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 | Decision Reached |
Central Support & Funding ended November 2023
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Ally is a content-checking tool that works in Canvas to help instructors improve the accessibility of their course content. UBC had decided to centrally support and fund Ally for an extended pilot. Use of Ally was put on pause in November 2023. |
| 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. |
| Course Spaces | Decision Reached |
No Central Support or Funding
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Course Spaces is a WordPress-based interactive website platform developed at UBC for sharing course content. UBC has decided not to centrally support or fund Course Spaces. Instructors interested in sharing open course content can instead use UBC Blogs or UBC Wiki. |
| Crowdmark | Decision Reached |
Central Support ended May 2024
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Crowdmark is an application for grading online, designed for easing the challenges of grading collaboratively with a teaching team. UBC had decided to centrally support Crowdmark, with funding provided by faculties/departments. Central support for Crowdmark ended at UBC on April 30, 2024. |
| edX Edge | Decision Reached |
Central Support & Funding ended May 2023
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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 had decided to centrally support and fund edX Edge. The tool was sunset in May 2023. |
| 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 | Decision Reached |
Central Support, No Funding
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Hypothesis lets teaching teams and students annotate and tag online readings, for their own use or to share their notes with each other. UBC has decided to centrally support the free, open-source, web-based version of Hypothesis. |
| 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. |
| 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 |
Central Support & Funding ended in March 2021
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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. The tool was sunset in March 2021. |
| Team Formation | Decision Reached |
No Central Support or Funding
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Team Formation is a homegrown UBC tool that enables you to create teams based on student traits, skills, and preferences. UBC has decided not to centrally support or fund Team Formation at this time; however, limited support is available from UBCO as development of the tool continues. |
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 |
Not available in Canvas
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N/A | This content-checking tool helps to improve the accessibility of course content. Use of Ally was put on pause in November 2023. However, you can use Canvas's built-in Accessibility Checker tool to fix some common accessibility issues. |
| 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 (publisher content) | Completed |
Works in Canvas
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No grade syncing available | CogBook publisher content in Canvas is available by request through Willo. Willo lets UBC put 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 in Canvas is available by request through Willo. Willo lets UBC put publisher content in Canvas without having to share student data back with the publisher company. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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 in Canvas is available by request through Willo. Willo lets UBC put 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 in Canvas is available by request through Willo. Willo lets UBC put publisher content in Canvas without having to share student data back with the publisher company. |
| OnTask | Completed |
Not available in Canvas for 2024/25 W1
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N/A | This learning analytics tool for sending targeted feedback to students has been integrated with Canvas, but support is currently paused. |
| Pearson MasteringPhysics (publisher content) | Completed |
Works in Canvas
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Automated grade syncing available | MasteringPhysics publisher content in Canvas is available by request through Willo. Willo lets UBC put publisher content in Canvas without having to share student data back with the publisher company. Please submit your request 6-8 weeks prior to your deadline to have content available in Canvas on time. |
| 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 in Canvas is available by request through Willo. Willo lets UBC put 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 us in the LT Hub if you are interested in grade syncing. |
| 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 in Canvas is available by request through Willo. Willo lets UBC put 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 in Canvas is available by request through Willo. Willo lets UBC put 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 us in the LT Hub if you are interested in grade syncing. |
| 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. |