Canvas and Blackboard Terminology

Students are prompted with a pop-up when they first enter a course if there is a new announcement.

Instructors can see the number of students who have viewed the announcement.

Announcements are conveniently located at the top of the course for improved visibility.

Instructors can label assignments as formative to help set expectations for learners.

Instructors have a consistent authoring experience when creating assignments and tests.

Instructors can enable SafeAssign to check submissions for originality.

Instructors can quickly take attendance without having to set up Attendance Registers and Sessions.

Instructors using Class Collaborate can have attendance information from Class Collaborate Sessions automatically feed into the attendance tool in Blackboard.

Instructors and students can easily see the number of responses and replies each participant has made within the discussion.

Instructors and students can easily filter the discussion by participant.

Instructors can easily identify which students have not participated and send them a message.

Support for LTI 1.3 (latest version).

Institutions can integrate Blackboard with over 400+ LTI-based Integrations to extend the functionality of the learning management system.

Instructors can display external web pages in a new tab or within the course experience.

Progress Tracking can be enabled on Web Links so that instructors can easily see which students have viewed them.

Students can easily navigate to the next or previous item.

Students can see the number of items they need to complete and the items they have completed so far.

Instructors can personalize Learning Modules by uploading or selecting a custom image thumbnail.

Instructors can enforce sequential learning, ensuring that students are working through items in the correct order.

Instructors can align Goals & Standards to all items in a course.

Instructors can embed files and set them to display inline and/or make them downloadable.

Instructors can build documents with the rich content editor, upload files using drag-and-drop workflows, or make use of a robust HTML editor for more advanced use cases.

Instructors can easily embed third-party integrations leveraging LTI to enhance the learning experience.

Instructors can enable conversations that allow students to talk about the content.

Progress Tracking can be enabled on Documents so that instructors can easily see which students have viewed them.

Instructors can use Progress Tracking on Documents to quickly message students based on their engagement with the content.

Instructors can grant accommodations to students in their course to give them extra time on timed assessments or to waive deadlines.

Instructors can quickly identify which students have been granted accommodations.