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Canvas

NET+ Canvas streamlines all the digital tools and content that teachers and students love, for a simpler and more connected learning experience.

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Eligible Subscribers Include:

Internet2 Members

Cloud-based Platform for Student Success

Educators are powerful people doing important, life-changing things. NET+ Canvas doesn’t get in the way of that—it just makes those important, life-changing things easier to do and easier to spread around.

Our Internet2 NET+ program partners with Instructure to meet the needs of our higher education membership within the learning management system and research space and beyond.

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NET+ Canvas offers:

The NET+ Canvas program was designed in collaboration with educators and has been proven to meet the needs of the Internet2 community. Internet2 NET+ Canvas offers a customized evaluation and ramping process and streamlined contracting with a robust customer agreement developed and vetted by numerous university counsels and Internet2. The Internet2-Instructure NET+ partnership enables institutions to move rapidly through the LMS evaluation process, allowing for faster adoption of a superior learning platform.

Native Cloud and Managed Hosting

NET+ Canvas was designed for the cloud and that means no versions, no upgrades, no migrations, and no inconvenient down times. NET+ Canvas will always be updated with the latest features, bug fixes, and security enhancements. The NET+ Canvas program includes a specialized test instance and custom pilot and trial terms.

Instructure hosts NET+ Canvas on cloud-computing infrastructure provided by the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) and fully redundant storage infrastructure through Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3). Amazon cloud infrastructure provides a highly available, scalable, and reliable platform, while also eliminating the time and expense of procuring, setting up, and maintaining in-house servers.

Scalability

The NET+ Canvas platform provisions resources automatically for superior performance during peak usage. A common complaint with competing systems is that they go down when usage spikes during finals or other high-demand periods. With automated peak load management, additional server capacity is added automatically as system activity increases.

Service Availability and Reliability

NET+ Canvas comes with a 99.9% uptime guarantee, which is contractually agreed upon between Instructure and Internet2 in the Service Level Agreement. In addition, NET+ Canvas provides data protection through data replication, backup/restore and disaster recovery procedures at no additional charge.

Ease of Use

A familiar, intuitive interface means most users already have the skills they need to navigate, learn, and use NET+ Canvas. The NET+ Canvas program includes a custom repository of end-user-oriented documentation and training material developed by the participating universities, Instructure, and Internet2.

Students and faculty can conveniently access the NET+ Canvas system using their standard campus login credentials. NET+ Canvas supports Single Sign-On (SSO) through several types of federated identity management systems, including SAML2/Shibboleth, LDAP, CAS, and Active Directory. Instructure is a member of InCommon and a Service Provider.

Integration

Allows institutions and instructors to use the web tools that they want. Integration of Google Drive, a wiki, or many other third-party systems is easy using the NET+ Canvas open API, LTI, RSS or other integration methods. Beyond giving institutions the flexibility to develop their own integrations, NET+ Canvas will include current or planned integrations with other Internet2 NET+ services and the Internet2 research and education network.

Flexible Pedagogy

NET+ Canvas provides all the features you expect from a modern learning platform to support a variety of teaching styles.

Communication Preferences

Users can receive NET+ Canvas notifications via Facebook, SMS text messaging, email and other communication channels.

Mobile Apps

NET+ Canvas includes free mobile applications: SpeedGrader mobile and NET+ Canvas iOS. SpeedGrader mobile for the iPad lets instructors quickly review and grade assignments. The NET+ Canvas mobile app keeps users connected with the ability to view grades, class schedules, files, send and receive messages, participate in discussions and post video and audio comments.

Integrated Multimedia

Makes using multimedia easy by allowing you to access and insert audio, video, text, images and more during all learning contact point. Even directly recorded video or audio to leave interactive student feedback.

Analytics

Built-in Learning Analytics makes keeping track of student progress easy.

Learning Outcomes

Align Learning Outcomes with rubrics for institution-wide initiatives such as accreditation.

SpeedGrader

Breeze through grading in half the time while providing rich feedback on learning. With SpeedGrader for iPad (provided at no additional cost) even grading on the go is easy.

Accessibility, Compliance, and FERPA

NET+ Canvas is fully compliant with FERPA and with Sections 504 and 508 Accessibility Standards, including support for screen readers such as JAWS and NVDA. NET+ Canvas adheres to the latest ARIA specifications, avoids problematic content (like Flash) and even converts math equations to MathML automatically.

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Advisory Board

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  • Brown University – Catherine Zabriskie
  • Brown University – James Foley
  • Dartmouth College – Barbara Knauff
  • Dartmouth College – Tammie T. Patten
  • Rice University – Amanda Barnett
  • Rice University – Angela Rabuck
  • University of California, Berkeley – Allison Czapracki
  • University of California, Berkeley – Miles Lincoln
  • University of Central Florida – Kevin Corcoran
  • University of Central Florida – Kerlene King
  • University of Maryland – Jessica Sowalsky
  • University of Maryland – Marcio Oliveira
  • University of Notre Dame – Dan Skendzel
  • University of Notre Dame – Steve Varela
  • University of Utah – Jon Thomas
  • University of Washington Chair – Tom Lewis
  • University of Washington – Karin Roberts
  • Utah Education Network – Justin Brooksby
  • Utah Education Network – Laura Hunter
  • Utah State University – Christopher Phillips
  • Utah State University – Neal Legler

Learn More and Engage

Ready to get started with NET+ Canvas? Check out the following information to ensure your institution is eligible to join.

In order to join the NET+ Canvas program and take advantage of special benefits, terms, and pricing, institutions must first maintain Internet2 membership. For more information on becoming an Internet2 member, see our Membership page.

Pricing for NET+ Canvas is based on a one-time implementation fee and on annual subscription fees calculated by multiplying an institution’s student FTE count by a tiered, annual subscription fee. Please connect with us for more information on pricing for Instructure’s ecosystem of tools. 

Eligible institutions may also wish to request a copy of the NET+ Canvas Enterprise Customer Agreement (ECA) to review program-specific terms and benefits in full. This document, along with the current program pricing schedule, is available upon request for Internet2 members.

When you’re ready to proceed, please reach out to our team at netplus@internet2.edu or by filling out the contact form below. From there, the NET+ Canvas Program Manager will connect with you about next steps and work with Instructure as needed to get started.

For program announcements and information on upcoming events, check out our NET+ Canvas Wiki page.

Program Information

Eligible Subscribers: Internet2 Members
Sponsors: University of Washington
Email: netplus@internet2.edu
Contact: Lauren Hanks

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