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The University has integrated a range of external apps with Canvas to support teaching and learning activities.

Let’s take a look at what apps and tools you can use to support your teaching and learning.

Atomic Search: Atomic Search provides search functionality within Canvas courses making searching for content in large courses much quicker. You can find the search box at the top of your Canvas homepage and courses.
Ally: Ally is Canvas' fully integrated, in-built accessibility checker. The app produces scores on how accessible content is in Canvas - from PDFs to videos and images - and offers guidance on to make this content more accessible.
Bibliu: This app provides access to e-textbooks and digital content. Your academic team may use this app to create their e-reading lists.
BuddyCheck: This app allows students to evaluate each other’s group contributions in a fair and secure way
Campus Pack: Campus Pack is a set of social tools - wikis, blogs, journals, podcasts, discussion boards - used to complement your experience in Canvas
Kortex: The UK’s leading personal learning platform and supplier of digital textbooks, your academic team may use to access digital content for their modules. You will be able to access eBooksvia the Kortext reader, store this content offline, bookmark passages of interest and view any annotations that you have added to the passages
LibGuides: This is the University of Liverpool's online library service, containing the full digitised catalogue
Mobius Assessment: This app is used by STEM subjects, particularly courses involving mathematics, that require distinct assessment materials and question types
MS Teams: MS Teams is available in Canvas as an app to embed within the rich content editor of a text area, probably more in Pages. Remember to look for the Plug icon in the toolbar of the text editor rather than a Teams logo. You can find out more about using Teams in Canvas by reading this article
Office365: You will be able to create, share and collaborate on Office365 files and apps (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, SharePoint, Exchange, Outlook, OneNote, Access and Publisher) in real-time in Canvas plus you will have access to your OneDrive file
PebblePad: This app is designed for logging and evidencing achievements, experiences and skills of learners. You will be able to create Workbooks, Portfolios and Logs
Stream.liv: This is the University's in-house lecture capture service. Your academic team may use this to share recordings of meetings, classes, workshops, seminars and presentations with everyone on your module, to smaller groups or individuals
Turnitin and Speedgrader: Both of these apps will be enabled in your Canvas courses by default. Both are online submission and marking tools. Your academic team will let you know which app you need to use when submitting work
Zoom: Zoom is available in Canvas to use for any online classes or meetings, your lecturer may prefer to meet in Zoom for lecturers or seminars. You can find more about Zoom in Canvas here

Images showing the logos of some of the apps that are integrated with Canvas