ABOUT THE PROGRAM

Is Instructure a tech company with its heart in learning? Or a learning company with its heart in tech?

Either way, our mission is to make software that makes people smarter. And one crucial way we accomplish that is by partnering with our 100+ like-minded (and, even better, divergently-minded) partners, who are equally committed to learning, innovation, and technology (sometimes all three). Our partners push us and we push them, keeping our foot on the innovation accelerator—from IMS to LTI to LIS and more. Together, we believe we can make integrations as easy as humanly possible and, in the process, make teaching and learning easier too.

PARTNER BLOG POSTS

• September 26, 2018: Give students access to affordable digital learning materials by embracing a subscription model for your course — Access to affordable digital learning materials is a huge concern for students, their families and institutions looking to increase enrollment on their campus. The Lumina Foundation reported that college prices have increased by 45% over the past decade, but at the same time, households are bringing in less income. This puts many students down the path to an educational dead end. Even when students do enroll in school, many can’t afford their materials and because of that, they don’t purchase them. Per a 2016 study completed by Florida Virtual Campus 20% of students have failed their courses because of an inability to afford the materials.

• September 12, 2018: How Canvas Partner Regroup Mass Notification Can Help Keep Your School Safe — As incidents of school violence have become more common, school leaders are looking for ways to improve school safety without putting undue pressure on budgets and while maintaining an open, positive atmosphere in their schools. Every school should be prepared to immediately respond and mitigate any potential threat that could result in loss of life or injuries to members of their campus community. This is why Canvas by Instructure, a leading Learning Management System (LMS) platform enabling easy integration of the content, tools and services teachers and students want and need through open, usable, cloud-based technologies, is partnering with Regroup Mass Notification to deliver an easy-to-use mass notification system (MNS) right within the Canvas interface. 

• September 5, 2018: 12 Tips to Plan for Your Section’s Upcoming Exam — Every teacher needs to plan for an upcoming exam, but when you teach large sections, you need to plan meticulously. With classroom sizes of over 500 students remaining common, preparing for a midterm or final can be a daunting, administrative task for instructors teaching large class sections. 

• August 22, 2018: The Best of Both Worlds: Turnitin + Canvas — Calling all Turnitin users! Prepare to experience Canvas and Turnitin in a whole new way with the new Plagiarism Framework. This optimized integration allows Turnitin’s trusted similarity features to work with Canvas assignments in the most seamless way possible.

PARTNER NEWS

• July 26, 2018: Portfolium Wins State of Tennessee Department of Education Contract — The Tennessee Department of Education has awarded the contract for its TEAM student growth portfolio, student Work-Based Learning, and educator micro-credential ePortfolio systems to Portfolium, Inc., the only Student Success Network.

• July 10, 2018: Instructure and EesySoft Partner to Drive Greater Usage and Value for Canvas LMS Customers — Instructure, Inc., a leading software-as-a-service (SaaS) technology company in education, learning, and talent management, and EesySoft Software International B.V. a leading provider of solutions that improve user adoption of technology for the education market, today announced that they have entered into a partnership to drive greater user adoption of the Canvas Learning Management System within the K-12 and Higher Education market places.

• June 12, 2018: Concentric Sky Announces BadgeRank - a New Search Engine for Digital Badges — Concentric Sky announced the release of BadgeRank.org - a free, public search engine for digital badges. Following closely on the release of the game-changing digital badge stacking tool - Badgr Pathways - BadgeRank offers a simple, user-friendly interface that allows anyone to explore the digital badges published by Open Badges compliant systems around the world.

• June 5, 2018: Simple Syllabus Announces New Partnership with Instructure, Releases Canvas LTI App as Part of Mission to Streamline the Academic Content Supply Chain — Syllabus management software provider, Simple Syllabus, introduces new Canvas LTI integration to improve usability for faculty and reduce administrative workload tied to curriculum.

• April 20, 2018: Concentric Sky Introduces Badgr Pathways​ — We’re pleased to announce the launch of Badgr Pathways. With Pathways, badges from any Open Badges compliant platform can be stacked together in alignment with competency frameworks.