Blackboard to Canvas Tool Equivalency Chart
The information and equivalency chart on this page can help instructors and teaching assistants find steps to accomplish tasks in UVACanvas that they used to do in McIntire's instance of Blackboard.
Note: If you are looking to use a tool from Blackboard that is not mentioned below, please contact the Learning Technology Services (LTS) Team to request assistance.
Tip: Before getting started, see the following articles to familiarize yourself with UVACanvas:
- Visit your sites: How do I use the Global Navigation Menu? (opens new window)
- Access tools in a site: How do I use the Course Navigation Menu as an instructor? (opens new window)
- Find and reuse content from Blackboard: Checklist coming soon!
Integrated External Tools
External tools that were integrated into Blackboard such as Media Gallery, Online Meetings (Zoom), and UVA Bookstore Inclusive Access are also available in UVACanvas. For a list of currently available tools, visit the Learning Tech Licensed Tools page (opens new window) and set the Access filter to LMS.
For steps to add one of these tools to your course, see one of the following articles:
- Tools that link in your Course Navigation Menu (e.g., Media Gallery, Online Meetings, Panopto Video): How do I manage Course Navigation links? (opens new window)
- Tools for activities students submit (e.g., Gradescope, H5P, Peerceptiv): How do I add an external tool assignment in UVACanvas? (opens new window)
Most external tools work very similarly in Canvas to how they did in Canvas. Some of these tools have new or improved features in Canvas.
Equivalent Tools
| Blackboard Tool | Equivalent in Canvas | Help Guides |
|---|---|---|
| Announcements | Announcements | |
| Blackboard Annotate | SpeedGrader | |
| Blogs | Discussions: Create monitored, graded discussion threads. Assignments: Create assignments that students submit as blogs. | |
| Calendar | Course Calendar | |
| Content Areas | Modules | |
| Content Collection (Folders) | Files | |
| Discussions Boards/Forums/Threads | Discussions | |
| Inbox | ||
| Grade Center | Grades: View your gradebook items in a table format. Assignments: Manage your gradebook categories (now assignment groups) and gradebook items in Assignments. | |
| Groups | Sections: Make assignments or assessments only available to specific groups of students, assign different due dates to different groups, or create accessibility accommodations. Groups: For creating group projects or assignments where multiple students make a single submission as a group. | |
| Import Package/Course Copy | Course Import | |
| Journal | There is no specific Journal tool. Assignments: You can create individual and group assignments that work similarly to a Journal. Microsoft Teams Class Notebook: Each student has their own Notebook shared only with instructors/TAs, where the student and instructors/TAs can add text, upload and embed documents and other files, and comment on the content. | |
| Lessons | Modules | |
| Make a Course Available | Publish | |
| Manage LTI Links | Course Settings | |
| Needs Grading | Dashboard | |
| Rich Content Editor | Rich Content Editor | |
| Rubrics | Rubrics | |
| Self and Peer Assessments | Assignments: Peer Review | |
| Users | People: View a list of everyone in your course with their course sections and profile photos. Photo Roster: View students' official UVA photos, sort and filter students by section or group in a course with multiple roster sections or groups, hide student names to practice them, export a list of students with their email addresses and section and group membership. | |
| Properties | Settings | |
| Statistics | Course Analytics | |
| Syllabus | Syllabus | |
| Tests, Surveys & Pools | Quizzes: Tests, Surveys Question Banks/Item Banks: Pools | |
| Web Link | Redirect Tool | |
| Welcome! (Start Here) | Home | |
| Wiki | Pages: Create a page and allow students to edit the page. Discussions: Create monitored, graded discussion threads. Collaborations: Share a Microsoft document from OneDrive that everyone in the class edits collaboratively. |