This study presents data from a survey of 42 deans, department chair, professors and IT and other staff in higher education, about how they use and plan to use the learning management system Canvas.
Survey participants also give their opinion of what programs and applications work best with Canvas. They also evaluate the Canvas skills of students and faculty separately and assess the usefulness of various Canvas features including polling, analytics, grading, web conferencing, collaborative workspaces, content integration features and much more. For each feature the study presents specific, detailed data on value of use, creating a map of how various higher education constituencies are using Canvas.
In open ended questions, survey participants comment on how their colleges could better utilize Canvas and train the higher education in Canvas use. The report also gives a broad range of satisfaction data, with Canvas itself, and with the quality of tutorials and overall training offered in Canvas.
Data is broken out by size and type of college, tuition level and other variables, and also for professors, chairpersons, deans and college IT and other staff.
Just a few of the study’s main findings are that:
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Deans were much more likely than others to feel that faculty was either highly proficient or generally proficient in the use of Canvas.
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Respondents from community college and four year colleges were less likely than those from doctoral or research institutions to feel that their faculty were either highly or generally proficient in Canvas use.
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42.86% of respondents felt that recording sessions in Canvas was a very valuable feature; another 38.1% considered it valuable.
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Private college respondents were much more enthusiastic than public college respondents about the use of Canvas analytics.