Where this is a Canvas student demo course, there are certain experiences not shown or made available that otherwise would be in a full live course. Here are what some of those features look like and do...

Canvas Commons

Commons is a built-in learning object repository that enables educators to find, import, and share resources. A digital library full of educational content, Commons allows Canvas users to share learning resources with other users as well as import learning resources into a Canvas course.

Integrate External Apps

There are many places where you can find Apps to use in your courses. You can add external apps in the Canvas App Center, the Edu App Center, or through vendor-provided tools.

Once configured, external apps may be able to be added to Modules, Course Navigation, the Rich Content Editor, and Assignments. The external app should include information about where the app can be placed in Canvas.

Google Apps Integration

Canvas integrates with G Suite for Education (FKA Google Apps for Education), making it easy for teachers to include collaboration, content sharing, engaging course content, and assignment distribution directly within Canvas. Canvas users will even be able to sign into Canvas using their Google credentials. The integration also makes it easy for students to collaborate with teachers and fellow students on individual or group assignments.

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Microsoft Office365 Integration

Canvas supports an LTI integration with Microsoft Office 365 in Assignments, Collaborations, Modules, Course Navigation, and the Rich Content Editor. This integration allows students and instructors to use, create, share, and collaborate on Office 365 files within Canvas. Users can also view their OneDrive files directly in Canvas. The Office365 integration is composed of the following primary points of interoperability to make the experience for teachers and students as seamless as possible.

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Built-in Communication and Collaboration Tools

Collaborations: Collaborations leverages Google Docs and Office 365 to help any class member create and share documents for collaborative work, such as group projects, research, paper revision, class note-taking, etc.

Discussions: Discussions make it easier to engage learners in both broad and deep discussions by making navigation easy, allowing threaded views, and adding humanness through easy multimedia. Discussions can easily be assessed with outcome-aligned rubrics through the SpeedGrader.

Conferences: Web conferences allow for synchronous, online communication that using webcams, mics, and shared presentations (with whiteboard ability) or desktops. Canvas integrates with some third-party web conferencing tools, but also includes limited, lightweight video conferencing through Blindside Network's Big Blue Button at no extra charge.

Chat: Canvas provides a synchronous chat tool that allows course members to type in real-time. This is in addition to real-time communication capabilities of Conferences.

Media Recording/Upload Tool: Canvas provides all users with an integrated media service to seamlessly encode and distribute new or existing multimedia in a variety of formats for specific user needs. Canvas supports importing of major media file types and codecs, including mp4, mov, wmv, avi, flv, rm, mpg, mp3, etc.

Conversations: Conversations is the messaging tool used instead of email to communicate with a course, a group, an individual student, or a group of students. You can communicate with other people in your course at any time.

Calendar

The Calendar is a great way to view everything you have to do for all your courses in one place. The integrated Canvas Calendar creates and reflects any date-related information for courses, groups, or personal activities or events. The Calendar is both a design tool and an info sharing tool and lets users access Course events from Google Calendar, Outlook, iCal, and other tools.

Automatically Keeps Teachers and Students Organized

The Sidebar helps you see what you need to do next across all your courses and can contain up to three helpful sections.

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The To Do section [1] shows assignments or events that require your attention. If you are enrolled in a course as a student, the list shows assignments you need to turn in. Items remain in this section for two weeks.

The Coming Up section [2] shows assignments and events coming due in the next seven days.

The Recent Feedback section [3] shows assignments with feedback from your instructor.

Internal and External Notifications

Notifications let users (teachers, students, and parents) individualize the way Canvas informs them of news and activity within their courses using email, text (SMS), or popular third-party social media tools like Twitter.

Grades (Gradebook)

Canvas Grades provides a dynamic, powerful, fast, and easy to understand view of student performance in the course. It supports fast filtering by sections, sorting of columns, setting scores, auto-saving, inline feedback, individualized messaging, revision history, etc.

ePortfolio

You can create a new ePortfolio in your user settings.

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