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"The University of Central Florida has chosen Canvas from Instructure to replace Blackboard Vista as the institution's learning management system. The decision came after a six-month evaluation process that reviewed Desire2Learn, Blackboard 9.1, and Instructure Canvas. "

" The University of Maryland will adopt Instructure® Canvas® as its new enterprise learning management system (ELMS), an online learning platform that facilitates teaching, learning, and collaboration among faculty and students. A pilot will begin in fall 2012, and Canvas will be fully deployed by January 2013."

"Salt Lake Community College, in connection with the Utah System of Higher Education Consortium, is adopting Instructure Canvas as its new learning management system. Canvas will replace Blackboard Vista as the system for hosting online learning activities and course content. All courses currently hosted in Blackboard Vista will be moved to Instructure Canvas by July 1, 2012."

UW Canvas (uw.instructure.com) is a feature-rich learning management software, allowing for simplified course management, seamless course calendaring, and efficient grading. Canvas improves communication between instructors and students through integrating multiple tools and methods.

The partnership will expand the reach of the McGraw-Hill Campus service, which was first rolled out last July as a means of offering universal, single sign-on access to McGraw-Hill offerings to students and educators from within a school's existing LMS at no cost. With the service, the entire library of McGraw-Hill resources can be accessed with the service with a single click for browsing of test banks, e-books, PowerPoint slides and other offerings.

Building on positive faculty and student feedback from comparative product evaluations during 2010-11, Wharton Computing has selected the Instructure Canvas LMS as the next-generation replacement for course web sites, assignments and grading activities currently performed using webCafé.

"For instructors who are currently teaching courses on Instructure Canvas, the following content package is available to download and import into your course."

"This wiki was created by Utah Valley University's Innovation Center and is collaboratively authored by Utah higher ed institutions as part of the Instructure Canvas statewide LMS project, hosted and supported by the Utah Education Network (UEN). "

Canvas Instructor Resources The link above will take you into a public Canvas course with access to online documentation and video tutorials maintained by Instructure Canvas and their partner institutions.

"Recently we added a Crocodoc integration to SpeedGrader in Canvas.  We think this will make a good thing better.  Now, when students submit digital files for grading (in Word, PowerPoint or PDF formats), instructors are able to annotate the files and grade the submissions right on the screen."

Visit this page often to keep up-to-date on the transition and to find resources to help you learn and use Canvas.

"Welcome to Howard Community College's student training site for Canvas, our new learning management system! Most likely, you will have a course in Canvas in the next few semesters, so we have created this site to explain the main features of the system. Here you will find a module-based training approach, so feel free to peruse each module as needed. In the future, you can use this site as a resource for questions about using Canvas in your courses."