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Create Learning Activities with Microsoft Learning Activities

This tool helps you quickly turn content into interactive practise. It supports revision, catch-up, and extension. It also works well for blended and online learning in Aotearoa. You can: Review and edit Check everything carefully: You can share it through: What is the Benefit? Students can access the activity anytime. This helps them revisit material …

Ignite AI

IgniteAI in Canvas is a set of built-in AI tools designed to help you and your ākonga work more efficiently and understand course content more easily. It supports everyday tasks while keeping you in control. The tools listed below are the IgniteAI features currently enabled in our Canvas. Other features exist, but this article focuses …

How to Use IgniteAI Search

IgniteAI Search is an AI-powered tool in Canvas that helps lecturers and students quickly find course content using everyday language. It understands the meaning of search terms and returns relevant results from published course materials. It does not search Files or student submissions. IgniteAI Search returns results from published: When a search is entered, it …

How to Use IgniteAI Translations

IgniteAI Translations helps users read course content in their preferred language. It is available in Discussions and Announcements. This feature currently supports the following languages: Catalan, Chinese (Simplified), Dutch, English, French, German, Portuguese (Brazil), Russian, Spanish, and Swedish. The following guide will be using Discussions but the steps are the same in both. Disable Translation …

How to Use IgniteAI Open Summary in Discussions

IgniteAI Discussion Summary uses generative AI to create a clear overview of the main points, key questions, and central ideas in a discussion thread. The summary is only available to lecturers, helping you quickly understand the direction and depth of student conversations. Using Discussion Summary can save time and help lecturers identify key themes quickly. …

Using AI to Create Analogies

Customise stickers to make your feedback in Canvas more personal and fun. This 60ish-Second How-To video shows you how to add your own text to a digital sticker and use it across comments, discussions, and course pages.

Adding Context to Your AI Prompt

Customise stickers to make your feedback in Canvas more personal and fun. This 60ish-Second How-To video shows you how to add your own text to a digital sticker and use it across comments, discussions, and course pages.

Adding Persona to Your Prompt

Customise stickers to make your feedback in Canvas more personal and fun. This 60ish-Second How-To video shows you how to add your own text to a digital sticker and use it across comments, discussions, and course pages.

AI Tools

This is a growing list of digital tools that can help lecturers teach more effectively and engage students in different ways. Each tool includes a short description to help you quickly find what suits your course needs.

Adding Time to Your Prompt

Customise stickers to make your feedback in Canvas more personal and fun. This 60ish-Second How-To video shows you how to add your own text to a digital sticker and use it across comments, discussions, and course pages.

Adding The Why To Your Prompt

Customise stickers to make your feedback in Canvas more personal and fun. This 60ish-Second How-To video shows you how to add your own text to a digital sticker and use it across comments, discussions, and course pages.

Adding Activity to Your Prompt

Customise stickers to make your feedback in Canvas more personal and fun. This 60ish-Second How-To video shows you how to add your own text to a digital sticker and use it across comments, discussions, and course pages.

Adding Attitude to Your Prompt

Customise stickers to make your feedback in Canvas more personal and fun. This 60ish-Second How-To video shows you how to add your own text to a digital sticker and use it across comments, discussions, and course pages.

Adding Sources to Your AI Prompt

Customise stickers to make your feedback in Canvas more personal and fun. This 60ish-Second How-To video shows you how to add your own text to a digital sticker and use it across comments, discussions, and course pages.

Navigation Smart Search 

The Smart Search feature grasps the context of queries, delivering more accurate and relevant results without the need for complex search operators or tools Smart Search is a new feature preview available in Canvas using advanced AI and semantic algorithms. The Smart Search feature understands the context of queries, providing more accurate and relevant results …

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