What is Canvas?
Canvas is the 21st Century LMS. Adaptable. Reliable. Customizable. Easy to use. Mobile. Time-saving. And, perhaps most importantly, it gets used. That’s because it’s designed to get out of your way, to let you do your thing. Every last feature, every last interface is crafted to save you time and effort and to make teaching and learning easier.
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85 Likeliness to Recommend
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96 Plan to Renew
82 Satisfaction of Cost Relative to Value
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Emotional Footprint Overview
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+83 Net Emotional Footprint
The emotional sentiment held by end users of the software based on their experience with the vendor. Responses are captured on an eight-point scale.
How much do users love Canvas?
Pros
- Reliable
- Trustworthy
- Fair
- Respectful
How to read the Emotional Footprint
The Net Emotional Footprint measures high-level user sentiment towards particular product offerings. It aggregates emotional response ratings for various dimensions of the vendor-client relationship and product effectiveness, creating a powerful indicator of overall user feeling toward the vendor and product.
While purchasing decisions shouldn't be based on emotion, it's valuable to know what kind of emotional response the vendor you're considering elicits from their users.
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Feature Ratings
Online Learning
Course Management
Content Management
Content Creation
Gradebook
Assessments and Quizzes
Instructor Led Training
Classroom Management
Analytics and Reporting
Student Collaboration
Vendor Capability Ratings
Ease of Implementation
Business Value Created
Quality of Features
Usability and Intuitiveness
Breadth of Features
Ease of Data Integration
Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement
Ease of IT Administration
Vendor Support
Availability and Quality of Training
Ease of Customization
Canvas Reviews
Dayna L.
- Role: C-Level
- Industry: Education
- Involvement: Initial Implementation
Submitted Mar 2023
If you must use an LMS, use this one.
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates Canvas from other similar products?
Canvas is both intuitive and professional in appearance. You can use this product in the 6-12 market and also use it at the collegiate/adult learner level.
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
Moving seamlessly from the teacher's view to the student's view is very helpful in ensuring that your course is set up correctly. When a student is having difficulty finding information, you can easily take a student-view screenshot and send it to them as guidance.
What do you dislike most about this product?
The high cost of Canvas comes with the required training. The product is intuitive enough that most shouldn't need training and significant support on the product. For those with doctoral-level degrees in instructional systems design and technology, the training is a waste of dollars. Besides the free version with limited storage, purchasing Canvas without training/support is unfortunately not an option.
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
While Canvas is not innovative in the sense of the word, it is, in my opinion, the best LMS on the market. Until another product tries to truly disrupt how online education is managed and implemented, consider Canvas your best option.
Pros
- Security Protects
- Reliable
- Performance Enhancing
- Enables Productivity
Cons
- Less Generous
Justin H.
- Role: Student Academic
- Industry: Education
- Involvement: End User of Application
Submitted Feb 2023
Well rounded and easy to use
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates Canvas from other similar products?
Canvas is a solid LMS for higher education and has earned it's position toward the top of the pack of competitors. It has an active community that consistently seeks to get the most out of the LMS features available, and this has resulted in a relatively responsive platform. Ease of use has been a concern on my campus, and we saw usage of the LMS increase significantly when we made the move to Canvas.
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
Ease of use for basic LMS usage (classroom management, grades, assessment, etc) has seen many of our faculty not only engage well, but were well positioned to pivot during the pandemic. I also appreciate how seamlessly canvas integrates with third party tools (and offers its own) as opposed to other LMS platforms.
What do you dislike most about this product?
I wish the gradebook and assignment features were more friendly toward alternative grading and ungrading practices. Currently they provide a level of structure that can be inhibiting for instructors looking to grade and assess learning in ways supported by the empirical literature on learning.
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
Canvas is in my opinion the best all-around LMS for higher education, from blended and traditional learning to fully online programs (both for individual and program level course management). It has an excellent breadth of skills and many faculty will be able to quickly adopt it. Like most LMS's of it's size, it does lack some of the flexibility needed for more innovative approaches to grading, but this likely only limits faculty who are already going to push the limits of the LMS. I highly recommend Canvas.
Pros
- Reliable
- Performance Enhancing
- Enables Productivity
- Saves Time
John Erriz L.
- Role: Student Academic
- Industry: Education
- Involvement: End User of Application
Submitted Feb 2023
Canvas has a great overview page
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates Canvas from other similar products?
The main difference between them is that lean canvas zeroes in on solving a problem. A business model canvas, on the other hand, focuses on the specific product or service that needs to be sold
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
convenient and easy to use
What do you dislike most about this product?
it's good but It's a little bit pricey
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
make the reading list tab accessible, This is a great tool for keeping course readings and resources in one place that is easy for students to find.
Pros
- Fair
- Continually Improving Product
- Enables Productivity
- Unique Features
Cons
- Inhibits Innovation
- Less Reliable
- Less Performance Enhancing
