Mathematics, FAS Chemistry | Submitted |
| Grammar Bytes | Grammar drills to help students improve their writing. | https://www.chompchomp.com/menu.htm | Assessment | UTSC Political Science | Submitted |
| H5P | H5P makes it easy to create, share and reuse HTML5 content and applications. | https://h5p.org/ | Content | UTM Biology, FAS Chemistry | Submitted |
| InQuizitive (Norton) | InQuizitive is an adaptive learning tool from Norton publishing | https://wwnorton.com/inquizitive/ | Content | Transitional Year Programme, UTM Department of Visual Studies | Submitted |
| JupyterHub | JupyterHub provides users with access to pre-configured data science computational environments and resources without burdening the users with installation and maintenance tasks. | https://jupyterhub.readthedocs.io | Content | FAS Chemistry, Faculty of Applied Science & Engineering | Submitted |
| Kahoot! | Kahoot! is a game-based learning platform, for teachers and classroom to Play, learn, have fun and celebrate together! | https://kahoot.com/ | Communication | UTM Management | Submitted |
| Kritik | Kritik is an online peer-to-peer interactive learning platform for helping professors engage students in a twenty-first-century way. | https://www.kritik.io/ | Assessment | Faculty of Medicine | Submitted |
| LabsLand | LabsLand connects schools and universities with real laboratories available somewhere else on the Internet. | https://labsland.com/ | Assessment | Faculty of Applied Science & Engineering | Submitted |
| LaunchPad | LaunchPad is a resource to help students achieve better results by providing a place where they can read, study, practice, complete homework, and more. | https://www.macmillanlearning.com/college/us/digital/launchpad | Assessment | UTSC Biological Sciences | Submitted |
| Lino | Lino is a web-based sticky note platform that lets users add virtual sticky notes to a virtual bulletin board, or "canvas." | http://en.linoit.com/ | Communication | U of T Libraries | Submitted |
| Lucidchart | Lucidchart is a web-based proprietary platform that is used to allow users who are located in multiple locations to collaborate with their colleagues in drawing, revising and sharing charts and diagrams | https://www.lucidchart.com/pages/ | Communication | Dalla Lana School of Public Health | Submitted |
| MathJax | MathJax is a cross-browser JavaScript library that displays mathematical notation in web browsers, using MathML, LaTeX and ASCIIMathML markup. MathJax is released as open-source software under the Apache License. | https://www.mathjax.org/ | Content | FAS Mathematics | Submitted |
| MathMatize | MathMatize is a cloud-based math exercise application | https://www.mathmatize.com/ | Content | UTM | Submitted |
| MATLAB | MATLAB is a technical computing language and interactive environment for algorithm development, data visualization, data analysis, and numeric computation. | https://onesearch.library.utoronto.ca/ic/mathworks-software-matlab | Content | Multiple Requests | Submitted |
| MATLAB Grader for Canvas | MATLAB Grader provides outcomes from automated assessments that feed directly to your grade book or learning analytics platform | https://www.mathworks.com/products/matlab-grader/lms.html | Assessment | FAS Mathematics | Submitted |
| Mediasite | Mediasite is a desktop capture tool that can be used to record class sessions or lectures and upload recordings to university servers | https://mediasite.com/ | Content | Rotman School of Management | Abeyance |
| MediaWiki Farm | MediaWiki is an open source collaboration and documentation platform. The MediaWikiFarm extension creates wiki farms (multiple wikis grouped together). | https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:MediaWikiFarm | Content | Biochemistry | Submitted |
| Microsoft Bookings | Microsoft Bookings is a scheduling tool and is part of the Microsoft Office family of products. | https://products.office.com/en-ca/business/scheduling-and-booking-app | Administrative | Faculty of Law | Submitted |
| Milanote | Tool for organizing ideas and projects into visual boards | https://milanote.com/ | Content | UTM | Submitted |
| Miro | Miro is an online collaborative whiteboard platform | https://miro.com/ | Communication | Medicine, Architecture | Submitted |
| MobLab | With MobLab's interactive games instructors can help students build emotional connections with the material. Experiments and Surveys go from a task to a memorable point of discussion | https://www.moblab.com/ | Content | FAS Economics | Submitted |
| MyOpenMath | MyOpenMath is a system for mathematics and other quantitative fields, focusing on providing algorithmically generated assessment to support the use of open textbooks | https://www.myopenmath.com/ | Assessment | FAS Mathematics | Submitted |
| NameCoach | NameCoach provides a solution for embedding audio name pronunciations so others can learn and remember how to say them | https://cloud.name-coach.com/ | Communication | UTM | Submitted |
| Online Storyteller | Online Storyteller is a narrative assessment tool used as a self-directed assessment and collaboratively to enhance 1-on-1 sessions. | https://onelifetools.com/pages/online-storyteller-self-directed-narrative-assessment | Assessment | Faculty of Applied Science & Engineering | Submitted |
| Overleaf | A web front end to the open-source LaTeX typesetting system | https://www.overleaf.com | Content | FAS Computer Science, Economics, Statistical Sciences, UTSC Computer and Mathematical Sciences, UTM Mathematical and Computational Sciences | Submitted |
| Packback | Packback enables Inquiry-Based Online Discussion at scale | https://www.packback.co/ | Communication | FAS Art History, FAS Department of Earth Sciences | Abeyance |
| Padlet | Padlet is a virtual bulletin board, for collaboration and sharing links and pictures | https://padlet.com/ | Content | Individual Instructor (New College) | Submitted |
| Perusall | Perusall is a social annotation tool that integrates with Canvas via LTI assignments. it allows students and their instructors to collaboratively markup .pdf documents. Instead of reading a document and discussing it, Perusall brings the discussion to the text. | https://perusall.com/ | Annotation | Vice-Provost Innovations in Undergraduate Education, Toronto School of Theology, FAS Religion, FAS Sexual Diversity Studies | Abeyance |
| Poll Everywhere | Poll Everywhere is a web-based audience response system that lets speakers embed activities directly into their presentations. | https://www.polleverywhere.com/ | Classroom Tech | Rotman School of Management | Abeyance |
| Presenters Podium | Presenters Podium is an easy to use e-learning tool that brings together everything an educator needs to arm their students with for their academic and professional environment. Used by individual instructors, students engage with course material, present their knowledge and ideas, and improve through feedback | https://www.presenterspodium.com/ | Content | Vendor | Submitted |
| PressBooks | PressBooks is a platform for publishing open text books. | https://pressbooks.com/ | Content | ITS OLS | Submitted |
| QUIP | Teaching teams for on-campus courses can use QUIP (QUiz and Interactive Poll) to provide data-driven quizzes and polls to their students. | https://sites.google.com/site/quiptool/ | Assessment | FAS Computer Science | Submitted |
| Quizlet | Quizlet is a mobile and web-based study application that allows students to study information via learning tools and games. | https://quizlet.com/ | Assessment | UTM Library | Submitted |
| Respondus | Assessment tools for Learning System | https://www.respondus.com/ | Assessment | FAS Economics, Physician Assistant Program, UTM Institute for Management & Innovation, Rotman School of Management | Abeyance |
| SCORM Cloud | SCORM Cloud is a SaaS training delivery platform that hosts your eLearning content (SCORM, xAPI, AICC and cmi5) | https://rusticisoftware.com/products/scorm-cloud/ | Content | Submitted | |
| Semesterly | It helps students create their schedules by generating possible timetables and ranking them based on the user's preferences. | https://semester.ly/ | Administrative | FAS Computer Science | Submitted |
| ShareLaTeX | ShareLaTeX is an online LaTeX editor that allows real-time collaboration and online compiling of to PDF format. | https://www.sharelatex.com/ | Content | Faculty of Applied Science & Engineering | Submitted |
| Slack | Slack is a cloud-based set of proprietary team collaboration tools and services | https://slack.com/ | Communication | UTM Geography, UTM Chemical and Physical Sciences | Abeyance |
| Smart Sparrow | Smart Sparrow is an adaptive e-learning platform that allows you to create personalized, adaptive and active lesson | https://www.smartsparrow.com/ | Content | Rotman School of Management | Submitted |
| Socrative | Socrative is a cloud-based student response system and It allows teachers to create simple quizzes that students can take quickly on laptops – or, more often, via classroom tablet computers or their own smartphones. | https://socrative.com/ | Classroom Tech | UTM Management | Abeyance |
| Sonic Foundry - Mediasite | Video platform | https://sonicfoundry.com/ | Content | Rotman School of Management | Submitted |
| Teamable Analytics | A team formation and analytics tool Build teams, diagnose potential conflicts, and execute interventions. | https://teamableanalytics.ok.ubc.ca/homepage/ | Administrative | iSchool | Abeyance |
| TeamWorks | The tool helps students learn teamwork skills through comparison of self to peer assessments and tutorials to address areas identified as weak. | https://www.teamworksed.com/ | Assessment | Faculty of Applied Science & Engineering | Submitted |
| True+Way ASL | TRUE+WAY ASL dictionary allows students to practice and prepare for the quizzes that are built into course modules. Instructor lesson plans are also available through the app. There is no cost for instructors, but a student access fee would apply. | https://truewayasl.com/ | Content | FAS Linguistics | Submitted |
| Embed lists of recent tweets or individual tweets from Twitter. Lists can be derived from search results, or from a user’s twitter feed. | https://twitter.com | Communication | Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape, and Design | Abeyance | |
| VoiceThread | VoiceThread is a learning tool for enhancing student engagement and online presence. | https://voicethread.com/ | Annotation | Faculty of Music | Submitted |
| Webex | Cisco Webex, formerly WebEx Communications Inc., is a company that provides on-demand collaboration, online meeting, web conferencing and videoconferencing applications | https://www.webex.ca/en/ | Communication | TST Knox College | Abeyance |
| Yellowdig | Yellowdig is an engagement platform that connects learners and empowers educators | https://yellowdig.com/ | Communication | Faculty of Applied Science & Engineering | Submitted |
| PUBLISHER: Achieve | Achieve is an online learning platform that's offered by Macmillan publishing. It houses online textbooks. | https://achieve.macmillanlearning.com | Content | UTM FAS Department of Economics | Abeyance |
| PUBLISHER: Blink Learning | Blink Learning is a publisher content integrator. | https://www.blinklearning.com | Content | Language Studies (Italian) | Abeyance |
| PUBLISHER: Cengage WebAssign | WebAssign is a powerful digital solution designed by educators to enrich the teaching and learning experience. It provides extensive content, instant assessment, and superior support. | https://www.webassign.net/ | Assessment | UTM Library | Abeyance |
| PUBLISHER: Evolve Link | It allows a link to be created to the Evolve textbooks | https://evolve.elsevier.com/education/on-demand-learning/next-generation/evolve-link/ | Content | Faculty of Medicine | Abeyance |
| PUBLISHER: Nelson MindTap | The interactive learning system from Cengage Learning that Engage students and improve outcomes with MindTap. | http://www.nelson.com/site/mindtap/ | Assessment | FAS Psychology | Submitted |
| PUBLISHER: Norton (Smartwork, InQuizitive) | Smartwork and InQuizitive are tools from the publisher WW Norton | https://wwnorton.com/smartwork5 | Assessment | Cell and Systems Biology | Submitted |
| PUBLISHER: Revel Pearson | Revel is an interactive learning environment designed for how you want to teach — and how students want to learn | https://www.pearsonhighered.com/revel/ | Assessment | UTSC Social Sciences & Humanities | Submitted |