Canvas vs. EdApp

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Canvas
Score 8.2 out of 10
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Instructure is an educational software company based in Sandy, Utah. It is the developer of the Canvas learning management system, which is a comprehensive software package that competes with such systems as Blackboard Learning System, SumTotal and Saba.N/A
EdApp
Score 9.0 out of 10
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EdApp headquartered in New York provides their mobile learning management system.N/A
Pricing
CanvasEdApp
Editions & Modules
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
CanvasEdApp
Free Trial
YesNo
Free/Freemium Version
YesNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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Community Pulse
CanvasEdApp
Features
CanvasEdApp
Learning Management
Comparison of Learning Management features of Product A and Product B
Canvas
9.8
Ratings
18% above category average
EdApp
8.1
Ratings
1% below category average
Course authoring9.90 Ratings10.00 Ratings
Course catalog or library9.80 Ratings7.00 Ratings
Player/Portal9.80 Ratings10.00 Ratings
Learning content9.80 Ratings4.00 Ratings
Mobile friendly9.90 Ratings10.00 Ratings
Progress tracking & certifications9.80 Ratings10.00 Ratings
Assignments9.90 Ratings6.00 Ratings
Compliance management9.80 Ratings10.00 Ratings
Learning administration9.80 Ratings10.00 Ratings
Learning reporting & analytics9.80 Ratings6.00 Ratings
Social learning9.80 Ratings6.00 Ratings
Gamification9.60 Ratings6.00 Ratings
Single Sign On (SSO) Enabled Learning9.80 Ratings10.00 Ratings
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CanvasEdApp
Small Businesses
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Score 9.6 out of 10
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Score 9.6 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies
Schoology Learning
Schoology Learning
Score 9.7 out of 10
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Score 9.7 out of 10
Enterprises
Schoology Learning
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Score 9.7 out of 10
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Score 9.7 out of 10
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User Ratings
CanvasEdApp
Likelihood to Recommend
8.6
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8.0
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Likelihood to Renew
9.3
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Usability
10.0
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9.0
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Support Rating
9.0
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10.0
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In-Person Training
10.0
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-
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Online Training
8.0
(0 ratings)
-
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Implementation Rating
8.5
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Product Scalability
8.0
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User Testimonials
CanvasEdApp
Likelihood to Recommend
If you have a school you can let teachers easily create new deadlines which [automatically] get shown in the calendar. Teachers can also [temporarily] hide deadlines [until] they've given the explanation about the tasks. [Besides] that the teacher can also choose what should be uploaded, should it be a link, file, pdf, link,...
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EdApp is great if you want to have internal training and do not want to waste time for the agency to understand your business, you do it yourself. It’s great for field structures as it’s built for mobile and built to be snappy - great time saver! It’s not yet great in the area of Power BI dashboards and customizable reports for usage.
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Pros
  • Learning management - Even as the educational landscape rapidly shifts due to current events, Canvas is a great LMS for providing a consistent learning environment for students.
  • Mobile accessibility - Students can access their courses on Canvas from a variety of devices, including their smartphones.
  • Rich content - Instructors have the ability to create dynamic and engaging content for their courses.
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  • It’s quick and easy to set up and build contend
  • It has a great support team
  • It’s massively customizable
  • It keeps adding features
  • It monitors progress of all users
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Cons
  • Their integration with Big Blue Button was a bust for distance learning. Would be great to see them collaborate with Zoom or Google Meets.
  • Their "feature request" process is slow and cumbersome at times because it relies on user "up votes" to get ideas addressed by the developers.
  • They seem to have a lot of turn-over with their staff. We get a new Customer Success Manager far more frequently than with other vendors.
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  • Some operations on a big list of users (2000) are complicated
  • Database setup has to be done tagged manually
  • It does not provide an option to send newsletters for selected accounts
  • It would be nice to have more options to manage unused accounts
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Likelihood to Renew
Several factors contribute to my "10" rating. First, our university just made an enormous switch to Canvas, after we were with Blackboard for almost a decade. So garnering buy-in was critical, and not something we took lightly. After nearly 18 months (start to finish) of training faculty, educating stakeholders, and migrating courses, I am not looking to make a change again anytime soon. But I am happy with the result and the product overall and that is also demonstrated in my rating.
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Usability
The functions in Canvas are well integrated and consistent across the application, and mostly intuitive. Overall navigation and setup is streamlined through integrated features and navigation. The feedback we've gotten from our program participants is that it is easy to learn to use. It also integrates well with third party software like Google Docs and Blackboard Collaborate web conferencing software
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It’s really easy! After the onboarding with the app I’m able to ‘spit out’ a course within 1hr. That means I can now do pre-work for any meeting and see who did it and also shorten meeting time that usually was wasted on explanation of the topic. The mobile access made it simple for everyone and lead to our field force employees finding time for development between client visits.
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Support Rating
I do not personally use Canvas support since we have a central office that helps us. However, our central office always has the answers we need and are always able to solve our issues - so I would assume that get great support from the Canvas team on their end. They also offer great training, which uses materials directly from Canvas
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They have a live person on the line. Easy going and responsive. Problem was resolved within 17mins when I anticipated it would take hours!
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In-Person Training
The training sessions were broken down into several days as well as different levels depending upon the knowledge of the user
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Online Training
The online tutorials and videos are very clear and addressed the issues/questions that I had about using the system.
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Implementation Rating
Once you purchase and sign the contract there is nothing to install or hardware to buy. You can almost immediately start using it and have courses up and going within weeks. We signed in December and had pilot courses online ready to go for the start of school in January
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Alternatives Considered
Canvas is in the experience way better than Google Classroom. Canvas has a
more robust agenda system that also allows adding in new personal
deadlines. [Assignments] can be submitted past [the] deadline (if allowed),
this isn't allowed by Google [Classroom], If you're too late you can't
submit anything anymore. In Classroom [assignments], presentations/theory, and [announcements] are all put in 1 feed instead which gets confusing way
faster.
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EdApp has an easier interface. It allows you to start building whole courses with many lessons within first hours of use. It’s design looks more professional which results in a better fit for business environment. Unlike Kahoot!, it’s not recognised as ‘the thing my kids have at school’ - important factor in terms of user approach to content provided in lessons.
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Return on Investment
  • Teachers have consolidated their content onto one platform which has decreased reliance of students on so much support staff assistance to access content.
  • Canvas has helped make technology transitions more seamless for the school community.
  • Once teachers have set up their page, Canvas really takes care of it all- they have much more time to focus on content creation and synthesis rather than the actual learning management system.
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  • It started ‘binge learning’ thanks to 8min average time needed to complete a lesson
  • It allowed a 93% completion rate for field force training materials (up from 47%)
  • It allowed for easy and attractive implementation of mandatory content (compliance/lex)
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