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

keeps not being able to perform basic functions, and thinks courses are finished when they arent while just trying to reply to an instructor. will log you out in the most inopportune moments, completely nullifying its "study on the go!" use, as i need to always have access to my logged-in laptop to use the qr code login. its janky and incredibly user-unfriendly.

So... This worked great. Solid, good UI, totally a 5-star app. Then I had the audacity to need it for courses at two schools at once. Instead of, say, keeping me logged in to both and letting me switch with a simple drop-down (like email apps and websites have for over 25 years) it instead logs me out of both after short periods of inactivity--say, the time it takes to read a section and take a short quiz on a publisher's app. 1-star for failing at basic credential management.

The app itself is great - just as intuitive as the desktop version. However the push notifications are a pain! I tried customising which ones to receive, and it sent me everything anyway. I turned all notifications off, and it still sent me everything. The FAQ pages say that app settings override the desktop ones, which I found to be true when logging into desktop site. TLDR: Please stop notifying tutors every time somebody from a course of 2000 students submits an assignment!!! How do I turn OFF notifications???

What’s new

- Open custom course navigation links in the app
- Refined the new Grades experience: pinned total, group weights, unread feedback badges, and empty states
- New Dashboard opens courses on their Home page
- Faster loading on the Dashboard and Grades screens
- Added Open Source & Licenses to the About screen
- Improved behavior when deleting discussions and announcements
- Various bug fixes and stability improvements, including edge-to-edge fixes
- Canvas Career now supports offline mode