I am pleased with the educational tool Canvas, a cloud-based, learning management tool that Instructure has developed and continues to maintain with little disruption. I have been using Canvas for the past year and I find it to be an intuitive platform and fairly easy to use. I am writing this review because I am still discovering features that are new to me through the platform, which further my appreciation for the thoughtfulness, and thoroughness in the design. I think that it serves both the student, as well as the instructor quite well. It allows and instructor some flexibility in course organization, and delivery, with multiple options in the settings menu for customization of the grade book, modules, assignments, announcements,
and calendars. The features of Canvas are sufficient for delivering course material for any class and serves as a great organizational tool. Canvas offers "Help" pages and forums that answer questions about how to use its software. I recommend this product to other educators for use as a technology tool for delivering coursework, and it can be used for classes that are and are not online. I believe that this platform can be learned without training, and is another reason I credit its design. This is the only technology tool that I have used as an educator specifically, and I do not see much reason to transition into another platform that fulfills the needs that Canvas does. It simply is a great platform for educators' use and it allows for several methods of communication between the educator and the student such as announcement pages, discussion boards, and built-in features for sharing images and video. The Instructure developers understand that communication is important between teachers and students and it is apparent in the design of Canvas (Hardison, 2017).
Hardison, J.,(2015, February 19). Canvas by Instructure: The Perfect LMS? Quite Possibly. Retrieved July 21, 2020, from https://www.gettingsmart.com/2014/05/canvas-instructure-perfect-lms-quite-possibly/ read more