IgniteAI Agent
a chat assistant that carries out tasks in Canvas for admins and instructors
Takes instructions in chat and carries out tasks across Canvas for admins and instructors. Canvas: “The IgniteAI Agent is an AI tool that answers your prompts and helps you manage students, communications, discussions, assignments, quizzes, extensions, and grades in Canvas.”
IgniteAI Accessibility Remediation for Courses
writes image alt text and table captions inside the Accessibility Checker
Writes alt text for images and captions for tables in the course Accessibility Checker. Canvas: “If the IgniteAI Accessibility Remediation for Courses feature option is enabled for your account, you can use AI to generate alt text for the image.” The checker itself works without it: “When the IgniteAI Accessibility Remediation for Courses feature option is disabled, the Accessibility Checker does not use AI.” Canvas has separate guides for admins and for use within a course, for the same tool.
Ask Your Data
also called IgniteAI Ask Your Data; admins ask questions about Canvas data in plain English
Lets admins ask questions about their institution’s Canvas data in plain English. Canvas: “The AI-powered query tool in Ask Your Data lets account admins and sub-account admins ask and answer questions in natural language.” The AI-powered part is available in Canvas Next.
IgniteAI Generator for Rubrics
drafts a grading rubric from an assignment’s name and description
Drafts an editable grading rubric for an assignment. Canvas: “As an instructor, the IgniteAI Generator for Rubrics allows you to generate editable rubrics with AI-suggested criteria, point values, and performance levels based on the assignment name and description.”
Grading Assistance
also called IgniteAI Grading Assistance for SpeedGrader; suggests scores and feedback on written work from the rubric
Suggests a score and written feedback for a student’s written assignment, marked against the assignment’s rubric. A teacher approves every suggestion: “You must review and approve all AI-generated scores, feedback, and comments before submitting the assessment.” Canvas: “Students see that an evaluation is AI-Assisted when they view the evaluation on the Grades or Assignments page.”
Discussion Insights
also called IgniteAI Insights for Discussions; scores each student’s discussion reply for relevance and quality
Scores each student’s discussion reply for relevance and quality, for the instructor; students cannot see the scores. Canvas: “In Discussions, the Discussion Insights Dashboard uses an AI-powered tool to help educators quickly evaluate the relevance and quality of student replies.” Canvas: “AI-generated relevancy scores and evaluation notes cannot be edited or overridden; they are intended to support instructors in grading.”
IgniteAI Question Authoring for Quizzes
writes quiz questions from course content, text or an uploaded file
Writes questions for a quiz in New Quizzes from material the instructor chooses. Canvas: “In New Quizzes, you can use IgniteAI Question Authoring for Quizzes to create questions based on course content.” Canvas: “You can generate questions by choosing existing course content, entering text, or uploading files.”
IgniteAI Summaries for Discussions
summarises a discussion thread’s main points, questions and ideas
Summarises a discussion thread when an instructor asks for it. Canvas: “IgniteAI Summaries for Discussions use a Generative AI model to provide summaries of the main points, questions, and ideas in a discussion thread”.
IgniteAI Search
shown in Canvas as Smart Search; searches course content by meaning, not only by keyword
Searches a course’s assignments, announcements, discussions and pages by what a query means. Canvas: “Leveraging semantic algorithms and AI, IgniteAI Search allows users to search Canvas course content by understanding the context of queries and finding relevant results based on that context.”
IgniteAI Study Tools
students turn course pages into summaries, practice quizzes and flashcards
Lets students turn course files and pages into summaries, practice quizzes or flashcards; instructors switch it on for their course. Canvas: “IgniteAI Study Tools allow students to generate personalized study materials such as summaries, quizzes, and flash cards directly from course files and pages.” Canvas has separate guides for instructors and for students, for the same tool.
IgniteAI Translations
translates discussions and announcements into another language, shown beside the original
Translates a discussion into another language on request, shown alongside the original. Canvas: “Once a language is selected, the discussion topic and replies display in the original language and the translated language.” It covers announcements as well as discussions, works in ten languages, and may have to be switched on in each course. Canvas has separate guides for instructors and for students, for the same tool.
