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Students, staff, and faculty may update their name record, username change and domain change with TWU. Select a status below and follow the steps to request a name/username/domain change.

Respondus LockDown Browser is a software application that must be installed on the workstation or laptop before attempting to complete an online Canvas assessment. The application serves as a virtual proctor by preventing printing, capturing the screen to copy assessment questions, disabling messaging and screen-sharing, disabling function keys, and disabling access to other applications and Internet content.

Follow the steps below to view Public Folder email in Outlook Favorites pane.

The Google Drive web service allows you to integrate Canvas with your Google Drive account. The Google Drive folder is accessed from the Course Navigation Menu. You can create an online assignment or a collaboration that embeds a document directly from your Google Drive folder into Canvas.

Campus Pack is a set of add-on applications that provide social media tools (such as wikis, blogs, journals, and podcasts) that can be used in Canvas. Social media tools are interactive computer-mediated technologies that facilitate the creation and sharing of information, ideas, career interests and other forms of expression.

Provide additional information and instructions to students using Canvas and other integrated applications that you include in your Canvas course.

In Canvas, Sandbox courses are given to instructors by request to create new course content and to experiment with different features in Canvas. Sandboxes can be created for a specific course or for generic testing and looking at new Canvas features that are available every month.

The Canvas mobile application provides instructors a portable solution for Canvas. Not all features in Canvas are available using your mobile device. There is a separate mobile application to use polls in the classroom. There are mobile applications for instructors to grade student submissions and use standards-based learning.

Public folders feature auto-reply. This feature can be used for Out of office or other automated responses.

Turnitin is an electronic text matching system that compares text in a student assignment against a database of sources. Turnitin is frequently used as a plagiarism detection application. Best practices from instructors suggest that Turnitin OriginalityCheck can be used as a teaching tool to address citation and academic honesty.

TurningPoint is a Student Response System (SRS) that allows instructors to leverage hand-held response devices in class to collect student achievement data. A roster of student is imported from Canvas into TurningPoint to begin and assessment data is exported from TurningPoint to Canvas to record grades or participation.