External Tools Available in Canvas (Instructors)

If you are using a web application or publisher website for materials and assessments in your Canvas course, you may be able to ‘pair’ your Canvas course to the web application or publisher course site so that students can connect to the cloud service from Canvas without having to create a separate login account. Some external tools allow for additional services between your Canvas course so that assignments and assessments are accessible in your Canvas course and integrated with your Canvas gradebook. 

Enable External Tools in Canvas

Depending on the web application or publisher website, the cloud service will be enabled in Canvas one or more of these ways:

• Assignment Selection: Configure as an External Tool in an assignment during assignment creation or editing.

• Homework Submissions: Students will see an additional tab during assignment submission for assignments that accept online submissions.

• Link Selection: Configure as a module item to launch as an External Tool link.

• Navigation: Configure to display as a link in course navigation.

External Tool Integration Resources

Below you will find a list of web applications or publisher websites currently integrated in Canvas at TWU. Please contact your publisher representative for assistance, or look for the publisher’s own support page on their website. The current list of cloud service integrations in Canvas include:

• American Psychological Association - Academic Writer

• Anthology Ally - Anthology Ally

• Cambridge Publishing - myBusinessCourse

• Catalyst Education - Labflow

• Cengage Learning - Cengage Learning Mindlinks

• Echo360 - GoReact

• Echo360 - PointSolutions Registration

• Elsevier - Evolve

• FlatWorld - FlatWorld

• GitHub - GitHub Classroom (submit a Canvas Support Case to add to your Canvas course)

• Jones and Bartlett Learning - JB Learning Navigate

• Labster - Labster Dashboard

• Linkedin - Linkedin Learning in Canvas

• Lrnr - Lrnr Personalized Homework

• Lumen Learning - Lumen Waymaker

• Macmillan - Macmillan Learning

• McGraw-Hill - McGraw-Hill Connect

• MyOpenMath - MyOpenMath

• Panopto - Panopto

• Pear Deck - Pear Deck

• Pearson - Pearson Access

• Perusall - Perusall

• Piazza - Piazza

• Respondus - LockDown Browser and Monitor

• SAGE - SAGE Vantage

• Soomo Learning - Soomo Webtext

• SpringShare - Library Guide

• Togetherall - Togetherall

• TRUE+WAY ASL - TRUE+WAY ASL (contact Sarah Wainscott swainscott@twu.edu to add to your Canvas course)

• Turnitin - Examsoft

• Turnitin - Turnitin

• Tutor.com - Tutor.com (contact Jennifer Painter jpainter2@twu.edu to add to your Canvas course)

• Visible Body - Visible Body

• Watermark - Student Learning and Licensure

• Wiley - WileyPLUS 

• WW Norton - WW Norton

• XYZ Textbooks - XYZ Homework

• Zoom - Zoom

• zyBooks - zyBooks

Request a Canvas Integration

The process to enable a new external tool or a new publisher series into Canvas takes several weeks to complete. The steps include:

1. Identify the textbook or web application and contact the vendor representative.

2. Create a Service Desk Ticket requesting a Risk Assessment. Include the vendor representative contact information for the security team to contact for the material and details they need to complete the assessment.

3. Once the completed and signed risk assessment is available, send the document to the Center for Faculty Success (facultysuccess@twu.edu). The Distance Education Advisory Committee (DEAC) will review the new web application or publisher series request for academic relevance. 

4. Once the academic relevance has been established, contact Canvas Support (see How to Contact Canvas Support) requesting the Canvas Integration. Include the contact information for the vendor and the technical support team for the Canvas Administrator to contact and complete the integration process. These are usually scheduled for December between the Fall and Spring semesters and August between the Summer and Fall semesters.

5. Once the Canvas Integration is complete, you will be contacted by the Canvas Administrator.

6. Contact your vendor representative for documentation, videos, and other resources and support using the publisher content and services in Canvas. Be sure to include Student resources in your course to help them get started accessing publisher content and assignments.

Technical Support

1. Please contact the external tool's technical support or website with additional questions or issues.

2. Canvas Support will be available 24/7 by phone, live chat, or email through the Help menu within Canvas after you have logged in. For more information see How to Contact Canvas Support.

3. If you are unable to log in, please contact the Technology Service Desk at 940-898-3971 or servicedesk@twu.edu for assistance.