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

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.

Good grief: Speed Grader - the most important aspect of the app, arguably - has become most unbearable to use with the recent update. I spend way too long just trying to swipe to the correct number grade per student. With all the recent negative reviews for many reasons, you'd think something could have been done by now. Also, can we please have an option to prevent students from attaching assignments in the submission comments (it has become an undermining tactic)... Please! It's 2025!

What’s new

- Updated privacy settings in affected regions.
- Increased security for data protection.
- Fixed an error that prevented teachers from accessing discussions with graded checkpoints from the To Do list
- Fixed an issue where SpeedGrader incorrectly displayed a submission as "Graded" when the teacher had only left a comment without assigning an actual grade.
- Fixed an issue where media attachments sent via Inbox were not visible or playable.
- Bug fixes and stability improvements.