Canvas by Instructure
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How to Replace Canvas by InstructureOverview
Features
15 features across 11 categories
Accessibility(1)
Strong commitment to accessibility standards and inclusive design at core to help institutions meet diverse learner needs.
Administration(1)
Create secure and managed teaching and learning spaces that adapt to different user groups and reflect institution's branding, hierarchy, and roles.
Analytics & Reporting(2)
Access raw, event-level data files ideal for building customized dashboards, running advanced queries, and integrating with institution's data warehouse.
Get real-time visibility into course activity, student progress, and engagement trends without leaving Canvas.
Communication(1)
Connect with students based on instructor-defined criteria and deliver support when and where it's needed.
Course Management(1)
Scale engaging curriculum across school, district, or institution and push course updates with a single click for centrally managed courses.
Course Marketplace(1)
Allows institutions to promote, centralize, and brand continuing education and professional learning programs in an online marketplace with discoverable listings, enrollment workflows, and custom branding.
Grading & Assessment(2)
More than just marks, offering clear view of learner progress. Educators can enter marks, manage assignments, adjust weightings, and customize data organization and visualization.
Grade student submissions, leave comments, and annotate documents all in one place. Enables critical, contextual feedback and productive interaction with students.
Infrastructure(1)
Built in the cloud on open technology providing flexible and scalable integration capabilities.
Integration(1)
Canvas integrates with 1000+ external tools giving educators freedom to compose their ideal teaching and learning environments.
Mobile(3)
Provides at-a-glance visibility into child's education including viewing assignment descriptions, due dates, announcements, setting reminders, and seeing grades.
Allows learners to stay up to date on any device. Includes viewing grades, course content, submitting assignments, using to-do lists and calendars, messaging, discussions, videos, and quizzes.
Enables educators to facilitate courses from anywhere including browsing submissions, providing feedback via mobile SpeedGrader, posting announcements, messaging, course discussions, changing due dates, and editing content.
Video & Multimedia(1)
Two-way video platform that turns passive watching into active learning. Includes seamless video creation and sharing, interactive discussions inside video timeline, actionable analytics, and cross-course and device integration.
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Build vs Buy
Should you build a Canvas by Instructure alternative or buy the subscription? Estimate based on 15 features.
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Buying Canvas by Instructure saves ~$18,480 over 3 years vs building.
Estimates based on 15 features and a BuildScore of 5/5. Actual costs vary.
Integrations
1 known integrations