Canvas Help Request Tool

Document Last Update: Sept. 15, 2021

Product: Canvas Help Request Tool

Name
Product Name

Canvas Help Request Tool
Description
Vendors description of the product

Is a tool to assist all Canvas user roles, including students, instructors, and observers/parents/caregivers. 

Purpose
Requester intended use of the product. What will the tool accomplish? What benefits to the university, students, others?
To helps or support students, faculty, and anybody that are having trouble with Canvas. 
ASE Product Report Card
Product Report Card URL
 
Installation Type
Only one will apply
  • Approved - Campus
  • Approved - Online
  • Approved - Campus & Online
  • Semi Approved - Individual only 
 

Tool Information

Communication Path
Communication paths for product changes and emergencies,…
  • When do the owner, stakeholders, employees and students need to be notified?
  • Path for back end issue - upgrades, bugs, ...
  • Path for Interface issue - upgrades, bugs, ...
  • Emergencies (major, minor)

The process for incident/maintenance communication for I-Learn products and the roles of portfolio managers and system owners is highlighted in the IT Incident Management and IT Change Management documents which are linked here.  

Product Owner
The person who can make the ultimate decisions for the product - funding, road map, vision, governance and retirement.
  • Please include name, email, phone, job title.

Kelly Burgener 

burgenerk@byui.edu 

208-496-1123  

Academic Vice President 

 

John Linford 

linfordj@byui.edu  

208-496-1123  

Online Vice President

Stakeholders
A person or group of people who have an interest in the product and its success. Can influence product decisions. Are impacted (directly or indirectly) by the product. e.g. requester, department, developer, ASE, portfolio manager, product manager
  • Please include name, email, phone, job title.

Stakeholders: 

  • I-Learn Governance Council 

    Mike Wegner (Portfolio Manager Online) 

    wegnerm@byui.edu 

    (208) 496-7250 

  • Kent Barrus (Portfolio Management Managing Director) 

    barrusk@byui.edu 

    (208) 496-7205 

  • Dean Allen (Product Manager) 

    allende@byui.edu 

    (208) 496-7211 

  • Eric Karl (Curriculum Development Managing Director) 

    karle@byui.edu 

    (208) 496-7610 

  • Alan Young (Online Learning Managing Director) 

    youngal@byui.edu 

    (208) 496-1851 

  • David Ashby (Director of Learning Innovation & Technology) 

    ashbyd@byui.edu 

    (208) 496-1536 

  • Rob Eaton (Associate Academic Vice President for Learning and Teaching) 

    eatonr@byui.edu 

    (208) 496-1135 

  • Matt Anderson (Curriculum Development Director) 

    andersonma@byui.edu 

    (208) 496-7221 

  • Corey Moore (LMS Coordinator) 

    mooreco@byui.edu 

    (208) 496-1525 

  • Arlen Wilcock (Academic Technology Manager) 

    wilcocka@byui.edu 

    (208) 496-7216 

  • Jed Rhien (University Communication Strategy Coordinator) 

    rhienj@byui.edu 

    (208) 496-2002 

  • Brad Barson (Online Training Coordinator) 

    barsonbr@byui.edu 

    (208) 496-1884 

  • Dane Bohman (Application Systems Engineer) 

    bohmand@byui.edu 

    (208) 496-7217 

  • Ben Wilson (Online Technologies Researcher) 

    wilsonbe@byui.edu 

    (208) 496-1550 

  • Amber Gneiting (Application Systems Engineer) 

    gneitinga@byui.edu 

    (208) 496-7015 

  • Josh Mckinney (Development Coordinator) 

    mckinneyj@byui.edu 

    (208) 496-1534 

  • Becki Lyn Skidmore (Contracting & Supplier Relationship Manager) 

    skidmorebe@byui.edu 

    (208) 496-2350

 

 

Platform Services Director  

ASE List: 

  • Dane Bohman - bohmand@byui.edu / 208-496-7217 

  • Ben Wilson - wilsonbe@byui.edu / 208-496-1550 

  • Amber Gneiting - gneitinga@byui.edu / 208-496-7015

Director, Software Engineering 

Portfolio Management  

Academics Product Manager 

  • Dean Allen - allende@byui.edu/(208) 496-7211

Audience
Who will use the product? (campus, online, pathway, Ensign, employees - more specific like - nursing students, specific department or course(s))
 
Students, Faculty, Online

Purchasing

  • Purchaser and requester information - name, email, phone
  • Licensing (description of the license agreement - site license, per user, per computer, ...)
  • How is the license renewed?
  • Next renewal date?
  • When should this product be reviewed again for purpose and outcome? Usually, this happens every 3-5 years.
  • BYUI Purchasing Agent  - name, email, phone

Licensing Contract (How many licenses were purchased for the product?) 

This is an in-house development, so we have unlimited use. 

Who is the contract contact? (Purchasing Department) 

N/A 

What is the technology use cap of this product? 

N/A

Other
  • Product documentation (URL)
  • Support and/or training documentation (URL)
  • ASE - maintenance needs and yearly maintenance estimate
  • Any custom code developed? (where can it be found)
  • Is this ADA compliant (URL to their official vendor statement)
  • Other
 
Data
  • Give description of all data and how it interacts with the university systems.
  • List all university systems used.
  • Installation instructions - URL or direction how to find the instructions.
  • Who is responsible for installation - please include email, phone, job title.

Push Destination 

  • TeamDynamix 

Pull Source 

  • Canvas 

Data being transferred 

  • User Name 

  • I-Number 

  • User Name 

  • Email address 

  • Course info 

  • SIS id 

  • Term of course 

  • Course section

Vendor Information

Product Name Custom Tool 
Product URL n/a
Company Name BYU-Idaho

Vendor Account/Sales Rep
Please include Name, email, phone, job title.

Ben Wilson 

wilsonbe@byui.edu 

(208) 496-1550 

Online Technologies Researcher

Vendor Support Rep
Please include Name, email, phone, job title.

 

 

Details

Article ID: 9320
Created
Thu 9/23/21 9:18 AM
Modified
Thu 9/23/21 9:19 AM