Ed Discussion is available for FAS courses in the 2021-22 academic year. To enable Ed Discussions in your Canvas site:

• Navigate to your Canvas course and click the Settings link in the left side bar
• Select the Navigation tab
• Drag the "Ed Discussion" tool just under Home and Announcements to enable it
• Disable the Canvas "Discussions" tool if not in use
• Click Save
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Microsoft Whiteboard (part of Office365, and available to faculty, staff, and students in FAS) supports individual and collaborative whiteboards. 

• Log in with your HarvardKey at...

Labster gives students access to a virtual lab experience that will let them perform experiments and practice their skills when they are unable to use on-campus facilities. Please contact atg@fas.harvard.edu to learn more about the process and cost for licensing Labster for use in your course.

Gradescope is a web-based assessment and rubric tool that is  software is available to instructors teaching in the FAS. Gradescope, which integrates with Canvas via LTI, allows instructors to...

VoiceThread is now available in all FAS Canvas sites!

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Helpful behind the scenes info on how Canvas integrates with my.harvard, common administrative questions, and more.

Data Feeds

Canvas gets data feeds from my.harvard every 5 minutes, including:

• Course catalog information (course description)
• Class roster (instructors, enrolled students, prospective enrollees, teaching fellows)
• Sections

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What is Slack?

Slack is a collaboration tool that enables Harvard students, faculty, and staff to keep in touch while teaching, learning, and working remotely.

Courses might use Slack for...

As an instructor, Zoom can help keep your class going if you or your students have a situation that keeps you from meeting in person. Synchronous online class sessions, where everyone joins a Zoom meeting at a scheduled time, is one way to create engagement when students are remote, but Zoom can also be used to support other teaching and learning scenarios. Zoom can be used on laptops, desktops, tablets, smartphones, and even desk phones, giving students many ways to access the class session.

The ...

What Is Panopto?

Panopto is a tool that can be used for recording or uploading lectures and slides, screencasting, video streaming, or embedding videos with content in other parts of the site. Panopto videos can...

The International Image Interoperability Framework (IIIF) defines universal standards for describing and delivering images over the web. Harvard was...

For over a decade, sections of Harvard Yard have been opened up every other fall so that students in the College can study the history that lies beneath their feet. The excavation is part of the...

To see how Learning Catalytics compares with other supported Classroom Response Tools, visit the Classroom Participation and Polling page.

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