External Apps in Canvas – Delta PDC Portal

Below is a list of external tools (also called LTI tools, LTI apps, or external apps) that have been reviewed and approved for use at San Joaquin Delta College. Most are available in all Canvas courses, but some are restricted by campus, school, or department to comply with licensing agreements or other constraints. A few of the tools on this page are either included in your course navigation menu, or appear in other parts of the Canvas user interface. Most, however, are hidden, which means you’ll need toexpose them if you want to use them. For more about installing and exposing external tools, see Add an external app to your course in Canvas.

3C Media

3C Media Solutions offers faculty and staff of the California Community Colleges System the opportunity to caption any videos for free. All you have to do is create a free account to get started! 3C Media accounts are available to California Community Colleges faculty and staff only. You must register using your school or organization email address.

Similar Features? Canvas Studio has free captions.

Cost

Free from State

Support

N/A

Create a free account to get started!

3C Media accounts are available to California Community Colleges faculty and staff only. You must register using your SJDC email address. Once submitted, the videos are captioned within 1 week. Note: With 3C Media, you will still need to edit after captioning and correct any spelling mistakes and correct punctuation.

Accommodate HQ

Grant special access to one or more students on an assignment, quiz, survey, or discussion from a central location, via the Accommodate HQ app, without having to open every single course assignment.
From a single location, you can:
– Extend due dates, available from and allow until dates.
– Open items earlier or later for select students.
– Remove deadlines completely to accommodate learners.
Accommodate the needs of different students, by entering unique dates for individuals or groups.

Cost

Free from Etudes

Support

support@etudes.org

How to add to Canvas

Accommodate HQ is available in the Course Navigation Menu. You'll need to authorize its use the first time you access the tool.

Adjust -All HQ

Adjust-All HQ is an LTI (Learning Tool Interoperability) external application that integrates tightly with Canvas Learning Management System (LMS) and offers the ability to adjust all course dates and control various settings from one place! Installed in ALL the courses in your Canvas, it helps your instructors work more efficiently and create better-organized courses. Adjust-All HQ is group and section-aware, enabling instructors to work with a specific subset of items in a course.

Similar features? Multi-Tool

Cost

Free from Etudes

Support

support@etudes.org

How to Add to Canvas

Adjust-All HQ is available in the Course Navigation Menu. You'll need to authorize its use the first time you access this tool.

Attendance (roll call)

The Attendance (Roll Call) tool is an external app (LTI) used for taking attendance in Canvas courses. The Attendance tool can be used for online or face-to-face courses. Enabled at the account level, the Roll Call Attendance tool can be used by all courses in the Canvas account.

Cost

Free

Support

N/A

How to Add to Canvas

After the Attendance tool has been enabled for your course, you can configure the attendance tool to meet the needs of your students. However, some items cannot be configured until after your course is published and students have accepted the course invitation. Learn how to use the attendance tool in a course.

Canvas Commons

Commons is a 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.

Cost

N/A

Support

N/A

How to Add to Canvas

Enabled in the global navigation menu. Access the Canvas Commons Guide.

Canvas Studio

Canvas Studio is a communication tool that allows instructors and students to actively collaborate through video and audio media. Learn more about Studio on the Studio website. Studio's interface lets students and instructors engage with media content by commenting directly on the media timeline. Students can learn from each other's insights as well as from the instructor's direction and feedback.

Comments are noted with the posting time and date, along with the aligned time in the media. Comments can also be shown as inline comments in the timeline while viewing the media. Users can also post replies to comments as well, which can supplement the comments and are not part of the timeline display. Learn more about Canvas Studio

Cost

Free from CVC/OEI

Support/Training

Canvas Studio Training via PDC

How to Add to Canvas

You can access Canvas Studio in the Global Navigation Menu. To learn about available keyboard shortcuts in Canvas Studio, view the Studio Media Player Keyboard Shortcuts PDF.

Cengage Learning MindLinks

Cengage is part of the Panther Book Pack initiative, an affordable course materials rental program providing all undergraduate students with their required course materials by the first day of class.

Cengage MindLinks is a cloud-based, interactive tool designed to increase student participation and understanding. Instructors can integrate this content with their Canvas courses via the MindLinks tool.

Link your Canvas account with Cengage MindTap

To use Cengage MindTap, you need a CengageBrain account. For more, see the LMS MindTap Student Brief Start Guide .
In lieu of an access code, you may be asked for a course key. This refers to a string of numbers and letters that identifies the Cengage materials needed for your course. Your instructor should provide this to you.
Additional resources MindTap Training Resources

How to Add to Canvas

Cengage Learning Mindlinks is an educational content, technology, and services application that provides instructors with tools to advance student’s engagement. It offers both print and digital textbooks, instructor supplements, online reference databases, and career assessment tools and materials for specific academic disciplines.

Instructor resources:
Instructor Quick Start Guide (by Cengage)

Design Tools

DesignPLUS includes the Content Editor Toolbox, the Multi-Tool and the Upload/Embed Image Tool as part of a single SaaS subscription.

The tools are integrated with Canvas via a combination of LTI and the Canvas API. The tools can be made widely available or limited to specific users or specific roles making roll-out a breeze.

Similar Features? Canvas does not have a similar free tool.

Cost

Purchased campus license from Cidi Labs

Support/Training

Submit a Ticket for 1-1 Support

Tech Tuesday Sessions & PDC Faculty support forums

How to Add to Canvas

Access Design Plus User Guide

Hypothes.is

The Hypothesis LMS app brings discussion directly to course content by enabling students and teachers to add comments and start conversations in the margins of texts. Collaborative annotation engages students more deeply in course readings and gives teachers a view into how students are reading.

Cost

The Hypothesis LMS app is free to install for testing and limited use.

Support/Training

Submit a Ticket for 1-1 Support

How to Add to Canvas

Using the Hypothesis LMS App With Modules in Canvas

Check the Hypothes.is help documentation

Khan Academy

Search for and embed Khan Academy lessons and exercise into course material. Khan Academy focuses on short lessons on math, science, etc.

How to Add to Canvas

Khan Academy's Canvas Quick Glance Guide

LibGuides (Library Resources)

LibGuides is an easy-to-use content management system deployed at libraries worldwide. Librarians use it to share information, organize class and subjects. The platfrom is developed by vendor SpringShare.

Cost

Delta License by Library

Support/Training

Library Staff

How to Add to Canvas

To link to Delta's LibGuides, enable "Library Resources" under Settings >> Navigation in your shell. To integrate with a specific libGuide in your subject, contact Librarian Loren Valterza loren.valterza@deltacollege.edu

MS Teams for Meetings

Microsoft Teams Meetings allows customers with Microsoft accounts to create conference calls (meetings) using the Microsoft Teams integration with Canvas. This integration can be used in many areas that support the Canvas Rich Content Editor.

Teams Meetings settings can be customized by an institution's Microsoft Edu account administrator. This Canvas app integrates the Microsoft Teams Meeting App for Learning Management Systems. It leverages LTI 1.3 and deep linking for the editor button placement. No Canvas API or other LTI service scopes are enabled for this application. The privacy level for launches is set to public.

Cost

Delta License by IT

Support/Training

N/A

How to Add to Canvas

Teams meetings can be created using the Rich Content Editor in Assignments, Discussions, Pages, Classic Quizzes, and the Calendar. Once the integration is enabled, educators can create an audio or video meeting from Canvas.

1. When in the Rich Content Editor, click on the Microsoft Teams icon

2. Then select Create meeting link (you will need to sign into your Microsoft Teams account the first time)

3. Finally, enter a meeting title, date, and time, then click Create

Multi-Tool

The Multi-Tool helps you rapidly scaffold a course shell. Use the template page tool to create home and template pages.

Module builder sets up your module pattern and uses the Canvas API to create all associated artifacts (quizzes, assignments, discussions, and pages) in one step.

The due date modifier lets you manage assignment dates from a single screen.

It's a real time-saver.

Cost

Purchased Campus License from Cidi Labs

Support/Training

Tech Tuesday and Faculty Support Forums

How to Add to Canvas

Add Multi-Tool to your Course. https://cidilabs.instructure.com/courses/102/pages/about-the-multi-tool

NetTutor

Delta College provides students free access to NetTutor, which offers tutoring outside of normal business hours. Receive live tutoring from a tutor who is qualified to help you in a specific course subject. Tutoring for all levels of English Composition and Math is available 24 hours a day, every day. Tutoring is also available for Accounting, Finance, Business, Economics, Information Technology, Computer Science, Biology, Chemistry, Physics, Anatomy & Physiology, Nursing & Allied Health, World Languages (Spanish, French, German, Italian, Portuguese), Humanities & Social Sciences. Availability varies for subjects other than English Composition and Math — please login to NetTutor to find current availability.

Cost

Campus License by Tutorning Center

Support

For questions about NetTutor or other tutoring services at Delta College, contact Jordan Giannoni Harless, Learning Centers Coordinator, at jordan.giannoni@deltacollege.edu

How to Get Started

Visit one of the campus learning centers to receive a "token," which is a reusable access code.
Go to the NetTutor homepage and click on "Register" to start the process of creating an account. Read this guide for more information on creating an account.
When prompted, enter your access code.

New Analytics

New Analytics is an LTI tool installed at the account level and can be made visible in all courses.

Data is refreshed for published courses in the New Analytics dashboard every 24 hours. Report data may be delayed by 24 hours; however, Course Activity Report data may be delayed by 40 hours. Only active and completed student enrollments are included in data for New Analytics. Deleted or inactive user enrollments do not generate data.

Users participating in New Analytics can provide feedback in the New Analytics User Group about future analytics feature development. This tool will replace the current analytics feature at the course and user levels in a future release.

Cost

Free from CVC

Office 365

Enter the new Canvas integration with Microsoft Office 365. It considers the humans behind the technology and makes it possible for teachers and students to:

Use single sign-on technology to log in to Canvas using Microsoft IDs and passwords.
Create documents in Office 365 and submit them as Assignments directly within Office 365 or Canvas.
Grade Office 365 documents through SpeedGrader.
Link to Office 365 docs in the Canvas Rich Content Editor.
Add Office 365 docs directly to Modules.
Use Office 365 documents, spreadsheets, or presentations for Canvas Collaborations.
Push assignments and grades directly from the Microsoft OneNote Class Notebook to Canvas.

Cost

Delta IT License

How to Use

See Micosoft Documentation

Redirect Tool

The Redirect Tool adds a link to a website (or even another Canvas page) that appears in the left hand course navigation. Whatever URL you specify is loaded within the content pane when users click the link. To configure this app you specify the text and URL you’d like to add to navigation elements in the LMS, then check the areas you’d like it added to. The link will only appear in the user navigation if this app is installed at the root level. The 3-Click rule of web design explains that accessing web content should not take more than 3-clicks to reach desired content. It can be tricky to follow this web design advice, but it is a good rule of thumb to try and follow. You will find sing the Redirect Tool to limit the number of clicks needed for students to find the most used resources useful!

Cost

Free with Canvas

RedShelf eBooks

RedShelf provides students with access to digital content at a reduced cost through the Bookstore's inclusive access program with publishers. Students are able to access content on the first day of class and may opt out from purchasing the digital content within the first two weeks through a link in the site.

Cost

Bookstore has puchased a Campus license

How to add in Canvas

See Canvas Integration

Respondus LockDown Browser & Monitor

LockDown Browser® is a custom browser that locks down the testing environment within a learning management system. When students use LockDown Browser to access a quiz, they are unable to print, copy, visit other websites, access other applications, or close a quiz until it is submitted for grading. Quizzes created for use with LockDown Browser cannot be accessed with standard browsers.

Cost

PDC has puchased a Limited Campus license

Training

See https://pdcdeltacollege.com/forums/postid/1303/

How to add in Canvas

See Getting Started

TechConnect Zoom

TechConnect Zoom is a project of CCC TechConnect, funded by a grant from the California Community Colleges Chancellor's Office. Our services are free to all employees of California community colleges and approved organizations that serve the system.

Cost

Free from CCC TechConnect

Support

See https://ccctechconnect.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/requests/new

How to add in Canvas

Click on the ‘TechConnect Zoom’ app in the Canvas navigation (your college many have chosen a different name). The menu tabs include:

All My Zoom Meeting/Recordings or Course Meetings/Recordings
Schedule a New Meeting
Import a Meeting (icon is the 3 vertical dots)
Upcoming Meetings
Previous Meetings
Cloud Recordings

Turnitin

Turnitin is an originality checking and plagiarism prevention service that checks student's writing for citation mistakes or inappropriate copying. Upon submission, Turnitin compares the student's paper to text in its massive database of student work, websites, books, articles, etc.

Cost

Purchased Campus License

Support

Provided by Turnitin, Inc.

How to add in Canvas

You can now create Turnitin assignments and use TII tools such as Peermark/review, Quickmarks, Turnitin rubrics and Turnitin grading within your Canvas course shell. For instructions on how, please visit: Creating a Turnitin Assignment in Canvas

For more info on using Turnitin within Canvas, please visit this Turnitin LTI Assignment Instructor Help Page.

Vimeo

Vimeo is a video sharing website on which users can upload, share, and view videos. The community of Vimeo includes indie, professional, and novice filmmakers. The Vimeo LTI tool lets users search for and embed videos into course content.

Cost

NA

Support

NA

How to add in Canvas

See Canvas Community Forums page

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