Canvas: List of Penn State Customizations

Aug 7, 2020 | News, Service Packs

A number of customized tools in Canvas are exclusive to Penn State and are marked with the PSU ShieldPeriodically, when Penn State IT performs regular enhancements and updates to address minor issues to improve performance within Canvas, these Penn State customizations will be unavailable during the maintenance window.   

Depending on your Canvas access account, here is a list of Penn State customizations you may see in Canvas: 

For general access accounts: 

  • Notices (left navigation menu) 
  • Resources (dashboard tab) 
  • Student Engagement Network link (right navigation) 
  • Pride Manager (right navigation) 
  • Request a Course Sandbox (right navigation) 
  • Request a Master or a Manually Enrolled Course (right navigation) 
  • Merge Course Manager (right navigation) 
  • Course Archive Manager (right navigation) 
  • Report a Canvas Problem 
  • Teams 
  • COVID Schedule 

People Page: 

  • Edit People 
  • Add People 
  • Ellipsis Menu 
  • Add/Drop Report 
  • Un-enroll from Course 

Grades Page: 

  • Prepare Final Grades in Canvas for LionPATH 

For admin only access accounts: 

  • Create Manual Course (left navigation) 
  • Manage Admins (left navigation) 
  • Course Search (left navigation) 
  • Sub-Account Lookup (left navigation) 
  • Support LTI Deployment (left navigation) 
  • Edit Name (left navigation) 
  • Support Only Tools