OwlAuxilium

Temple University, Japan Campus Canvas Enhancement Suite: Course Categorizer, Comment Bank, Discussion Stats, Quick Groups & Others

OwlAuxilium: Canvas Tools for Temple University, Japan Campus Faculty Canvas LMS is powerful, but it wasn't built with your Tuesday morning routine in mind. OwlAuxilium is a collection of multiple purpose-built tools that plug into Canvas and handle some repetitive tasks that slow you down between classes. New in v1.3: Course Categorizer now syncs across devices, restores older Canvas courses, supports semester auto-categorization for all or only uncategorized courses, adds fast type-to-search with grouped visual results, and improves dashboard loading with a branded preloader and stronger layout stability. New in v1.3.1: Quick Actions for the Course Categorizer. Search Announcements followed by the course name. Then hit Enter to automatically go to the Announcements. What's inside: Course Categorizer: A crowded dashboard is a distraction. Group your courses into collapsible categories by semester, program, or however your brain organizes things. Drag, collapse, search. Your layout sticks across every device. Canvas Tools: Set due dates across an entire module in one shot. See exactly which students have opened an item and when. Export a quick follow-up list without digging through reports. Discussion Stats: Turn Canvas discussions into a real participation report. Posts, replies, likes, active days, per student, across one topic or many. Export to Excel when you need to record grades. Assignment Comment Bank: Your ten most-used grading comments shouldn't be retyped every semester. Save them once, search them in SpeedGrader, insert with a click. Announcement Bank: Course announcements repeat more than they should. Save reusable announcement templates, organize them by category and tag, import from previous courses, then insert them directly while creating a Canvas announcement. Students do not need the extension because everything is posted through Canvas itself. Quick Groups: Pull today's present students from Qwickly, split them into balanced groups, drag anyone who needs to move, then put it on the big screen or sync straight to Canvas. COMING SOON: Canvas Quizzer: Generate Safe Exam Browser config files and lock down course navigation during exams. Restore everything when the exam ends. Works with quizzes and quiz-style assignments. Although the extension was originally developed for Temple University, Japan Campus, it now supports all instructors using Canvas LMS. New features and updates, however, will be driven primarily by TUJ use cases and user requests. We are planning to enable this for other Canvas LMS users in the future.