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Canvas Reviews
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Performance Overview
Overall Rating
73%
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Usefulness
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Usability
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Customer Experience
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Likelihood to Recommend
Good
What do you like best?
Good
What do you dislike?
Good
Overly technical and didn't feel user friendly. Too complicated.
What do you like best?
The different apps that can be used with it.
What do you dislike?
Far too technical for the average user to easily understand.
Well designed interface for both students and faculty.
What do you like best?
LTI integrations with many familiar apps that promote collaboration and interactive learning.
What do you dislike?
The grading features are not as flexible as our current student management system's grade book. Syncing grades between the two is possible, but not always reliable.
Solid foundation
What do you like best?
Fairly small overhead for a new course setup
What do you dislike?
Cannot duplicate assignments, quizzes. Group calendars not visible for course director levels. Not a lot of customization available in the standard package on course level without involving tech teams.
It is a good serviceable LMS.
What do you like best?
mostly intuitive for users.
What do you dislike?
so much contextual controls. meaning that you have to click on some things to see the complete list of options. many users will never realize the number of options that they have.
User friendly
What do you like best?
Grade book
What do you dislike?
how often the icons change
I think that Canvas is slow about integrating modifications and is not keeping up with current tech.
What do you like best?
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What do you dislike?
There are many bugs and at least in my institution it is unclear where to go to get answers to problems I encounter.
Too rigid
It's a practical, straightforward system that provides a way to deliver courses.
What do you like best?
The ability to integrate so many 3rd party apps pretty easily.
What do you dislike?
Too much real estate taken away from course content with link columns on left and right. Also, the formatting of the front page in page mode is different than when it's seen as the front page. It makes designing creative landing pages for a course frustrating.
Very easy to use
Beautiful mobile interface
What do you like best?
I can easily look at student work and grade it thru the app.
What do you dislike?
Nothing as of yet
A highly evolving LMS with endless possibilities
Powerful tool that is scalable to the level of users' understanding of Blended Learning.
What do you like best?
Level of support, redundancy of servers, easy way to jump in and expand learning beyond the classroom walls.
What do you dislike?
Nothing at this point.
Canvas is a simple, yet extremely flexible and effective LMS.
What do you like best?
I love that at the base, it is so simple to use. There aren't an over abundance of options to choose from, which lets you focus on designing learning, instead of instructions on how to use the LMS. And, although it is simple, it allows you to add so many custom options via LTI that you get to choose how embellished the learning environment is. This flexibility makes it a great option for institutions with users at various skill levels.
What do you dislike?
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Easy to use, regularly updated LMS with a lot of support resources.
What do you like best?
Regular updates based on community input. Relatively easy to find support resources. Availability of many LTI plug-ins to extend functionality.
What do you dislike?
Still has room to grow to be a "perfect" LMS. Areas of growth needed include quiz engine and accessibility (which they are actively working on), need for an instructor dashboard since tools instructors use to measure student success can be difficult to find, need for better authoring tools and more ability to add interest to pages without a lot of coding (e.g., accordions, image handling, interactives, etc.) as these functions are very basic in Canvas.
Don't really no
It fits our school and offers huge potential.
What do you like best?
It is easy to use and is also quite flexible. We are only really scraping the surface at the moment and are looking forward to exploring more depth in 2018.
What do you dislike?
Nothing really
Canvas made my life easier, focus on teaching less on tech
What do you like best?
Video assignments recorded on Canvas
What do you dislike?
No duplications for question boxes