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Canvas Quick Tips - The Canvas Mobile App

The Canvas Mobile App:  Try It Out!

Canvas is ideal for mobile accessibility. Have you ever wanted to access your class from your mobile device (phone or tablet)? Well, the Canvas App makes it very seamless and quick with all access to your course as faculty and students too.  The Canvas mobile app is available for Android or iOS.  Here are some of the great features available once the app is downloaded:

Modules:

  • Publish/unpublish modules
  • Publish/unpublish module items
  • Add existing content to modules
  • Content Pages
  • Files
  • Discussion
  • Assignment
  • Quiz
  • Text Header
  • External URL
  • Change names of module items
  • Upload files from device to add to modules
  • Rearrangement module items
  • Set release dates
  • Set prerequisites
  • Set requirements

Assignments:

    • Publish/unpublish
    • Edit assignment name
    • Edit assignment description
    • Edit due date
    • Edit available to and from
    • Edit submission types
    • Edit points
    • Change submission type

Discussions:

      • Publish/unpublish
      • Edit title
      • Edit description
      • Edit due date
      • Edit available to and from
      • Edit points
      • Change threaded replies setting
      • Change users must post before seeing replies setting
      • Change Allow Liking setting

Announcements:

    • Edit title
    • Edit description
    • Add or edit Delay posting date
    • Change users must post before seeing replies setting
    • Change Allow Liking setting

Calendar:

 Add calendar events

Quizzes:

  • Publish/unpublish
  • Edit title
  • Edit quiz instructions
  • Edit points
  • Edit due date, available to and from

Pages

  • Publish/un-publish
  • Edit title

Course Settings:

  • Hide/unhide course navigation
  • Order course navigation

Grades:

  • A read-only view of the grade book and/or view a students current total grade
  • Mute assignment

People:

  • View last activity
  • View total activity
  • Role
  • Section
  • Add People
  • Note pending users

Course Management:

  • View and manage student groups
  • Accept course invites from the mobile app
  • Be able to see role your in the course (Teacher/Student/TA)
  • Change homepage option
  • Course Activity Stream
  • Pages Front Page
  • Course Modules
  • Assignments List
  • Syllabus
  • A better and more mobile attendance tool

Mobile Specific:

Create assignments on mobile to attach files from 3rd party apps (Notability, Explain Everything, etc)

On the web:

  • Mobile preview on the web
  • Canvas Polls for the web
How to Install the Canvas Mobile App:
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