With the transition to Canvas, you are gaining a brand new set of tools to help you engage with your students quickly and effectively. Expand each topic to learn more about the tool.
Within the Rich Content Editor (RCE), there is an accessibility tool that helps you ensure that your content is accessible to all of your students. In addition to finding errors in the content that is created within the RCE, the tool also offers suggestions for how to resolve the issue.
How do I use the Accessibility Checker in the Rich Content Editor as an Instructor? (Instructure Community)
The Canvas Commons is a repository of educational content. Educators from across the globe are able to share and find learning resources to use in their courses.
What is Canvas Commons? (Instructure Community)
Google Assignments and Canvas work together and allow your students to submit Drive files as submissions.
Use Assignments with Canvas (Google Help)
The Immersive Reader enhances a student's experience in your course. Using Microsoft's technology, the Immersive Reader will read your Canvas pages to a student who desires to use the tool.
Immersive Reader in Canvas: Improve Readings Comprehension for All Students (The Study Hall by Instructure)
How do I use the Microsoft Immersive Reader in a course as an instructor? (Instructure Community)
Canvas will let you validate all of the links that are in a course. This tool allows you to ensure that all of the links work without having to manually check each one.
How do I Validate Links in a Course? (Instructure Community)
Canvas has a robust mobile app for both instructors and students. Downloading and using this app is strongly encouraged.
Canvas Mobile Users (Instructure Community)
SpeedGrader allows you to view and grade student assignment submissions. You may use a point scale or a rubric. You may even build a repository of comments to leave on student work.
What is SpeedGrader (Instructure Community)
Top 5 Canvas Grading Tips: My Favorite Tips and Tricks for Easy Grading in Canvas (Angie Redmon YouTube)
Turnitin is an academic integrity tool. It checks your students' work for plagiarism.
For Faculty
How to Use Turnitin.com Inside Canvas (Teacher Video) (AUHSD Canvas Support YouTube)
Using Turnitin with Canvas (Turnitin)
Assignment Setup (Turnitin)
Creating an Assignment (Turnitin)
Customizing the Similarity Report (Turnitin)
Setting Similarity Report Availability (Turnitin)
Submission Indexing Options (Turnitin)
Insights
Document Details (Turnitin)
Flags (Turnitin)
The Similarity Report (Turnitin)
Submitting to an Assignment (Turnitin)
Accessing the Similarity Report (Turnitin)
Bibliography and Quote Exclusion Definitions (Turnitin)
Excluding Content from the Similarity Report (Turnitin)
Excluding an Individual Source (Turnitin)
Excluding Search Repositories (Turnitin)
Excluding Text from the Similarity Score (Turnitin)
Re-Including a Source (Turnitin)
Interpreting the Similarity Score (Turnitin)
Using the Search (Turnitin)
Printing a Document (Turnitin)
For Students
Using Turnitin with Canvas as a Student (Turnitin)
How to Submit an Assignment to Turnitin in Canvas for Students (Jason Johnston YouTube)