Canvas Teacher

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About this app

Time is a teacher’s most valuable resource. Save time and use Canvas more efficiently from your mobile device with Canvas Teacher.

Canvas Teacher allows teachers to facilitate their courses on the go, both inside and outside the classroom. This app provides quick access to three of the most frequent course facilitation tasks for teachers:

• GRADING: Browse submissions and provide feedback to your students with a new and improved mobile SpeedGrader embedded in this app.
• COMMUNICATING: Send announcements and messages (including "Message Students Who..."), and participate in course discussions from the palm of your hand.
• UPDATING: Need to change a due date? Or publish an assignment? Or fix a misspelling? Canvas Teacher allows you to update your course content.

Canvas Teacher is the perfect mobile Canvas companion for course facilitation!

Ratings and reviews

I really like using this app! It has been a great service to me, especially when traveling, whilst I was living overseas, and living an area where I don't have standard home internet. Two things I would like to see in a future update: 1) that the "Grade" tab in the grading view have the option for a rubric like the desktop version; 2) that the discussion posts from the grading view includes a word count like the posting side does (helpful for assignments with minimum word counts). Thank you!!

I used to love this app, but 2 things. 1) the grade/comments window is now to the right of the document instead of below it. This is MUCH less usable. When it was below, I could easily swipe it down to get the document on full screen or swipe it up to get the rubric on full screen. It was great! Now I'm stuck with 1/3 waste. Please share if I'm missing something (I need full screen docs). Next, please optimize it for e-ink tablets. It's amazing to read on, but the writing lag is rough.

I like the app overall, but recently I've had issues where, when I filter an assignment to one section it will show that section's students only, but when I click on a student to put in grades, it opens up a different student from a different section and swiping left or right to different students shows every student I teach and their submissions. It makes it a lot more difficult to grade when I have to scroll through 200+ students instead of 30-35.

What's new

- New colors for course customization and improved accessibility.
- Excused submissions are now available from the Graded submissions list.
- Kaltura videos now can be opened with the Launch External Tool button.
- Reply button is removed for messages where reply is disabled.
- Quiz details screen now opens in split view properly.
- Discussion filter groups now refresh correctly when a discussion is updated.
- XML files can be opened from user Files.