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

I mean... It works, but not better than what I'd get by just using the website on a decent browser. Also refuses to show up in the active processes list if you ever switch apps, meaning you need to go back to the shortcut every time you need the app open. If you unfocus it also goes back from whatever file you were viewing, but it at least keeps track of what page you were on.

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.

honestly, it leaves a lot to be desired. interface is not smooth. there is a lot of functionality that modern apps have that is either missing or under powered. also, the most recent update broke Android functionality again - second time in a year. example: groups. why can't groups be sorted by course? why can't i access news groups which i am not yet a never of from the app, while i can through a browser? why can't i easily search content of discussions for key words? it goes on...

What’s new

- Canvas Career now supports offline submissions.
- Fixed Studio videos not playing in course content when the RCE Studio Embed Improvements feature is enabled.
- Fixed What-If grade totals on the Grades screen differing from the web calculation.
- Discussion and Announcement links inside a Discussion or Announcement now open the native screen instead of the full web view.
- Various bug fixes and stability improvements.