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External Apps Supported in FSU's Canvas
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FSU supports the use of a variety of external applications that enhance both the teaching and learning experience. There are a few different ways you and your students can access external tools in your course site. Find out more below about how these applications function, where you need to go to view these apps, and how they can be installed in your course.

 

 

External Apps: What's their Function?

A quick breakdown of the ways that the most popular external apps we support function:

Accessibility Tools

Anthropology Ally can help you ensure that your course content is accessible to all users, including checking your Microsoft Word documents and PDF files and making recommendations to make your course files more accessible. CiDi Labs DesignPLUS can help you create accessible content within Canvas. Anthropology Ally is solely focused on accessibility, whereas DesignPLUS is focused on page design and incorporates accessibility into Canvas page design at the same time.

Course Design Tools

CiDi Labs DesignPLUS can help you to improve both the design and accessibility of your Canvas course. You can even create a great course syllabus that will automatically update the institutional policies for you each semester!

In-Class Polling

iClicker Cloud is our most popular polling tool at FSU with two different product options available to meet your needs. You can also use Top Hat in some similar ways to administer class attendance, quizzes, and more from your students' smartphones.

Video Hosting

Kaltura is the ideal tool to use because it allows you to create and share an unlimited amount of video and audio recordings in Canvas. Added bonus: Kaltura captions your media items automatically, giving your students closed captions and transcripts for the videos you create.

Plagiarism Checking

Turnitin is a top-ranked plagiarism deterrent service that integrates with Canvas so you can ensure that you students are submitting their own work and citing their sources appropriately.

Web Conferencing

Zoom Web-conferencing is robust and offers you and your students many options for synchronous interaction. Canvas's built-in web-conferencing tool, BigBlueButton, is also available for use but will not allow you to retain a recording of your conference for more than 14 days and does not allow you to easily invite non-FSU users to a conferencing session.

Keep reading to see all the external apps we support using!

External Apps integrated with FSU's Canvas

Pre-installed Integrations

Pre-installed Integrations
App Function
Turnitin LTI (old) and Turnitin Direct (new) Plagiarism Checking
WebAssign Instructional Materials/Assessments
Cengage Instructional Materials/Assessments
Kaltura Media Hosting
Pearson Instructional Materials/Assessments
McGraw-Hill Education Instructional Materials/Assessments
iClicker Cloud In-Class Polling
Annoto Instructional Materials
Squarecap In-Class Polling
FSU Library Tools Instructional Material
BookShelf® by VitalSource Instructional Material
BigBlueButton Web-Conferencing
Office 365 Free Software for FSU users
Design Tools Course Design & Accessibility
FSU Career Portolio integration Assignment
W.W. Norton Instructional Materials/Assessments
TurningPoint In-Class Polling
Piazza Online Discussion Tool
Top Hat In-Class Polling
Labster Virtual Science Lab Tool
RedShelf Online Textbooks
WileyPLUS Instructional Materials/Assessments
Lumen Learning Math Assessments
zyBooks Instructional Materials/Assessments
Zoom Web-conferencing Web-Conferencing
Padlet Instructional Materials
Hypothesis

Instructional Materials

Integrations Requiring Approval

Integrations Requiring Approval
App Function
Honorlock Remote proctoring

External Apps that can be used without an integration

Don't see what you're looking for here? Check out the Canvas App Center in your course as well as our External Apps (Third-party tools) in Canvas: Policy, Procedure, and Support resource.

How do I find the apps already installed in my course?

These apps have already been installed on your course site, and simply need to be enabled in your course Navigation menu:

Note: Kaltura can be found in Course Media/My Media

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