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

For the most part it makes it convenient with checking in on students, grading, etc... a couple of annoyance: PLEASE adjust the settings so we can copy text. Especially on canvas emails!!! I hate that I have to get on my desktop just to copy text in canvas. Also, it would be nice to just have the overall BASIC settings the desktop does, for example, just simply unlocking a module. The developers need to have a roundtable with teachers to discuss where Canvas falls short, mostly with the app!!

Crashes constantly since December. I used to love grading in the app. Handwritting on my students assignments was quick and easy. Now I can grade 2 or 3 before the app freezes. Way to give teachers more work and stress. We don't get to choose what platform our kids are working in, so we have to struggle with subpar apps that don't get fixed.

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.

What's new

- Added grab tool to annotation toolbar.
- Changed font to Lato.
- Added support for dark mode.
- Fixed a bug where teachers couldn't preview quizzes created with the new quizzes tool.
- Fixed a bug where the attendance tool was displayed as an LTI tool in course navigation.
- Fixed a bug where a video file's new name was not shown after editing.
- Fixed a crash when trying to edit media files.