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Canvas
In 2008, two graduate students from Brigham Young University created the company Instructure. Later on in 2011, Canvas launched and has made its way into over 3,000 universities, school districts, and institutions around the world. Brian Whitmer and Devlin Daley, the two founders, created over 1,100 jobs and with that was selected by Cisco Networking Academy to power “the world’s largest classroom”.

Home:
The first section in Canvas, contains all the most important information about the course. Everything from the Home page is completely customizable, including the format and the sub-sections. Different instructors have the choice to construct different Home page formats.

Quiz:
This section is used to assess students’ knowledge from the in-class lectures or from the course’s materials. This section contains multiple choice questions, as well as written questions depending on the instructors formatting for the course. Instructors have the option to set time limits to begin as students open the quiz. The different restrictions for instructors to apply help create a secure way of delivering quizzes.

Module:
The “modules” section contains all the materials shared by the instructors to the students. It is organized from the beginning lecture’s material to the last lecture’s material. Professors are able to insert slideshows, videos, links and most other forms of external media to help deliver course materials.

Assignment:
In this section, instructors will assign various tasks to students, allowing them to submit with an attachment or through a text box responding to the assignment.

People:
This section contains a list of people participating in the course, including the teachers, teacher assistants (if any) and the students. There are tabs which show clearly the role of each individual in the course. A new feature to support inclusivity is displaying each individual’s pronouns if they would like to do so, introduced in 2020. The “people” tab may also include groups in which the professor has separated the class to perform group exercises or assignments.

Discussion:
This is where students are able to post their own discussion, ask questions regarding the course and/or answer the discussion topics made by the instructors.

Announcement: This section is for the announcements made by the teachers and the teacher assistants. Differ from the Discussion section, only teachers and the TAs have access to make announcements which are visible to everyone in the course.

Grades:
The “grades” section gives instructors the option to display marks, submission comments, rubrics and other feedback. Canvas has also included a feature to allow students to “test” different grades, should they receive a certain mark, and how this mark would affect their overall grade. Not all instructors use the canvas grading system, but many try to keep all grades up to date.

Media gallery:
In this section, the teachers recorded lectures can be found. These videos can be put in alphabetical order, by creation date or the lectures can easily be searched for in the “search this gallery” bar at the top of the media gallery page.