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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:

  • Organise 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 learner submissions, leave comments, and annotate documents all in one place. Canvas helps provide the critical feedback learners need without the time-consuming demands of traditional marking.

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Deliver targeted, timely support.

Connect with learners automatically based on customisable criteria like missing assignments or low test scores. Delivering personalised 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 learners to system-wide insights. 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

One of our favourite things about Canvas is the small barrier to adoption. You are up and running quickly with little help. However, in that simplicity comes a lot of power. It’s a great learning environment we have here. People are taking on technology, and Canvas has become part of the language.
Mark Pleasance
Director of ICT, Sacred Heart College Geelong
With Canvas and it being a software as a service arrangement, that allows ACU to just focus on things that it can control. We don't have to worry about the learning management system being up or supported or running or having enough memory or running on the right server or any of those sorts of things. Troy SeverinoIt takes away that load for and enables us to focus on the business of the LMS rather than the technology of the LMS.
Troy Severino
Associate Director for Learning Experience and Design, Australian Catholic University
Canvas made life a lot simpler. It was very straightforward. We were able to just log on first thing in the morning, see what we needed to do throughout the day, and then build on that throughout the week.
Celina Pellett
Student, Tocal College
Education is changing rapidly. We’re moving away from unilateral lectures toward active learning. Discussion, collaboration, and participation are becoming central to the active learning experience. Peer learning and peer teaching are especially important, and Canvas enables that kind of collaboration.
Daniel Fuminori Nakamura
Chief Digital Officer and Chairperson of Committee for Digital Transformation in Education, Nihon University

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