instructure

Instructure, Inc. is an American educational technology company best known for Canvas, a cloud-based learning management system used by colleges, universities, and K‑12 districts worldwide. Headquartered in Salt Lake City, Utah, the company develops software that supports online learning, assessment, and analytics for educators and learners.

The company was founded in 2008 in Utah. Canvas was released in 2011 as a modern alternative to legacy LMS platforms and has since become widely adopted in higher education and K‑12 settings.

In addition to Canvas, Instructure has offered Bridge, an enterprise learning platform for employee development, and MasteryConnect, a standards-aligned assessment and practice platform for K‑12. These products illustrate the company’s expansion into workforce learning and K‑12 instruction.

Instructure went public in 2015, and its software is delivered as software-as-a-service (SaaS) with cloud hosting. Canvas emphasizes open standards and interoperability through APIs and IMS Global specifications such as Learning Tools Interoperability (LTI).

The company serves institutions and organizations worldwide, with a focus on user experience, accessibility, and data privacy. It maintains an active user community and hosts events such as an annual user conference, reflecting its role as a prominent player in the education technology sector.