Canvas · For instructors

Add Voshi to Canvas

Most schools already have Voshi installed in Canvas, so you can add a tool to your course right away.

You add a Voshi tool to your course from inside Canvas, where Voshi is listed under the MyEducator name. A tool offers one or more activities, such as a quiz, a lab, or a chapter. You choose the tool and its activities in the Voshi deep linking dialog, and Canvas places a link to each one in your course. Students click the link and the tool opens inside Canvas, with no separate account or sign-in.

Three places to start

Start fromYou getCanvas lists Voshi as
AssignmentsA graded assignment. The tool's scores go to the gradebook.MyEducator Assignment Selector
ModulesA link in a module. Not graded.MyEducator Deep Linking
A page's editorA link inside the text of a page. Not graded.MyEducator Reading Links

Add anything graded as an assignment. You can still show it in a module afterward: a module can list an existing assignment.

The Voshi deep linking dialog

All three ways open the same dialog.

  1. Find the tool

    Search the catalog, or enter the sharing code the tool's builder gave you. A code is eight letters and digits; case does not matter.

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    The Voshi deep linking dialog, opened from Canvas, showing the catalog search and the box for a sharing code.

  2. Choose the activities

    The dialog lists the activities the tool offers. Choose the one you want; from Modules, you can choose several, and each becomes its own item.

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    A tool's activities listed in the dialog, with one selected.

  3. Confirm

    The dialog closes and hands the links back to Canvas, which finishes the step you started from (below).

If a sharing code names a version your course can't use, the dialog says so and adds nothing.

As an assignment

  1. Create the assignment

    In your course, open Assignments and click + Assignment. Give it a name.

  2. Choose External Tool

    Under Submission Type, choose External Tool, then click Find.

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    The assignment's Submission Type set to External Tool, with the Find button.

  3. Choose MyEducator Assignment Selector

    In Canvas's list of tools, click MyEducator Assignment Selector. The Voshi deep linking dialog opens; choose the tool and one activity.

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    Canvas's Configure External Tool list, with MyEducator Assignment Selector highlighted.

  4. Set the points and save

    Canvas fills in the tool's URL. Set Points to what you want the assignment to be worth; Canvas scales the tool's score to it. Click Save & Publish, or Save to publish later.

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    The finished assignment form: the External Tool URL filled in, Points set.

In a module

  1. Add an item

    Open Modules and click + on the module that should hold the link.

  2. Choose External Tool

    In the Add menu at the top of the dialog, choose External Tool, then click MyEducator Deep Linking in the list.

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    Canvas's Add Item to Module dialog, set to External Tool, with MyEducator Deep Linking in the list.

  3. Choose the activities

    The Voshi deep linking dialog opens. Choose the tool and one or more activities.

  4. Add and publish

    Back in Canvas, the URL and Page Name are filled in; change the name if you like. Click Add Item. New module items start unpublished, so publish each one when students should see it.

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    The new module items, with their publish icons.

To show a graded activity in a module, add it as an assignment first, then add that assignment to the module (Add → Assignment).

On a page

  1. Edit the page

    Open the page (or a discussion, an announcement, or anything else with Canvas's rich content editor) and click Edit. Put the cursor where the link should go.

  2. Open the Apps menu

    In the editor's toolbar, click the Apps button (the plug icon) and choose MyEducator Reading Links. If it isn't listed, choose View All to find it.

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    The rich content editor's Apps menu, with MyEducator Reading Links in it.

  3. Choose and save

    The Voshi deep linking dialog opens. Choose the tool and activity; the link is inserted at the cursor. Click Save.

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    The page in the editor, with the inserted link.

Next term

Copying your course to a new term (Copy this Course, or Import Course Content) brings the links along, and the copy uses the same version of each tool as the original. A course never changes versions by itself: when a builder replaces the version your course uses, the tool offers you the upgrade, and nothing changes until you accept it.