Access empowers education

Every teacher can try Canvas.

If you're teaching your own class, tutoring, homeschooling, or piloting a new course, Canvas Lite gives you a place to put it all together. Canvas Lite gives individual educators a free Canvas account with a straightforward way to build and deliver a course, without needing a school or institution to set up a full Canvas license.

It's free to get started, built on the same Canvas foundation educators already trust.

What you can do in Canvas Lite:

  • Organize your course with modules, pages, and embedded video.
  • Collect and grade work with SpeedGrader, rubrics, and audio or video feedback.
  • Keep students in the loop with announcements, discussions, and inbox messaging.
  • Connect tools you already use, like Google Drive, Zoom, and Microsoft Teams.
  • Teach and learn from anywhere with the Canvas Teacher and Canvas Student apps.

Every teacher deserves a place to teach.

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Deliver equitable learning with Canvas.

Less grading. More teaching.

Educators can grade student submissions, leave comments, and annotate documents all in one place. Canvas helps provide the critical feedback students need without the manual headaches of traditional grading.

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Deliver targeted, timely support.

Connect with students automatically based on customizable criteria like missing assignments or low test scores. Delivering personalized outreach at scale helps busy educators lift students up before they fall behind.

Earlier interventions. Smarter decisions.

Get instant visibility into performance and engagement trends, from individual students to district-wide. Canvas helps educators close learning gaps, and helps administrators support their teams with data-informed decisions.

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Learning is for everyone.

Built around inclusive design and equitable access, Canvas helps your district meet diverse needs by identifying accessibility gaps and providing alternative content formats.

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Why educators (and students) love Canvas

Canvas LMS was like Google Classroom on steroids. Teachers could do more with Canvas LMS than Google Classroom, especially when connecting with students.
Jessica Cromer
Superintendent of Instruction & Innovation, Floyd County
Since the whole system uses Canvas LMS, we were able to share resources across institutions... There is not a reason to recreate the wheel when your peers have already discovered a solution that helps students and teachers be successful.
Dr. Amanda Rosenzweig, Ph.D, Biology
Department Chair at Delgado Community College
With Canvas, there's more potential, and it gives you more opportunities in the classrooms to do what you want to do versus classrooms that are a little more constricting. There are only a couple functions you can do with Google Classroom versus Canvas; the opportunities are endless; the potential is endless.
Patrick Lawton
Social Studies Teacher, Oshkosh Area School District
Canvas has a good balance of seeing all the assignments at once but also being able to sort them out as to not get overwhelmed
North Carolina higher education student and 100+ Student Voices respondent

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