Features
analytics
Monitors students engagement, predicts success and tracks students’ learning outcomes and progress by pedagogical goals and desired outcomes.
announcements
Delivered automatically to the course activity stream of all users and other communications channels based on users’ individual notification preference.
assignments
Assignment submissions can include web pages, word doc, video, audio, slide shows, links and more.
calendar
Drag-and-drop functionality to schedule and reschedule calendar events, plus automatic event notifications and support for calendar feed subscription.
collaborations
Enable users to collaborate on projects using shared Canvas work spaces leveraging realworld tools such as Google Drive
FERPA & COPPA compliant
Automatically generated and updated based on course assignments and assessments, linked to gradebook scoring and the integrated with smart feedback and features.
Gradebook
Delivered automatically to the course activity stream of all users and other communications channels based on users’ individual notification preference.
Modules
Can be thematic, focused on a specific topic, content type, or arranged chronologically to provide a course sequence with support for selective release.
Quizzes
Rich content, multi-featured, and robust assessment and quiz system for online exams; support proctoring, question banks, and extensive question types. Canvas supports IMS, QTI and Respondus integration.
Rich content editor
WYSIWYG and HTML editor modes used to create discussion topics, comments, and replies, support videos and audio, images, tables, math formulas and web links.
Hosting and support
comprehensive hosting services
Full system administration provided by Ruby – including performance monitoring, account management, and system maintenance – freeing yo local institutional IT/IS resources.
Native cloud service
Architected for the cloud, fully hosted, and managed on the infrastructure provided by Amazon Web Services with 99.9% guaranteed system availability
"Hands-free" upgrade/update
Upgrades/updates are released on a regular schedule and typically deployed with not downtime incurred.
Professional services
Comprehensive deployment management and custom tool development can be engaged at additional cost.
Three-tier support model
Traditional Three-Tier incident reporting, escalation, and resolution help desk support model.