TidyUP
TidyUP makes it easy to identify unpublished pages, delete outdated content and remove empty folders in Canvas. By cleaning up your Canvas courses you can help to ensure we are being good stewards of our resources, and more importantly takes you one step closer to ensuring your course will meet accessibility standards for the April 2026 regulations. We encourage you to try TidyUP in your Spring 2025 courses. If you are interested in participating in the pilot or have questions please email TeachingTools@umsystem.edu. Please also see the TidyUp user guide.
TidyUp's list of best practices
- Encourage educators to TidyUP their courses. √
- Question bank files are not recognized as "in use."
- Download files before deleting them.
- Run TidyUP at the beginning and end of the course.
- Have UDOIT? Run TidyUP first.
Harmonize
Harmonize is a discussion board tool that weaves together rich multimedia, student milestones, reactions and tagging, annotations and an assistive prompt writer incorporating Chat GPT. This pilot is running through May 2025. If you are interested in participating in the pilot please email TeachingTools@umsystem.edu.
Support for Harmonize
Harmonize support page
Harmonize 101: video tutorial on how to create engaging and inclusive discussions
Harmonize 102: video tutorial on how to create a more social and inclusive learning environment
Getting started with Harmonize
Creating graded Harmonize discussions
Harmonize student help guide
Kritik
Kritik (see attached PDF for additional information) is an online platform that facilitates peer to peer assessment of student work, giving students an opportunity to learn from their peers, adapt and improve their work and gain a deeper knowledge of the topic. This pilot is running January through May 2025. If you are interested in participating in the pilot please email TeachingTools@umsystem.edu.
Support for Kritik
Kritik instructor guide
Kritik student guide
Kritik public workshops