Canvas: The LMS for Everyone
March 08, 2021
Canvas: The LMS for Everyone
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Overall Satisfaction with Canvas
Canvas is our LMS for students in grades 5-12 (approximately 1,000 students and 150 faculty). It is the central hub for organizing assignments, sharing content, managing grades, and our current hybrid distance learning model. It is considered an essential technology tool/core application for our institution and students, faculty, and parents rely on it for structuring our academic program.
- Many popular third-party educational apps have LTIs that integrate with Canvas.
- The gradebook has a Mastery Learning option for recording progress against a set of academic standards.
- The UI is very intuitive and even non-tech savvy users can use it effectively with minimal training.
- Their integration with Big Blue Button was a bust for distance learning. Would be great to see them collaborate with Zoom or Google Meets.
- Their "feature request" process is slow and cumbersome at times because it relies on user "up votes" to get ideas addressed by the developers.
- They seem to have a lot of turn-over with their staff. We get a new Customer Success Manager far more frequently than with other vendors.
- It's streamlined electronic grading and student communication.
- Their use of LTIs has enabled greater use of third-party tools we purchase/use because they are integrated into Canvas.
- It replaced several disparate tools (e.g. gradebook, messaging system) and rolled them into one solution.
Canvas was far easier to use, more feature rich, and much better supported. Teachers and students prefer it to the other solutions we've evaluated or used in the past. Anything that kids can use with minimal instruction is a major win for schools.
Do you think Canvas delivers good value for the price?
Yes
Are you happy with Canvas's feature set?
Yes
Did Canvas live up to sales and marketing promises?
Yes
Did implementation of Canvas go as expected?
Yes
Would you buy Canvas again?
Yes