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We support customers across the globe—in more than 100 countries.
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Instructure leads the world’s largest online community for educators and edtech professionals.
#0 VLE in the world
Yes, we built Canvas—the VLE that’s intuitive, loved, and designed for lifelong learning.
0% of Ivy Leagues use Canvas
The world’s top universities trust us to enable teaching, learning, and innovation.
0K schools love Parchment
It’s the top choice for enrollment, records management, and credentialing.
Solutions for every age, stage, and transitional moment
Further Education
A lot happens between the start and finish of school years. Our ecosystem supports every pupil, wherever they’re learning.
Higher education
Our solutions keep educators at the forefront of modern teaching and learning, helping them ensure student success in a changing world.
Business and government
The best places to work prioritize learning and growth. And our tools make it more intuitive, engaging, and effective.
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Our expertise, network of partners, services, and community are all here to help you build your ideal edtech setup and deliver on what matters most.
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We love our customers (and the feeling is mutual)
Canvas has been a success from the outset, both because it’s useful and because it is intuitive to use. The success of Canvas adoption amongst our student body is proof that education technology, when done well, will benefit staff, students and the learning process.
Matt Sherlock
Assistant Director (Learning Environments) - University of Birmingham
Canvas’s AWS-backed cloud solution, with world-class uptime and redundancy, ensures consistent access—a game-changer compared to the sporadic outages we experienced with our old platform.
Steven Wilkinson
Dean of Digital Education, BIMM University
Canvas VLE is supporting our expansion both locally and internationally. It’s an incredibly scalable and configurable platform, and we’ve been able to grow with relative ease.
Andy Dolben
IT Director, University of Liverpool
We’ve launched courses in Canvas that deliver the skills needed to thrive in the job markets of today and tomorrow whilst enabling learners to tackle world challenges, and we’ll continue to develop our offering in line with evolving needs.
Jyotveer Gill
Associate Director of Education Technology and Web Development, Oxford Saïd Business School
Canvas is far more user-friendly than many other learning management systems. Plus, once people switch to Canvas, they rarely look back, and that reputation was key for us.
Erin Schalk
Educational Programmes Lead, Braille Institute
Accolades from the education world
Did we leave our trophy case in the background? Oops—guess we did!
More partners and integrations than any other edtech company
And not just any partners and integrations—the best in the field.
Success stories and resources
The State of Higher Education 2025
The State of Higher Education UK 2025 explores how institutions can focus on three key areas critical to the future: the increasing demand for flexible learning, the vital role of lifelong education, and the transformative potential of artificial intelligence (AI) in educational environments.
4 Proven Strategies for Supporting Adult Learners: What Works and Why
Adult learners juggle work, life, and education—which means training needs to be flexible, relevant, and designed for real-world impact. But how do you create a learning experience that keeps them engaged and supports long-term growth?
Lifelong learning is already the new normal - can your VLE deliver?
How can you tell if your VLE is hitting the mark? In this blog we’ll outline the warning signs that your VLE isn’t ready to cater the lifelong learner of tomorrow, and what you can do about it.
University of Liverpool and Canvas VLE: Driving student satisfaction and international growth
The University of Liverpool, recognised as the original Redbrick University, is well-known for its strong commitment to research and innovation. As part of its strategic objectives, the university aimed to develop a modern and user-friendly virtual learning environment (VLE) that would support research-connected teaching, enhance the digital experience for students, and extend the university's global reach.
Student Voices - Jóhanna Birna Bjartmarsdóttir
From 2010 to 2020, Jóhanna Birna Bjartmarsdóttir lived with chronic pain every single day. Jóhanna also has autism, ADHD, and severe dyslexia, three compounding challenges that made her school years painful and frustrating.
Fast forward to today, and Jóhanna is not only studying Education Science and Health Promotion at the University of Florida, but also leading her own accessibility consultancy - HARTS (opens in a new tab). Learn how Jóhanna beat the odds, and is helping others to do the same.
Is your legacy VLE holding you back?
Do you feel like your legacy VLE has become an iceberg for your institution? It seemed like the cost-effective option at first, but over time, it’s presented a myriad of obstacles which run deep beneath the surface. If this sounds familiar, read why our customers switched from their legacy VLE to Canvas and never looked back.
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