Instructure.com

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Instructure, Inc.

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legal form Public
Seat Salt Lake City, Utah
Number of employees 1291 (2019)
sales $ 209.5 million (2018)
Branch Education or e-learning ( learning platform
Massive Open Online Course )
Website https://www.instructure.com/

Instructure stands for a learning platform and simultaneous operator of the same, an e-learning service provider from Salt Lake City .

history

Instructure was founded in 2008 by Brian Whitmer and Devlin Daley, two graduates from Brigham Young University .

In December 2010, the Utah Education Network (UEN), which represents a number of colleges and universities in Utah , announced that Instructure would replace the previous learning platform Blackboard . By January 2013, Instructure was in use in more than 300 colleges, universities, and K-12 schools, and the company's customer base had grown to more than 425,000 in mid-2013 and nine million by the end of 2013.

In February 2011, Instructure announced that they would make their product called Canvas freely available as open source software under an AGPL license .

In June 2013, Instructure received $ 30 million in funding, increasing the capital invested in Instructure to date to $ 50 million. In February 2015, Instructure raised an additional $ 40 million, including from Bessemer Venture Partners .

On November 13, 2015, Instructure became a publicly traded company on the New York Stock Exchange.

In December 2019, Thoma Bravo announced the acquisition of Instructure for $ 2 billion.

Products

The canvas user interface

Canvas

The Utah-based company tested the Canvas digital learning platform at several local schools, including Utah State University and Brigham Young University , before officially launching Canvas. Canvas is used today by more than 3,000 universities, school districts, and institutions around the world.

Canvas was created with Ruby on Rails as the web application framework based on PostgreSQL . It includes JQuery , HTML5 and CSS3 to provide a modern user interface. OAuth is used to provide restricted access to user information on certain social media websites such as Facebook and Twitter and to enable collaboration between websites. Canvas works as software as a service with Amazon Web Services in the " cloud ".

Canvas launched its iOS app in 2011 and its Android app in 2013, enabling mobile access to the Canvas learning platform. The apps were eventually divided into Canvas Student, Canvas K-12 , Canvas Teacher, separating the functions for pupils, students and teachers. In 2016, Canvas Parent, an e-learning app for parents, was launched, with which parents of K-12 students can be informed about their children's tasks, school grades and general schooling.

Canvas and its AGPLv3 licensed version is available for free. However, contributors must sign the Contributor License Agreement before submitting their code contributions .

reception

In 2016, Glassdoor named Instructure fourth on its Best Places to Work list. In 2018 the Salt Lake Tribune named the company in the top 10 “Top Work Places” for large companies.

Individual evidence

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  2. ↑ Sara Israelsen-Hartley: BYU grads introduce education-savvy software . In: Deseret News , June 20, 2010. Retrieved February 22, 2011. 
  3. ↑ Karissa Neely: Instructure CEO change, Survey shows affordable housing concern, Powerful U Experience event . The Daily Herald. Retrieved January 25, 2019.
  4. ↑ Instructure CrunchBase profile . In: CrunchBase . Interserve dba TechCrunch. Retrieved February 23, 2011.
  5. ^ New Statewide Learning Management System Selected . In: UEN News . Utah Education Network. December 14, 2010. Retrieved June 14, 2017.
  6. ↑ Rip Empson: With 4.5M user Instructure Takes On The Courseras & Udacities Of The World With Its Own Open Course Network . TechCrunch.
  7. ↑ http://www.capterra.com/infographics/top-lms-software
  8. ↑ Dan Dzombak: A Fiery New Competitor . In: The Motley Fool . The Motley Fool, LLC. February 2, 2011. Retrieved February 22, 2011.
  9. ↑ Michael Arrington: Instructure Launches To Root Blackboard Out Of Universities . In: TechCrunch.com . Interserve dba TechCrunch. January 31, 2011. Retrieved February 22, 2011.
  10. ↑ Josh Keller: Upstart Course Management Provider Goes Open Source . In: Wired Campus . The Chronicle of Higher Education. January 31, 2011. Retrieved February 22, 2011.
  11. ↑ Christopher Dawson: There are alternatives to Blackboard and Moodle: Instructure Canvas goes open source . In: ZDNet Education . CBS Interactive. February 1, 2011. Retrieved February 22, 2011.
  12. ↑ Instructure Secures $ 30 million in Series D Funding - MarketWatch . In: Market Watch . marketwatch.com. June 5, 2013. Retrieved September 7, 2014.
  13. ↑ Locke, Charley: Instructure Plots Path to IPO, Corporate Customers After $ 40M Series E . Edsurge . February 24, 2015.
  14. ↑ Marino, Jonathan: Education tech startup Instructure has raised $ 40 million . Business Insider . February 18, 2015.
  15. ^ Schaffler, Rhonda: Instructure IPO Debuts on NYSE With Double-Digit Gain . TheStreet . November 13, 2015.
  16. ↑ PE firm Thoma Bravo to buy Instructure in $ 2 billion all-cash deal . In: Reuters . December 4, 2019 ( reuters.com [accessed February 6, 2020]).
  17. ↑ About us .
  18. ↑ Instructure Releases Canvas for Android . Retrieved February 7, 2018.
  19. ↑ Box spins Embed, OneCloud for educational use at K-12 schools, universities . ZDNET.
  20. ↑ Canvas Announces New, First-of-its-kind Mobile App for Parents . Retrieved February 7, 2018.
  21. ↑ Working at Instructure ( en ) Retrieved April 25, 2019.
  22. ↑ Salt Lake Tribune Top Workplaces 2018 . Retrieved April 25, 2019.