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Canvas Wins EdTech Digest Cool Tool Award

SALT LAKE CITY — May 12, 2020 — Today, Canvas announced that it has been recognized as the winner in the learning management category of The EdTech Awards 2020. Winners and finalists have been announced to an audience of educators, technologists, students, parents, and policymakers interested in building a better future for learners and leaders in the education and workforce sectors. “To those who stepped up and continue to do so—empathic educators, persistent parents, laudable leaders moving

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Unizin Extends Partnership with Instructure, Keeps Canvas as its Foundational Learning Management Platform

AUSTIN and SALT LAKE CITY – May 5, 2020 – Today, Unizin, a consortium of 13 leading universities, announced they have extended their partnership with Instructure, makers of the Canvas Learning Management Platform, for an additional five years. “Unizin recognizes Canvas as the top learning management platform in today’s market because of its unrivaled interoperability, innovative capabilities, and open standards,” said Michael Hofherr, Unizin Board of Directors President; Vice President and CIO

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New Survey Shows Parents’ Top Challenges with Online Learning

SALT LAKE CITY — April 29, 2020 — Millions of students and teachers have had to adjust to learning from home in the last few weeks, which means that parents have had to adjust too. To check in on how parents are doing, Canvas, the learning management platform made by Instructure, commissioned a survey to learn more about how parents are managing their new teaching roles. In the survey, parents identified their top three challenges as keeping children focused on schoolwork, juggling daytime

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Instructure To Award $25,000 Through National Student Scholarship Contest

K-12 students and teachers can nominate extraordinary students for Instructure’s ‘Note to Self’ Canvas Scholarship SALT LAKE CITY — March 11, 2020 — Instructure Canvas , the integrated learning management platform that has connected millions of instructors and learners at more than 5,000 educational institutions globally, today announced it will award $25,000 in scholarships in its second annual Student Scholarship Contest. The scholarship contest, “ Note to Self ,” is open to K-12 students

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Adobe Creative Cloud Integrates with Canvas to Deliver Creativity & Imagination Opportunities

SALT LAKE CITY — March 10, 2020 — Instructure (NYSE: INST) is collaborating with Adobe to provide greater creativity and imagination opportunities for students within the Canvas Learning Management System. Adobe Creative Cloud has been integrated with Canvas, allowing millions of students and educators to access projects from creative tools like Spark, Photoshop and Illustrator more quickly and easier than ever, right inside the LMS they use every day. “We know that creating memorable

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Instructure Included on 2020 Shatter List for Helping Break Glass Ceiling in Technology

SALT LAKE CITY – March 5, 2020 – In honor of International Women’s Day, Instructure today announced it has once again been named on the Women Tech Council (WTC) 2020 Shatter List, a recognition of companies with active measures that help break the glass ceiling for women in technology. Each of the companies on the 2020 list was chosen based on its development and successful implementation of measures that create gender-inclusive cultures where women can contribute and succeed. “The Shatter List

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