Canvas: External Tools (LTIs)

An add-on to MiVideo that transforms passive videos into interactive experiences.

Support Resources: About Annoto

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Within the MiVideo Player

Instructors can record lectures and other events in classrooms outfitted with the proper CAEN equipment.

Support Resources: CAEN Lecture Capture Getting Started Guide

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External Tools

Instructors can enable/disable productivity tools to manage and optimize course content.

Support Resources: ITS Instructor Tools Knowledge Document

Course Navigation

Media Gallery is the place, within a course, where you can choose and post videos from your My Media collection for your students to view, in the context of the course. Media Gallery is a part of MiVideo. 

Support Resources: ITS MiVideo Guide

MiVideo is the U-M branded version of Kaltura. Provides video storage and playback options in Canvas. The "Course Media Gallery" and "My Video" course menu items are part of MiVideo. 

Support Resources: About MiVideo

This tool allows instructors to embed quiz questions into MiVideo videos that students answer before continuing to watch the video.

Support Resources: ITS Interactive Video Quizzes Video Tutorials

My Media is a collection of all the videos you've recorded or uploaded with the Kaltura tools. This is your complete library of videos. It's associated with your Canvas account, but not with any particular course. Your students in a given course cannot see what's in your My Media collection. 

Support Resources: ITS MiVideo Guide

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User Navigation

Provides practice problems from previous exams to help students study.

Support Resources: About Problem Roulette

Gives instructors insight into how teams are functioning and gives student teams individualized resources to improve team dynamics.

Support Resources: About Tandem

Provides a link to the Teaching Evaluations system, where students can assess their instructors using a standardized questionnaire, and instructors can then view responses.

Support Resources: U-M Office of the Registrar Teaching Evaluations Guide

Course Navigation

Settings

Allow instructors to combine sections and add guest accounts to courses. 

Support Resources: ITS Canvas Course Manager, Canvas Course Manager Video

Provides a platform for instructors to assemble a customized one-stop destination for students to access a variety of library resources and services, including subject specialist contact information, relevant Research Guides, UM-licensed discipline and topic specific databases, course reserves, recommended videos, live Ask A Librarian chat service, and more.

Support Resources: U-M Library Research Guides

Allows instructors to add U-M Maizey chatbot to their Canvas course. Students can ask the chatbot questions about course content, policies, assignments, and other course information.

Support Resources: ITS U-M Maizey In-Depth

Provides a link to U-M Sweetland Writing Center resources and services. 

Support Resources: Sweetland Writing Center

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External Tools

Enhance student engagement and learning opportunities by providing easy access for you and your students to Pearson content from a Canvas course. 

Support Resources: Pearson Support

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External Tools

Echo360 helps instructors capture and extend the classroom experience to improve student engagement before, during and after class. Through our technology platform, students have 24/7 access to classroom discussion, presentation materials, and the lecture itself.

Support Resources: Echo360 Guides

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External Tools

Sub-account administrators can view analytics for all courses in the sub-account they manage, including activity, enrollment, grades, etc.

Support Resources: Instructure Admin Analytics Guide

Students and instructors can access their Creative Cloud Express projects and Creative Cloud apps within Canvas and use them to create and complete their assignments. 

Support Resources: Adobe Creative Cloud Support

Users can make graphics, templates, posts, flyers, and other images without needing graphic design experience.

Support Resources: Adobe Express Support

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External Tools

Search and embed Alexander Street videos, music, and text into your courses and modules. 

Support Resources: Alexander Street Support

Educators can find, import into Canvas, and share resources.

Support Resources: Instructure Canvas Commons Overview

Instructors can create, view, and manage data streams.

Support Resources: Instructure Data Services Overview

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. 

Support Resources: Cengage Support Services

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External Tools

Tool for instructors to host live chat sessions with students.

Support Resources: Instructure Chat Guide

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External Tools

Provides a view of all activity taking place in all Cidi Labs tools installed in the user's Canvas courses.

Support Resources: Cidi Labs Help Center

Instructors can store files and upload slides, videos, reading assignments to Canvas. Students can submit files to assignments.

Support Resources: Dropbox Help Center

Open access learning tool for sustainability science. Find cases about contemporary sustainability issues, join conversations about sustainability issues, and communicate complex topics through case studies. 

Support Resources: Gala Guides

Gallery is a digital space for students to share their work and provide feedback to each other. 

Support Resources: Gamut Gallery Guide

The Workbook Tool provides learners with a digital space to complete optional exercises related to what they’re learning in an online course. 

Support Resources: Gamut Workbook Guide

Instructors can create assignments in Google Drive, distribute copies to each student, provide feedback with rubrics, and check for plagiarism.

Support Resources: Google Workspace LTI Help, Instructure Meet Google Assignments 

• Google Drive embedding and linking: easily embed documents from your Google Drive anywhere you use the Rich Content Editor.
• Google Docs as Assignments: Students can submit Google Docs as Assignments, Teachers can use a Google Doc to give an Assignment, and send a copy of that document to each assigned student, Teachers can grade submitted student assignments in Speedgrader by editing or annotating the Google Doc.
• Google Drive Collaborations: students can use Google Docs, Sheets, or Slides for a Canvas Collaboration.
• Modules: Teachers can link to a live Google Files in their Canvas Modules.

Support Resources:

• How to view Google Drive Files in Canvas
• How to create a cloud assignment with Google Drive
• How to create a Google Drive Collaboration

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External Tools

Provides access to the GradeCraft gameful learning platform, developed by the University of Michigan's Center for Academic Innovation. 

Support Resources: GradeCraft Getting Started Guide

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External Tools

Online grading platform used to grade paper-based, digital, and code assignments. 

Support Resources: Gradescope Get Started Guide

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External Tools

The Hypothesis LMS app brings discussion directly to course content by enabling students and teachers to add comments and start conversations in the margins of texts. Collaborative annotation engages students more deeply in course readings and gives teachers a view into how students are reading. 

Support Resources: Hypothes.is Resource Guide

Provides a link for students to register their iClicker remote. 

Support Resources: Getting Started with iClicker Classic

This app supports enhanced grade sync with iClicker Cloud.

Support Resources: Enhanced Grade Sync Integration with Canvas

An electronic lab notebook that centralizes all research and allows collaboration 

Support Resources: LabArchives Support

Provides access to courses or content items from LinkedIn Learning. Users can watch videos on a variety of business, software, and other topics to learn personal and professional skills.

Support Resources: ITS Guide to LinkedIn Learning

Curriculum to help students with learning difficulties develop literacy skills.

Support Resources: Macmillan Support

Macmillan Learning offers deep content integration between its LaunchPad products and Canvas. This robust integration creates direct links from a Canvas course into the Macmillan LaunchPad environment. 

Support Resources: Macmillan Support

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External Tools

MATLAB Grader is an application that offers browser-based authoring environment, creation and sharing of MATLAB-based assignments, autograded student solutions with custom scoring rubrics, rich text, images, hyperlinks and LaTeX equations in problem descriptions, responsive layout for use beyond desktops for all users, library of re-usable example problems, and optional LMS integration to bring autograding into any learning environment.

Support Resources: MATLAB Grader Help Center

Provides access to McGraw Hill’s interactive resources tied to course content and textbooks. This app auto-logs users into MH-Campus from within course material.

Support Resources: McGraw-Hill Connect Support

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External Tools

My Learning Analytics (MyLA) is a dashboard that provides students with information about their engagement with course materials and resources, assignments, and grades in a Canvas course. 

Support Resources: ITS My Learning Analytics Guide

NameCoach is a web-based tool that allows users to record, listen to, and learn names.  NameCoach tool has two parts in Canvas:

• NameCoach Recorder: Allows users to record their own name
• NameCoach Roster: Allows students and instructors to listen to and learn the names of others in a Canvas course.

Email Signature: This allows you to put your name recording in your email signature

API Directory: (Upcoming feature) NameCoach integration is available via APIs with other applications (i.e. Salesforce, MCommunity, etc.) using API Directory.

Commencement: (Upcoming feature) Student audio name recordings collected on the web and delivered to your fingertips for easy learning and flawless ceremonies.

Support Resources: NameCoach Service, NameCoach Support

Recorder: Account Menu

Roster: Course Navigation

Instructors can view and generate charts for course analytics including grades and participation 

Support Resources: Instructure New Analytics FAQs

A new, more accessible quiz format with more formatting options that instructors can choose for quizzing their students.

Support Resources: Instructure What is New Quizzes, ITS New Quizzes Migration Project

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External Tools

Provides access to the Perusall social annotation tool, where students can annotate textbooks, documents, and lecture slides

Support Resources: Perusall Support

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External Tools

Piazza is a new style of discussion/Q&A site with a focus on educational institutions. Students can ask and answer questions and discuss course topics, instructors can endorse answers or provide their own answers. Includes LaTeX editor, polls, and code blocking. This integration adds a link to the course navigation for Piazza discussions, and auto-logs the user into the course discussions area. 

Support Resources: Piazza Support

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External Tools

Users can access articles, books, databases, and other digital resources.

Support Resources: ProQuest Support

Instructors can set a Qualtrics survey as an assignment and have students complete it for a grade.

Support Resources: Qualtrics Support

The Attendance (Roll Call) tool allows instructors to record their students' attendance and automatically adds a "Roll Call Attendance" column to the Canvas Gradebook. The Attendance (Roll Call) tool is hidden by default. 

Support Resources: Roll Call Attendance Tool Guide

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External Tools

Sage Campus is a free-to-use self-paced learning platform for improving one's skills and research methods with 30+ online asynchronous courses ranging in length from 2 to 40 hours. 

Support Resources: Sage Campus Support

Allows for the uploading of SCORM ZIP files as assignments and as pages in your course (per the applicable package content).  

Support Resources: Canvas SCORM Guide

YuJa Panorama is an accessibility tool in Canvas that allows instructors and instructional support staff to create, scan, and fix accessible digital content directly within your Canvas course site. Students can generate Alternative Formats for course pages and documents.

Support Resources: YuJa Panorama Help Center

Deliver digital course materials through one common, LMS-integrated platform, including publisher eTexts, courseware, open education resources (OER) and faculty generated course materials. 

Support Resources: Unizin Knowledge Base

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External Tools

Provides students with hands-on experience in multiple coding languages in a virtual environment, instructors can grade assignments and monitor student progress.

Support Resources: Vocareum Help

Provides access to Wiley assignment resources and textbooks. 

Support Resources: Wiley Support

Course Navigation

External Tools

Provides access to W.W. Norton assignment resources and textbooks. 

Support Resources: W.W. Norton Help

Provides access to the Zoom video conference platform where students and instructors can meet virtually and includes breakout rooms, polling, screensharing, etc.

Support Resources: ITS Teaching with Zoom Guide

External Tools