The greatness of Canvas!
January 17, 2019

The greatness of Canvas!

Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with Canvas

Our entire district uses Canvas. Our teachers use it as a Learning Management System with their students, our curriculum and district handbook are housed in Canvas, and we use Canvas for Professional Learning. It allows 24-hour access to all resources and learning for both students and staff.
  • User friendly design.
  • Great support through assigned CSM, 24-hour help, and the community.
  • Tons of pre-made materials in Commons that you can pull into your own courses to use.
  • When you first log in, it can be overwhelming to see nothing in your course.
  • When you first start using Canvas, it can be daunting to begin designing and building your course since it is blank when you first start one.
  • It has made collaborating across the district much more manageable and feasible.
  • Canvas allows for information/content/resources/etc. to be stored and accessed by anyone in the district in a user-friendly way.
  • Canvas has opened the doors for the district to offer professional learning opportunities for staff to complete when they want, how they want, and where they want.
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, etc. While some of the other platforms do have built-in grading features, they do not compare to the features of Speedgrader.
Canvas is great as a learning management system for learners, it is also great for professional learning opportunities for adult learners. It allows for interactive opportunities between facilitators and learners, as well as a place to keep resources and learning materials. It can also be used to house information such as curriculum and handbooks for districts.

Canvas Feature Ratings

Course authoring
8
Course catalog or library
3
Player/Portal
7
Learning content
8
Mobile friendly
6
Progress tracking & certifications
8
Assignments
8
Compliance management
5
Learning administration
8
Learning reporting & analytics
3
Social learning
8