Learning technology leadership at UBC consider the pedagogical, technical, financial, security, and privacy of new technologies to reach a final decision on the central support offered to each evaluated tool. Below are statuses of more recently considered learning technologies.
Formal Pilots & Canvas Integrations
Formal Pilots
When a tool enters into a formal pilot, its status may be: Active Pilot (evaluation currently underway), Decision Pending (evaluation complete but awaiting institutional decision on support), or Decision Reached (institutional decision on support made).
| Tool | Status | Result | Details |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ally | Active Pilot | Ally is a content-checking tool that works in Canvas to help instructors improve the accessibility of their course content. UBC previously piloted the tool in 2018 and is actively piloting it again in the Faculty of Education. | |
| CATME | Decision Reached |
No Central Support or Funding
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CATME is a tool for asking students to review the contributions of their peers to group work. UBC has decided not to centrally support or fund CATME. This decision follows recommendations from a 2020 Student Peer Assessment Tools Working Group to instead further develop UBC's own iPeer. |
| Course Spaces | Decision Pending |
(review underway)
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Course Spaces is a WordPress-based interactive website platform developed at UBC for sharing course content. Course Spaces has completed a pilot, and a decision from UBC about future support and funding is pending. |
| Crowdmark | Decision Reached |
Central Support, Decentralized Funding
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Crowdmark is an application for grading online, designed for easing the challenges of grading collaboratively with a teaching team. UBC has decided to centrally support Crowdmark, but faculties/departments must provide funding per student per course. |
| edX Edge | Decision Reached |
Central Support (until May 2023) & Funding
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edX Edge as an online course delivery alternative to Canvas that allows online course content to be presented in a highly organized sequence of modules and pages. UBC has decided to centrally support (until May 2023) and fund edX Edge. |
| Gradescope | Decision Reached |
Central Support, Decentralized Funding
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Gradescope is an application for grading online, designed for easing the challenges of grading collaboratively with a teaching team. UBC has decided to centrally support Gradescope, but faculties/departments must provide funding per student per course. |
| Hypothesis | Active Pilot | Hypothesis enables students to annotate and tag online readings in Canvas, then share their notes with each other for further discussion.
Please contact us at the LT Hub if you would like to try Hypothesis out in your Canvas course. |
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| iClicker Cloud | Decision Reached |
Central Support & Funding
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iClicker Cloud is an online student response system that allows instructors to collect and grade responses to in-class questions, which students answer individually using their own computer or mobile device. UBC has decided to centrally support and fund iClicker Cloud. |
| Mattermost | Decision Reached |
Central Support, Decentralized Funding
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Mattermost a chat tool for real-time and asynchronous communication and collaboration, meaning instant messages and threaded discussions can coexist in one, “anytime” course space. UBC has decided to centrally support Mattermost, but faculties/departments must provide funding per teaching team member. |
| My Learning Analytics (MyLA) | Active Pilot | MyLA is a dashboard in Canvas that gives instructors and students feedback about students' engagement with course materials, assignments, and grades.
Please contact us at the LT Hub if you would like to try MyLA out in your Canvas course. |
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| peerScholar | Decision Reached |
Central Support & Funding
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peerScholar is a peer review tool that allows a high degree of granularity and customization in how you have students review one another’s work. UBC has decided to centrally support and fund peerScholar. |
| Proctorio | Decision Reached |
No Central Support or Funding
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Proctorio is an online remote proctoring tool that allows instructors to give an invigilated quiz or exam in Canvas. UBC had decided to centrally support Proctorio, but the decision to support Proctorio was changed in light of concerns raised around its use during COVID-19. UBC no longer centrally supports Proctorio. |
| Team Formation | Decision Pending |
(review underway)
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Team Formation is a homegrown UBC tool that enables you to create teams based on student traits, skills, and preferences. Team Formation has completed a pilot, and a decision from UBC about future support and funding is pending. |
Canvas Integrations
When interest in using a tool with Canvas is expressed, its integration status may be: Planned (investigation anticipated within the next year) Active Investigation (investigating technical and privacy considerations), or Completed (investigation complete, with acceptance or rejection outcome).
| Canvas Integration | Integration Investigation | Results | Grade Sync | Details |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Abacus | Completed |
Works in Canvas
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N/A | This research library database application has been integrated into Canvas. |
| Ally | Completed |
Works in Canvas
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N/A | This content-checking tool helps to improve the accessibility of course content. Once Ally is turned on in a Canvas course, each piece of content is assigned an accessibility score. This score is intended to reflect how accessible the content is for people with vision or hearing impairments and similar learning barriers. |
| Badgr | Completed |
Works in Canvas
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N/A | This tool for recognizing and tracking course achievements has been integrated into Canvas. |
| Cambridge CogBooks | Completed |
Works in Canvas
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No grade syncing available | CogBook publisher content is available by request in Canvas through Willo Labs. Willo Labs enables UBC to provide publisher content in Canvas without having to share student data back with the publisher company. |
| Cengage MindTap (publisher content) | Completed |
Works in Canvas
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Automated grade syncing available | MindTap publisher content is available by request in Canvas. |
| CLASS | Completed |
Works in Canvas
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N/A | This scheduling system for chemistry labs has been integrated into Canvas. |
| ComPAIR | Completed |
Works in coordination with Canvas
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Automated grade syncing available | This peer review tool, which adds comparing to the process of students reviewing one another’s work, has been integrated with Canvas. You can use your Canvas course registration with ComPAIR and pass participation grades from ComPAIR to Canvas assignments. |
| Crowdmark | Completed |
Works in coordination with Canvas
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Manual grade syncing available | This application for grading online, designed to ease the challenges of grading collaboratively with a teaching team, has been integrated with Canvas. You can use your Canvas course registration with Crowdmark and manually pass grades from Crowdmark to Canvas. Note that there is a fee to use this tool. |
| Gradescope | Completed |
Works in coordination with Canvas
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Manual grade syncing available | This application for grading online, designed to ease the challenges of grading collaboratively with a teaching team, has been integrated with Canvas. You can use your Canvas course registration with Gradescope and manually pass grades from Gradescope to Canvas. Note that there is a fee to use this tool. |
| H5P | Completed |
Works in Canvas
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No grade syncing available | H5P is an open-source tool that allows you to create interactive content for students to learn from. H5P is an abbreviation for HTML5 Package and there are 45 interactive content types available, including multiple choice questions, video with an interactive quiz, memory games, image hotspots, and more. H5P content can be embedded in a Canvas page. |
| iClicker Cloud | Completed |
Works in coordination with Canvas
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Manual grade syncing available | This online student response system, which allows you to collect and grade responses to in-class questions, has been integrated with Canvas. You can use your Canvas course registration with iClicker Cloud and pass grades from iClicker Cloud to Canvas. An improved iClicker Cloud integration is being piloted and is planned to go live for all courses in May 2023. |
| iPeer | Completed |
Works in coordination with Canvas
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Manual grade syncing available | This peer review application for having students assess their team members’ contributions to group assignments has been integrated with Canvas. You can use your Canvas course registration and Canvas groups with iPeer and manually pass grades from iPeer to Canvas. |
| JupyterHub | Completed |
Works in coordination with Canvas
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N/A | This interactive, customizable computing tool that lets you harness the functions of high-performance computers, has been integrated with Canvas, if you use the Jupyter Course version. UBC supports two versions of JupyterHub: Jupyter Open and Jupyter Course. Jupyter Open is a free, standard instance of JupyterHub; no Canvas integration is available. Jupyter Course is a paid, more customizable version of JupyterHub; content is tied to a specific Canvas course and your students will access it through Canvas. |
| Kaltura | Completed |
Works in Canvas
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Automated grade syncing available for video quizzes | This media platform, where you can create, store, and share multimedia content, has been integrated into Canvas. You can use Kaltura to record, upload, publish, search, and embed media directly in one or multiple Canvas courses. Kaltura also lets you edit media, create shorter clips from existing media, and add interactive quizzes to videos that can pass grades to Canvas. |
| LockDown Browser | Completed |
Works in coordination with Canvas
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N/A | This web browser that “locks down” what students can do during a quiz has been integrated with Canvas. You can enable LockDown Browser for Canvas course quizzes (note that quizzes in Canvas can be used for any type of assessment, including exams). |
| Library Online Course Reserves (LOCR) | Completed |
Works in coordination with Canvas
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N/A | This application for managing your course reserves at UBC has been integrated with Canvas. You can use your Canvas course registration with LOCR. |
| Macmillan Achieve (publisher content) | Completed |
Works in Canvas
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Automated grade syncing available | Achieve publisher content is available by request in Canvas through Willo Labs. Willo Labs enables UBC to provide publisher content in Canvas without having to share student data back with the publisher company. |
| Macmillan LaunchPad (publisher content) | Completed |
Works in Canvas
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Automated grade syncing available | LaunchPad publisher content is available by request in Canvas through Willo Labs. Willo Labs enables UBC to provide publisher content in Canvas without having to share student data back with the publisher company. |
| McGraw-Hill Connect (publisher content) | Completed |
Works in Canvas
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No grade syncing available | Connect publisher content is available by request in Canvas through Willo Labs. Willo Labs enables UBC to provide publisher content in Canvas without having to share student data back with the publisher company. |
| OnTask | Completed |
Works in coordination with Canvas
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N/A | This learning analytics tool for sending targeted feedback to students has been integrated with Canvas. You can manually pass Canvas learning analytics data to OnTask and use OnTask to send Canvas messages to students. |
| Pearson MasteringPhysics (publisher content) | Completed |
Works in Canvas
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Automated grade syncing available | MasteringPhysics publisher content is available by request in Canvas through Willo Labs. Willo Labs enables UBC to provide publisher content in Canvas without having to share student data back with the publisher company. |
| peerScholar | Completed |
Works in coordination with Canvas
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Manual grade syncing available | This peer review application for facilitating highly customizable student peer assessments of other student work has been integrated with Canvas. You can manually pass grades from peerScholar to Canvas. |
| Piazza | Completed |
Works in coordination with Canvas
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N/A | This online Q&A discussion application has been integrated with Canvas. You can use your Canvas course registration with Piazza. |
| Respondus Quiz | Completed |
Works in coordination with Canvas
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N/A | This assessment-building software for creating exams or quizzes offline on Windows computers has been integrated with Canvas. Respondus Quiz assessments can be imported into a Canvas course as Canvas quizzes (note that quizzes in Canvas can be used for any type of assessment, including exams). |
| Roll Call Attendance | Completed |
Not available in Canvas
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LT Hub Leadership has considered the request to enable this attendance-taking tool and decided not to enable the integration in Canvas, based on the current functionality. We recommend attendance continue to be taken via traditional means. | |
| Rover (publisher content) | Completed |
Works in Canvas
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Manual grade syncing available (with help from LT Hub) | Rover publisher content is available by request in Canvas through Willo Labs. Willo Labs enables UBC to provide publisher content in Canvas without having to share student data back with the publisher company. Additional steps are required for grade sync, so please contact the LT Hub if you are interested. |
| SCORM | Completed |
Works in coordination with Canvas
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Automated grade syncing available | This integration allows you to import SCORM-compatible content from other learning tools and platforms, and use them as assignments or content pages in Canvas. SCORM is a set of technical standards that guide how learning tools should communicate and share data with each other. These standards allow content from other compatible tools to be exported as SCORM packages and then imported, launched, and tracked correctly in Canvas. |
| Student Time Zones | Completed |
Works in Canvas
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N/A | This tool for visualizing your students' availability based on their time zone has been integrated into Canvas. |
| Threadz | Completed |
Works in Canvas
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N/A | This learning analytics tool that allows you to visualize and better quantify student discussions has been integrated into Canvas. You can use Threadz to analyze outcomes of your Canvas discussion boards. |
| Turnitin |
Active Investigation
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The integration with Canvas of this plagiarism-prevention tool is being investigated. | ||
| UBC Blogs | Completed |
Works in coordination with Canvas
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N/A | This interactive website-building platform has been integrated with Canvas. You can use your Canvas course registration with UBC Blogs, allowing students to join websites as collaborators or subscribers. |
| Webwork | Completed |
Works in coordination with Canvas
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Automated grade syncing available | This online assignment and quiz tool for numeric problems and equations has been integrated with Canvas. You can use your Canvas course registration with Webwork and pass grades from Webwork to Canvas assignments. |
| Wiki Embed | Completed |
Not available in Canvas
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There is no integration between UBC Wiki and Canvas. However, you can use HTML iframe code to display a Wiki page on a Canvas page. | |
| Wiley Plus (publisher content) | Completed |
Works in Canvas
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Automated grade syncing available | Wiley Plus publisher content is available by request in Canvas through the bookstore. Willo Labs enables UBC to provide publisher content in Canvas without having to share student data back with the publisher company. |
| Willo Reader | Completed |
Works in Canvas
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No grade syncing available | Willo Reader, an interactive eBook reader, is available by request in Canvas through the bookstore. |
| WW Norton InQuisitive (publisher content) | Completed |
Works in Canvas
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Manual grade syncing available (with help from LT Hub) | InQuisitive publisher content is available by request in Canvas through Willo Labs. Willo Labs enables UBC to provide publisher content in Canvas without having to share student data back with the publisher company. Additional steps are required for grade sync, so please contact the LT Hub if you are interested. |
| Zoom | Completed |
Works in Canvas
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N/A | This video/audio web-conferencing and collaboration tool has been integrated with Canvas. You can schedule Zoom sessions and share session links and recordings in Canvas. |