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Blackboard-to-Canvas Tool Comparison
The guide below lists the commonly used tools in Blackboard and their equivalents in Canvas. Please note that although some of the terminology may be the same, the tools may function differently in Canvas.
| Category | Blackboard | Canvas | What is different in Canvas? | |
| Course Management | Home, Course List | Dashboard, Courses | Published and Unpublished courses are listed separately. | |
| Make Course Available | Publish | The Publish button is available on the course home page. It disappears after students have submitted an assignment. | ||
| Customization | Settings | Access to different options is available on the same page. | ||
| Alerts | Notifications | Students can choose how to receive notifications. | ||
| Not available | Profile | Instructors and students can upload files to their profile. | ||
| Not available | History | Instructors and students can view a list of recent course page views. | ||
| Enrollments | Users | People | Additional features, such as, group enrollments and analytics are available. | |
| Content Creation | Syllabus | Syllabus + Course Summary | Course summary shows all published and unpublished assignments in a chronological order. | |
| Item | Pages | Pages allow in-course linking and drag-and-drop attachments. | ||
| Content Folder/ Learning Modules | Modules | Pre-requisites and Requirements can be added to a module. | ||
| Build Content>Video | Studio | Instructors and students can share and collaborate using video and audio files. | ||
| Communication | Announcements | Announcements
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Instructors can allow students to reply and “like” announcements. | |
| Email/Messages | Inbox (Conversations) | Messages get posted within Canvas and are sent to user’s UH email. | ||
| Calendar | Calendar | Calendar automatically syncs with course summary. | ||
| Not available | Chat | This tool allows instructors and students to interact in real time. | ||
| Collaboration | Groups | Groups | Easy navigation for creating and maintaining groups is available. | |
| Discussion Board | Discussions | Instructors can require students to post before viewing other students’ replies. | ||
| Assessments | Assessments | Quizzes | Quizzes offer quizzes and surveys. | |
| Survey | Quizzes (Graded or Ungraded Surveys) | Graded and ungraded survey options are available under Quizzes. | ||
| Assignment | Assignments | Assignment type includes No Submission, Online, On Paper, External Tool. | ||
| Rubrics | Rubrics | Rubrics allows you to import Outcomes. | ||
| Not available | Attendance | Attendance feature can be used as part of course grade by adding the Roll Call assignment. | ||
| Not available | Outcomes | Outcomes can be set for each course based on pedagogical goals and objectives. | ||
| Grades | Grade Center | Grades | SpeedGrader allows quick access to several tools for grading and adding feedback using audio or video. Students can assign themselves hypothetical “what if” grades. | |
| Evaluation | New Analytics | Instructors can track average course grades for student submissions using an interactive chart, graph, or table. | ||
| File Storage | Content Collection | Files | Instructors can lock files and folders so they can be viewed on a specific date or viewed only by a direct link. | |
| Support | Help | Help | Users have access to Canvas Guides and can also report a problem or submit a feature idea. | |