Apps and Integrations

Using Canvas External Apps (sometimes called LTI tools), instructors can easily add new features to Canvas courses. Canvas apps can be added to an individual course, or to all the courses in an institution. Once an app is installed in Canvas, instructors can link to the app from course modules, use it to create assignments for assessment tools, or add it to a course's navigation.

Some apps are not preconfigured at the institutional level but are available for you to install at the course level, and they are referred to as whitelisted apps. Installed apps are ready to be used within your course content areas or from the course menu whereas whitelisted apps require you to configure them for your course before they are available.

Getting Started

If you are just beginning to use external apps in your course these articles contain helpful information to get you started:

How to View Available External Apps
This article speaks to the viewing, installing, and using of the different types of Apps available to instructors in UNF’s instance of Canvas.

How to Use External Apps
This support collection elaborates on the different types of LTIs and how to use them.

New External App Requests

Each request to add an external app is carefully evaluated to determine if the integration provides significant value and can improve the teaching and learning process, while maintaining security, reliability, and system performance.

To request that an app be whitelisted, please see the Requesting Non-Whitelisted Apps section of our Canvas Integrations (LTIs) support collection.

Available Canvas Apps

aPlus+ Attendance

aPlus+ Attendance is an automated attendance tool that integrates manual or automated attendance features into Canvas.

Cengage Learning

Provide students with seamless access to Cengage Learning’s premier learning solutions from Canvas.

Evolve Link

Evolve Link enables instructors to create links to adopted Elsevier content to build their course from within Canvas.

Films on Demand

View, search and embed Films On Demand videos and custom content directly into your Canvas courses and modules.

Github

Software Development and version control, embed project summaries or gists from GitHub’s social coding site.

InQuizitive

InQuizitive is an adaptive quizzing tool that combines interactive question types with game-like elements to engage students.

Khan Academy

Search for and embed Khan Academy videos into course material. This integration uses the embedded player so students earn points for watching videos.

Lumen Learning

Lumen provides a simple, well-supported path for faculty to teach with open educational resources inside of Canvas.

Macmillan

Macmillan Higher Education offers deep content integration between Macmillan textbooks, LaunchPad products, and Canvas LMS.

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McGraw Hill Campus

MHCampus services provide access to MGH textbooks, SIMnet, and interactive resources tied to disciplines and content.

Office365

Microsoft’s Office365 integration allows instructors and students to collaborate, as well as link directly to documents within Canvas.

OneSearch: Library Reading Lists

Instructors can use the OneSearch tool (EBSCO Curriculum Builder) to identify and add electronic library materials to a course reading list.

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Pearson

Pearson LMS integrations like MyLab and Mastering and Revel, facilitate personalized active learning experiences that help students succeed.

Redshelf

RedShelf is a course material delivery model that connects students with discounted eTextbooks and other digital course materials across campus systems.

Respondus LockDown Browser

LockDown is a customized browser and online proctoring solution that restricts students to the Canvas testing environment.

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Top Hat

Top Hat is the student response system formally adopted by UNF. Top Hat is an online teaching/engagement platform that brings active learning into the classroom using tools that sit on top of Canvas.

Turnitin

Turnitin is an originality checking tool that identifies potentially plagiarized and improperly cited text using a database of sources.

Voicethread

VoiceThread is a collaborative communication tool that allows text, audio, video, voice and annotated communication.

WileyPlus

WileyPLUS is a research-based online environment and unified learning experience for students with direct access to WileyPLUS inside.

YouTube

YouTube’s integration allows for searching of publicly available videos so they can be embedded within Canvas course materials. .