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 have been using this app for several years as a supplement to grading on the go when not near a computer. Unfortunately, after the updates performed last year, I am no longer able to scroll through my list of students within the grading window and have to back out every time. Sometimes, the app doesn't score the assessed rubric and has longer than anticipated loading delays. Overall, these bugs need to be fixed as there are a lot of options for grading now that are dumbing down the basics.

Great app, and it makes reviewing work easier. However, I think there should be an option to change submission type from the app instead of having to go through a browser. There have been a few instances where I neglect to change submission from "No submission" and don't have access to a computer right away but have students waiting on me to correct this.

Further lowering my rating of this app. It already has limited functionality compared to the student version; today I discovered that when writing an announcement, you can't reposition the cursor. As a result if you want to correct a typo you have to erase everything you've written after the typo to fix it. This makes the announcement functionality effectively unusable.

What’s new

- Open a specific conversation directly from an Inbox push notification.
- Show an unread badge on the main topic in discussion/announcement lists.
- Fixed rubric criterion score precision in SpeedGrader.
- Fixed Studio videos not playing in course content when the RCE Studio Embed Improvements feature is enabled.
- Various bug fixes and stability improvements.