What is Canvas?
Canvas is the 21st Century LMS. Adaptable. Reliable. Customizable. Easy to use. Mobile. Time-saving. And, perhaps most importantly, it gets used. That’s because it’s designed to get out of your way, to let you do your thing. Every last feature, every last interface is crafted to save you time and effort and to make teaching and learning easier.
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87 Likeliness to Recommend
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94 Plan to Renew
83 Satisfaction of Cost Relative to Value
Emotional Footprint Overview
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+88 Net Emotional Footprint
The emotional sentiment held by end users of the software based on their experience with the vendor. Responses are captured on an eight-point scale.
How much do users love Canvas?
Pros
- Respectful
- Reliable
- Enables Productivity
- Trustworthy
How to read the Emotional Footprint
The Net Emotional Footprint measures high-level user sentiment towards particular product offerings. It aggregates emotional response ratings for various dimensions of the vendor-client relationship and product effectiveness, creating a powerful indicator of overall user feeling toward the vendor and product.
While purchasing decisions shouldn't be based on emotion, it's valuable to know what kind of emotional response the vendor you're considering elicits from their users.
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Canvas Reviews
John S.
- Role: Information Technology
- Industry: Engineering
- Involvement: End User of Application
Submitted Sep 2025
Promising, User-Friendly Tool with Room for Growth
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates Canvas from other similar products?
Integrated Collaboration + Editing Canvas isn’t just a chatbot + prompt system. You get a dual-pane or workspace where text or code can be edited in place, with the AI acting like a teammate.
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
upload of lectures like video an aduio
What do you dislike most about this product?
interaction....... Integrated Collaboration + Editing
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
User-Friendly Tool with Room for Growth
Pros
- Helps Innovate
- Reliable
- Enables Productivity
- Inspires Innovation
Lana M.
- Role: Student Academic
- Industry: Education
- Involvement: End User of Application
Submitted Aug 2025
Clunky, But Does the Job for Higher Ed Course Mgmt
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates Canvas from other similar products?
It's much more user-friendly than ClassIn, which I also use for my work for another employer.
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
I very much like how it allows the user to import existing content. I routinely teach the same class, term after term, and being able to import information from previous terms saves me a great deal of time and effort.
What do you dislike most about this product?
I find customer support for technical issues slow and rather unhelpful. I usually have to go to the internet and various educator forums to get quick, actionable responses.
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
Not really suitable for one-on-one teaching--much better for classes offered through formal organizations, e.g. schools, universities, etc. For a private tutor, Canvas would be a bit of overkill.
Pros
- Reliable
- Performance Enhancing
- Enables Productivity
- Trustworthy
Cons
- Less Efficient Service
- Less Effective Service
- Wastes Time
Emmanuel O.
- Role: Student Academic
- Industry: Education
- Involvement: End User of Application
Submitted May 2025
A need to tap into the limitless potential of AI
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates Canvas from other similar products?
Intuitive User Experience - Canvas is widely recognized for its clean, user-friendly interface that requires less training than many competitors Open Architecture - The platform's extensive API capabilities and LTI integration support make it exceptionally adaptable and extensible Mobile-First Design - Canvas offers superior mobile apps and responsive design compared to many competitors, enabling true anytime, anywhere learning SpeedGrader Functionality - The innovative annotation and feedback tools streamline the grading process for instructors
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
The platform manages to provide a comprehensive set of teaching and learning tools while maintaining an intuitive interface that faculty, students, and staff can quickly learn to navigate.
What do you dislike most about this product?
There is no AI integration and, assistance
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
If anytime, anywhere access is important for your students, Canvas's mobile-first approach provides significant advantages over less responsive competitors.
Pros
- Continually Improving Product
- Reliable
- Trustworthy
- Efficient Service
