SALT LAKE CITY, July 26, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- Canvas by
Instructure (NYSE: INST), the open online learning management
system (LMS) that makes teaching and learning easier, announced
several new tools and enhancements today at its annual edtech
conference, InstructureCon. These new capabilities are designed to
support education at scale, enhance the student experience, and
further inform and empower educators and administrators.
"As the learning landscape evolves, Canvas continues to enhance
our offerings and create new tools to make learning impactful for
students, teachers and administrators," said Mitch Benson, senior vice president of product
at Instructure. "These Canvas capabilities improve teaching and
learning by making it easier to scale learning experiences and
providing deeper insights that can help shape learning
outcomes."
These new Canvas enhancements enable:
- Greater focus on students: Improving the student
experience and meeting the demands of evolving learners will be an
increased focus in the coming year. Key enhancements include
streamlined To Do functionality in Student View, a more innovative
mobile experience, and an increased focus on helping students
achieve their outcomes.
- More power for administrators: These enhancements
include more granular permissions to help meet the complex demands
of varying roles within an institution. They also support an
expanded partner ecosystem through improvements to the Canvas API
plus new integrations with market-leading SIS providers and a
myriad of best-of-breed tools to streamline teaching and
learning.
- Support for large courses and teaching at scale:
Expanded Gradebook functionality — combined with the ability to
deliver more granular, section-specific announcements and
discussions — will ease the burden of managing large class sizes.
New functionality also supports institutions with rolling
enrollment, and ensures fairness by facilitating anonymous and
moderated grading. Empowering instructors with the data they need
will continue our focus on actionable analytics to improve student
success, while simplifying teachers daily activity.
Brand-new Canvas tools include:
- Quizzes.Next: This new feature will replace Quizzes,
laying the groundwork for streamlined future development and
introducing a more intuitive and efficient user interface, greater
stability and more question types. With Quizzes.Next, teachers and
instructional designers can create and administer online
assessments (e.g., quizzes, tests and exams). They can also conduct
and moderate exams and assessments, both graded and ungraded.
- Canvas Analytics 2: With Analytics 2, teachers can rely
on interactive, actionable and easy-to-use dashboards to answer the
most common student performance and participation questions,
providing information for proactive course correction. The feature
saves teachers time by helping them quickly identify students who
are struggling and identify patterns in student success that may be
caused by the course itself, then use those insights to improve
content or methodology.
- Canvas DocViewer: Built in-house to replace the Box
previewer and Crocodoc annotation tools (and initially rolled out
in 2017), Canvas DocViewer automatically converts common document
types into web-viewable and interactive learning experiences.
DocViewer supports a variety of document types that can be
converted in Canvas, rendering them as PDFs in SpeedGrader where
they can be easily annotated, streamlining the grading process for
teachers. And with ongoing enhancements, DocViewer has surpassed
the functionality of those legacy tools, empowering teachers like
never before.
To learn more about Canvas, visit www.CanvasLMS.com.
ABOUT CANVAS
Through open, usable, cloud-based technologies, Canvas enables easy
integration of the content, tools and services that teachers need
and students want. As the most usable, customizable, adaptable and
reliable learning platform (think 99.9% uptime), Canvas is adopted
faster and deeper (or, is used in more ways by more users) than any
other LMS. So, in the end, investing in 21st-century education
technology actually makes teaching and learning easier (like it's
supposed to). Learn more about Canvas at www.CanvasLMS.com.
ABOUT INSTRUCTURE
Instructure, Inc. is a leading software-as-a-service (SaaS)
technology company that makes software that makes people smarter.
With a vision to help maximize the potential of people through
technology, Instructure created Canvas, Gauge, Arc and Bridge to
enable organizations everywhere to easily develop, deliver and
manage engaging face-to-face and online learning experiences. To
date, Instructure has connected millions of instructors and
learners at more than 3,000 educational institutions and
corporations throughout the world. Learn more about Canvas for
higher ed and K–12, and Bridge for the corporate market, at
www.Instructure.com.
CONTACT:
Becky Frost
Sr. Director, Corporate Communications
Instructure
801-869-5017
becky@instructure.com
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