CanvasReviews of instructure.com

A very bad platform that marks things incorrect even when you get them correct. Also does not allow you to watch videos that are central to the lessons.

False advertising, claims can do background remover for videos, it cant, only images

Please reconsider before you buy from this company. They only show positive reviews, not the complaints.

Canvas is wretched. I spent all morning in class trying to log in to this thing and it would immediately say "took too long to log in" when I took less than four seconds to type the info. Then, when I click "try to log in again" it takes me to a page with the side bar and "page not found" on every single sidebar item. That alone ruined my day due to this infuriating broken system, but no... it's actually worse than that... You see, it DID log me in, it just lied to me all day and said I wasn't. The only way it acknowledged that I was logged in was to HAND TYPE the URL in the field, and then it went to my actual canvas page. So to recap : Go to Canvas with a bookmark, it logs you in and lies to you and says you're not logged in and the pages can't be found anyway. Do the fake login of lies and then retype the URL by hand to actually see you're logged in. Otherwise, unless you guess this step, it will lie to you and deny you have access (not access denied, mind you, deny that you have access when you do). This is not a functioning product, it's narcissistic childhood abuse written as an app. Unacceptable.

The fact that this app has over HALF of its usage rating a 1 star is so disappointing, and I can’t help but agree with them. I also hate the fact you have to use this as a MAIN APP in school, where all the teachers do is post it in canvas, and most of our work is on paper. So, we do it on paper, then have to submit digitally. Which also makes no sense, why not just use the paper, but oh well, not canvas’ problem. What my problem is the new update, apparently. I just got into canvas this afternoon with checkmarks next to the assignments in the “To-Do” section, which is where I find all of my work that’s due. To find out what they did, I pressed a few. Nothing happened, until it did. They disappeared, which isn’t technically the apps fault but could at the least gave a notification or a “How to” when you opened the app. My problem summarized is just the new update. I clicked the check marks to see what they did because no guide was posted, deleted my due work, and cannot find them, nor get them back. Other than my complaint, I overall dislike the app. Do better, Canvas. This app is no better than all of the others. Google classroom is one of the best apps I used to use, this is just like a copy paste, but worse. Like the knock-off version of google classroom.

Terrible website would not recommend it is too controlling, and can get into your files and your personal information. this can and will spread to other devices, causing it to install other installations without permission. -teacher unknown

Utterly terrible and very frustrating. Kept getting server gateway timeout constantly. Impossible to undertake the course. I logged out and it refused to let me log back in stating it did not recognize my email or password.

I have been a student on and off most of my life to improve my career advancement, most colleges push the use of canvas. I briefly taught in my business setting and find canvas a disgraceful teaching mess. From both a teacher and student point of view canvas is a disgraceful teaching method. It removes the in-person class room settings and many students need this. In-person minimizes, cheating and you can see more clearly if students are learning or just using ai solvers to complete homework. Unreal expectations for college students. I recall doing really well in my science and math classes growing up. I swear you study all the information instructors give you and you still end up failing testes. It’s not you, that’s how it’s written. Teachers will tend to use a standard test written by academia and some times it can be no where near the information studied. This unfortunately encourages cheating and canvas’s system is so easily bypass able it’s laughable. I’ve figured out how too, and it’s disgraceful how students are bypassing anti cheat methods which are highly flawed. I got chatgpt to spill the beans on how honor lock works and they use scare tactics to discourage use of another device on a quiz. I highly doubt an extension can “monitor” your whole network. No honorlock is total spy ware and has been sued more than once for 4th amendment rights. Their system is so flawed it’s laughable. Their 1.1k one star reviews only prove me right. I’m highly disappointed in canvas’s learning system. Students don’t learn. Anyone with a smart phone or laptop separate from their main computer can easily bypass any anit cheat system. No one learns on these things any more and unfortunately the world is pushing canvas. Once I’m done with my 2nd round of education, I’m not continuing it unless my employer wishes to pay me to go back to school. I’m finding a lot of teachers just republish their courses year to year. They in turn actually do very little teaching. Some professors put together really good online classes while others slap them together last minute. I am so sick of youtube teaching me, I can do that for free in my spare time. Many times my teacher’s lectures are useless and I find my self going to youtube for lessons anyways. I hate to say it but I’ve started joining the cheaters. I put together a “free” canvas “class” to test some scenarios and it’s laughable that everyone is just using ai to pass these classes now. I grew up before computers and ai and can pass classes old school ways. I did that for my first 2 years then ai flagged me and teacher harassed me for a written by hand, went to library and read books then wrote report... and I didn’t feel that was fair. I have honestly joined the cheaters. It’s not that hard to cheat these days. Students just use chat gpt, quizlet, chegg or other sites that post answers. I’ve joined them and you have to be careful when doing so and if teacher says I will be running your report through an ai checker, then you really want to be careful.