{"id":21908,"date":"2018-09-21T16:05:32","date_gmt":"2018-09-21T20:05:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/?p=21908"},"modified":"2019-07-18T14:05:58","modified_gmt":"2019-07-18T18:05:58","slug":"que-what-cus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/?p=21908","title":{"rendered":"que-what-cus?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>why does uoft call canvas quercus?<\/p>\n<p>\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014<\/p>\n<p>hi!<\/p>\n<p>good question. aside from being super difficult to pronounce (so far this semester, i&#8217;ve heard profs say &#8220;quirk-us&#8221;, &#8220;quick-us&#8221;, &#8220;queue-kiss&#8221;, and MORE!), the name means seemingly nothing. unlike good ol&#8217; easy to pronounce and meaningful blackboard\/ portal (RIP).<\/p>\n<p>anyways, according to <a href=\"http:\/\/toolboxrenewal.utoronto.ca\/2018\/01\/19\/new-academic-toolbox-quercus-now-live\/\">this nifty video<\/a> from the academic toolbox renewal website, quercus is pronounced &#8220;kwhere-kus&#8221; and it is the latin word for the oak tree. and as we know, u of t is really into oak tress; it&#8217;s on our crest and our student web services is named after a crucial part of the oak tree (ACORN). i guess renaming the academic toolbox something that is oak tree is just the natural progression of the brand?<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/en\/thumb\/0\/04\/Utoronto_coa.svg\/250px-Utoronto_coa.svg.png\" alt=\"Image result for u of t logo\" width=\"138\" height=\"138\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/easi.its.utoronto.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/ACORNLogo.png\" alt=\"Image result for acorn u of t\" width=\"141\" height=\"115\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/toolboxrenewal.utoronto.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/2018-01-23_11-09-56-402x300.png\" alt=\"Image result for quercus u of t\" width=\"159\" height=\"119\" \/><\/p>\n<p>hope this enlightens you!<\/p>\n<p>xoxo,<\/p>\n<p>aska<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>why does uoft call canvas quercus? \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014 hi! good question. aside from being super difficult to pronounce (so far this semester, i&#8217;ve heard profs say &#8220;quirk-us&#8221;, &#8220;quick-us&#8221;, &#8220;queue-kiss&#8221;, and MORE!), the name means seemingly nothing. unlike good ol&#8217; easy to pronounce and meaningful blackboard\/ portal (RIP). anyways, according to this nifty video from the academic toolbox renewal website, quercus is pronounced &#8220;kwhere-kus&#8221; and it is the latin word for the oak tree. and as we know, u of t is really into oak tress; it&#8217;s on our crest and our student web services is named after a crucial part of the oak tree (ACORN). i guess renaming the academic toolbox something that is oak tree is just the natural progression of the brand? hope this enlightens you! xoxo, aska<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[286],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21908","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-quercus"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21908","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21908"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21908\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}