Instructional Tools
Canvas is UC San Diego's learning management system. Instructors can communicate with students, provide course materials, administer assignments and assessments, and track grades using Canvas.
Canvas supports the integration of third-party tools like Turnitin, Gradescope, and iClicker to enhance the classroom experience. Learning Tool Interoperability (LTI) allows for the exchange of information between learning management systems (LMS) and an external resource.
As LTIs may exchange Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA) sensitive information, LTIs will need to be vetted before being integrated within Canvas. A list of tools can be found below that have been integrated, denied, or are under review for installation within Canvas. If a particular tool is not on this list, there may be a similar tool already installed.
Other LTI tools that can be used outside of Canvas have also been vetted to ensure our students’ information is secured. For more about the vetting process and to see which tools have been approved for use, not recommended, or under review, please visit Instructional Tool Guidance.
EdTech Supported
EdTech support available. For assistance or to report a problem, please email canvas@ucsd.edu.
Vendor Supported
Limited EdTech support. To report a problem, directly contact the app's company support team.
Not Supported
No EdTech support available. Please consider using an approved alternative.
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Aktiv Learning
Formerly known as CHEM 101. Assists with engagement in STEM courses like chemistry and mathematics.
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Cengage Learning
Cengage offers digital content in the form of textbooks, instructor supplements, online reference databases, and other materials for various academic disciplines.
Codon Learning
A STEM platform that helps apply evidence-based practices.
Complete Anatomy - Elsevier
A 3D anatomy platform.
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Vendor Supported
CourseKata
An interactive online textbook for data science and introductory statistics.
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Vendor Supported
After receiving the key and secret from CourseKata, contact canvas@ucsd.edu to request installation of the tool into your course.
Edfinity
An online homework platform mapped to textbooks. Students will need to pay for this service.
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Vendor Supported
eGrades
Locally developed integration that will give faculty the option of importing end-of-semester total grades from Canvas to the official course grade roster into eGrades.
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EdTech Supported
GitHub Classroom
GitHub Classroom automates repository creation and access control, making it easy for teachers to distribute starter code and collect assignments on GitHub.
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Vendor Supported
Google Apps offer cloud-based applications, including Google Docs, Spreadsheets, Slides, and Drive. These apps can be used to access and attach files to Canvas content and assessments. The apps can also be used to create real-time collaborative student activities.
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Gradescope
Gradescope is a tool that enables instructors to grade paper-based work quickly and consistently. It also allows instructors to view statistics of the entire class and notify students once their work is graded.
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EdTech Supported
iClicker Cloud
iClicker is a classroom response system (i.e., Clicker tool), which tracks attendance, asks questions, and engages classroom discussions. With iClicker Cloud, instructors have the ability to use more question types in their teaching such as hot spot questions, displaying student responses as a word cloud, and more. The system is hosted on the internet and can utilize mobile devices or the traditional iClicker physical remote for polling.
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To learn more about UC San Diego's integration with iClicker Cloud, please visit Macmillian's iClicker website..
Kaltura
Kaltura is a system for creating, publishing, and managing all of your video. Students can view the presentation in real-time and/or can access the presentation for viewing at a later date through their learning management system.
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EdTech Supported
Macmillan Learning
Macmillan Higher Education develops books and learning resources principally for Social Sciences, Humanities, Business, and Study Skills.
McGraw Hill Connect
Connect is a web-based assignment and assessment platform that helps students connect to their coursework and to success beyond.
McGraw Hill SimNet
SIMnet is an easy-to-use online training and assessment solution for Microsoft Office. It provides students with life-long access and unlimited practice on Microsoft Word, Excel, Access and PowerPoint in addition to file management, and operating systems content.
MyOpenMath
MyOpenMath is a web-based assignment and assessment platform designed for mathematics.
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Vendor Supported
Perusall
Perusall is a social annotation tool. Perusall allows students and their instructors to collaboratively markup .pdf documents. Instead of reading a document and discussing it, Perusall brings the discussion to the text.
Piazza
Piazza is a collaborative Q & A platform that allows students to collaborate on answers to content. Users ask questions of others studying the same course, and in a Wiki style format, other users collectively answer the question. Users can ask and answer questions anonymously. Instructors can create a Piazza course within Canvas to connect course work with TAs and students.
Respondus LockDown Browser
LockDown Browser is a custom browser that locks down the testing environment within a learning management system.
Shareable Content Object Reference Model (SCORM)
SCORM is a set of standards that allows educators to add interactive elements to their content. For example, multiple choice questions can be incorporated into a video to test for understanding. Content authoring software, such as Captivate, Articulate, or Camtasia contain SCORM packaging options. The "Learn on your own" link below will lead you to Camtasia's quizzing and surveys SCORM page.
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Learn on your own.
Top Hat
Top Hat is an online assessment platform. They are primarily known for their student response system. This application will be an additional charge for students.
Turnitin - "Classic"
Turnitin is a plagiarism-prevention service which checks student documents for unoriginal content. The results can be used to identify similarities to existing sources or can be used to help students learn how to avoid plagiarism and improve their writing.
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Turnitin - Plagiarism Framework
Similar to Turnitin "Classic," the Plagiarism Framework provides a similarity report on a student's submission, but feedback, including the use of rubrics and peer review is done through Canvas. The Plagiarism Framework integration also allows the submission of group assignments.
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Vista Higher Learning
A publisher supporting the learning of culture, languages, and literacy.
WebAssign
Please email canvas@ucsd.edu to request WebAssign be integrated into your course.
WileyPlus - Legacy
WileyPLUS is textbook publisher Wiley’s research-based online environment for effective teaching and learning, which is available for a number of Wiley’s titles. In WileyPLUS you can access a wide range of content, including self-study tools, the online text and assessment questions.
W. W. Norton & Company
Norton Digital Learning Tools offer a seamless digital learning environment of WW Norton content for use in the LMS. They include an e-reader, assessment tool, and course content materials.
YouTube
YouTube is a free video sharing website that makes it easy to watch online videos. Account holders can also create and upload their own videos to share with others.
Zoom
Zoom offers both meeting and webinar software for video conferencing, online meetings, and mobile collaboration.
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