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

It's great but needs to be more mobile friendly. Grading is especially cumbersome as you grade a question you have to click on the box where you assign the score, then tell open up the devices keyboard, then tell your device you need the number and not letter pad. The inclusion of Radial buttons for grading full, half and zero credit or even simply signalling to the device to bring up the numeric keypad first you make the app so much easier to use. The system for taking suggestions is ridiculo

The ease of use there. The functionality, however isn't. It's not very handy when using a tablet and pen to grade, doesn't represent all of the features on the website, and although that is clunky as Blackboard it really has a lot of disorganized functionality and feature quirks. Too many simple things that would be highly beneficial just are not possible. Not worth trying to bother getting used to the app, and frankly the entire service is a little subpar.

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.

What's new

- Accessibility improvements.