Canvas Integration

FluencyLink - Canvas Integration Guide

In order to use FluencyLink as a teacher, the LMS admin must have first added the teacher’s course(s) and students in Canvas, as well as the FluencyLink app.  

If you do not know your Canvas login credentials, please contact your school or district IT administrator.

Launching FluencyLink from Canvas

    1. First, login to Canvas.

    2. Once you’ve logged in, you will be redirected to your Canvas dashboard, where you can see the course(s) your LMS admin created for you.

   3.  By clicking on a Course Tile, you will be redirected to the below screen.  You will also be able to see the “Assignment(s)” that your LMS admin has created for you.

(Note: the LMS admin must populate this list with at least one “Assignment” in order to link your Course to the app.  However, as a teacher on FluencyLink you are fully able to create your own assignments on the platform, which do not require an admin.)

   4. Click on "Assignment" to launch the FluencyLink portal on Canvas.  You will then see your Library.

(Note: the courses, assignments, and library contents shown in these images are for illustrative purposes only. These will be replaced by your Cheng & Tsui materials.)

Assigning Books

    1. You will automatically be associated with your class(es), which you can check by clicking Roster, then Class (highlighted in yellow in the image below.)

    2. To see the students in your class(es), click the Student option in the Roster menu.

    3. If you would like to create sub-groups of students within a class (for example, study groups or heritage learners), you can create a Group. Click on "Add Group" and add students from the class to create this separate group of users.
(Note: creating a Group here will enable the Group across the rest of the platform.  You can assign homework, assessments, and more to these Groups)

    4. To assign books to your students, you will need to click Assign Content (highlighted in yellow in the image below), found in the Learning Content menu.  

    5. You will see the below screen, where you can select the books to assign to specific students, groups, or classes.  If you do not see any books in your Library, your district administrator on FluencyLink will need to assign licenses to you and your school.

(Note: Your LMS admin will be a district administrator, but your Language Coordinator may also be a district administrator.  Both will be able to assign licenses.)

    6. Using this process, you can assign books to your students. When they launch the FluencyLink dashboard from Canvas, they will be able to access their books and all other FluencyLink features.
(Note: If you receive an error stating “You have exhausted the maximum number of users to which this license can be assigned,” when you try to assign books to your classes, an administrator will need to grant you additional licenses.  If your school on FluencyLink does not have sufficient licenses, a district admin will need to assign these extra licenses to your school.)