Canvas is the best LMS currently on the market.
January 18, 2019
Canvas is the best LMS currently on the market.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Overall Satisfaction with Canvas
We use Canvas to host programs for the majority of our 18 partners. Canvas is our first choice of LMS for all partners we support, and we strongly discourage the use of any other LMS. Students find Canvas simpler to use than any other LMS, and it presents fewer barriers to learning than their competitors.
- Easy to use interface for students and faculty. No need to switch to "Edit Mode" or any other different views to make changes.
- Well defined APIs make administration easy.
- Intuitive design lets students start on course materials right away, without having to take time to learn the system.
- Instructure can be slow to address admin-only issues or change requests due to the community voting on issues.
- Submitted assignments or assessment attempts cannot be removed at all, so if a student makes an erroneous submission it will always be visible.
- All or Nothing question types do not have a choice for all or nothing points grading.
- Exam settings are not available/appropriate for high-stakes testing.
- Canvas has allowed us to simplify course structure to make learning easier for our students.
- The open APIs in Canvas has allowed us to gather more, and better data to analyze exam and course performance.
- Canvas has allowed a level of administrative automation we were unable to achieve with any other LMS.
Canvas's ease of use and ease of administration were huge deciding factors in the decision to use Canvas as our preferred LMS. We found that on average Canvas took 1/3 the clicks to accomplish the same tasks as Blackboard, and the structure of data in Canvas is far superior to Sakai.