This is the main tool for student submissions in Canvas, such as text documents or videos. It supports rubrics, group assignments, resubmissions, and more.
In discussions, students learn from one another, practise answering questions from fellow students and the teacher, develop their ability to explain their ideas, and use the language of the discipline.
Peer review involves students evaluating the work of fellow students. Students first submit an assignment and then gain access to the work of one or more classmates to review.
FF is a diverse set of tools in Canvas intended to increase student activity and expand a teacher’s options for varied teaching methods in a digital environment.
Canvas has two quiz tools, Classic Quizzes and New Quizzes. They use separate question banks. New Quizzes will eventually replace Classic Quizzes.
Inspera is the University of Iceland’s electronic exam system. It offers strong exam security and a range of question types. Grades from Inspera exams can be published in the Canvas gradebook.
Setting up a make-up or deferred exam and preparing it in the gradebook. The exam is assigned only to selected students.
The School of Engineering and Natural Sciences offers its teachers the option of using the Gradescope LTI integration inside Canvas.
The collaboration tool allows students to work together on a document through Google or Office.
In a Portfolio, a student can keep track of their own work, collect materials, and control access to it throughout their years of study.