LTI Canvas Policy
What are LTI Tools?
LTI stands for Learning Tools Interoperability and is an integration standard for third party tools. Canvas supports LTI, which allows third party tools to be easily integrated and used within Canvas.
What LTI Tools are available in Canvas?
The following tools are installed system wide:
Note: This list does not include course level tools.
Name
Support Contact
Description
KB Article/Support Page
Zoom
Client Support Services
Zoom is an easy-to-use video conferencing tool that lets users quickly and reliably schedule, manage and record meetings. Zoom is integrated in Canvas as well as Panopto.
Creating Zoom Meetings
Panopto
Client Support Services
Panopto is a cloud-based video management platform which allows you to create, edit and share video content. Panopto is available to all students, faculty and staff and will be fully integrated into both Canvas and Zoom.
How to use Panopto
Gradescope
Client Support Services
Gradescope is a platform that helps you seamlessly administer and grade all of your assessments online.
How to use Gradescope
Poll Everywhere
Client Support Services
Poll Everywhere is an online polling platform that allows participants and students to vote on custom polls ─ including multiple choice and free response questions ─ in real time.
What is Poll Everywhere
aPlus+ Attendance
Client Support Services
The aPlus+ attendance platform is a flexible and comprehensive way of recording attendance that is integrated into Canvas.
How to take attendance in your Canvas course
LinkedIn Learning
Client Support Services
LinkedIn Learning is an online library that offers high-quality instructional videos which cover a wide variety of topics, such as business, software, technology, and art.
How to use LinkedIn Learning
Cengage Learning MindTap
Cengage Learning Support
Cengage Learning Mindlinks is a cloud-based highly personalized, online learning platform that combines all of your learning tools -readings, multimedia, activities and assessments into a singular Learning Path that guides students through the curriculum.
What is Cengage Learning for MindTap
McGraw Hill Connect
McGraw Hill Support
Connect is a complete course platform that enables you to take your students further. It supports you by automating prep work, simplifying the addition of instructors to sections, and surfacing more information with fewer clicks.
How to use McGraw Hill Connect
Wiley Plus
Wiley Plus Support
Wiley Plus is a textbook tool that includes practice problems and feedback, course content and educational videos, and gives students the flexibility to increase confidence as they learn and prepare outside of class.
How to use WileyPlus
Access Pearson
Access Pearson Support
Access Pearson (formerly Pearson MyLab) provides interactive learning tools, mobile eTextbooks, assignment management, and real-time student feedback. Access Pearson is designed to accompany textbooks published by Pearson Education.
What is Access Pearson
MacMillian (Achieve)
Macmillian Support
Achieve delivers research-backed personalized learning, real-time feedback, and accessibility features—all integrated into your LMS to keep students engaged without increasing your workload.
What is Achieve
Turnitin
Client Support Services
The integration of Turnitin with Canvas allows instructors to automatically check for plagiarism once students submit a File Upload assignment. The system is designed to facilitate feedback between instructors and students on written work.
Creating a Turnitin Assignment
Respondus Lockdown Browser
Client Support Services
LockDown Browser is a custom browser (like Chrome or Firefox) that locks down the testing environment in Canvas.
How to use Respondus Lockdown Browser
Lab Archives
Lab Archives Support Request
LabArchives is a cloud-based Electronic Lab Notebook to enable researchers, instructors, and students to store, organize, and publish their research data.
How to use Lab Archives in Canvas
Hypothesis
Client Support Services
Hypothesis is an easy-to-use pedagogical tool that enables students and instructors to have conversations in the margins of digital texts.
What is Hypothesis
Zybooks
Zybooks Support Request
Zybooks is an online platform that offers interactive digital textbooks for STEM subjects, designed to provide a more engaging and effective learning experience than traditional textbooks by combining minimal text with animations, interactive exercises, and embedded coding challenges.
How to use Zybooks
Lucid
Client Support Services
Lucid for Education is a suite of two visual applications: Lucidspark and Lucidchart. Use Lucidspark for free-form whiteboard activities such as mind mapping, brainstorming, or collaboration. Leverage Lucidchart for detailed, structured diagramming activities such as flowcharts.
Using Lucid in Canvas
Note: There may also be several tools currently in pilot and available for use. Please submit a ticket to contact the Office of Learning Technology about our current pilots. In addition, some schools also have specific tools available for their faculty to use.
How do I request a new LTI Tool be added to Canvas?
1) Complete the LTI Request Form.
2) Create a support ticket
Please note that the installation of new tools will happen prior to the start of a term (unless there is an urgent need) to minimize disruption to users.
There is a six-week moratorium on installations four weeks prior to the first day of classes through two weeks after the first day of classes.
What concerns are there about LTI tools?
- FERPA/Privacy
- Accessibility
- Security
- Cost
- Level of installation (some tools can only be installed system wide while others can be installed at the school or course level)
- Copyright/ownership of content and how content may be used by the vendor
- Terms of Service/License Agreements (which may be between an institution and the vendor or between individual users and the vendor)
How are these concerns addressed?
Information technology-based services and solutions must be appropriately assessed for managing the risks to the confidentiality, integrity and availability of sensitive data and systems. To that end, Stevens Institute of Technology has adopted Educause’s Higher Education Community Vendor Assessment Toolkit (HECVAT) as part of its Vendor Risk Management process. We require Vendors to complete a HEVCAT.
We also request that vendors complete a Voluntary Product Accessibility Template (VPAT) so we can review tools for accessibility compliance. If one is completed already vendors can provide us their current VPAT statement.
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