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CANVAS
What Is CANVAS?
Canvas is a learning management system for every stage and style of education. As the hub of the digital learning environment, Canvas offers complete LMS functionality including standards-based grade books, course content authoring, customizable assessments, mobile communication, video learning and digital badging.
Who Uses CANVAS?
Designed for institutions of all sizes and types, from individual K-12 classrooms to universities to companies with a blended or fully virtual environment.
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Reviews of CANVAS
A dawn of a new LMS app
Comments: Using Canvas has been a great experience. It has helped me enough to come out with good designs for a classroom background. The internet helps to get access to new and updated designs. It was easy to use, but I think will be a bit difficult for a beginner. The previous app I was using had an offline activity,
Pros:
i switched to Canvas because of its ease of use and ability to key in data easily. It has helped me to create an easy classroom where I can integrate all that I need from teaching to data entry and assessment.
Cons:
the integration with the usage of the internet makes it cumbersome for usage especially in areas where there is poor internet connectivity. This means that one has to be online to before usage.
CANVAS is the missing key in education management.
Comments: I am fully satisfied by it's doings. A fruitful and easy experience with CANVAS.
Pros:
CANVAS has advanced learning management features which makes it more effective compared to its competitors. With CANVAS we are able to keep track of assignments very easy to use and very helpful. It's deliberately helpful I can fully guarantee that. I have never missed any assignments and all thanks to CANVAS.
Cons:
We can all agree that CANVAS does it's job perfectly. No cons.
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on the fence
Comments: initially, really happy easy to follow and clear layout, however when wanting to extend the options for the learning of the students I found it limited. also became hard when students were unable to get in
Pros:
I liked the app version that some of our student who had iPad used. It was easy to maneuver through different pages . liked that it has immersive reader function, could be in a different colour background
Cons:
the lack of interactive learning experiences that was able to be created. lack of creative ability to make the experience more visual. didnt cater for all learning styles. When learners forgot their passwords the forgotten password link didn't work. issues with learners finding the right page to log in to.
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A fruitful learning experience
Comments: A user-friendly LMS platform with interactive features to offer a joyful learning experience. It is best known for its variety of tools, third-party integrations and multimedia content to help grab the students' attention and increase the potential of both motivation and success.
Pros:
As a lecturer in English, mainly after COVID-19 incident, Canvas turned around online learning through its revolutionary friendly-user tools that range from clustering sections and arranging activities to video conferencing and quizzes settings. Canvas dashboard or rather facilities can be naively navigated. More than that, the number of integrations is really huge to offer the best learning experience.
Cons:
Though a leading LMS platform, Canvas still struggles with mobile performance; it still takes much time to load sometimes. I can add that it is hard at certain phases to synchronize updates and changes when it comes to third-party applications.
I love Canvas!
Comments: I have had a very positive overall experience with Canvas. In my high school we used to use a different platform, and when I switched to Canvas I immediately liked it better. It is very easy to use and laid out nicely.
Pros:
I have enjoyed using Canvas throughout my college years, as it is a very organized, easy-to-understand platform. I enjoy the many different applications such as the calendar, modules, and different colors for different classes. It helps me stay organized and I have never missed an assignment because of it!
Cons:
One of the things I found challenging on Canvas was the inability to cross off things from my to-do list manually. For example, when you submit an assignment, it crosses it off for you. However, some assignments were turned in in-person rather than online, and those assignments did not get crossed off on Canvas, which made it look like they were not completed even though they were.
