Canvas tools and plugins
These add-ins to Canvas can make designing your course a little easier.
Here we feature add-ons to Canvas that have been developed by the University of Auckland development team and Canvas developers. Some have been added to Canvas to meet the specific needs of the University and others are open source, available to the Canvas user community.
UoA Toolbox
The UoA Toolbox hosts a variety of custom reports and tools that have been developed at the University and made available to staff with teaching roles. The Toolbox features:
- Reports – this area provides custom reports including a course roster, student access data, and rubrics analytics.
- Booklets – provides tools to generate booklets for for delivering offline assignments. It caters for various assignment types including essays, projects, tests or exams. The Booklet Processing tools allows staff to scan and upload completed booklet ‘scripts’ for marking in SpeedGrader. See Guide to Booklet Generation and Processing.
- Utilities – includes tools for downloading all assignment file submissions and applying a (re)naming convention via the Bulk Assignment Download and Rename Tool. And a Rubric Grading by Question tool for e.g., assignments that are graded by multiple markers.
If the Toolbox is hidden from view in your course side menu, enable it from the Settings > Navigation tab. Information about how to activate and use the tool can be found in the UoA Toolbox documentation.
UoA Assignment Cover Sheet
Lets students generate their own assignment cover sheets with all their information automatically filled in.
- Staff can select their preferred template of cover sheet. There are four selections to choose from.
- Note that the selected cover sheet will be used for all assignments within the selected course.
- See UoA Assignment Cover Sheet for instructions on how to enable this feature in a course.
SSO Grade Submit (Final Grade Submission Tool)
Final Grade Submission Tool allows the addition of special grades and submit final grades to Student Services Online (SSO). The final Grades Tool is accessible from the Canvas Gradebook.
View the guides for submitting final grades.
SET Reports & SET Evaluations (Summative Evaluation Tools)
Students evaluate the quality of University of Auckland teaching and courses. SET can be accessed by students and staff in Canvas via the course navigation menu. Find out when the SET evaluation period is for your course and what you need to do.
New Analytics
The Canvas New Analytics provides interactive chart graphs and data tables about assignment grades and students’ weekly online activities (such as page views and discussion posts). You can evaluate components of your course and your students’ performance.
- Use course analytics to track course activity, course submissions, course grades and student analytics.
- Use student analytics to view individual activity, communication, submission and grades.
- Identify if students have met online attendance criteria.
- Send a message to all students or individual students based on specific participation criteria
- You can also run CSV reports for missing assignments, late assignments and excused assignments.
Video: Canvas tutorial – New Analytics
See also
Design Blocks for Canvas
Design Blocks is a no-code editing tool designed to help teachers create visually appealing page designs.
Support
Check out our learning technology support page to find out what options are available for Canvas.
Page updated 16/06/2025 (minor edit)