Many third party tools are integrated with Canvas. Use this page to see which tools are available, how they can be added to your course, and view support resources. Instructors – if you need a new tool integrated with Canvas, complete an ASRB review request.
| Tool Name | Short Desciption | Support | LMS |
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| Aktiv | A student engagement platform designed to help students interact with learning concepts in innovative ways. | Vendor Support | Blackboard |
| ALEKS | An adaptive learning platform that personalized learning experiences for students. | Vendor Support | Canvas |
| Alexanderstreet / Clarivate | Provides academic streaming media and online resources and contents for libraries. | For full support contact: Mason Library Vendor Support | Blackboard |
| Ally | Automatically checks course materials for accessibility issues and provides guidance to instructors on how to improve accessibility: ensuring that all students can access and engage with content effectively. | For full support contact: [email protected] | Blackboard; Canvas uses Panorama |
| ATLAS | Vendor Support Vendor Email | Blackboard | |
| Atomic Learning | Self-Paced: Online Software Training | Contact Vendor Vendor Phone: 866-259-6890 ext. 8 | Blackboard |
| Biometric Signature ID | Authenticates users by capturing user’s unique movements (gestures) as they draw a password with their finger or mouse. | Vendor Support | Blackboard, Canvas |
| Carnegie Mellon University OLI | An online platform that provides free and open educational resources and courses. | Vendor Support | Blackboard |
| Cengage Tool | Provide a range of educational tools designed to enhance teaching and learning experiences. | Vendor Support 800-354-9706 | Blackboard / Canvas |
| Class Collaborate Ultra | Online collaborative learning platform that enables real-time communication: interactive whiteboarding: and seamless content sharing among students and instructors in virtual classrooms. | For full support contact: [email protected] | Blackboard access ends Summer 2025 / Will not be in Canvas, use Zoom |
| Class | Class is a virtual classroom that adds teaching features to Zoom. | For full support contact: [email protected] | Blackboard access ends August 2024 / Will not be in Canvas, use Zoom |
| Course Evaluations | This is online assessment tool that allows educational institutions to gather feedback from students regarding their learning experiences and instructors’ performance. | For full support contact: Office of Institutional Effectiveness and Planning | Blackboard; Canvas TBD (will not work in Blackboard and Canvas at the same time) |
| Course Materials / First Day (Barnes and Noble) | Provide textbooks, workbooks, study guides, and other resources required by specific courses. First Day. | Vendor Support | Canvas (Can only be in one LMS – moved to Canvas for Spring 2025) |
| CoursePoint | Lippincott CoursePoint is a fully integrated, adaptive, digital course solution for nursing education. | Canvas | |
| Course Reserves (Leganto) | Allow users to build lists of content including both our own content as well as from other sources like Youtube and other popular platforms. | For full support contact: Mason Library | Blackboard, Canvas |
| Datacamp | An online platform that offers courses and interactive learning experiences that focuses on data science and programming. | Vendor Support | Blackboard |
| EBSCO Library Resources | Choose EBSCO articles/resources to embed in a course. | See walk-through video. Contact University Libraries for help. | Canvas |
| Echo 360 | Scalia Law School Only. A platform designed for lecture capture: video management: and active learning in educational settings. | For full support contact: Law IT Vendor Support | Blackboard, Canvas |
| Evolve | Allows user to provides an easy way to link content from Elsevier products and resources. | Vendor Support | Blackboard, Canvas |
| ExPrep Grader | Assessment tool designed to streamline and automate the grading process for Microsoft Excel-based assignments | Contact Vendor | Blackboard Canvas |
| Flat World | Access to online textbooks and homework from FlatWorld | Blackboard, Canvas |
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| GoPeer | A collaborative tutoring platform that connects students with tutors from top-tier universities for 1-to-1 lessons. | https://gopeer.org/ | Blackboard |
| GoReact | GoReact is a tool for teaching performance-based skills online. It is a cloud-based video tool that integrates a variety of feedback options and grading of student video assignments. | Vendor Support | Blackboard |
| Gradescope | Gradescope helps you seamlessly administer and grade all of your assessments: whether online or in-class. | Vendor Support | Blackboard, Canvas |
| H5P | A tool that lets instructors easily make interactive and engaging web-based content. Limited licenses available, request via form. | Stearns Center | Blackboard, Canvas |
| Harmonize | Harmonize is a media-rich online discussion tool that allows students to communicate: interact: and engage with one another through the LMS integration. | Vendor Support | Blackboard, Canvas |
| Hawkes Learning | Hawkes Learning is an innovative: educational courseware and textbook publisher providing instructional content and mastery-based learning course materials. | Vendor Support | Blackboard, Canvas |
| Honorlock | Honorlock is a remote proctoring service that creates a fair testing environment for all students by protecting exams and academic integrity. | Vendor Support | Blackboard, Canvas |
| Hypothesis Annotation | Annotate articles: websites: videos: documents: apps: and more without clicking away or posting elsewhere | No longer in Blackboard / Will not be in Canvas Try Perusall as alternative |
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| iClicker | An iClicker is a wireless handheld device that allows a student to anonymously respond to questions instructors pose in class. | Vendor Support | Blackboard / Canvas |
| ILP Integration | Blackboard, Canvas | ||
| InQuizitive | An adaptive learning platform designed to help students improve their understanding and retention of course material. | Blackboard | |
| Jones & Bartlett Learning (JBL) | Publisher courseware | Vendor Support | Canvas |
| Kaltura Media | A video management platform that allows users to create: upload: publish: and share video content. | For full support contact: ITS Support Center | Blackboard, Canvas |
| Kendall Hunt | Provide textbooks, digital content, and other educational resources. | Blackboard | |
| Knowledge Matters | Vendor Support | Blackboard | |
| Library Subject Guide / LibGuides | InfoGuides/LibGuides – autolinks to guide for that course’s subject | For full support contact: Mason Library | Blackboard; Canvas |
| LinkedIn Learning | LinkedIn Learning (LIL) is an online learning platform that contains a video library of courses taught by recognized industry experts. | Vendor Support | Blackboard, Canvas |
| Macmillan/ BFW | Provides textbooks, digital learning tools, online resources, and other educational materials. | Vendor Support | Blackboard |
| Macmillan Learning | A publishing company that provides a wide range of learning solutions such as textbooks: digital resources: online platforms and etc. | Vendor Support | Blackboard, Canvas |
| MATLAB Coding Problem | Vendor Support | Blackboard, Canvas |
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| McGraw Hill Connect LTIA | An online learning platform offering interactive digital textbooks: personalized learning tools: and | Vendor Support | Blackboard, Canvas |
| Microsoft OneDrive | A cloud-based file storage solution. It allows users to store files: documents: photos: and other digital content securely in the cloud: accessible from any device with an internet connection. | Blackboard, Canvas | |
| Microsoft Teams classes | Create an MS Teams site which keeps student enrollments updated | Canvas | |
| Mobius – Math Placement | Blackboard | ||
| myBusinessCourse (Cambridge) | Offers a wide range of educational resources and tools tailored specifically for business courses. | Vendor Support | Blackboard, Canvas |
| Myopenmath | An online platform that offers free, open-source resources for mathematics education. | Blackboard | |
| NoteFlight | A web-based music notation software that allows users to create, edit, and share musical scores directly in a web browser. | Blackboard | |
| OneNote Class Notebook | A digital notebook specifically designed for educational purpose. | ITS Limited Support: Level 2 | Blackboard |
| PatriotWeb – Send Grades | Allows the instructor of record to send a Blackboard Grade Center column to Patriot Web as the Midterm Evaluations or Final grade. | For full support contact: Vendor Support | Blackboard, Canvas |
| Packback | Discussion and learning platform | Vendor Support | Canvas |
| Pearson | Offering textbooks: digital learning materials: assessment tools: and online courses across various subjects. | Vendor Support | Blackboard, Canvas |
| Perceivant | A tool that specializes in creating interactive and engaging digital course materials. | Blackboard | |
| Perusall | A social e-reader platform designed to facilitate collaborative reading and active learning among students. | Vendor Support | Blackboard, Canvas |
| Poll Everywhere | An interactive audience response system that enables presenters: educators: and event organizers to engage their audience through real-time polls: surveys: quizzes: and open-ended questions. | Vendor Support | Blackboard, Canvas |
| ProQuest Library Resources | Choose ProQuest and Alexander Street Press articles/resources to embed in a course. | See integration steps. Contact University Libraries for help. | Canvas |
| Qwickly Attendance | Attendance management tool. It simplifies the attendance-taking process for instructors by allowing them to record and track student attendance directly within your courses. | Limited Vendor Support | Blackboard, Canvas |
| Respondus LockDown Browser | A custom web browser that locks down the testing environment within Blackboard. | For full support contact: Vendor Support | Blackboard / Will not be in Canvas, use Honorlock instead |
| Riipen | A work-based learning platform to document student experiences | [email protected] | Canvas |
| SafeAssign / SafeAssignment | A plagiarism detection service integrated into Blackboard. | For support contact [email protected] | Blackboard / Will not be in Canvas (Replaced by Turnitin) |
| SAGE Knowledge and Research Methods | A tool designed to help researchers, faculty, and students with their research projects. | Vendor Support | Blackboard |
| SAGE Vantage | Textbook publisher platform | Sage Support | Blackboard, Canvas |
| Science Interactive | An online laboratory solutions for science courses. | Vendor Support | Blackboard |
| Films.com | A platform that host secure educational and documentary films. | Blackboard | |
| Send Grades to Patriot Web | Allow instructors to send midterm evaluation and final grades to Patriot Web | Blackboard / Canvas | |
| Stukent | The tool provides digital marketing simulation platforms and other online resources for higher education institutions. | Vendor Support | Blackboard, Canvas |
| Teachingchannel | Blackboard | ||
| Top Hat | Interactive teaching platform that engages students with course materials through polls: quizzes: discussions: and interactive slides: fostering active participation and enhancing learning outcomes in both in-person and remote learning environments. | Vendor Support | Blackboard, Canvas |
| Student Learning and Licensure (Via) | A platform that offers innovative tools to drive student learning assessment, portfolios, and field experiences. | For support email: [email protected] | Blackboard, Canvas |
| Turnitin | Canvas | ||
| Vista Higher Learning | An educational publisher tool specializing in language learning materials: offering a wide range of textbooks: online resources: and digital tools designed to support language acquisition and proficiency development for students and educators. | Vendor Support | Blackboard |
| VitalSource | A digital textbook platform that provides access to a wide range of academic materials: including e-textbooks: e-books: and digital course materials. | Vendor Support Integration/Admin Support: Barnes & Noble Manager | Blackboard |
| VoiceThread | An interactive multimedia platform that enables users to create, share, and discuss various types of content, including: presentations, images, documents, and videos. | Vendor Support | Blackboard, Canvas |
| VoiceThread Tool (Wiley use only) | WILEY ONLY | Blackboard | |
| Wiley Course Resources | Blackboard, Canvas | ||
| Willo labs | Provides digital learning privacy and management. | Blackboard | |
| WordPress Course Blogs | For full support contact: [email protected] | Blackboard; Canvas | |
| Zoom | A virtual meeting conducted over the internet using the Zoom video conferencing platform. | Full support | Blackboard, Canvas |
| Lingo Learning | A language learning platform that integrates with Canvas to deliver interactive language courses. | Vendor Support | Canvas |
| Panorama | Tool that improves digital accessibility in course content by identifying issues and offering alternative formats for students. | ITS Support Vendor | Canvas |