The Teaching and Learning Technologies (TLT) program conducted a thorough evaluation of the Spring 2014 Canvas pilot, with great feedback (positive and constructive) from faculty and students—the full report is on the TLT website.

Students tell us:

• "The Canvas platform is easy to use and has a simple, easy-to-use interface."

• "Overall was great. Easy to navigate and find what I am looking for."

• "Being able...

Whether creating an online repository of historical maps, generating a multilayer GIS map of the multi-faith landscape of American cities, or mapping a saintly cult or pilgrimage, online maps encourage students to think spatially and critically.... Read more about Maps/GIS

R is a free software environment for statistical computing and graphics.... Read more about R

Stata is a general-purpose statistical software package created in 1985 by StataCorp.... Read more about Stata

Launched by the Wolfram Group, the Computable Document Format (CDF) standard is a computation-powered knowledge container... Read more about CDF

MATLAB® is a high-level language and interactive environment for numerical computation, visualization, and programming. You can analyze data, develop algorithms, and create models and applications using MATLAB. 

The FAS site license agreement with MATLAB provides access to all faculty, staff, and students at no additional charge.... Read more about MATLAB

Keynote is a presentation program developed by Apple that is similar to PowerPoint.... Read more about Keynote

Prezi is a web-based presentation and storytelling tool that uses a single canvas instead of traditional slides. While Harvard does not license this software, Prezi does offer free student and teacher accounts, which you can learn about on the Prezi website.

HarmonyLab is a web-based application designed for music teachers and students of all levels who are learning to read and write music or who are instructing students in reading and writing music.... Read more about HarmonyLab

Use the Reserve Reading List to manage and display the course's reserve reading list.... Read more about Reserve Reading List

EndNote is a desktop program that helps researchers quickly collect and organize references from online sources (or elsewhere) and create a searchable personal database of citations and documents.... Read more about EndNote

Zotero is a free plugin most commonly downloaded as a Firefox extension that helps you collect, store, and organize references for books, journal articles, websites, and other materials.... Read more about Zotero

Qualtrics is an online survey tool that offers a wide range of customizable question types and options such as randomization and branching, and robust data analysis and reporting tools.... Read more about Qualtrics

Academic Technology for FAS has a limited set of Turning Technologies clickers available to FAS courses through Cabot Library in the Science Center.... Read more about TurningPoint Clickers