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Instructure Launches Canvas K-12
02/01/2012
Salt Lake City, Utah – February 1, 2012 – Instructure ™ (www.instructure.com) announced Canvas K-12™, a new learning management platform that co-enrolls parents with their students in schools, makes state standards tracking painless and provides actionable analytics to teachers and administrators. More than a dozen K-12 school districts, including Rockingham County School District in North Carolina and Park City School District in Utah, are leveraging Canvas today to save teachers time and improve learning.
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Instructure Launches Its New Partner Program
10/19/2011
Salt Lake City, Utah – October 19, 2011 – Instructure™ (www.instructure.com) has as launched a new partner program for companies who share a common vision of helping improve education through technology. Instructure invites these companies to leverage the Canvas platform and open APIs by becoming official Instructure partners. The program launches today with a number of partners, including Cengage Learning as a Premier partner and WizIQ and EQUELLA as Certified partners.Read full article
Instructure Hosts First User Conference - InstructureCon 2011
08/02/2011
Salt Lake City, Utah – August 2, 2011 – Instructure ™ (www. instructure.com) hosts InstructureCon 2011 ( #InstCon 11) its first annual user conference this week at the Snowbird Ski and Summer Resort in Utah with over 200 people in attendance from 60 institutions across the US. Speakers include Auburn University, The Wharton School of Business, Howard Community College and many others.Read full article
Instructure Canvas Raises $8 Million | Instructure News Releases
04/15/2011
Instructure Canvas™, (www.instructure.com) the new entrant in the education learning management system market (LMS), has closed $8 million in a Series B round of financing led by OpenView Venture Partners, EPIC Ventures, TomorrowVentures and Tim Draper of Draper Fisher Jurveston.
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Canvas Goes Open Source | Instructure News Releases
02/01/2011
Instructure™ (www.instructure.com) has released the source code to its Canvas learning management system, which means educational institutions can download and use the Canvas Community Version™ for free. Instructure is a new technology startup that entered the market in 2010 to compete with Blackboard. Today 26 educational institutions have signed contracts with Instructure and more than 100 are evaluating.