Instructure

Instructure is a US education technology company headquartered in Salt Lake City, Utah, giving schools, universities and businesses a shared platform for managing courses and credentials. Its flagship product, the Canvas learning management system, is used by more than 8,000 institutional customers in over 100 countries, ranging from K-12 districts to universities and corporate training departments.

Canvas lets instructors build courses, distribute assignments, hold discussions and grade work in one interface, while the companion Mastery Connect module handles standards-aligned assessment and the Parchment module issues and verifies digital transcripts for more than 6,700 K-12 schools. Institutions license Canvas as a subscription platform and extend it with third-party tools through Instructure’s integration ecosystem.

1. Course management: Instructors publish content, assignments and grades from a single dashboard.

2. Mastery Connect: Standards-aligned assessments track student mastery across a curriculum.

3. Parchment credentials: Schools issue and verify digital transcripts and certificates.

4. Open integrations: Canvas connects to third-party learning tools through an app ecosystem.

5. Multi-sector reach: Used across K-12, higher education and corporate training customers.

6. Tiered plans: Canvas Core, Plus and Next tiers let institutions adopt AI features gradually.