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Canvas is the Learning Management System (LMS) purchased by Fayette County Schools and available to all staff. It gives teachers and administrators a centralized place to post learning resources and make the administration of class work simpler while promoting collaboration inside and outside the classroom. Staff members have access to Canvas help 24/7/365.

Northern Kentucky University offers lessons, films, and activities on plagiarism and copyright awareness for the classroom. The lesson content promotes research honesty and consciousness for students. Both ethical and legal discussions are presented.

According to Google, Scholar is a tool geared towards high school students and adult learners rather than younger students. Articles and citations that come up in Google Scholar results are all from high-quality, academic sources. Some of these are publicly available and linked to in the search results. Others are available from online databases or university libraries and require a bit more effort to find. Academic articles are indexed and ranked in the same way that researchers evaluate their sources: They not only consider the full text content, but also the author, when it was published, who cites it, as well as how recently it has been cited by other articles.

Inkscape is a professional vector graphics editor for Windows, Mac OS X and Linux. It's free and open source. Tutorials are available on the web site and interactive tutorials may be accessed from the Help menu within the software.