Canvas LMS lets you focus more on teaching (and less on tasks).
Provide equitable access and instructional continuity. For every student. Everywhere. Every day. Canvas LMS is the robust digital foundation for all aspects of learning.
Canvas LMS lets us connect with humans more effectively and make resources available 24/7.
—Ryan Hansen
Director of Learning, Davis Schools, UT
Centralized (yet personalized) K–12 curriculum and instruction.
Everything in One Place
Course materials. Participation and grades. Communication tools. Actionable insights. All right there in Canvas LMS. Ready to support in-person, online, and blended learning.
Accessibility All the Way
All students deserve learning tools that meet their unique needs. Canvas LMS ensures that students, teachers, and parents have equitable access to all materials and instruction.
Interactive Analytics
Data can be daunting. Canvas Admin Analytics makes it easy to view Canvas usage, and allows administrators to see and understand the data that matters most to them.
Instant Content Delivery
Easily upload and share course information in a range of useful, engaging ways. Use Blueprints to share curriculum districtwide.
Personalized Learning
MasteryPaths lets you instantly deliver content and instruction appropriate to each student’s level of understanding and performance.
Boost Productivity
You only have one person's worth of time. Spend it on learning, and let Canvas LMS handle the "management."
Features and Integrations
Digital tools that play nicely with others.
Rubrics. Modules. Calendars. Schedules. Quizzes. Syllabi. Analytics. SpeedGrader (cue applause and wild cheering). Canvas LMS is outfitted with smart, intuitive features that will help take learning to the next level. And then there's the integrations! The Canvas API links right up with all your favorite apps and tools: G Suite, Microsoft Teams, Adobe, and hundreds more, in one centralized learning hub.
Mobile Apps
Learning is on the move.
Canvas LMS has top-rated mobile apps for teachers, students, and parents to keep everyone informed and connected, on the go, on any device. Teachers can engage with students whenever and wherever through an app that boasts best-in-class data security. (It also comes with SpeedGrader, which can cut grading time by 50%.)
Our teachers were all using different platforms, different software, and Canvas allowed them to be unified. Parents were happy, students were happy, and faculty were happy.
Nichole Lemmon
Director of Blended Learning, Springfield Public Schools, Springfield, MO
Collaboration Tools
Talking in class is encouraged.
Teachers can communicate with individual students, groups, the entire class, or even parents through messaging, audio notes, video, and more. And students can collaborate among themselves via chat group, video, and other messaging tools.
Messaging with students, groups, or the whole class
Audio and video communication
All sorts of student collaboration tools
Canvas is the only ESSA-Validated K-12 LMS
Validated in alignment with ESSA Level IV Evidence, you can trust Canvas LMS is research-based, outcomes-focused, and eligible for federal funding.
All the features you need. None you don’t.
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Simplify teaching and learning activities, organize coursework and keep teachers, students, and families connected and communicating. Anytime, anywhere.
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