Instructional Tools

A web / video conferencing tool, which allows instructors to meet with their students synchronously online.

Wordpress is an online blogging solution creating a site where students and instructors can post and comment on a variety of topics.

An asynchronous discussion tool that centers video and audio responses as the primary form of response option to promote community and engagement.

A tool to help faculty and students develop and evaluate written scholarship.

A custom browser that locks down the testing environment within a learning management system.

Qualtrics allows for faculty to create and share robust, responsive surveys to collect data and feedback.

Provides detailed text feedback to students by uploading a single CSV file. The file can contain multiple columns of feedback or upload multiple files

Yale’s supported system for in-class polling. Using a cloud based “bring your own device” model for polling.

Available to Instructors and TAs to provide additional information like student photo, major, year, college, course section, and email address.

An annotation tool that helps your students engage collectively with texts.

Panorama assists instructors in building a more inclusive learning environment, and improve the student experience by helping them take clear control.

A Yale-developed survey tool created to support faculty in the collection of anonymous student feedback during a set-time around the semester midterm.

A streaming video service that is integrated into Canvas. Media Library can be used to store, share, and stream uploaded audio and video files.

Online, curated video courses designed for in-depth and just-in-time instruction on various tools (e.g. Excel, Tableau) and technical / soft skills.

LabArchives is a cloud-based lab notebook that can be used to organize, create, collaborate, and collect lab / research notes.

Designed to streamline and standardize paper-based, digital, and code assignments. It supports problem sets and projects, worksheets and quizzes.

FeedbackFruits: Peer Review can assist with organizing and facilitating robust peer review assignments of student work.

FeedbackFruits: Interactive Document / Video allows for the uploading of course document or video files for collaborative and interactive annotations.

FeedbackFruits: Group Member Evaluation assists faculty in organizing robust student-to-student evaluations of their group soft-skills development.

FeedbackFruits: Discussion on Work creates a space for students to upload their work to receive annotated feedback from peers in an open discussion.

Promotes anonymous feedback reporting for accessibility barriers at any time on course or content during the term by providing an open feedback box.

A powerful threaded discussion tool that allows instructors and students to share and interact asynchronously.

An interactive syllabus of the course site using the rich content editor to add links, files, images, media, and more.

A native Canvas feature which is available in all Canvas course sites. Canvas Quizzes allows instructors to create high and/or low stakes assessments.

Canvas Pages deliver information and content to students, create a front page to welcome students to your course, or provide a way to collaborate.

Canvas Modules allow instructors to bring together resources and activities from across their Canvas course site into modules for easier access.

Inbox is a two-way messaging tool used instead of email to communicate with a course, a group, or an individual user.

Canvas Group Sets/Groups tool allows instructors to split students up into smaller working groups for collaborative assignment work and discussions.

Provides instructors and students the opportunity to contribute and discuss asynchronously.

The Collaborations tool in Canvas allows students and instructors to create collaborative documents together.

This is one of several native Canvas tools that allows instructors to collect student work for grading.

Instructors in a Canvas course have the ability to send Announcements to students in their course.