What are Web services in canvas?

Web services can be used to extend the functionality of a user's Canvas profile. For example, if a user connects their Twitter account to their Canvas user profile, Canvas can send that user private Twitter messages about new assignments, quizzes, messages, etc.
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Which Web services can be integrated with your canvas account?

You may be able to integrate Canvas with the following web services:
  • Google Drive.
  • Skype.
  • Twitter.
  • Delicious.
  • Diigo.
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Can you enable Web services in canvas?

Web Services - you can connect your Canvas account to accounts you have with some of the popular web services. To register a service with Canvas, click on the desired service and type in your user name and password for the service to register the service.
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What data does canvas collect?

In general, we collect two types of information:
  • Information you provide us (for example: account creation and registration information)
  • Information we automatically collect about your computer or wireless devices, such as your browser type, operating system, Internet Protocol (IP) address, cookies, and web beacons.
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What is the canvas data portal?

The Canvas Data Portal allows the Canvas Data Administrator to: view recent data exports. view current users. generate credentials for Canvas Data API access (used for downloading flat files.
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What is a Web Service? And why is it called a Web Service?



Does Canvas have a database?

Canvas Data is a service from Canvas that provides admins with optimized access to their data for reporting and queries. Customers can combine their Canvas Data with data from other trusted institutions, as well as other key systems across campus such as a student information system (SIS).
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What database does Canvas LMS use?

Canvas LMS PostgreSQL Database Deployment.
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Can Canvas see your browser?

Ideally, Canvas cannot detect if a student opened new tabs in a web browser or opened a new application or web browser during a quiz or test. However, if proctored, Canvas will monitor and prevent student's browser activity. In such proctoring, the general interactions with the site can be viewed by professors.
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What analytics are available in Canvas?

Canvas Analytics
  • New Analytics (available in all Emory Canvas courses)
  • View and Download New Analytics Reports.
  • Course Statistics.
  • Quiz Statistics.
  • Studio Insights.
  • Individual Access Report.
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Can professors see what you access on Canvas?

Professors can view students' general interactions with the site, specifically with discussion boards and files. “The professor can see what pages the students have visited, and they're given the general time frame the students have spent on each page,” Guerra said.
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Why can't I add students to my Canvas course?

Enrollments may be added by your institution's student information system (SIS). If an enrollment includes an SIS ID, you cannot add an enrollment to the course. Adding users through the Add People button is a course permission. If you cannot add a user to your course, your institution has restricted this feature.
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Can you be logged into Canvas on two devices?

You will only need to create an account one time regardless of how you access canvas. Once you have created your account, you will use your email address and password to log in. Your account will then work on both a computer and a mobile device.
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How do I connect my Canvas to Google Drive as a student?

How do I connect to Google Drive as a web service in Canvas as a...
  1. Open User Settings. In Global Navigation, click the Account link [1], then click the Settings link [2].
  2. Register Google Drive. In Web Services, click the Google Drive button.
  3. Authorize Google Drive. ...
  4. Accept Authorization. ...
  5. View Registered Services.
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What is Google LTI in Canvas?

Canvas supports an integration with Google Apps in Assignments, Collaborations, Modules, Course Navigation, and the Rich Content Editor. This integration allows students and instructors to use, create, share, and collaborate on Google Apps files within Canvas.
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How do I give Google access to Canvas?

Authorizing Canvas to use Google Drive LTI
  1. Click Google Drive in the course menu. The Log In page appears saying you need to authorize the integration.
  2. Click Authorize. The Choose an account window pops up. ...
  3. Choose your University Google account. ...
  4. Click Allow. ...
  5. Search or select a Folder or File.
  6. Click Open.
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How do I turn on Google Drive in Canvas?

How do I submit an assignment from Google Drive in Canvas?
  1. Navigate to the Canvas Assignment. From within your Canvas course, navigate to the assignment you'd like to submit.
  2. Navigate to the submission screen. Click on Submit Assignment.
  3. Choose your submission method. ...
  4. Submit Assignment.
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How do I add analytics to Canvas?

To enable New Analytics, open Course Settings and view the Navigation tab. Move the New Analytics link to the enabled section and save the page. You can also access New Analytics from the New Analytics button in the Course Home Page [2].
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What is new analytics in Canvas?

New Analytics allows instructors to track average course grades for student submissions using an interactive chart graph or table. Currently, data is for viewing only and cannot be directly changed. Page views and participation metrics include an aggregate across all devices, including Canvas mobile apps.
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Does Canvas track mobile app activity?

At this time Canvas analytics do not measure activity on mobile devices, with the exception of Analytics Beta which does measure activity across devices. For more information on the Grades area in Canvas, see our other resources.
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Can canvas check if you are cheating?

It can typically tell if a student minimizes it because it loses "focus" and will likely show up in the log that they "stopped viewing the quiz.....", but Canvas can't tell anything else about the computer itself or other programs running on it.
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How do I stop my canvas from tracking me?

There are several methods, and some are a little more foolproof.
  1. 1Manually Opt Out of Interest-Based Advertising. ...
  2. 2Use AdBlock Plus to Block Canvas Fingerprinting. ...
  3. 3Use the NoScript & ScriptSafe Add-Ons. ...
  4. 4Confuse Sites with Chameleon for Chrome. ...
  5. 5Go Stealth Mode with the Tor Browser.
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How can you tell if Canvas is proctored?

A: Beginning Autumn 2016, look in your Canvas course Modules to determine if online quizzes are used. If so, they will be proctored using Proctorio. When a Canvas quiz title includes “Remotely Proctored,” this indicates that Proctorio is integrated in the quiz.
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Is Canvas a SaaS?

Business Canvas, a Korea-based document management SaaS company, closes $2.5M seed round | TechCrunch.
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Is Canvas owned by Google?

It is the developer and publisher of Canvas, a web-based learning management system (LMS), and MasteryConnect, an assessment management system. The company is owned by private-equity firm Thoma Bravo.
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What company owns Canvas LMS?

Instructure, best known for its Canvas learning management system, announced Wednesday that it is set to be acquired by the private equity firm Thoma Bravo for approximately $2 billion—unless a better offer comes along in the next 35 days.
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