Canvas LMS
CTS and ADEK empower Ta’aleem Charter Schools with Canvas LMS
Leveraging consistency and collaboration to the highest teaching and learning in Abu Dhabi
Abu Dhabi, UAE
+10,000 Students
Adopted Canvas: 2021
Key Insights
Since 2021, CTS has successfully implemented Canvas LMS in 12 schools, impacting a network of over 15,000 students and teachers in Abu Dhabi.
ADEK has initiated the standardisation of Canvas usage in one of the most highly-ranked education systems in the country through three key operators such as Ta’aleem Charter Schools, making innovative learning and teaching experiences scalable.
With Canvas, the operators have created educational videos for parents in Arabic and English, incrementing parent participation in the learning process.
Schools have stated that by using Canvas the teachers could work together, which has brought a sense of togetherness and collaboration.
The schools participating have been able to have structural consistency in building courses and setting up online or hybrid learning.
Canvas has helped them to have more consistent grading processes and grading practices to increase teachers' capacity for differentiation and set up opportunities for students to have their intervention needs to be met.
The Challenge
The Department of Education and Knowledge of Abu Dhabi (ADEK) was established in September 2017 by His Highness Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan, President of the United Arab Emirates. As part of its mission, ADEK looks to build an attractive education environment to make Abu Dhabi a pioneer regional and International Education Hub.
ADEK initiated the project with a number of major regional operators in charge of the Charter Schools to identify the challenges faced with their LMS. To help them with the task of finding a robust, modern, easy-to-use, and scalable LMS ADEK consulted with Creative Technology Solutions (CTS), Instructure’s reseller in the UAE.
Established in 2013 out of the need to provide a unique and compelling IT solution to the education sector in the Middle East, CTS has helped over seventy schools implement solutions ranging from the Learning Management System to be used for formative assessment, all the way to a complete Flipped Classroom with a 1-to-1 learning using an education tablet with each student. CTS’ approach is tailored to the school's individual e-learning needs, implementing suitable technological solutions and ensuring that the users (students, teachers, parents & staff) are using the solution.
The visibility that we potentially have for parents to have better access to what their kids are doing in school.I think in our schools in particular, that's quite an important thing to do. So there are no surprises for parents when we get to reporting things.
Nicholas Gray
Vice-Principal, Al Qeyam School
Voices From The Project
Canvas allows us to build consistency across multiple schools more easily. This provides many opportunities for teachers to share best practices for our community to see consistency across the board for our students who might transfer between the schools. It also gave us a way to share the curriculum systematically with the students a lot more efficiently than if we had simply tried to do it all through Teams or using some other platform. Moving forward, if we ever find ourselves in another situation where we do have to move to online learning, we will be better equipped because we will be more prepared with Canvas fully implemented.
Brent Walker, Deputy Director of the
Ta'aleem Charter Schools
As resellers, the best part is to work with the flexibility and proactiveness of Instructure, while having fantastic branding. Canvas is helping us to help the community to catch up with digitalization.
Basem Chbaklo, CEO, CTS
Implementing an LMS is complex. For this project, there were several stakeholders involved; however, the professionalism and the smooth delivery of information and communication from Instructure to collaborate with all that parties, made it possible to implement the LMS not only at
the same time the school year was in progress but in the year, when it usually takes about two years or more to finish.
Fella Boudjema, Projects Manager, CTS