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Rating: 8.5 out of 10
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8.5 out of 10

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Pros

Frequent updates and evolution: Users have expressed their appreciation for the frequent updates and evolution of Canvas. Some reviewers have mentioned that these regular updates demonstrate the platform's commitment to continuously improving the user experience over time. The consistent release of new features and bug fixes every three weeks ensures that Canvas stays current and addresses user needs.

Efficient mobile grading with Speed Grader: Many users have praised the mobile app for grading assignments, Speed Grader, for its efficiency in reducing grading time by 30-50%. Reviewers find this feature convenient as it allows instructors to grade assignments on the go, making use of any available time. By providing a way to grade assignments while waiting for meetings or commuting, Speed Grader saves users valuable time.

Intuitive WYSIWYG editor: The WYSIWYG editor in Canvas is highly valued by users as it simplifies the process of creating and editing content. This intuitive editor appears in almost every tool within Canvas, allowing users to easily create engaging and visually appealing course materials. Its presence enhances the overall learning experience for students.

Reviews

83 Reviews

Canvas is for Differentiated Instruction

Rating: 10 out of 10
Incentivized

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Canvas is an amazing LMS platform for all education spaces from elementary to higher education. It's seamless and easy to use. It also can be applied to all learner types - from those who are read/write, auditory, kinesthetic, etc.

Pros

  • videos
  • simulations
  • course tracking

Cons

  • Can't think of any

Likelihood to Recommend

It is perfect because it can be applied to all learner types - from those who are read/write, auditory, kinesthetic, etc. There are areas for lectures, articles, cartoon videos, and simulations. There is also the mobile app, which is easy for anyone on-the-go. Thus, it's not just for K-12 learners, but it's perfect for adult learners too.

VU
Verified User
Administrator (501-1000 employees)
Vetted Review
Canvas
10 years of experience

Canvas is Comprehensive and User Friendly

Rating: 8 out of 10

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

I have had the opportunity to use canvas as both a student and a professor, providing unique insight to its features and nuances. This product helps to streamline the online learning experience and allow for easy structuring of course materials. It also serves as a platform to submit and complete assignments, communicate with other students, and access internal and external course links.

Pros

  • Course management
  • Efficient grading
  • Communication between students and faculty

Cons

  • Navigation
  • Building a new course
  • Adding narrated lectures and videos

Likelihood to Recommend

Canvas is a great choice to integrate online learning, course management, and communication. I find ti very useful as a place to house our course materials and assignments for my in-person course, it is fairly easy to navigate. Fully virtual classes are more difficult to manage, sometimes to video elements do not upload and play as they should. When I add in a narrated video or Kaltura video they can be glitchy.

VU
Verified User
Professional (10,001+ employees)
Vetted Review
Canvas
5 years of experience

Canvas: A students evaluation

Rating: 7 out of 10
Incentivized

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

I am a student so I use it all the time. Teachers use it to post announcements, [assignments], theory, slides, Zoom Meetings[,] and more. It is very handy to have a quick overview of what you're supposed to do with the agenda. It can also be used to give out points and feedback. It has Feedpulse integration so students can leave the result of their feedback in an input field with the date of the day of the feedback. The Teachers then have the option to give it points.

Pros

  • Being a means of giving feedback and points to assignments[.]
  • Being [the] main hub for students where they can find all their stuff for school (assignments, points, slides, feedback)
  • [Assignments] are dated and the agenda gives a quick daily/weekly/monthly overview for the deadlines across all courses[.]
  • It has Zoom integration and can be used to schedule and store them[.]

Cons

  • It has [its] own video [platforms] like Microsoft Teams and Zoom, but it isn't that great (it doesn't like being used on Firefox for example). It has disconnection issues and the mic and camera sometimes [have] issues[.]
  • When looking at points in the [assignment] overviews it only shows the total amount of points on the [assignment] but it doesn't show the given amount, you have to go to the [assignment] page to see these points[.]
  • When an announcement is posted it takes a bit too many clicks to get there. The amount of announcements doesn't always update right. I could have already read an announcement but Canvas will still show it as being unread until I go to the page again.

Likelihood to Recommend

It is really well suited for school situations like knowing what [assignments] need to be done when, getting feedback, getting points, finding the slides that the teacher used for explaining an [assignment] or theory. I think It would be less suited in business situations because it's [primarily] made to be a [one-way] communication tool for schools. Businesses need more control on individual levels I think[.]

WH
William Hazevoets
Student at Thomas More (10,001+ employees)
Vetted Review
Canvas
2 years of experience
View profile

Canvas, a great way to help teachers plan there tasks

Rating: 10 out of 10

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use it to [communicate] and plan most of the things in terms of tasks and deadlines. The only problems we stumble across are human errors. Canvas itself has almost no problems in my [experience]. Canvas has a lot of [possibility] you can use it for, [besides] that you can implement a lot of external things to make canvas even more [useful].

Pros

  • Hardly no bugs or problems[.]
  • Easy navigation on desktop[.]
  • Clean design[.]

Cons

  • The navigation is very easy and clear[.]
  • Many possibility's to implement third party features[.]
  • Great design[.]

Likelihood to Recommend

If you have a school you can let teachers easily create new deadlines which [automatically] get shown in the calendar. Teachers can also [temporarily] hide deadlines [until] they've given the explanation about the tasks. [Besides] that the teacher can also choose what should be uploaded, should it be a link, file, pdf, link,...

JH
Jarne Horemans
Student at Thomas More Mechelen (1001-5000 employees)
Vetted Review
Canvas
2 years of experience

Great LMS

Rating: 10 out of 10
Incentivized

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We used it as a Learning Management System--I posted assignments and grades on Canvas, and students could use it to check their daily assignments, future assignments and assessments, and their grades. We used it across the whole school, so it was a uniform way for students and teachers to keep track of assignments and progress.

Pros

  • Serves as online gradebook
  • Helps students keep track of daily assignment
  • Helps students keep track of grades

Cons

  • Full school calendar/events
  • Teachers seeing student grades in other classes

Likelihood to Recommend

Canvas is really the premier Learning Management System in my opinion. I assume it is a more expensive option, although I'm not involved in any decision-making/financial planning at my school. But in terms of its ability to allow students and teachers to track assignments and grades, it's a fantastic platform.

VU
Verified User
Employee (51-200 employees)
Vetted Review
Canvas
2 years of experience

Dated Look, Not user friendly to set up

Rating: 1 out of 10

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

In my experience, this program is needlessly time consuming and clunky to navigate. I feel the interface is dated and the navigation is illogical. Considering how easy programs like Google Classroom or Microsoft Teams are to set up I am amazed this product is still being used at all. A recent district mandate is requiring that we shift to the Canvas Platform, and setting up my classes, even with the availability of a pre-made template as a starting point, has been nothing short of a nightmare. It is 3am and I have been trying to work around glitches that cause content added to one class to populate in another class casing me to have to go in and out of each class changing these overrides and saving my progress over and over again. That is after spending several hours trying to get it to stop changing ALL of my Quick Button links every time I changed one causing every link to go to the same (internal Canvas) page. School starts Monday, it is Sunday, and I am exhausted and livid. Would NOT recommend.

Pros

  • Gets school districts to purchase a license to a subpar and redundant program.
  • Causes over worked educations to become more overworked, free of charge.
  • Hoodwinks people into thinking that a platform with all the design savvy of a 2001 blog builder site is worth their time.

Cons

  • Improve interface and user friendliness
  • Streamline the set up process
  • Make it less cumbersome to copy course content into a second course, and more importantly, don’t cause changes made in said second course to duplicate I’m the first course.
  • Pay the teachers who wasted countless hours of their unpaid time working on your program and getting nowhere.

Likelihood to Recommend

I feel it is never appropriate. I believe it is a waste of time. Prior to being strong armed into using Canvas, I use Microsoft Teams to manage the digital aspects of my classes, and it took less that five minutes to set up six classes. I have been trying to sort out ONE of my courses for 9 hours and it is now 3:20 am, with the first day of school closing in fast. I have yet to get a single class ready for publication with Canvas.

VU
Verified User
Employee (1001-5000 employees)
Vetted Review
Canvas
5 years of experience

Great tool to manage classes

Rating: 9 out of 10
Incentivized

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Canvas is actually being used by my school. Before we moved to Canvas, we have been used Moodle for years and although it is free, it costs a lot to maintain. So we were looking at different options. Canvas came to our sight very quickly and soo we decided to move to canvas. It has been great so far.

Pros

  • Great customer support
  • Very clear instructions
  • Powerful features

Cons

  • It came with a cost
  • Some of the functions/features can be hard to find
  • Navigation can be more clear.

Likelihood to Recommend

If you are in a school or have a lots of students to manage. And you need to have a full curriculum represented online, to have the ability to track students' assignments and their grades, Canvas can be a great tool to use. It was easy to be onboard with their customer support. And the productivities can be improved significantly.

VU
Verified User
Engineer in Information Technology (10,001+ employees)
Vetted Review
Canvas
3 years of experience

Canvas is an excellent complement to digital web design

Rating: 9 out of 10
Incentivized

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We work with Canvas in our learning platform with the objective of facilitating academic teaching, which is extremely practical for planning and teaching online classes. We also take advantage of the integrated system that allows us to keep track of studies and student evaluations, which is optimal for keeping our study system up to date.

Pros

  • This tool has a responsive web design, its adaptation to all devices facilitates access to the platform.
  • It has a dashboard, which presents a detailed list of our recent activity and academic history.
  • It gives educators the ability to create content to evaluate and upload grades to the system, allowing students and representatives to monitor grades and teaching methods.
  • Canvas is a software that is easy to access and operate through the web or application, but it should be taken into account that in order to create course content from scratch, training is needed since this area is not easy to do by yourself and the platform does not offer tutoring in this regard.

Cons

  • The user must have a stable internet connection as the system does not have auto-save, a slight fluctuation in the connection automatically generates the loss of information.
  • It offers few options to customize profiles, which makes it difficult to identify students at times.
  • Unfortunately, this software has a very bad customer service, since complaints, via email or phone call, have not been answered within three days, which hinders and hinders the smooth and continuous learning process.

Likelihood to Recommend

This e-Learning tool is being highly implemented as a study method by universities and schools, as it is effective and easy to access for both students and teachers, offering multiple options for teaching and grading outside the classroom.

VU
Verified User
Manager in Marketing (201-500 employees)
Vetted Review
Canvas
1 year of experience

Great management system for training and education

Rating: 9 out of 10
Incentivized

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We have used Canvas as an education platform. It was integrated with the employees job training and education for the continuing learning program. Canvas is a great platform to combine and aggregate all the learning activities, information and courses. Canvas is used across the local schools in the area and have used it on a number of occasions for that as well.

Pros

  • Canvas is great for keeping all the learning and education tasks, info, assignments, etc in one place
  • The discussion options are helpful
  • The messaging system with instructors and students/employees is great
  • The grading options work well

Cons

  • It's a little difficult at first to use
  • For some reason my log in has trouble working at times. Not sure if its a server issue or something else.
  • The video and recording tool could be better

Likelihood to Recommend

Canvas is an excellent tool for education, classes, assignments and communication. I would definitely recommend it. It has a bit of a learning curve to it so getting everything set up can take some time.

BF
Brett Flitton
President in Marketing at Brixus Media (1-10 employees)
Vetted Review
Canvas
3 years of experience
View profile

The all-in-one Learning Management System that DELIVERS.

Rating: 10 out of 10
Incentivized

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Canvas has been integrated into one of my companies as a virtual and in person learning platform to streamline learning for students (and teaching for teachers!). Not only does Canvas streamline learning across disciplines, classrooms and settings but also has allowed for students with differing computer access skills to learn how to access information and files within similar electronic organizational structures. It has allowed for bounds of progress in computer access and independence for students of all ages. It also allows for wonderful collaboration between teachers and disciplines.

Pros

  • Creativity options for teachers to create a virtual space that still has fun graphics and accessibility options.
  • Canvas has versatility in viewing options for assignment due dates such as the calendar built in feature as well as the dashboard options to display upcoming and due assignments.
  • Allowing teachers to create community with each other and collaborate in each-other's space.
  • Discussion platforms within classrooms for students to communicate with each-other and with their teachers.
  • Easy messaging portal within each virtual classroom.

Cons

  • Canvas is challenging to use when creating your classroom as a new user (Must know basic editing and get acquainted with the Canvas page editing page, many will need training to get set up).
  • Does not always save students' work adequately (no built in auto-save feature) unless using an external PDF annotator or word processor program.
  • Canvas should create template classrooms or class pages that make getting started easier for teachers and new users.

Likelihood to Recommend

Canvas has been an excellent resource for schools looking to consolidate learning platforms. Canvas has also been great for students that are learning about electronic file structures/organization by allowing teachers to model an organized structure of electronic filing. Canvas has also been wonderful during the remote learning periods (not only to access content- but also for consolidation of ZOOM/virtual meeting links).

VU
Verified User
Professional (1-10 employees)
Vetted Review
Canvas
2 years of experience