Canvas LTI Tools

Tags Canvas LTI
 

Purpose:

To provide a listing of LTI tools available in Canvas. 

Intended Audience:

Faculty, Staff, and Students

Getting Started:

Please see the attached document for information regarding LTI tools available in Canvas. 

Learning Tools Interoperability (LTI) in Canvas

The Microsoft Office 365 adds a link to a user’s OneDrive for Business account in the Course Navigation Menu of Canvas. Users can view all files in their OneDrive for Business account after logging in to their user accounts.  The Collaborative feature of this integration allows students and faculty to view, create, share, and collaborate on all Office 365 files within Canvas.  Students can use resources like OneDrive for Business to work collaboratively on group assignments, share class notes, etc., giving students and faculty a place to track their collaborations and communicate without the need to send separate emails. 

The Panopto Canvas integration enables instructors to add instructional videos they created inside of Canvas.  Panopto recordings are published to the related course and then embedded directly into a Canvas page by an instructor. 

Zoom combines video conferencing, online meetings, chat, and mobile collaboration.  WSSU now includes Single Sign On (SSO) for all faculty and staff users.  Access to Zoom SSO using your W.S.S.U. username & password to login https://wssu.zoom.us/signin 

Turnitin is an originality checking and plagiarism prevention program that checks student writing for citation mistakes or inappropriate copying.  When an instructor creates a Turnitin assignment, students’ papers will go through Turnitin's repository, which generates The Similarity Report and identifies possible plagiarism instances to its massive database.

Turning Technologies lets teachers add polling questions with a native PowerPoint integration, ask interactive questions rapidly and deliver self-paced assessments with ease. TurningPoint allows instructors to save valuable time uploading student information, results, and other real-time polling data.  Faculty & Students can check out clickers from O’Kelly Library.

YouTube allows instructors to insert links or embed videos such as camera recordings screencasts that the instructor can select options to share publicly or privately via a link (unlisted). Once the instructor's video uploads to YouTube, it is easy to add the video in Canvas, including embedding YouTube playlists.

McGraw-Hill Campus Connect is an external tool where instructors can pair a Canvas course with a McGraw-Hill online textbook so they and their students can use.

Vimeo is an optimized online video streaming site that allows instructors and students to upload and promote their videos with a high degree of customization not found on competing sites.

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.   Instructors will have the option to add links to Macmillan content from various points in their Canvas course.

Pearson gives instructors easy access to MyLab & Mastering* from Canvas. Pearson offers support and training that you need from a single course section to delivery across an entire institution. Finally, instructors can transfer grades with ease from Pearson to Canvas.

Khan Academy offers practice exercises, instructional videos, and a personalized learning dashboard that empower learners to study at their own pace in and outside of the classroom. This feature is available in Canvas.

W.W. Norton Publishing enables Norton learning tools and automatic grades to pass from Norton learning tools to the instructor's Canvas gradebook.  Alternatively, instructors may elect to integrate individual activities to give students flexibility over the gradebook.

PlayPosit allows instructors to offer video content with various powerful interactions ranging from multiple-choice questions to graded fill-in-the-blanks. It has helped change distance education courses and give students interactivity in short sequential segments that are effective in learning the concepts.

Cengage MindTap is an interactive tool designed to increase student participation and understanding. When MindLinks is an addition to a Canvas course, instructors and their students can use Cengage's interactive instructional materials.

Piazza is an online platform that facilitates interaction among students and instructors efficiently and intuitively. Students can post questions and collaborate to edit responses to these questions. Instructors can also answer questions, endorse student answers, and edit or delete any posted content. Piazza's design is to simulate real class discussion. It aims to get high-quality answers to difficult questions, fast!

Quizlet is a tool that allows users to create study tools such as interactive flashcards, tests, and study games. With Quizlet, students can choose their own “Study Mode” where content is migrated from flashcards, matching games, and other types of study games easily and responsively.

If you teach online, Credo helps bridge this gap in information literacy by providing videos, tutorials, and quizzes on topics like the research process, reading scholarly articles, debunking fake news, academic integrity, etc. more. Credo works within Canvas, which means grading for assignments and quizzes are available.

3D Game Lab helps teachers tie innovative learning activities to standards, providing learners’ choice while they game their way through a competency-based curriculum.

Canvas Commons is a learning object repository that enables educators to find, import, and share resources. It has a digital library full of educational content, where Canvas users can share learning resources with other instructors who use Canvas and import learning resources.

Academic Writer guides students through the proper formatting of title pages, running heads, fonts, margins, and more structured templates for the most common research paper types.

Respondus LockDown Browser is a secure browser app used for taking tests in Canvas. LockDown Browser prevents students from printing, copying, visiting other URLs, or accessing other applications during an online assessment.

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Article ID: 89697
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