Educause and CanvasCon DC
October has been a great month.
Educause
I really like Philadelphia. Tastykakes? Not so much.
Educause was great. It was our first time attending the conference, and so we were allocated a relatively small booth, but it was packed with visitors the entire time. We had great meetings with a variety of different folks to talk about partnerships, integrations and industry gossip. Oh, and we unveiled a couple of new Instructure t-shirt designs and gave lots of shirts away.
CanvasCon DC
CanvasCon DC went well. It was our first regional conference, and what was most interesting about the attendees was that about half of them had never used Canvas before. Phil Hill was the keynote and he discussed the general landscape of the LMS market - but the highlight of CanvasCon was that we invited our BFFs from Blackboard and they showed up! They were great sports and danced with us, took copious notes for the next version of their product and messaging and generally had a great time. ;-)
Happy Halloween.
Also, Canvas adoption continues to grow in significant ways. In fact, I recently heard that the largest community college district in the country selected Canvas. Oh, and get ready for analytics - done the Instructure way. It's coming in Q1 of 2012. That's just a few months away.
Keep learning,
-josh
