{"id":848,"date":"2025-01-27T14:16:45","date_gmt":"2025-01-27T14:16:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.elearning.fse.manchester.ac.uk\/getting-started-with-canvas\/?p=848"},"modified":"2025-12-18T15:51:19","modified_gmt":"2025-12-18T15:51:19","slug":"accessing-external-tools-from-canvas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.elearning.fse.manchester.ac.uk\/getting-started-with-canvas\/accessing-external-tools-from-canvas\/","title":{"rendered":"Accessing External Tools from Canvas"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

This article provides guidance on how to add external tools within Canvas, which can support your teaching and learning activities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

LTI (Learning Tools Interoperability) refers to the process of connecting and enabling communication between various eLearning tools. LTI integration allows Canvas to launch external tools in a way that provides those tools with secure access to user data. The LTI integration allows students and teachers to interact with these learning tools without needing to separately login to the external tool.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

External tools can be accessed in different places within Canvas – Assignments and Modules. We recommend using the following routes to ensure that tools used within the Faculty of Science and Engineering are correctly set up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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  1. What External Tools should be added via Assignments?<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n
  2. How to add an External Tool via Assignments<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n
  3. What External Tools should be added via Modules?<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n
  4. How to add an External Tool via Modules<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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    External Tools to add to via Assignments <\/strong><\/h2>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

    The tools in the table below should be accessed via the Assignments menu in Canvas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Tool<\/strong><\/div><\/td>
    Use<\/strong><\/div><\/td><\/tr>
    Buddycheck<\/a><\/div><\/td>
    Allows group members who have completed and submitted a piece of group work to review and score each member (including themselves) by answering a number of questions based on 5 categories. Once students complete their peer scoring task, the results can be used to adjust marks in your Canvas course.<\/div><\/td><\/tr>
    Cadmus<\/a><\/div><\/td>
    To provide end to end online assessment workflow<\/div><\/td><\/tr>
    Gradescope<\/a><\/div><\/td>
    Gradescope enables electronic submission and marking of handwritten work, typed responses, formulae and diagrams,
    programming\/code and multiple choice answers.<\/div><\/td><\/tr>
    Hypothesis<\/a><\/div><\/td>
    Hypothes.is is a tool which supports social annotation. Social annotation involves reading and thinking together.\u00a0 Staff share a pdf paper or web page via Hypothesis.\u00a0 Users collaborate to highlight, comment on, and share ideas about the assignment digitally.<\/div><\/td><\/tr>
    Kortext
    (see Library resource<\/a>)<\/div><\/td>
    The Library provides eTextbooks through the Kortext Online Reader. Titles that are available to read will be visible on students Kortext bookshelf.<\/div><\/td><\/tr>
    MATLAB Grader<\/a><\/div><\/td>
    MATLAB Grader\u2122 lets you scale assessments and automatically grade MATLAB\u00ae<\/sup>\u00a0coding assignments in any learning environment. You can use MATLAB Grader for formative assessments with automated feedback and summative assessments such as quizzes and exams.<\/div><\/td><\/tr>
    Office 365 Cloud Assignment<\/a><\/div><\/td>
    You can create an online assignment that embeds a document directly from your Microsoft Office 365 (OneDrive) folder.
    When students open the assignment, Office 365 will create a copy of the file as the student\u2019s submission. Students can open the document and make changes per the assignment instructions. When they are ready to submit the assignment, they can return to the Canvas assignment page and submit the assignment.\u00a0<\/div><\/td><\/tr>
    STACK Assessment<\/a><\/div><\/td>
    STACK is an online assessment package for mathematics.\u00a0 This open-source system helps the University of Manchester deliver sophisticated assessments for STEM to challenge students and provides them with feedback to help improve their performance and understanding.\u00a0\u00a0<\/div><\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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    How to add an External Tool via Assignments<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

    To add External tools via the Assignments menu in Canvas, follow the steps below:<\/p>\n\n\n\n