With its third acquisition in the past year and a half, the ed tech company is expanding its Canvas learning management system with a new version of a tool that keeps track of a student’s competencies and certifications.
Instructure Acquires Company to Make Ed-Tech Adoption Easier
In purchasing the technology adoption vendor EesySoft, the company behind the learning management system Canvas aims to build in-app messaging and dashboards to help educators learn to use and assess new tech tools.
July 08, 2021 • Salt Lake City-based education technology company Instructure is set to acquire a company in Amsterdam that helps schools adopt new technology, according to a news release last week.
The target is EesySoft, to be rebranded as Impact by Instructure, which will create in-app messages, dashboards and analytics to help educators implement new digital learning tools and evaluate their usefulness. According to the announcement, Impact by Instructure aims to give users a bird s-eye view of how well students and educators are engaging with available tools,” as well as support services for instructional staff learning to use new ed-tech systems.
By Dian Schaffhauser
04/13/21
A December 2020
purchase of Certica
Solutions is bearing fruit for learning management
company Instructure.
The maker of Canvas
has announced a new collection of formative assessments specifically
intended to help teachers measure learning loss, built by
the curriculum and assessment experts who joined as part of that
acquisition. MasteryView
Assessments are short, pre-built evaluations for math
and English language arts that align with various state learning
standards. The assessments can be used with MasteryConnect,
an assessment management program produced by a company of the same
name also owned by Instructure and integrated with the Canvas LMS.
The assessments are
K-12 Dealmaking: Instructure Acquires Major Assessment Provider; IntellectoKids Raises Funds
Several major acquisitions closed in the education space in the last several weeks, spanning from the U.S. to the U.K. to Brazil. Instructure is acquiring a large assessment company, which will significantly broaden its portfolio.
Another major deal will take technology workforce development company Pluralsight off of the public market and into the hands of Vista Equity Partners, a private equity firm.
A few highlights:
Instructure to acquire Certica Solutions. Education powerhouse Instructure, which runs the Canvas Learning Management System widely used in K-12, will acquire Wakefield, Mass.-based Certica Solutions, an industry leader in K-12 assessments, item banks, and learning analytics, Instructure announced.
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