Canvas Student Orientation

Integrated Tools for Communication & Collaboration

Introduction

The Canvas LMS integrates with many third party tools to enrich, support and connect every aspect of teaching and learning. In this module, we will introduce you to some of the integrated tools that instructors may use in courses at Montclair State University. Note:

Integrated Tools

Padlet

Padlet is an online collaborative bulletin board that allows participants to interact by posting text, links, images, videos, and more.

Padlet Support

Perusall

Perusall is an ebook platform with a collaborative annotation tool that helps students learn more, promote class engagement and discussion.

Perusall Support

Hypothesis

Hypothesis is a collaborative web annotation tool that allows users to annotate digital text like websites, pdfs, EPUBS, and more.

Hypothesis Support

VoiceThread

VoiceThread is a multimedia collaboration tool that allows participants to create, share, and comment on images, videos, audio files, documents, PDFs and PowerPoints.

VoiceThread Support

Google Drive

The Google Drive web service allows you to integrate Canvas with your Google Drive account. All users can authorize their Google Drive accounts for access to Google collaborations and assignment uploads.

How do I connect to Google Drive as a web service in Canvas as a student?

Publisher Content

Your professor may be using integrated textbook software in your course, for example, McGraw Hill, Connect, etc. If you need assistance with these publishing software, you will need to contact the publisher directly.