7 Myths About Canvas and Cheating (And What's Actually True)
what you do on other tabs." "Professors never check the logs." "If nobody flags it in the first week, you're safe." Some of these are half true, some are dangerously outdated, and some are wrong in ways that cost students their degrees. Let's go through them one at a time. Myth 1: "Canvas is basically a spy program that sees everything" This is the panic version, and it's wrong in the opposite direction from the ones below. Canvas is a learning management system. Its job is to host courses, collect assignments, run quizzes and record grades. It doesn't read your screen, listen through your microphone or scan the rest of your computer. But "Canvas doesn't spy" isn't the same as "Canvas records nothing." It keeps a lot of data about what you do inside the platform: when you log in, which pages you open, when a quiz attempt starts and ends, how long you take, and when you submit. That data isn't drama...