See Canvas in action: Teaching and learning for K–12
What does connected teaching and learning look like across a K–12 school?
Watch this demo to see how Canvas by Instructure brings curriculum, teaching, assessment and insights together in one easy-to-use platform. Explore how schools can create consistent learning experiences, personalise support for students, streamline everyday teaching tasks and give leaders greater visibility into learning and progress.
Welcome to Canvas, a simple way to bring curriculum, teaching and learning together. Schools today need more than a place to deliver online content. They need a platform that helps provide a consistent curriculum, supports every learner, reduces teacher workload, and gives school leaders clear visibility into student progress. That's where Canvas comes in. The first thing you'll notice is how simple Canvas is to use. Every user lands on a personalised dashboard where their courses are front and centre.
Teachers and students can customise this view to suit the way they work, making their most important courses easy to access. Navigation is straightforward with easy access to courses, groups, calendars, messages and collaboration tools, the experience is clean, intuitive and designed to keep the focus on learner rather than the technology. So let's dig in further. With Canvas, you can scale effortlessly across an entire school or multi school environment. Accounts and sub accounts allow schools to organise faculties, campuses or year levels while maintaining consistent governance.
With user roles and permissions, it ensures every person, whether they are a teacher, student, leader, parent or decision makers has access to exactly what they need and nothing more. Let's talk about curriculum outcomes and modules. Behind every great learning experience is a well structured curriculum. Canvas helps schools maintain that consistency through blueprint courses. Curriculum leaders create a master version of each subject containing the syllabus, core learning resources and key assessments.
When updates are needed, they can be published across every associated course ensuring each leaders or teachers starts with every same high quality foundation while significantly reducing the duplicated and reducing the Schools can also align teaching with curriculum standards using outcomes. Outcomes can be attached to assignments, quizzes and rubrics giving clear confidence that learning objectives are being taught, assessed and measured consistency across the classes. This creates greater visibility into students' achievement and supports the evidence based reporting. Once the curriculum is in place, teachers organise learning through modules. Modules can be structured by week topic or unit creating a clear learning path for students.
Teachers can combine pages, videos, quizzes, assignments, discussions, and SCORM content into a single learning sequence. They can choose whether students progresses them by step by step or move through content more flexibly creating a learning experience that supports different teaching styles while remaining easy to maintain. Once the teachers have structured their learning, they can bring lessons into life using Canvas Studio. So video is a key part of modern learning, but simply sharing a video is not always enough. Studio allows teachers to create more engaging video experiences by adding questions, discussions and insights directly into the learning experience.
Teachers can also record, upload and manage this video directly with the canvas while students can interact with content instead of just watching it passively. Students also provide schools with a secure education focused video environment. Students see the learning content without external advertising or distractions while teachers gain insights into how students are engaging with the material. Whether it's a flipped classroom, a lesson explanation or additional learning support, Studio helps teachers make video a more meaningful part of the classroom experience. Canvas also makes it easy to support the diverse needs of every classroom.
So teachers can release the content to entire class or assign it to a selected groups or individual students and then availability dates and due dates can be adjusted for extensions or additional support without affecting everyone else within Canvas. And then with MasteryPaths, students can automatically receive different learning activities based on their performance, creating personalized learning journeys while reducing manual administration for teachers as well. From a student's perspective, everything appears in one clear and consistent place. They simply work through each module, they complete the activities, submit the assessments and receive feedback, giving them confidence about what they need to do next. Let's talk about assessments.
As students begin submitting work, Canvas helps teachers assess them efficiently. SpeedGrader brings every submission into a single workspace, allowing teachers to move quickly between students without downloading files or actually switching screens. Teachers can annotate directly on the student submissions, highlighting areas of improvement, adding comments and providing feedback exactly where it matters. Rubrics also support consistent marking and can be aligned to learning outcomes, making expectations clear for both teachers and students. Teachers can also leave written video feedback or an audio feedback creating a more personalised learning experience And then together, these tools can actually help teachers provide meaningful feedback faster while saving valuable time.
The Gradebook gives teachers a complete view of students' performance across every assessment in the markbook. Colour coding quickly highlights late, missing or excused work while scheduled feedback allows results to be released at the right time for the whole class. Even simple features like stickers can also help teachers celebrate student achievement in an engaging way. For a deeper view of student progress, the Learning Mastery Grade book actually tracks achievement against learning outcomes rather than just marks, helping teachers identify strengths and areas requiring further support. Teachers can also identify students who may need additional support by filtering based on the score ranges, missing submissions or late work as well.
Instead of manually searching through the individual records, Canvas helps teachers find the students who needs attention and take action sooner. From there, teachers can message students directly from Canvas whether they need to provide a reminder, offer additional support or celebrate progress. These messages stay connected to the learning environment, keeping communication simple and focused. Let's talk about the bird's eye view leaders get in Canvas. For school leaders, every interaction within Canvas generates a valuable insight.
Intelligent insights transforms this data into a meaningful information that supports better decision making. With Ask Your Data, teachers and leaders simply ask questions in plain English, such as which students may need additional support or how a particular year level is performing. Instead of waiting for the reports or relying on the technical teams, Canvas generates that immediate answers often with clear visualisation that make trends easy to understand. Frequently asked questions can be pinned or it can be saved for quick access. And for schools with technical teams, the generated SQL can also be viewed and reused providing both transparency and flexibility.
Another powerful capability is students in need of attention. Schools can define criteria such as low engagement, missing submissions or declining performance, allowing Canvas to proactively identify those students who may benefit from early intervention rather than reacting after the results decline. Teachers and leaders can step in sooner and provide that timely support. Course readiness helps ensure quality before learning even begins. Leaders can quickly identify courses that may be missing important elements such as content, assessments, due dates or publishing status helping maintain that consistency across the faculties and year levels before students enter the classroom.
So in just few minutes, we've explored how Canvas helps schools deliver a consistent curriculum, personalise the learning, reduce the teacher's workload and provide meaningful insights for better decision making. This is only a snapshot of what's possible. We'd love the opportunity to show you how Canvas can support the specific needs of your school in a personalised demonstration. Thank you very much for your time.
Teachers and students can customise this view to suit the way they work, making their most important courses easy to access. Navigation is straightforward with easy access to courses, groups, calendars, messages and collaboration tools, the experience is clean, intuitive and designed to keep the focus on learner rather than the technology. So let's dig in further. With Canvas, you can scale effortlessly across an entire school or multi school environment. Accounts and sub accounts allow schools to organise faculties, campuses or year levels while maintaining consistent governance.
With user roles and permissions, it ensures every person, whether they are a teacher, student, leader, parent or decision makers has access to exactly what they need and nothing more. Let's talk about curriculum outcomes and modules. Behind every great learning experience is a well structured curriculum. Canvas helps schools maintain that consistency through blueprint courses. Curriculum leaders create a master version of each subject containing the syllabus, core learning resources and key assessments.
When updates are needed, they can be published across every associated course ensuring each leaders or teachers starts with every same high quality foundation while significantly reducing the duplicated and reducing the Schools can also align teaching with curriculum standards using outcomes. Outcomes can be attached to assignments, quizzes and rubrics giving clear confidence that learning objectives are being taught, assessed and measured consistency across the classes. This creates greater visibility into students' achievement and supports the evidence based reporting. Once the curriculum is in place, teachers organise learning through modules. Modules can be structured by week topic or unit creating a clear learning path for students.
Teachers can combine pages, videos, quizzes, assignments, discussions, and SCORM content into a single learning sequence. They can choose whether students progresses them by step by step or move through content more flexibly creating a learning experience that supports different teaching styles while remaining easy to maintain. Once the teachers have structured their learning, they can bring lessons into life using Canvas Studio. So video is a key part of modern learning, but simply sharing a video is not always enough. Studio allows teachers to create more engaging video experiences by adding questions, discussions and insights directly into the learning experience.
Teachers can also record, upload and manage this video directly with the canvas while students can interact with content instead of just watching it passively. Students also provide schools with a secure education focused video environment. Students see the learning content without external advertising or distractions while teachers gain insights into how students are engaging with the material. Whether it's a flipped classroom, a lesson explanation or additional learning support, Studio helps teachers make video a more meaningful part of the classroom experience. Canvas also makes it easy to support the diverse needs of every classroom.
So teachers can release the content to entire class or assign it to a selected groups or individual students and then availability dates and due dates can be adjusted for extensions or additional support without affecting everyone else within Canvas. And then with MasteryPaths, students can automatically receive different learning activities based on their performance, creating personalized learning journeys while reducing manual administration for teachers as well. From a student's perspective, everything appears in one clear and consistent place. They simply work through each module, they complete the activities, submit the assessments and receive feedback, giving them confidence about what they need to do next. Let's talk about assessments.
As students begin submitting work, Canvas helps teachers assess them efficiently. SpeedGrader brings every submission into a single workspace, allowing teachers to move quickly between students without downloading files or actually switching screens. Teachers can annotate directly on the student submissions, highlighting areas of improvement, adding comments and providing feedback exactly where it matters. Rubrics also support consistent marking and can be aligned to learning outcomes, making expectations clear for both teachers and students. Teachers can also leave written video feedback or an audio feedback creating a more personalised learning experience And then together, these tools can actually help teachers provide meaningful feedback faster while saving valuable time.
The Gradebook gives teachers a complete view of students' performance across every assessment in the markbook. Colour coding quickly highlights late, missing or excused work while scheduled feedback allows results to be released at the right time for the whole class. Even simple features like stickers can also help teachers celebrate student achievement in an engaging way. For a deeper view of student progress, the Learning Mastery Grade book actually tracks achievement against learning outcomes rather than just marks, helping teachers identify strengths and areas requiring further support. Teachers can also identify students who may need additional support by filtering based on the score ranges, missing submissions or late work as well.
Instead of manually searching through the individual records, Canvas helps teachers find the students who needs attention and take action sooner. From there, teachers can message students directly from Canvas whether they need to provide a reminder, offer additional support or celebrate progress. These messages stay connected to the learning environment, keeping communication simple and focused. Let's talk about the bird's eye view leaders get in Canvas. For school leaders, every interaction within Canvas generates a valuable insight.
Intelligent insights transforms this data into a meaningful information that supports better decision making. With Ask Your Data, teachers and leaders simply ask questions in plain English, such as which students may need additional support or how a particular year level is performing. Instead of waiting for the reports or relying on the technical teams, Canvas generates that immediate answers often with clear visualisation that make trends easy to understand. Frequently asked questions can be pinned or it can be saved for quick access. And for schools with technical teams, the generated SQL can also be viewed and reused providing both transparency and flexibility.
Another powerful capability is students in need of attention. Schools can define criteria such as low engagement, missing submissions or declining performance, allowing Canvas to proactively identify those students who may benefit from early intervention rather than reacting after the results decline. Teachers and leaders can step in sooner and provide that timely support. Course readiness helps ensure quality before learning even begins. Leaders can quickly identify courses that may be missing important elements such as content, assessments, due dates or publishing status helping maintain that consistency across the faculties and year levels before students enter the classroom.
So in just few minutes, we've explored how Canvas helps schools deliver a consistent curriculum, personalise the learning, reduce the teacher's workload and provide meaningful insights for better decision making. This is only a snapshot of what's possible. We'd love the opportunity to show you how Canvas can support the specific needs of your school in a personalised demonstration. Thank you very much for your time.
In this demo, you’ll see how Canvas helps schools:
- Create and scale a consistent curriculum across classes, year levels and campuses
- Build clear, engaging learning experiences with modules and interactive video
- Personalise learning and provide targeted support for individual students
- Simplify assessment, marking and feedback with SpeedGrader, rubrics and Grade book
- Track progress against learning outcomes and identify students who may need support
- Turn learning data into actionable insights for teachers and school leaders
See how Canvas can help your school spend less time managing technology and more time supporting teaching and learning. Connect with our K-12 team