Getting Started With Quercus: Practical Navigation for TAs (In-Person)

TAs are often expected to grade, communicate, and manage students and tutorials on Quercus with little formal training. While the official CTSI Quercus guide is thorough, it can feel overwhelming and instructor-focused for new TAs. This workshop breaks the platform down from a TA-first perspective and shows how instructors, TAs, and students each experience the course site. 

This 2-hour workshop is split into two focused blocks. In the first hour, we cover Quercus foundations from a TA-first perspective, walking through TA/instructor/student views, core grading tasks (assignments, quizzes, SpeedGrader, rubrics), and communication tools (announcements, inbox, discussions) with concrete examples. In the second hour, we work through realistic TA-focused case studies (missed or late assessments, accommodations and extra time, incomplete grades, academic integrity flags, and “messy” course sites) so participants can practice diagnosing problems and building simple Quercus action plans they can adapt.