Canvas App Features for eCornell courses

Allison McComb Updated by Allison McComb

Canvas App Features for eCornell courses

Please note that eCornell-specific customizations are not compatible with the Canvas app at this time.

This includes features such as the Facil tool, and unique Speedgrader functionalities such as the Fill Points and Add Attempts features. These features will only be available on the desktop version of Canvas, which you can access by visiting http://learn.ecornell.cornell.edu/ on your computer. Additionally, third party tools built into eCornell courses such as Codio, the Jupyter Notebook, etc., are not supported at this time.

Although the Canvas mobile app can be a great resource communicating with students while you may be away from your computer, it should not be used for any significant amounts of grading.

Please refer to the chart below to see which features are compatible with the Canvas Mobile app.

Features

Desktop

iOS App

Android App

Announcements

    Add Custom Announcements

✓

✓

✓

    Edit Announcements

✓

✓

✓

Assignments

    Edit Assignment Settings

✓

✓

✓

    View Assignment Submissions

✓

✓

View limited do to screen size

✓

View limited do to screen size

    View Assignment Rubrics

✓

✓

✓

Calendar

    View Calendar

✓

✓

✓

    Add/Edit Calendar Items

✓

✓

✓

Live Sessions

    Join/Edit Live Sessions

✓

X

X

Discussions

    Edit/Reply to Discussions

✓

✓

✓

    Like Discussion Replies

​✓

X

✓

External Tools (LTI)

    Access External Tools

​✓

X

X

    eCornell Facil Tool

✓

X

X

    Embed in Rich Text

✓

X

X

Files

    Edit Files/Folders

✓

✓

✓

    Preview Files

✓

✓

✓

    Search Files

✓

✓

✓

Grading

    View Gradebook

✓

X

X

    Grade Assignments

✓

✓

Grading in external tools (like Codio) unavailable. None of the eCornell custom grading enhancements are available.

✓

Grading in external tools (like Codio) unavailable. None of the eCornell custom grading enhancements are available.

    View Grades

✓

✓

Only able to view one student/assignment grade at a time

✓

Only able to view one student/assignment grade at a time 

    Add Text Comments

✓

✓

May not be as efficient due to lack of physical keyboard.

✓

May not be as efficient due to lack of physical keyboard.

    Add Media Comments

✓

✓

✓

    Post/Hide Assignment Grades

✓

✓

✓

Messages

Message and Reply to Messages

✓

✓

✓

Message Group of Students

✓

✓

Message from inbox to multiple students is available, but “message students who” feature not available in gradebook

✓

Message from inbox to multiple students is available, but “message students who” feature not available in gradebook

Push Notifications on Your Device

X

✓

✓

Modules

    View Modules

✓

✓

✓

Pages

    Preview Pages

✓

✓

Some external tools may not load appropriately

✓

Some external tools may not load appropriately

People

    View People and Context Cards

✓

✓

✓

    Student View

✓

✓

Mobile student view

✓

Mobile student view

Quizzes

Edit Quiz Settings

✓

✓

✓

Moderate Quiz

✓

✓

✓

Rich Content Editor

    Basic Text Formatting

✓

✓

✓

To Do List

View To Do List

✓

✓

✓

Open Items in SpeedGrader

✓

✓

✓

Additional Article resources for the Canvas Mobile App:

Setting up and Navigating the Canvas Mobile app

Setting up Push Notifications on Canvas Mobile

Messaging Students via the Canvas Mobile App

Canvas Mobile app FAQs/Resources to have:

Canvas Teacher Android Guide can be found in this article.

Canvas Teacher iOS Guide can be found in this article.

How did we do?

Setting up Push Notifications on Canvas Mobile

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