Collaboration and Communication

• Ed Discussion
• FeedbackFruits
• Google Assignments
• Hypothes.is
• Lucid
• Perusall
• Piazza
• VoiceThread
• Yellowdig
• Zoom Conferencing

Ed Discussion

Enabled in Canvas: Course Menu

You may need to pay to access this tool.

Ed Discussion provides a threaded discussion platform in Canvas where instructors and students can interact asynchronously by posting comments, ask questions, provide feedback, upload files, and more. Students and instructors can. 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.

We recommend instructors disable the Canvas Discussions tool from the course menu when using Ed Discussions.

• Ed Discussion Faculty Guide
• Ed Discussion Student Guide
• Get Help with Ed Discussion

FeedbackFruits

Enabled in Canvas: Assignments, Modules, Rich Content Editor

FeedbackFruits is only available for McDonough School of Business Canvas courses.

You may need to pay to access this tool.

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.

• FeedbackFruits Faculty Guide

• FeedbackFruits Student Guide

• Get Help with FeedbackFruits

Google Assignments

Enabled in Canvas: Assignments, Modules, Rich Content Editor

Bring the collaborative tools of Google Apps to your Canvas course through the Google Assignments integration in Canvas. Instructors can use Google Assignments to embed content from Google Drive into their course and create, distribute, collect, analyze and grade student work. Both instructors and students can use Google Assignments to create and share Google docs, sheets, slides, and more.

• Google Assignments Faculty Guide
• Google Assignments Student Guide
• Get Help with Google Assignments

Hypothes.is

Enabled in Canvas: Assignments, Modules

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.

• Hypothes.is Guides

• Get Help with Hypothes.is

Lucid

Enabled in Canvas: Course Menu, Rich Content Editor

Lucid for Education is a suite of visual applications in Canvas 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.

• Getting Started with Lucid in Canvas
• Lucid Guides
• Get Help with Lucid

Perusall

Enabled in Canvas: Course Menu

Perusall is integrated in Canvas and allows students and Instructors to start conversations and annotate over online textbooks, articles, PDFs, and external webpage. 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. Students can automatically receive grades on their annotations.

• Perusall Faculty Guide
• Perusall Student Guide
• Get Help with Perusall

Piazza

Enabled in Canvas: Course Menu, Assignments, Modules

You may need to pay to access this tool.

Piazza provides an online class forum that’s 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.

• Piazza Faculty Guide
• Piazza Student Guide
• Get Help with Piazza

VoiceThread

Enabled in Canvas: Assignments, Modules, Rich Content Editor

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.

• VoiceThread Guides
• Get Help with VoiceThread

Yellowdig

Enabled in Canvas: Course Menu, Assignments, Modules

Instructors will need to contact Yellowdig prior to enabling the tool in Canvas. Please reach out to support@yellowdig.com for more information.

You may need to pay to access this tool.

Yellowdig is a discussion platform integrated in Canvas that allows students and instructors to communicate and collaborate about class content and share a broad array of learning resources (e.g., videos, news articles, blogs and more).

• Yellowdig Guides
• Get Help with Yellowdig

Zoom Conferencing

Enabled in: Course Menu

Zoom is a web conferencing tool that provides a platform to conduct live online conferences, presentations, lectures, meetings and group chats. Use Zoom on your desktop or laptop computer (Windows and Mac), mobile device (iOS and Android), or other conferencing systems such as Polycom (H.323), to connect to anyone internal or external to Georgetown.

Faculty can use the Zoom Conferencing tool in their Canvas courses to schedule meetings with students and hold online office hours. Students (and faculty too) can use Zoom outside of Canvas to create and host their own meetings.

• Zoom Guides
• Get Help with Zoom​