EDUCAUSE Ed Tech: 5 Observations
October 20, 2011 - Joshua Kim
"I have come away from EDUCAUSE believing that the Canvas LMS must be evaluated against Blackboard, D2L, and Moodle when it comes time to choose your enterprise LMS."
University may replace Blackboard with ‘Canvas’
October 19, 2011 - Dominic Binkley
"John Ellinger, chief information officer of the University, said faculty and students who may have struggled with Blackboard can rest easy if Canvas is selected as the new learning management system, because of its various communication methods and simple organization."
One professor at a time
October 18, 2011 - Kate Bowles
"Anyone who has dealt with Instructure seems to agree that this hard yards approach to consultation is their signature: they’ve been wearing out their shoes walking the hallways of higher education trying to figure out what educators actually want."
Learning Management Systems (LMS) Integration with Instructure Canvas API
October 8, 2011 - Kin Lane
"The Canvas solution appears to have all the latest features of a modern software as a service platform. . . . The API is simple, and they intend to expose all features of the core LMS via the API, with all documentation hosted at Github."
Brown U Moving to Instructure LMS
Sept 29, 2011 - Dian Schaffhauser
"The Rhode Island-based institution, which has about 8,400 students, will be replacing an implementation of Blackboard with Instructure Canvas. The decision comes after a long evaluation process that narrowed the field to Blackboard, Canvas, Sakai, and Moodle."
Editorial: Blackboard is down ... again!
Sept 27, 2011 - By ISD Editorial Board
"Because Instructure is only making money from hosting services, we could use Canvas for free, or at least the same fixed costs as Blackboard, minus the licensing fees."
Canvas slated to replace MyCourses
Sept 26, 2011 - Sahil luthra
"The switch to Canvas represents a really necessary upgrade to move into the 21st century."
Instructure Canvas Has Some Buzz
September 21, 2011 - Joshua Kim
"I've gotten to know the Instructure leadership team a bit, and I've always been impressed by how educationally mission driven they have been, as well as savvy and experienced from a business side."
Wharton tests out webCafé replacement
September 7, 2011 - Sara Schonfeld
"Canvas, a new course management system, was well-received in spring and summer trials."
New Mentality Entering LMS Market
September 13, 2011 - Phil Hill
"Instructure is less than three years old, and they have already captured an impressive customer list. Instructure has taken on Blackboard and Desire2Learn at large institutions and won, and they are gaining momentum."
New Mexico State Signs with Instructure
Sept 7, 2011 - Dian Schaffhauser
"The university's LMS Task Force came to "unanimous agreement on what would be recommended. And there was no second choice."
Rethinking How We Communicate With Students via an LMS
August 2, 2011 - Audrey Watters
"Called 'Conversations,' it’s a new tool that takes that under-utilized (and/or unchecked) LMS inbox and turns it into something that’s both something more forward-thinking in terms of education and in terms of technology."
Auburn U Moves to Open Source Canvas LMS
July 14, 2011 - Dian Schaffhauser
"Canvas provides our students with a clean, simple, and undisruptive learning environment. One of the defining qualities is the system's ability to convey information intuitively"
U Mary Washington Begins Move to Instructure LMS
June 7, 2011
"A major draw of [Canvas] is its integration with multiple popular Web 2.0 services, including Facebook, Google Docs, and Twitter, as well as email and RSS"
Utah Startup Loading Up for Education Battle
April 14, 2011 - Don Clark, The Wall Street Journal
"Teachers and students, like many company employees, rely on mobile devices and social networks in their personal lives and want similar new-wave tools in their work. A Utah-based startup is trying to close that gap, aided by a new cash infusion. . . "
Instructure Aims to Knock Down the LMS Walled Garden
April 14, 2011 - Audrey Watters, ReadWriteWeb
"My first reaction to Instructure, despite a lot of buzz in the tech world, was that it was really no big deal. . . But I'm willing to admit that my first reaction was wrong.
It was the simple sentence the Instructure team uttered when they gave me a tour of the product: "We want to get rid of the walled garden."
Taking Aim at Blackboard
February 1, 2011 - Herb Greenberg, CNBC TV
"A challenge for any company is when an upstart enters the scene with something disruptive. . . . Enter Instructure, a Salt Lake City company that announced today it was giving out for free its cloud software alternative to Blackboard and specifically going after Blackboard. . ."
A Fiery New Competitor
February 2, 2011 - Dan Dzombak, The Motley Fool
"Every so often, though, a competitor comes along to challenge what seems like an impregnable moat. . . Instructure could be a real threat"
Instructure Launches to Root Blackboard Out of Universities
January 31, 2011 - Michael Arrington, TechCrunch
"Mozy Founder Josh Coates launches Instructure today. He’s hoping to disrupt the entrenched player in the University LMS space, Blackboard, and take a big part of its $377 million or so in revenue. . . ."
Upstart Course Management Provider Goes Open Source
January 31, 2011 - Josh Keller, The Chronicle of Higher Education
"Instructure, a course-management software company that recently won a large contract in Utah, announced on Tuesday that it would make most of its software platform available for free under an open-source license. . . "
New LMS from Instructure Goes Open Source
February 1, 2011 - Dian Schaffhauser, Campus Technology News
"A Utah-based company has fired a warning shot across the bow of learning management system (LMS) companies, including market leader Blackboard, with the announcement that it's turning its new LMS into open source. Instructure has publicly released the source code to its Canvas. . . "
Instructure's Canvas LMS: 7 Cheers & 7 Critiques
February 6, 2011 - Joshua Kim, Inside Higher Ed
"Go and check out Instructure's new Canvas LMS. You can play with the system, as I have been doing, by signing up for a free course account . . ."
Instructure Goes Open Source
February 1, 2011 - Michael Feldstein, e-Literate
"I’ve seen a handful of version 1 LMSs in my day, and no matter how promising they were, they have always had obvious gaping holes in their functionality. I found no such holes in Canvas."
Competition Opens Wider in the LMS Market
February 1, 2011 - Katie Ash, Education Week
"A recently formed start-up company called "Instructure";has released a new learning management system, or LMS, as a competitor to the well-known Blackboard—and today, the company has announced; that it has moved to an open-source platform, making it free for schools to use. . . . "
Alternatives to Blackboard and Moodle: Instructure Canvas
February 1, 2011 - Christopher Dawson, ZDNet Education
"Canvas, though, provides an elegant solution that can be either hosted or supported on-premise (both for a fee) and supported internally with its now free Community Version. . . "
Students' idea for online education software catching fire
February 7, 2011 - Brian Maffly, The Salt Lake Tribune
Their vision was a flexible system where everything was no more than a couple clicks away. Hardly two years later, the students’ idea for the perfect LMS, dubbed Canvas, is making a splash in the billion-dollar market.