Collaboration and Communication
Ed Discussion
Ed Discussion is a tool that facilitates discussions and interaction between students and instructors. Students can post messages, ask questions, and provide feedback. Instructors can draw attention to good replies and endorse posts that have correct answers to questions. You might use this to facilitate discussions, engage students, and track student participation.
Once Ed Discussions is enabled in Canvas, they recommend instructors to remove the Canvas ‘Discussion’ tool from their course menu.
Users may need to pay to access this tool.
Support for this tool is provided by Ed Discussion. Georgetown UIS and Canvas help desks will not be able to resolve issues related with this tool.
FeedbackFruits
Offers a suite of tools to help faculty create engaging and stimulating active learning courses. For example, they offer tools for assessment and peer feedback, collaborative learning and social annotations, and tools for engagement and interaction.
Users may need to pay to access this tool.
Support for this tool is provided by FeedbackFruits. Georgetown UIS and Canvas help desks will not be able to resolve issues related with this tool.
Hypothes.is
Hypothes.is is a collaborative annotation tool that can be integrated in a Canvas assignment, allowing students to annotate an external webpage or PDF, as well as see and comment on each other’s annotation. The instructor can also participate, and access individual student annotations through SpeedGrader. Check out the CNDLS page on Hypothes.is for more information and for help getting started.
Support for this tool is provided by Hypothes.is. Georgetown UIS and Canvas help desks will not be able to resolve issues related with this tool.
Lucid
Lucid for Education is a suite of visual applications consisting of LucidChart and LucidSpark, which are apps for org charts, flow charts, and other charts. Lucid combines the creative power of diagramming and design to help students understand their own thinking, foster creativity, and encourage collaboration. Now freely accessible through Canvas as external tools.
Note: LucidSpark is a whiteboard app which might be a good substitute for Google’s JamBoard (RIP).
Support for this tool is provided by Lucid. Georgetown UIS and Canvas help desks will not be able to resolve issues related with this tool.
Perusall
Perusall can be integrated in Canvas and allows students to make annotations directly on papers, which can be graded by AI. Instructors can check whether students are reading papers without having to give them quizzes. Perusall can incorporate etextbooks, online articles, and PDFs, which can then be marked up in a myriad ways.
Support for this tool is provided by Perusall. Georgetown UIS and Canvas help desks will not be able to resolve issues related with this tool.
Piazza
Piazza provides an online class forum that can be integrated in Canvas for students to hold discussions and pose questions to their peers, instructors, and TAs. Instructors are able to moderate the discussion, along with endorsing accurate answers.
Users may need to pay to access this tool.
Support for this tool is provided by Piazza. Georgetown UIS and Canvas help desks will not be able to resolve issues related with this tool.
VoiceThread
VoiceThread is an online discussion, assignment and presentation tool that can be integrated in Canvas. Instructors and students can use VoiceThread to create and share dynamic asynchronous conversations recording their computer’s audio and video, typing, and drawing on the screen. Check out the CNDLS page on VoiceThread for more information and to schedule a consultation.
Support for this tool is provided by VoiceThread. Georgetown UIS and Canvas help desks will not be able to resolve issues related with this tool.
Yellowdig
Yellowdig can be integrated in Canvas and provides a discussion platform to communicate and collaborate about class content. Users of Yellowdig can share a broad array of learning resources (e.g., videos, news articles, blogs and more).
Instructors will need to contact Yellowdig prior to enabling the tool in Canvas. Please reach out to support@yellowdig.com for more information.
Users may need to pay to access this tool.
Support for this tool is provided by Yellowdig. Georgetown UIS and Canvas help desks will not be able to resolve issues related with this tool.