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

• 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.

• August 15, 2018: Virtual Classroom – reach and engage more students! — For the last three decades the student/teacher ratio has increased by 30% - in the US there are 26.8 pupils per teacher for public secondary schools. The providers of traditional training are limited in reaching a larger number of students by their resources – mainly teachers and facilities. Blended/hybrid learning is addressing these issues by mixing learning methods that incorporate multiple teaching modals - traditional face-to-face classrooms, videoconference teaching and self-paced learning. Currently, blended learning is one of the fastest growing models in the teaching organizations – vocational training providers, K-12, universities, corporate training, etc.

• August 8, 2018: Improving Higher Ed Outcomes with Digital Credentials — Competencies and skills are fast-becoming the currency of the labor market. To build a framework for recognizing and validating skills, colleges, universities, and K-12 schools are turning to digital credentials. Credly, the leader in digital credentialing, integrates with Canvas to make the process seamless for faculty and students. 

• August 1, 2018: Bridge The Accessibility Gap In Video Learning With Panopto + Canvas — Over the past decade, the use of video in and outside the classroom has surged. Lecture capture has become nearly as ubiquitous as the LMS in colleges and universities. The flipped classroom has become a mainstay of modern pedagogy. And distance education enrollment has grown consistently for the last fourteen years. 

• July 19, 2018: Making Canvas the Star of the Course Evaluation Process — Course evaluations are a key component of the quality and improvement process for virtually every institution, and without a doubt, the valuable feedback that students provide instructors and administration is THE star of course evaluations.  Given the importance of student feedback, let’s take a moment to consider the “operational process” of course evaluation.  You know, the operational process where the star for so many years had been paper - paper surveys distributed to every student every term, paper surveys then collected and sent through a scanner (or manually recorded, but that’s a different story entirely), and then finally paper reports that were laboriously created and distributed to faculty and to administration every term.  While this paper operational process served a purpose, it failed in terms of being efficient and timely, and likely consumed far too many institutional resources – not to mention all those trees!  

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.