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Canvas Online School App Review.

Kommentare: It's great and very user friendly.

Vorteile:

The to do lists that tells me when my assignments are due.

Nachteile:

The wording "module" for my work. I would like another heading displayed.

Canvas: A really great tool for online teaching!

Kommentare: Canvas is a great way to connect virtually especially nowadays where that seems to be the norm. It's functionality to interact between students and instructors as well as it's helpful design makes it really great.

Vorteile:

Canvas is very user friendly. I have students that are your typical college age students and also non-traditional students that are not as computer literate. Canvas is very intuitive and also there are a ton of online resources hosted through Canvas when you need support. They are very simple to follow and helpful. I also really love as an instructor the functionality for students to peer review in Canvas. In an online course it can be difficult to get students involved but this is a fun way to involve students and it works very well. It can all be done automatically so once it's set up it's easy.

Nachteile:

I wish there was an option to upload student work for them. I like using Canvas to keep track of everything but sometimes students will have a difficult time accessing their Canvas and so they will email me their assignment. I wish I could then upload it to Canvas for them so it's all in one place.

Very dishonest and overpriced

Kommentare: Very poor. Over priced, deceitful, underperforming

Vorteile:

The website looks nice and our point of contact has been easy to work with. Would be happy if we were just paying for website hosting services. Unfortunately we are paying for a much higher package and not using all the add ons. Its not worth it.

Nachteile:

The sales process was extremely dishonest. We were told that we could change our package level at anytime, so we went with one of their higher packages thinking we were going to get good value for our money. We have not been getting most of the services we thought we were paying for. We were really wanting the SEO services to help boost our website and business listings. We are paying for Roya to do it, but they have not been holding up their end of the contract. Our website is missing meta tags, or others are too long. They did no optimization for our online listings, we are paying another company to do this so that we can actually show up in google searches. When we told them we want to downgrade because we aren't getting most of what we are paying for, they told us we couldn't. The sales guy, [sensitive content hidden] , lied to us about this. If we knew we couldn't downgrade, then we would have started on a lower package. The backend of the website they built for us is extremely difficult to use and is time consuming to make changes.

Well Organized for student use

Vorteile:

Canvas has the most useful feature for students because the app shows the most recent courses, to-do assignment lists, notification of assignment due date and inbox tab which allows the student to send email to both instructor and classmates.

Nachteile:

Although Canvas has all the well organized feature, the app would not automatically show the current quarter/ semester courses when the courses were registered. The app would only show the most recent courses if the courses had been selected. It's a bit inconvenient because students would need to make this change at the beginning of each quarter/ semester.

Canvas Use at Small Private College

Vorteile:

Canvas has a variety of features which aid in teaching, grading, and attendance. The ability to create test questions is very intuitive, not to mention it will grade objective questions for you! This saved me hours of grading on tests. For papers you can restrict the file types that are submitted which reduces the headache of trying to open various file types which may not be compatible with your word processor.

Nachteile:

There is a bit of a learning curve for some of the more advanced features, but that is to be expected for any software. For grading papers, I wish that the program worked more like the review function for MS Word. It is not as intuitive and in my experience did not allow for as much editing as I would have liked.