Canvas Resource Hub

Find a new technique to use today

Northwestern Information Teaching and Learning Technologies offers a number of opportunities to compliment and extend the capabilities of your Canvas courses with supported apps and digital tools.

See the list below for some of the programs available to use in your Canvas courses today.  Please note that these tools are only the ones which are available across all Northwestern schools. Your individual school's IT department will have a more comprehensive list which will include school-specific licenses.  

If you're interested in something not listed below, send us an email. We're always happy to help.  

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Add a Learning App to My Canvas Course

Enhance Course Discussion and Collaboration

Nebula

Visual Discussion Board for Canvas

Nebula

Nebula

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Share Content with My Class

Box

Easy & Safe File Sharing

Box

  • Product Name: BOX
  • Used for: ONLINE FILE SHARING, CONTENT MANAGEMENT 
  • Cost: NONE
  • Canvas Integration: YES
  • Get started: CREATE A BOX ACCOUNT
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Panopto

Desktop Video Recording & Live Streaming

Panopto

  • Product Name: PANOPTO
  • Used for: VIDEO RECORDING, LIVE STREAMING, HOSTING
  • Cost: NONE
  • Canvas Integration: YES
  • Get started: LOGIN, FEINBERG LOGIN, KELLOGG LOGIN
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Course Reserves

Share Library Materials with Class

Course Reserves

Course Reserves

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Record, Share, or Stream Videos

Library Media

Find & Share Entire Movies or Clips

Library Media

  • Product Name: AVALON MEDIA SYSTEM
  • Used to: ACCESS THE NU LIBRARY DIGITAL MEDIA REPOSITORY
  • Cost: NONE
  • Canvas Integration: YES
  • Get started: ACCESS AVALON
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BlueJeans

Host, Record, & Share a Videoconference

BlueJeans

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Panopto

Desktop Video Recording & Live Streaming

Panopto

  • Product Name: PANOPTO
  • Used for: VIDEO RECORDING, LIVE STREAMING, HOSTING
  • Cost: NONE
  • Canvas Integration: YES
  • Get started: LOGIN, FEINBERG LOGIN, KELLOGG LOGIN
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Hold an Online Meeting or Videoconference

BlueJeans

Host, Record, & Share a Videoconference

BlueJeans

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Panopto

Desktop Video Recording & Live Streaming

Panopto

  • Product Name: PANOPTO
  • Used for: VIDEO RECORDING, LIVE STREAMING, HOSTING
  • Cost: NONE
  • Canvas Integration: YES
  • Get started: LOGIN, FEINBERG LOGIN, KELLOGG LOGIN
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Accessibility and Inclusivity Tools

NameCoach

Name Pronunciation Tool

NameCoach

  • Product Name: NAMECOACH
  • Used for: NAME PRONUNCIATION
  • Cost: NONE
  • Canvas Integration: YES
  • Get started: VISIT NAMECOACH IN ANY CANVAS COURSE
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UDOIT

Identify Accessibility Issues

UDOIT

UDOIT

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Student Response Systems

TurningPoint Cloud

Easy-To-Use Polling Software

TurningPoint Cloud

Easy-To-Use Polling Software

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Plagiarism Detection

Turnitin

Anti-Plagiarism Software

Turnitin

Anti-Plagiarism Software

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Analytics and Visualization Tools

Discussion Analytics

Analyze Canvas Discussion Forums

Discussion Analytics

Discussion Analytics

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Nebula

Visual Discussion Board for Canvas

Nebula

Nebula

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Secure Exam Proctoring in Canvas

LockDown Browser

Secure Testing Environment in Canvas

LockDown Browser

  • Product Name: LOCKDOWN BROWSER
  • Used for: EXAM SECURITY IN CANVAS
  • Cost: NONE
  • Canvas Integration: YES
  • Get started: CONTACT US
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Secure Exam Proctoring in Canvas

Secure Exam Proctoring in Canvas

Monitor

  • Product Name: MONITOR
  • Used for: EXAM SECURITY IN CANVAS
  • Cost: $10 PER STUDENT PER COURSE
  • Canvas Integration: YES
  • Get started: CONTACT US
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Submit Final Grades to CAESAR

GradeSync

Send Final Grades from Canvas to CAESAR

GradeSync

  • Tool Name: GRADESYNC
  • Used for: SUBMITTING FINAL GRADES
  • Cost: NONE
  • Canvas Integration: YES
  • Get Started: IN ALL CANVAS COURSES, BUT HIDDEN BY DEFAULT
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Access to Free and Low-Cost Course Materials

Students studying

Affordable Instructional Resources (AIR)

Starting Points for Improving Access to Course Materials

Northwestern students are expected to budget upwards of $1,600 per year for books and supplies. These costs vary by discipline and can negatively affect academic performance, especially students from low or middle income backgrounds. While scholarships, grants, and loans help tuition and housing, textbooks and supplies tend to fall directly within the student’s family or individual contribution, causing disparity within the classroom.

To raise awareness of this issue and support faculty and instructors throughout the process of addressing course costs, Affordable Instructional Resources (AIR) is a network of Northwestern faculty and staff interested in reducing or eliminating supplemental costs associated with required textbooks, course packets, access codes, equipment, and software.

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Participate in a Pilot

Canvas Support Chatbot

Get Help with Common Canvas Questions Quickly

Canvas Support Chatbot

  • Product Name: CANVAS CHATBOT
  • Used for: CANVAS HELP
  • Cost: NONE
  • Canvas Integration: YES
  • Get started: HELP ICON IN THE MAIN LEFT NAVIGATION IN CANVAS
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Planning to use video in your course?

Three things to note:

  1. Providing links to video is generally okay (or using things like YouTube’s embedding code, where applicable);
  2. Use a legal copy of the video (for example, don’t use an intermediate program to download YouTube videos);
  3. Licenses and contracts (like clicking “I agree” to the terms involved in creating a YouTube account) may trump the ability to use an exception like fair use.
Here are some other resources that go into a little more detail:

Using Video and Audio in Teaching (online and otherwise)

This is the more comprehensive resource—it addresses online video directly. Note that some of the descriptions are vague: “X may be fair use sometimes.” While that may be true, faculty still need to consider whether fair use applies the same way in their case.

Know Your Copy Rights

While this brochure is a bit older, the principles it outlines are still solid: promotion of linking, public domain materials, fair use, and Creative Commons materials are all still great strategies. Note that the uses it covers are a bit broader than strictly online video.

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