Cogniti enables the authoring of generative AI virtual chatbots tailored for students to engage with course content and facilitate their learning. Cogniti incorporates key educational features designed for instructors to gain insight into...
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Microsoft Copilot Chat, via the U of T Microsoft 365:
Uses web search and will provide links to the sources of information it quotes/finds.
Your chat data is not used to train models. The data is not available to Microsoft.
The...
The peerScholar peer assessment tool enables students to provide constructive feedback on each others’ work and facilitates critical reflection on how they might improve their own work. peerScholar targets meta-cognitive...
PeppeR is an online discussion tool where students can engage in in-depth inquiry supportive of their efforts to share information, identify key ideas, and progressively work to improve those ideas.
Piazza is a platform for instructors to efficiently manage class Q&A. Students can post questions and collaborate to edit responses to these questions. Instructors can also answer questions, endorse student answers, and edit or...
The University’s Plagiarism Detection Tool is an electronic resource that assists with detecting textual similarities between compared works. Instructors must exercise their independent professional judgment in looking at the...
Quercus Assignments can be created to collect student work online (or on paper) and provide students with grades and feedback. Assignments can also be created to add columns in the Gradebook to enter grades for no-submission activities...
Quercus Course Analytics provides individual and comparative data regarding student activities in the Quercus course. It can help instructors to
Identify grade patterns (e.g., lowest, highest, average, median, frequencies,...
Quercus offers a range of built-in reports and analytics that give instructors visibility into what is happening in their course. This data can help you understand how students are interacting with course content, gauge how well...
Online discussion with and between students in a course can be a very powerful and effective teaching tool. Quercus Discussions can be used to support online (asynchronous) discussions. Instructors can create prompts for student...
Team Up! is a web-based group assessment tool made to encourage group/team work, peer teaching, engagement with course materials, and active learning.
The assessment tool is designed to make students work together to reach a...
Instructors can use SpeedGrader to view, comment, and grade student submissions directly within the browser.
Speedgrader can be used to provide timely, high-quality feedback. By streamlining grading, instructors can provide meaningful...