Instructure Updates Canvas With In-Class Data Collection

Instructure on Wednesday introduced new tools for its learning management system, Canvas, to help instructors collect data from face-to-face courses. In addition to a reworked quiz statistics page and a tool for quick in-class polls, Instructure also unveiled MagicMarker, an iPad app that lets instructors use gestures to quickly track how students are progressing toward course outcomes. That data is made available to students in Canvas' Learning Mastery tab. Instructure is this week hosting its annual user conference, InstructureCon, in Park City, Utah.