Canvas By Instructure

Instructure

About this app

Your learning, anywhere.
Stay connected to your courses with the official Canvas app for learners. Whether you’re in class, commuting, or offline, Canvas helps you stay organized and engaged.

-Note for instructors: For teaching and grading features, use the Canvas Teacher app.
-Note for parents & guardians: Use Canvas Parent app to follow student progress.

What you can do:
• Organize: View grades, track assignments, homework, and schoolwork; get reminders, push notifications and add customizable widgets for quick access
• Engage: Send messages, join class discussions and collaborate with classmates in real time
• Learn: Submit assignments, PDFs, docs, and media files for teachers to annotate in SpeedGrader, take quizzes, and watch videos on the go
• Strategic Planning: Use "What-If" grade calculations to simulate future scores and plan your study goals with confidence
• Offline: Download full courses and keep studying even without internet
• Integration & inclusivity: Use integrated classroom tools (LTIs), enjoy dark mode, and rely on built-in accessibility for everyone (VPAT 2.2 compliant)
• Lifelong learning: Support for continuous learning, career-focused skill based learning programs, and AI-powered learning experience via Career experience

Trusted by over 40 million learners worldwide.

Ratings and reviews

How this app has 4.6 stars is beyond me. To-do list is messed up. Sometimes the syllabus button links to the syllabus, sometimes it links to modules. A lot of this can be chalked up to professor issues though. I didn't have an issue last semester. What I can't get past though? REMOVING THE OPTION TO SCAN. Now I have to use another app to make a pdf and upload it manually.

To Do List Update Sucks. It use to tell me what was due over the next 7 calendar days. Now Sundays assignments dont show up on the TODO until the Sunday theyre due. Im a student with work and kids. I need a better calendar to help me plan my week. Yeah, I can find it by manually going to Calendar. But thats not as easy and accessible as it once was.

Unintuitive interface. The interface is cumbersome to use. There is no ability to re-sort which courses appear first. Users are unable to join or view groups via the app. It is also not possible to check the recipients of a sent message. As a minor nitpick, The panda lazing on a hammock feels rather infantilizing. Overall the app is quite solid. However, if I have to leave the app and use the internet app to complete tasks, it's obviously lacking.

What’s new

- Customizable Dashboard for Learners is available if the feature flag is enabled.
- Users can now scan physical documents directly from file upload screens using the device camera, with multi-page scanning, auto-crop, and PDF generation.
- Fixed an issue where users were logged out when accessing pages with embedded LTI content that failed to authenticate.
- Performance and stability improvements.