Learning Management System
Our Solution
Canvas by Instructure serves as the unified Learning Management System (LMS) integrated with Turnitin, Panopto, and other tools at CityUHK.
- Distribute course content
- Communicate with students
- Collect student submissions
Students
- View published course content
- Communicate with teachers and classmates
- Complete assessments
- Visit CityUHK Homepage
- Click "QUICK LINK" and then "Canvas"
- Log in by using CityUHK EID and password
- Click the "Courses" icon from the left menu
- Click the course title on the tray menu
(or "All Courses" if it is not listed)
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Available Functions:
- Note Sharing
- Announcements
- Assignments and Quizzes
- Grading
- Google Meet
- No further features and integrations (i.e. Turnitin) are available
- Teachers need to create classes in Google Classroom and invite only students with CityUHK Google Workspace ✽ accounts to join their classes
- ✽ Google Workspace Account Request
Plagiarism Prevention
Our Solution
Turnitin scans assignments and generates reports on originality to alert teachers and students on potential plagiarism issues.
- Create assignments with plagiarism checking in Canvas
- View similarity and AI writing detection reports of student submissions
- Provide feedback to students using GradeMark
Students
- Upload document files to Turnitin via Canvas assignments
- View similarity reports of submissions (if teachers allow)
- Online - File Uploads
(Canvas Plagiarism Framework) - External Tool
(LTI 1.1)
Students can check for plagiarism in their document files via Turnitin assignments (created by teachers) only in Canvas courses.
- Assignment management
(Online - File Uploads / Canvas Plagiarism Framework only) - AI writing
- Feedback Studio with Canvas comparison chart
Students
- Available for teachers and research students
- Checking for plagiarism in research papers only ✽, NOT for assignment submissions
- ✽ Online request for CityUHK staff only via Research Grants & Contracts Office (RO) website.
Grammarly Editor
(instruction)
- Available for CityUHK Grammarly users
- Self-checking for plagiarism only, NOT for assignment submissions
- Less accurate than Turnitin due to weak paper database
- Poor interface for similarity reports
Video Recording
Our Solution
Teachers can use Panopto to record lectures with presentations and enable the related options for students to submit video assignments.
- Produce and deliver instructional videos with presentations in Canvas courses
- Create video assignments with Panopto "Assignment Folder", allowing students to upload their media submissions
Students
- Record or upload videos using Panopto and submit them for video assignments in Canvas courses
Teachers can record or upload instructional videos to Panopto Recordings in Canvas courses.
(instruction)
Students can view instructional videos in Panopto Recordings of Canvas courses.
(instruction)
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Record and upload instructional videos via Canvas Rich Content Editor
(instruction) - Enable students to submit video assignments directly
- Media uploads less than 500 MB
- No recording for screen sharing
Zoom Clips (instruction)
- Record instructional videos with screen sharing
- Copy and share the clip links
- Cannot set a restriction that only the course students can access the clips
- No "Zoom Clips" option for submitting Canvas assignments
Formative Assessment
Our Solution
uReply provides teachers with a platform for in-class assessments, i.e. live polling and attendance tracking.
uReply service will be terminated after June 2025.
- Manage preset question banks and launch interactive sessions such as live polling in classrooms
- Create sessions for taking student attendance
Students
- Respond to the in-class activities
- Visit go.cityu.hk/ureply or cityu.ed2.mobi, then click on
[Teacher@CityU] - Log in by using CityUHK EID and password
Students
- Scan the QR code using mobile devices; or
- Visit go.cityu.hk/ureply or cityu.ed2.mobi
- Click on
[Student@CityU] - Input Session Number, Student ID and Student Name
- Click on
(forms.office.com)
- Show QR code to let students join
- Display the real-time statistics of responses
- Record the respondent names for taking student attendance ✽
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To share the forms which only CityUHK students access with authentication, teachers must use EID-f@staff.cityu.edu.hk to create and share the forms with students
(Steps of Account Request)
Writing Assistant
Our Solution
Grammarly for Education provides comprehensive, AI-powered writing assistance that enhances learning throughout the entire writing process.
- View the real-time highlights of spelling and grammatical mistakes while typing text
- Improve the writing after viewing suggestions provided by Grammarly Responsible AI and Generative AI assistance
- Receive weekly progress reports including analysis of writing via emails
- Log in to CityUHK My Apps Dashboard
- Click on the Grammarly icon, then land on the Grammarly home page
If no Grammarly icon is shown on the My Apps page, please register for the CityUHK Grammarly account via the Service Portal. ✽
- ✽ There is a limited number of user licenses in our institutional subscription.
- All CityUHK students and staff can use them by following the instructions
- Create outlines, write polished drafts, and summarize documents
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Due to limits in the conversation flow format,
- No real-time grammar check
- No interface for reviewing grammar suggestions
- Perform basic grammar checks only