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Canvas

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Providers using this tag (4)

Ranked by API Evangelist rating — Exemplar and Strong are expanded by default.

Exemplar 1 Complete, well-documented, and agent-ready
Canvas LMSLearning ManagementEducationEdTechLMS1 API71.7
Developing 1 Usable, with meaningful gaps to close
InstructureEdTechEducationLMS1 API46.0
Thin 1 Limited public surface area
APIOps Cycles CanvasAPI DesignAPI StrategyBusiness Model1 API33.4
Emerging 1 Early or largely undocumented
tldrawWhiteboardSDKReact2 APIs19.3

APIs with this tag (30)

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Strong 4 Solid coverage with minor gaps
FLORA Canvas APIProject canvas endpoints.66.0Canvas LMS (U-M tenancy on Instructure)The University of Michigan's Canvas learning management system tenancy. The courses, the enrollments and th...59.2University of Twente Canvas LMS TenantThe university's learning management system, canvas.utwente.nl, a CNAME to utwente-vanity.instructure.com. ...59.1Canvas LMS (tenant)UW-Madison's learning management system runs on an Instructure Canvas tenant at canvas.wisc.edu, gated behi...56.0
Developing 11 Usable, with meaningful gaps to close
BruinLearn (Canvas LMS)UCLA's learning management system. The brand, the courses, the learners and the subdomain are UCLA's; the R...52.7ELMS-Canvas — UMD learning management systemUMD's learning management system, an Instructure Canvas tenancy at umd.instructure.com fronted by elms.umd....47.9Canvas LMS tenancy (Instructure)canvas.harvard.edu CNAMEs to harvard-vanity.instructure.com. The Canvas REST API is live on that hostname a...46.9Canvas LMS (Instructure tenancy) — REST + LTI 1.3EUR's learning management system. Live and credentialed: /api/v1/courses returns 401 {"status":"unauthentic...46.8Canvas LMS (Instructure tenant)Georgia Tech's learning management system is Canvas, running as an Instructure-hosted tenant at gatech.inst...46.8CourseWorks (Instructure Canvas)Columbia's learning management system. The REST API is live and returns a well-structured JSON 401 to unaut...44.7Canvas Learning Management System (tenancy)Texas A&M's learning management system is Instructure Canvas: canvas.tamu.edu is a CNAME to texasam-vanity....42.7Canvas LMS — Princeton tenancyPrinceton's learning management system is Instructure Canvas at princeton.instructure.com. The host is live...42.1Canvas LMS TenantChalmers runs its learning management system as an Instructure Canvas tenant at chalmers.instructure.com. C...41.5Oxford Canvas VLE (Instructure tenancy)Oxford's virtual learning environment, replacing the retired WebLearn Sakai service. The Canvas LMS REST AP...41.4UF Canvas LMS TenancyUF's learning management system is Canvas, running on Instructure's platform at the UF-specific tenant ufl....39.9
Thin 10 Limited public surface area
Canvas VLE and LTI 1.3 platform (Instructure tenant)The university's virtual learning environment is Instructure Canvas on the institution CNAME canvas.liverpo...38.8Maastricht University Canvas LMSInstructure Canvas tenant on the university's own hostname. GET /api/v1/accounts returned 401 on 2026-08-30...37.9Nuku Learning Management (Instructure Canvas tenancy)Nuku is the university's brand for its learning-management system, an Instructure Canvas tenant at nuku.wgt...36.1Canvas virtual learning environment (Instructure tenancy)canvas.bham.ac.uk is the University's virtual learning environment, an Instructure Canvas tenancy — the hos...32.6Heriot-Watt Canvas (Instructure)The university's virtual learning environment, an Instructure Canvas tenancy at canvas.hw.ac.uk (CNAME hwu-...32.5MyUni Learning Management System (Instructure Canvas) — Adelaide tenancyThe University's LMS runs on Instructure Canvas at myuni.adelaide.edu.au. The tenancy, roster and course co...31.2University of Sussex Canvas VLE (Instructure tenant)Sussex's virtual learning environment, an Instructure Canvas deployment on the university's own hostname ca...31.1Canvas LMS (tenant)canvas.sydney.edu.au is a vanity hostname on the university's own domain that CNAMEs to sydney-vanity.instr...30.7VU Amsterdam Canvas LMS APIInstructure Canvas deployed for VU Amsterdam at canvas.vu.nl. The Canvas REST API is live and credential-ga...30.1Canvas LMS TenancyOhio State's Canvas learning management system tenancy, branded Carmen. Canvas exposes an LTI-capable REST ...28.9
Emerging 5 Early or largely undocumented
Griffith Canvas LMS (Instructure) — LTI 1.3 and RESTGriffith operates an Instructure Canvas learning management system at lms.griffith.edu.au. The tenancy expo...26.1USC Canvas Learning Management System (Instructure, Tenant)USC's learning management system is an Instructure Canvas tenant at usc.instructure.com, verified live 2026...25.0Queen's University Belfast Canvas LMS deployment (Instructure tenancy)The Queen's Canvas virtual learning environment, reachable at canvas.qub.ac.uk. The Canvas REST API respond...22.0CityUHK Canvas Learning Management System (tenant deployment)CityUHK's Canvas tenant. canvas.cityu.edu.hk CNAMEs to cityuhk-vanity.instructure.com and redirects unauthe...20.8University of Newcastle Canvas LMS (Instructure) — TENANTUON's learning management system, an Instructure Canvas tenancy reachable both at canvas.newcastle.edu.au a...20.4

Companies reaching this through an API (30)

These companies publish an API, specification or operation carrying “Canvas” but do not classify their business under it. Listed unranked and kept out of the count above, because one tagged operation is not a statement about what a company does.

Chalmers University of Technology City University of Hong Kong Columbia University Erasmus University Rotterdam FLORA Georgia Institute of Technology Griffith University Harvard University Heriot-Watt University Maastricht University Ohio State University Princeton University Queen's University Belfast Texas A&M University University of Adelaide University of Birmingham University of California, Los Angeles University of Florida University of Liverpool University of Maryland College Park University of Michigan-Ann Arbor University of Newcastle Australia University of Oxford University of Southern California University of Sussex University of Sydney University of Twente University of Wisconsin-Madison Victoria University of Wellington Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

Score breakdown

Frequency
40.7
log-scaled weighted occurrences
Breadth
0.1
spread across providers
Quality lift
48.3
mean composite of providers using it
Cohesion
0.0
strength of nearest seed neighbor

Related tags

Instructure 13 co-occurrences LTI 19 co-occurrences Teaching 9 co-occurrences InCommon 11 co-occurrences Learning Management 21 co-occurrences DataCite 18 co-occurrences LMS 14 co-occurrences Course Catalog 18 co-occurrences

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