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Name: Canvas
Brand: Canvas
Rating: 3.79 (23 reviews)

The Canvas LMS by Instructure makes teaching, learning, implementation, adoption, customer support and student success easier. Reliable, customizable, mobile, time-saving, designed to get out of your way, to let you do your thing.

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Canvas Reviews 2020

Read Canvas reviews and discover how other eLearning Industry community members have experienced the software.

Performance Overview

Overall Rating 76^%

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Jun 12, 2020

It was very easy to learn but hard to find support

Overall Rating 69^%

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What do you like best? It was easy to maneuver because the assignments and materials were really organized in a certain area for users to see

What do you dislike? Getting support was hard when attempting to get a real chat to speak to a technician which cause a little confusion

May 15, 2019

Intuitive and designed to meet the needs of all users

Overall Rating 99^%

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What do you like best? 1. 24/7 support for users 2. The flat and clean design 3. Intuitive and ease to use 4. Canvas Community of users 5. The Commons 6. Frequent updates 7. The mobile applications

What do you dislike? So far there is not much I do not like about Canvas as an admin, instructor, or student user.

Mar 10, 2019

Canvas is a great platform for educators/learning professionals.

Overall Rating 80^%

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What do you like best? The user interface was simple and well designed. Students found it easy to navigate and locate essential materials.

What do you dislike? I would recommend Canvas for anyone in the instructional design, education and e-learning professions.

Jan 29, 2019

I think it is very user friendly and provides flexibility to be designed in various ways.

Overall Rating 95^%

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What do you like best? I like that the flexibility in designing learning experiences allows instructors and students to be creative, depending on how student permissions are set up. It feels like the possibilities are limitless.

What do you dislike? I honestly can say I have been the administrator and trainer for almost a full year and I am finding it difficult to think of something I don’t like about it. The only thing that really comes to mind is the look of the rubrics that it creates when using the rubric feature.

Oct 29, 2018

Great LMS; it's easy to use and it offers extensive third-party integrations.

Overall Rating 82^%

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What do you like best? The LMS is simple to use and easy to interoperate with third-party tools and services, using LTI. The Canvas' UI offers users easy access to all educational content and learning acticities. It also provides a nice overview of course statistics.

What do you dislike? Translation of interface into other languages is not very good. Most of the time institutions choose for the English language settings, because the lack of good option in their preferred language (in Europe).

Mar 29, 2018

Good

Overall Rating 57^%

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What do you like best? Good

What do you dislike? Good

Mar 25, 2018

Overly technical and didn't feel user friendly. Too complicated.

Overall Rating 45^%

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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.

Jan 30, 2018

Well designed interface for both students and faculty.

Overall Rating 80^%

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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.

Jan 15, 2018

Solid foundation

Overall Rating 72^%

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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.

Jan 8, 2018

It is a good serviceable LMS. Does most of it's work easily and logicly.

Overall Rating 79^%

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What do you like best? mostly intuitive for users students and teachers. Have had very little down time over the last 7 years or so. Programing is solid and has most all the features that are needed or wanted.

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.

Jan 6, 2018

User friendly

Overall Rating 77^%

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What do you like best? Grade book

What do you dislike? how often the icons change

Jan 5, 2018

I think that Canvas is slow about integrating modifications and is not keeping up with current tech.

Overall Rating 50^%

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What do you like best? -

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.

Jan 5, 2018

Too rigid

Overall Rating 39^%

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Jan 5, 2018

It's a practical, straightforward system that provides a way to deliver courses.

Overall Rating 73^%

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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.

Jan 4, 2018

Very easy to use

Overall Rating 74^%

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Jan 4, 2018

Beautiful mobile interface

Overall Rating 91^%

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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

Jan 4, 2018

A highly evolving LMS with endless possibilities

Overall Rating 69^%

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Jan 4, 2018

Powerful tool that is scalable to the level of users' understanding of Blended Learning.

Overall Rating 92^%

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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.

Jan 4, 2018

Canvas is a simple, yet extremely flexible and effective LMS.

Overall Rating 93^%

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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? -

Dec 27, 2017

Easy to use, regularly updated LMS with a lot of support resources.

Overall Rating 84^%

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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.

Dec 26, 2017

Don't really no

Overall Rating 62^%

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Dec 17, 2017

It fits our school and offers huge potential.

Overall Rating 82^%

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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

Dec 13, 2017

Canvas made my life easier, focus on teaching less on tech

Overall Rating 95^%

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What do you like best? Video assignments recorded on Canvas

What do you dislike? No duplications for question boxes

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It was very easy to learn but hard to find support

Intuitive and designed to meet the needs of all users

Canvas is a great platform for educators/learning professionals.

I think it is very user friendly and provides flexibility to be designed in various ways.

Great LMS; it's easy to use and it offers extensive third-party integrations.

Good

Overly technical and didn't feel user friendly. Too complicated.

Well designed interface for both students and faculty.

Solid foundation

It is a good serviceable LMS. Does most of it's work easily and logicly.

User friendly

I think that Canvas is slow about integrating modifications and is not keeping up with current tech.

Too rigid

It's a practical, straightforward system that provides a way to deliver courses.

Very easy to use

Beautiful mobile interface

A highly evolving LMS with endless possibilities

Powerful tool that is scalable to the level of users' understanding of Blended Learning.

Canvas is a simple, yet extremely flexible and effective LMS.

Easy to use, regularly updated LMS with a lot of support resources.

Don't really no

It fits our school and offers huge potential.

Canvas made my life easier, focus on teaching less on tech

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