The Tommie Toolkit gives instructors and course-support staff quick access to common course-management tools—without an installation, special setup, or manual workaround.
Find it: Canvas global navigation • Setup: None
Eligible roles: Instructor, Content Developer, or Teaching Assistant
What is the Tommie Toolkit?
The Tommie Toolkit is a collection of small, focused utilities built into Canvas. It provides self-service access to tasks that previously required a help ticket or manual workaround.
Access the Toolkit
In Canvas, select Tommie Toolkit from the global navigation sidebar—the left-hand menu displayed on every Canvas page.
No special enrollment, installation, or setup is needed. Access is available to anyone with an Instructor, Content Developer, or Teaching Assistant role.
Toolkit missing from your sidebar? Confirm that you hold one of the qualifying roles. Contact Instructional Technology support, by clicking Request Service on this page, if you believe you should have access but do not.
Included tools
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Enrollment utility
Student Record Recovery
Recover a dropped student’s course record.
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Course designation
AI Course Designation
Evaluate and submit an AI-Skills designation.
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Course quality check
Due Date Audit
Find common date problems before students do.
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Enrollment utility
Student Record Recovery
Restore a previously dropped student to your course while preserving the student’s grades, submissions, and participation data.
Enrollment status: The restored enrollment is inactive. If the student needs live course access again, reactivate the enrollment separately in Canvas.
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Course designation
AI Course Designation - Coming Soon
Evaluate and submit your courses for the university’s AI-Skills Course Designation:
AI-Skills-Free AI-Skills-Integrated AI-Skills-Intensive
- AI-Skills-Free designations are approved immediately.
- AI-Skills-Integrated and AI-Skills-Intensive submissions go to the Faculty Group on AI Attributes for review.
- The automated AI evaluation is advisory; the Faculty Group makes the final determination.
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Course quality check
Due Date Audit
Scan your courses for common date problems:
- Missing due dates
- Dates outside term boundaries
- Lock and unlock date conflicts
- Year mismatches from copied courses
Safe to run: The audit is read-only and never changes course content. Results include direct links to flagged items in Canvas and can be exported as a CSV file.
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Things to know
| Sessions |
Sessions time out after extended inactivity. Re-launch the Toolkit from your Canvas sidebar to continue. |
| Record recovery |
Student Record Recovery creates inactive enrollments. Change the enrollment state separately in Canvas if needed. |
| AI designation |
The AI evaluation runs automatically. Faculty do not need an API key or any additional setup. |
| Date audit |
Due Date Audit works best when course term dates are configured. You can set manual date overrides in the preview step. |
Get help
Support availability: Support is provided on a best-effort basis during business hours. There is no guaranteed response time during the initial release period.