Syllabus Service
Syllabus Service helps faculty and instructors create an electronic reading list for your Quercus page to make your readings and other course materials available to your students.
How it works
Drawing on U of T’s extensive digital holdings (and beyond!), our team will prepare a complete reading list in your course’s Quercus page with links to readings and other materials. If an item is not available electronically, our Syllabus Service team will retrieve, scan and upload resources as PDF files, all in adherence with Copyright Fair Dealing Guidelines. If required readings go beyond the Guidelines, we will request the necessary transactional licenses. We will reach out to you if we are unable to source an item.
Using Quercus
Using Quercus to hold all your electronic course material provides your students with easy access to articles, ebooks, chapters/excerpts, web links, and other media resources —all in one place. We can also provide material to upload on your own. Our team can email you links to digitally accessible materials, PDF files of scanned journal articles or book chapters and other materials which you can post to Quercus yourself.
Course reserves
Our Syllabus Service team can place frequently used materials on course reserve. Course reserve sets items aside in the library under shorter loan periods for increased access. This is commonly done for print materials or DVDs which are not available digitally or for supplementary course materials. Let us know if there are any materials you wish to have placed on course reserve.
Leganto
Leganto is a tool that links your Quercus page and LibrarySearch, UofT’s library catalogue, to allow instructors and students an easy way to directly access resources entirely within your Quercus course page. Your Syllabus Service team can help you use this tool.
Contact us
Please reach out to our Syllabus Service team at kelly.syllabus@utoronto.ca to make a request or if you have any questions or concerns.