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December 17, 2020

Instructure and Partners Urge Biden/Harris Administration to Address Ongoing Issues Impacting Nation’s Education System

SALT LAKE CITY—December 17, 2020—Today, Instructure announced it has been joined by Concentric Sky, Nearpod, Unicon, and Zoom in urging the incoming Biden administration to secure sufficient education funding, achieve education equity, and address ongoing issues impacting our nation’s education system. Read the full letter to President-Elect Biden’s Education Transition Team. While millions of American students have depended on reliable and robust learning management systems during COVID-19
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December 10, 2020

Instructure to Acquire Certica Solutions to Make Learning Personal for Every Student

SALT LAKE CITY — Dec. 10, 2020 — Instructure today announced it has signed an agreement to acquire Certica Solutions, an industry leader in K12 assessment and analytics, and longtime partner of Canvas and MasteryConnect. Through this acquisition, Instructure will provide the comprehensive and open set of tools educators need to drive student outcomes by bringing together a learning management system, assessment management system, assessment content, and data analytics into one streamlined K12
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October 15, 2020

Safeguard Hand Soap Brand Partners with Canvas to Reach Classrooms Nationwide with Free Hygiene Education and Product Donation


CINCINNATI, October 15, 2020 -- Procter & Gamble's Safeguard soap brand and Instructure, the makers of the Canvas Learning Management System, are announcing their first-of-a-kind partnership providing schools nationwide with educational and product resources to help teach elementary students proper handwashing habits in line with CDC guidelines. The partnership and lesson plan will be unveiled today, Global Handwashing Day, at CanvasCon Online, an annual conference for educators and edtech
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October 14, 2020

Instructure to Use Microsoft Teams as a Default Conferencing Tool in Canvas

SALT LAKE CITY — October 14, 2020 — At its CanvasCon Online ed tech conference today, Instructure will announce that it is expanding a longtime collaboration with Microsoft with new integrated solutions including offering Microsoft Teams meetings as one of the default conferencing tools in Canvas. An improved and fully immersive Teams meetings experience in Canvas will be offered through a Learning Tools Interoperability (LTI) app, allowing educators to create meetings, change meeting settings
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October 14, 2020

Canvas Certified Educator Program Launched to Help Educators Master Canvas

SALT LAKE CITY — October 14, 2020 — In connection with this week’s CanvasCon Online edtech event, Instructure announced its new Canvas Certified Educator program. This online certification program consists of a series of courses designed to strengthen knowledge and use of Canvas through hands-on experiences. Educational professionals can earn credentials to certify their mastery of skills that relate to using the Canvas platform. Canvas Certified Educator combines deep working knowledge of
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October 13, 2020

Instructure Announces 2020 Canvas Educator of the Year Award Honorees and Student Scholarship Winners

SALT LAKE CITY — October 13, 2020 — Instructure today announced the winners of its 2020 Canvas Educator of the Year Awards in connection with this week’s CanvasCon Online edtech conference. Building on the success of the 2019 awards, the 2020 Canvas Educator of the Year Awards recognize outstanding educators in the United States working to embrace remote learning, prepare students for the workforce, and support student success and achievement in an evolving education landscape. “Each winner is
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September 24, 2020

CASE Benchmark Assessments for Math Receive Louisiana Tier 1 Rating

WAKEFIELD, Mass., September 24, 2020 – Certica Solutions, provider of high-impact K-12 assessment and analytics solutions, today announced that the Louisiana Department of Education (LDOE) has given the TE21-CASE Benchmark Assessments™ for Math in grades 3-8 and Algebra I the highest rating in its comprehensive review process. The LDOE Tiered Review Process determines the degree of alignment with the Louisiana Student Standards, to support school districts in making purchases of instructional
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September 16, 2020

Canvas Releases Global Research Report on the State of Higher Education During the COVID-19 Pandemic

SALT LAKE CITY — September 16, 2020 — Canvas, the largest learning management system provider in the US, today released a global research report on “ The State of Student Success and Engagement in Higher Education.” The report reveals changing views among higher education students and administrators around student success and engagement. Key findings include that nearly 70% of college students feel they are falling behind on their studies due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Additionally, the
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August 20, 2020

13 States Partner with Canvas LMS to Support Educators, Students, and Parents

SALT LAKE CITY — August 20, 2020 — ​Instructure today announced that 13 states have adopted its ​ Canvas Learning Management Platform​ as a statewide solution to help students and teachers adapt to the challenges of returning to school during an unpredictable 2020-2021 school year. State education leaders are looking for partners with experience that can scale to meet their needs as they wrestle with the challenges of the global pandemic. Increasingly, these leaders have turned to ​ Canvas​ to
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