Canvas

Canvas

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Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
Canvas	Score8.2 out of 10	N/A	Instructure is an educational software company based in Sandy, Utah. It is the developer of the Canvas learning management system, which is a comprehensive software package that competes with such systems as Blackboard Learning System, SumTotal and Saba.	N/A

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Canvas
Free Trial
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Free/Freemium Version
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Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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	Canvas
Considered Both Products	Instructure Verified User Chose Canvas This is much easier to use than Blackboard. Everything is easy to locate. The interface is clean and intuitive, which makes navigation smooth for both instructors and students. Assignments, grades, and messages are all centralized, reducing confusion. Setup is quick, and the … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Canvas Canvas is much more robust, has more features, and is more accessible. In canvas it can be specified to your specific organization and have its own domain which I do not think that Coursera can do. Coursera is good for sharing a single course or CEU but does not have the same … Incentivized Helpful? William Hazevoets Student at Thomas More (E-Learning, 10,001+ employees) Chose Canvas Canvas is in the experience way better than Google Classroom. Canvas has a more robust agenda system that also allows adding in new personal deadlines. [Assignments] can be submitted past [the] deadline (if allowed), Incentivized Helpful? Jarne Horemans Student at Thomas More Mechelen (Higher Education, 1001-5000 employees) Chose Canvas Canvas is more secure, has a cleaner design, and has more features. For the features, they have in common canvas still stacks up against [Smart school] by going for the extra mile. Besidfor e that, [the] canvas looks a lot more [professional] than [Smart school]. I didn't make … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Canvas Canvas is a stronger platform. I used it as a teacher AND as a student in graduate school, and it is just the most put-together, professional version of a learning management system that I've used or seen. I do assume that Canvas is more expensive than its competitors, which … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Canvas I believe Canvas is worse than all of them. In my experience, it is harder to use, uglier to look at. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Canvas Moodle is open source and it is free. So we can implement our own server with Moodle very easily. But it is not very customizable. When we need a new feature, it is very hard to change as we do not have the ability to change. Canvas has been great help in this because we can … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Canvas NONE Incentivized Helpful? Brett Flitton President in Marketing at Brixus Media (Marketing & Advertising, 1-10 employees) Chose Canvas I've used a few other management systems and Canvas is one of the better ones I've tested. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Canvas Canvas is a powerful learning management tool that combines so many key elements of an actual classroom and allows teachers to mirror their classroom environment into a virtual platform. It is simply amazing what can be done on Canvas. Grading systems/analysis, progress … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Canvas Canvas takes the better parts of both Skyward and Google Classroom and combines them to work pretty seamlessly - grading, assignments, attendance, document/file sharing - all integrated into one platform. In addition, the internal communication feature makes communication … Incentivized Helpful? Devarajulu Ravichandran Vice President and CIO in Information Technology at School of the Art Institute of Chicago (Higher Education, 1001-5000 employees) Chose Canvas Much more refined user interface Incentivized Helpful? Patrick Woessner Coordinator of Instructional Technology in Information Technology at Mary Institute and St. Louis Country Day School (Education Management, 201-500 employees) Chose Canvas Canvas was far easier to use, more feature rich, and much better supported. Teachers and students prefer it to the other solutions we've evaluated or used in the past. Anything that kids can use with minimal instruction is a major win for schools. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Canvas Simple design interface combines with powerful functionality within the platform. Incentivized Helpful? Shay Kotian Software Engineer in Information Technology at Versa Networks (Telecommunications, 501-1000 employees) Chose Canvas How content is delivered using Moodle is not up to the mark when compared to Canvas. The user interface is clunky when compared to a much simple and easy to understand user interface that of Canvas. Configuring Moodle can be quite tedious if one comes from a non-IT background. … Incentivized Helpful? Ashley Milton Alumni Development Manager, College of Education at Florida State University (Education Management, 1001-5000 employees) Chose Canvas I was not part of the team that selected Canvas, however, I used Blackboard as a student and very little as a staff member. Blackboard was especially difficult in navigating organizations or shared sites. I used it to organize mandatory training for students in one of my … Incentivized Helpful? Danielle Healey ESOL Teacher at Howard County Public School System (Education Management, 10,001+ employees) Chose Canvas Canvas has some unique features that are superior to Google Classroom, but I prefer Google Classroom because of its ease of use. It does have some of the same problems as Canvas though in terms of assigning work to particular students. Incentivized Helpful? Kari Doherty owner at yogaRIOT (Health, Wellness and Fitness, 11-50 employees) Chose Canvas I have not used any other platforms for this type of experience. I appreciated the thorough introduction that was offered to onboard onto the platform. It made it easy to use right off the bat. Incentivized Helpful? Victoria L. Graduate Teaching Assistant at Kansas State University (Higher Education, 10,001+ employees) Chose Canvas Canvas surpasses Blackboard not only visually, but technically as well. It offers more customization options, as well as more features for students and teachers a like in regard to grading, notifications, and uploading files. It also seems to stream videos more successfully, … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Canvas Canvas is a pricey option, at least when compared to something open source like Moodle. Personally, I don't feel that Canvas has the same ability to customize as Moodle. However, the customer support from Canvas makes it stand out. With an open-source platform, it might be … Incentivized Helpful? Nicolas Hanhan Distance Education Instructional Coordinator in Information Technology at Arizona Western College (Education Management, 201-500 employees) Chose Canvas Canvas is more cost-effective when compared to Blackboard Learn. Canvas has lately worked on features improvement especially in the grade center, for example, moving columns around like an Excel sheet, a feature not found in Blackboard Learn. Incentivized Helpful? Stefanie Cash Digital Marketing Manager in Marketing at Caradonna Adventures (Hospitality, 11-50 employees) Chose Canvas Canvas is the only platform we have used as a learning management system Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Canvas The Canvas interface is easier for students to use and navigate. It is also cleaner so students enjoy using the tool more than Sakai. Canvas was easier for our IT department to implement. Training faculty on how to use Canvas was easier than Sakai. The analytics in Canvas are … Incentivized Helpful? Christopher Sweets Manager, Systems Administration in Information Technology at Orbis Education (Education Management, 201-500 employees) Chose Canvas Canvas's ease of use and ease of administration were huge deciding factors in the decision to use Canvas as our preferred LMS. We found that on average Canvas took 1/3 the clicks to accomplish the same tasks as Blackboard, and the structure of data in Canvas is far superior to … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Canvas I believe Canvas out does all of these because of its robustness. It allows for more design opportunities including HTML and HTML5 and has many built-in features that are not offered by all of the other LMSs. Some of those features are discussions, assignments, pages, quizzes, … Incentivized Helpful?
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Features

Canvas

Comparison of Learning Management features of Canvas
Feature	Canvas 9.8 42 Ratings
Course authoring	9.942 Ratings
Course catalog or library	9.839 Ratings
Player/Portal	9.933 Ratings
Learning content	9.935 Ratings
Mobile friendly	9.941 Ratings
Progress tracking & certifications	9.938 Ratings
Assignments	9.942 Ratings
Compliance management	9.833 Ratings
Learning administration	9.937 Ratings
Learning reporting & analytics	9.939 Ratings
Social learning	9.934 Ratings
Gamification	9.63 Ratings
Single Sign On (SSO) Enabled Learning	9.83 Ratings

User Ratings
	Canvas
Likelihood to Recommend	8.6 (84 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew	9.3 (5 ratings)
Usability	10.0 (8 ratings)
Support Rating	9.0 (11 ratings)
In-Person Training	10.0 (1 ratings)
Online Training	8.0 (1 ratings)
Implementation Rating	8.5 (2 ratings)
Product Scalability	8.0 (1 ratings)