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The offline feature of Canvas Mobile App is available for the student mobile app and can be found behind a feature flag. Institutions that choose to utilize this feature will give students the opportunity to download certain parts of their courses and access that content through the Canvas Student App.
Institutions using this feature should keep in mind that:
- What you see is what you get – Data available within the app while in online mode is the same data that will be downloaded in offline mode.
- Data lives in your dedicated app – Only the Canvas app will have access to the data. All downloaded data is stored within the app's secure externally unreachable storage space. Both iOS and Android platforms provide safety features to avoid invalid accesses, and only the dedicated application can access the stored data.
- Synchronization is secure – During offline synchronization, the application uses the same secure, encrypted storage currently in use now. There is no additional type of storage and the apps do not write this data into a file or to an external database.
- Users see their own data only – Upon logout, downloaded data will be not accessible. With the use of the switch/change user operation, downloaded data remains accessible in the Canvas app only for the same user. While it is possible to change between users, individual users will be only able to see their own downloaded data.
- There’s no wait – No additional Canvas Student App refresh is needed. Institutions can turn the offline feature on now.