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

The concept is great. The execution needs to fix numerous bugs. 1. When there is a complete/incomplete grade to be assigned, the app only records it as an incomplete, no matter which grade you marked to assign. 2. The comments that are made in the rubric dissappear if there is a subsequent submission of the assignment. Also the grade in the rubric also disappears on the resubmission. Also the overall grade disappears from the previous submission.

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

- Users can now scan physical documents directly from file upload screens using the device camera, with multi-page scanning, auto-crop, and PDF generation.
- Stability and performance improvements.