This article is for students or instructors who use Courseware through Canvas integration. Here, we have collected the most common questions from students and instructors.
What is Canvas and Courseware Lite integration versus Canvas and Courseware Deep integration?
Courseware has expanded its LMS integration features by offering two options for Canvas integration on the Courseware integration screen.
Lite integration offers a single sign-on, meaning you can access a Courseware course from within a Canvas course.
Deep integration offers both single sign-on, where you can access a Courseware course from within a Canvas course, and an assignment, quiz, and gradebook integration.
With a deep integration, instructors can:
- Access Courseware assignments and quizzes from within a Canvas course.
- Track student Courseware assignment activity in the Canvas gradebook.
- Report students’ Courseware quiz grades to the Canvas gradebook.
My institution uses the Canvas Lite integration. How should I alert my students?
Send this article to your students for setting up their Courseware accounts to work with Canvas.
I am an instructor without a school email address. Will the students joining my Canvas-integrated Courseware course have access to Courseware through the school's Courseware site license?
As long as your Courseware account is linked to your school Canvas account, and your students access the course through the school Canvas account, they will have access through the site license if it has been integrated with Courseware. See how to integrate Canvas with Courseware in this article.
I work for multiple institutions, with two separate Canvas accounts, but only one Visible Body account. Can I set up Canvas deep integration to both institutions using my one Courseware account?
Instructors who use multiple Canvas accounts will have to connect each of those with a unique Courseware login. Contact support if you need an additional Courseware login.
How do I select the type of integration I want?
- First, follow the steps in the Courseware and Canvas integration article. You will have achieved Lite integration once those steps are complete. Now, you and your students can access a Courseware course from within a Canvas course.
- Now that your Lite integration is established, you will have the opportunity to select Deep integration in two different scenarios:
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- When linking a Canvas course to a Courseware course.
- Selecting the "LMS Integration" button from the left navigation bar in Courseware.
You can now sync assignments and grades from your linked course.
I have already set up a Canvas and Courseware Lite integration. How do I switch to Canvas and Courseware Deep integration?
You will first need a one-time configuration of your Canvas instance from your institution's Canvas administrator. Administrators will need to generate a Developer Key using information from Visible Body and your institution.
Note: To proceed with Deep integration, if your Canvas and Courseware Lite integration was established before 12/1/21, you will need to delete and re-add your existing Lite integration. This will provide the updated configuration that enables opening assignments. You can use the same secret and key that you used the first time you established Lite integration. For help with this process, contact our support team.
Is there anything students would have to do when I switch integration types?
No. However, students will still need to link their Courseware and Canvas courses for both integration types.
I am an instructor who just finished teaching a course that used the Courseware-Canvas integration. I teach again next semester. How do I use my Courseware-Canvas integrated course again?
When you (or your school's Canvas admin) create a new Canvas course for the new semester, link that new Canvas course to the new Courseware course for the next semester. That's the second step outlined in this article.
If you do not see Courseware available to add in that second step, it is likely the integration you've been using was not for all Canvas courses at your school, but was only set up for the course you used last semester. If that is the case, see the first part of this article about adding Courseware as an external tool. You can use the same secret and key that you used last semester.
I am an instructor who teaches at two different schools. One school has a site license to Courseware through Canvas; the other uses Canvas, but students are required to buy Courseware access because the second school does not have a site license. Can I use the same instructor account for both schools?
You cannot use the same instructor account for two schools because each instructor account is tied to a unique school. Request a separate instructor account from your Visible Body sales rep for each school. If you do not have your rep's email, contact support@visiblebody.com.
Integrate each Canvas course with the corresponding Courseware course. Each Courseware account's course needs to be linked with the corresponding Canvas account. For example, in the Canvas course for school A, you'll need to use that school's secret and key to set up the integration, and then you'll need to link that course to the correct Courseware course within your school A Courseware account. In school B's Canvas course, you'll use a different secret and key, and will need to link your course to the correct Courseware course in your school B Courseware account.
To see more detailed instructions to integrate a Courseware course with Canvas, see this article.
When this is complete, your students and any co-instructors you want to add to your course will be separated correctly by school.
I am an instructor with a student who is unable to access Canvas. Can I still add them to my Courseware Course outside of Canvas?
Yes, you can send them an invite link from the Courseware course. However, if your school has a Courseware site license through Canvas, the student will need to purchase access to Courseware. This is because the Canvas integration is what allows the student to bypass a purchase and use the school's site license. Your student will be prompted to purchase access when they log into Courseware from outside of your school's Canvas.
With Canvas and Courseware Deep integration, can you tell if an ungraded assignment is complete?
Nongraded assignments will be marked incomplete in Canvas for the student and instructor if the student hasn’t opened the assignment or its content. If they have, the assignment status will change to completed.
When a student clicks the nongraded assignment in the Courseware page, and the assignment details page appears (see below), the assignment is tracked as completed in the Canvas gradebook.
Note: Because there is nothing to submit with nongraded assignments, there is no way to tell if a student has actually completed the work. It is assumed that by visiting the assignment content, the student has interacted with the assignment.
Can I change the availability and other settings about my assignment only in Canvas?
Yes, but students who try to access an unpublished Courseware assignment will see a message that you need to publish it first.
What happens if you deploy an assignment to Canvas from Courseware more than once?
If you deploy an assignment more than once, Courseware will only create new assignments in Canvas that you have selected, but it will not create a duplicate for those you had already deployed.
If you re-deploy Courseware assignments that have been edited, however, Courseware would sync updates to these assignments on the Canvas side. Note: you don't need to re-deploy for every change made to your Courseware assignment, because updates also sync automatically when changes occur in Courseware.
Once deployed, can you remove assignments from Canvas in Courseware, or just unpublish?
You can remove any number of assignments that you previously synced, either individually or using the Bulk Edit tool on the Courseware Assignments page. If you have graded assignments in CW, there is a pop-up warning that you're about to remove those grades from the Canvas gradebook.
After the initial sync, the order of assignments cannot be carried over from Courseware to Canvas. More details about editing in Courseware to reflect in Canvas are here.
Do I still have the option for a Gradebook CSV upload in Deep integration, and is the process different than with Lite integration?
There is still the Courseware Gradebook CSV option in Canvas and Courseware Deep integration, and the process remains the same.
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- Navigate to the "Actions" button on the top right corner of the Courseware gradebook. Here, you'll also see the day and time when the Courseware grades were last synced with the Canvas gradebook.
- Navigate to the "Actions" button on the top right corner of the Courseware gradebook. Here, you'll also see the day and time when the Courseware grades were last synced with the Canvas gradebook.
- After selecting "Actions", select the "Canvas" button to download a Canvas-formatted CSV file. Note: In this screen, you can also sync grades manually with the Canvas gradebook by selecting the "Sync Grades to Canvas" button below the LMS option buttons.
Will the instructor need to be in the Courseware gradebook to look at the details of a quiz?
Yes. Courseware Gradebook sends the Canvas gradebook the final score according to the settings an instructor chooses in Courseware for the graded quiz assignment. There is no detailed grades information available in Canvas.
For example, if the Courseware settings allowed two attempts, and the scoring rule was set to averaging the two scores, then the Canvas gradebook would only display the averaged results. From the Canvas Gradebook, you could not determine that the student had made two attempts and received two different scores on the quiz attempts. The detailed quiz results are viewable, however, in the Courseware gradebook.