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:
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- 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:
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- 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
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Announcements:
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- 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: