Canvas Tools
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Visible tools
The following tools are visible in most courses (Schools and departments may have disabled some). Most are native to Canvas, but Roster Photos and SCRIBE were developed by Stanford and Panopto is a third-party tool.
- Announcements
- Assignments
- Calendar
- Chat
- Collaborations
- Courses and Sections
- Discussions
- Files
- Grades
- Groups
- Modules
- New Analytics
- Pages
- Panopto Course Videos (Third-party tool. The Graduate School of Business, School of Medicine, and Continuing Studies Program have alternative tools to post video)
- People
- Profile and User Settings
- Quizzes
- Roster Photos + NameCoach
- Rubrics
- Settings
- SCRIBE (SensusAccess)
- Zoom (Third-party tool)
Hidden tools
The following can be made visible by going to Settings >Navigation, dragging tool to active tool list, and clicking Save. Most of these are third-party tools, with the exception of Redirect and Attendance which were developed by Instructure, Canvas' parent company.
- Attendance (Roll Call)
- Ed Discussion
- Gradescope
- Redirect
- Section<->Group (Stanford-developed)
- Slack (GSB faculty, please contact the Teaching and Learning Hub to discuss options for using Slack in your course.)
More tools?
There are a few tools that are approved for wide use or currently under pilot that require installation by support request. Learn more about the review process and requesting a new tool for approval.