Apps add new features and functionality to Canvas courses. Apps currently available in Canvas are listed below.
aPlus+ Attendance is an automated attendance tool that integrates manual or automated attendance features into Canvas. aPlus+ Attendance allows instructors to take attendance manually using custom statuses, automatically via Zoom integration, or by providing a secret code that students can enter on the Canvas website or app.
Badgr integrates with Canvas courses and accounts to award portable digital badges to students as they complete course modules. Open Badges may be awarded for any achievement. Badges can recognize diverse achievements, going beyond the simple metrics found in degrees and transcripts to provide a rich picture of a student’s learning journey.
Your link to a simpler and more engaging experience. Enjoy the best of both worlds by providing students with seamless access to Cengage Learning’s premier learning solutions (including MindTap, Aplia, SAM, CengageNOW, OWLv2, 4LTR Press Online and National Geographic Learning) from your LMS.
Cidi Design Tools for Canvas was built by Utah State University's Center for Innovative Design & Instruction (CIDI) to make creating and designing courses in Canvas much easier. Currently licensed for Distance Learning courses only.
This lightweight integration lets Dropbox users select and link to files within course content or in conjunction with homework submissions. Dropbox is a file hosting service offering cloud storage, file synchronization, and client software. Files placed in a Dropbox folder also are accessible through a website and mobile phone applications.
With the Canvas OneSearch integration (EBSCO Curriculum Builder), instructors can use the OneSearch tool to identify and add electronic library materials to a course reading list.
View, search and embed Films On Demand videos, and custom content directly into your Canvas courses and modules.
Follett Discover is the smartest way for faculty to seek out, evaluate and adopt course materials.
Embeds project summaries or code gists from GitHub’s social coding site. Includes major language, commit dates, forks and watchers for repos, syntax-highlighted code for gists.
Students can launch Harvard Business Publishing materials from an LMS with no need to log in to the HBP web site.
Honorlock is a proctoring service available for Distance Learning and Remote Instruction courses at UNF. Honorlock provides services similar to what a student would experience when visiting a testing center, with identity verification and capture of that ID, and monitoring and recording of the testing environment. The service uses a Chrome extension and records the webcam and screen activity during the exam period.
InQuizitive is a formative, adaptive quizzing tool that supports select Norton textbooks. Instructors most often assign InQuizitive as pre-lecture assignments to ensure students come prepared to lectures, quizzes, and exams.
Search for and embed Khan Academy videos into course material. Khan Academy focuses on short lessons on math, science, etc. Uses the embedded player so students earn points for watching videos.
Learning Catalytics is a cloud-based solution for engaging students with authentic formative assessments in real time both inside and outside of the classroom, and rich data analytics that are used to drive student interactions.
The Library Guide tool embeds library resources and student assistance directly within your course. You can learn more about the integration on the library guide Online Learning Library Services.
Macmillan Higher Education offers deep content integration between its LaunchPad products and Canvas.
Provides access to McGraw Hill’s interactive resources tied to course content and textbooks.
Find and assign high quality, educator vetted OER without ever leaving your LMS. Access collections built by OER Commons Educator Groups, or build a custom personal library.
SchoolTube is a public, searchable collection of videos uploaded from schools. Videos can be inserted as links or embedded in course material. It is the nation’s largest K-12 moderated video sharing platform, specifically designed for students and educators - exclusively endorsed by over twenty national education associations.
On-demand student mentoring and tutoring that can be embedded as a course or user resource.
One of the most widely distributed educational applications in the world, Turnitin is the most effective online technology used to manage the submission, tracking and evaluation of student papers online. The company’s online service for originality checking, interactive grading and peer review, allows instructors to deliver rich, personalized feedback in less time, encouraging notably higher levels of student engagement.
Embed lists of recent tweets or individual tweets from Twitter. Lists can be derived from search results, or from a user’s twitter feed
VoiceThread is a collaborative communication tool that allows text, audio, video, voice and annotated communication.
WileyPLUS is a research-based online environment for effective teaching and learning. Create a unified learning experience for your students with direct access toWileyPLUSinside your LMS course.
Search publicly available YouTube videos. A new icon will show up in your course rich editor letting you search YouTube and click to embed videos in your course material.
