In Winter 2019 the EEE team surveyed instructors to learn 1) what third party tools they would like to have integrated with UCI Canvas and 2) how they would relatively prioritize those tools.
Winter Survey Response Highlights
Top Requests
| Tool | Number of Requests |
Priority (Ranked 1-5 where 1 is top priority) |
Status |
| Zoom | 16 | 2.82 | Under review, near final stages |
| Piazza | 11 | 2.25 | Under review, pending vendor fix to address access control issue |
| SurveyMonkey | 7 | 3.25 | Blocked: Vendor does not provide integration |
| Kahoot | 6 | 3.50 | Blocked: Vendor does not provide integration |
| Quizlet | 5 | 2.00 | Blocked: Instructure built basic integration; the vendor does not maintain or support it |
New Requests
| Tool | Number of Requests |
Priority (Ranked 1-5 where 1 is top priority) |
Status |
| BrowserLock | 1 | 1 | Pending attention |
| DropBox | 1 | 3 | Blocked: Instructure built basic integration; the vendor does not maintain or support it |
| Elsevier | 1 | No priority specified | Under Review |
| GitHub | 1 | No priority specified | Blocked: Vendor does not provide integration. |
| Slack | 1 | 2 | Blocked: Vendor does not provide integration. |
| UCI Checkin | 1 | No priority specified | Complete; available now! |
| Vimeo | 1 | 1 | Pending attention |
Winter & Spring Pilot Projects
The GradeScope integration pilot closes with the end of Winter 2019 and the next will be to summarize the pilot’s outcomes for OIT leadership consideration.
The Division of Teaching Excellence & Innovation is running an Examity integration pilot in Spring 2019.
More Information
Check the status of all the integrations in this review process here:
https://sites.uci.edu/canvas/plus/3rd-party-tools/
Complete the third party tools survey any time to share your requests and priorities.