How Canvas became the backbone of Queensland’s K-12 public schools

Building a digital learning ecosystem for a single school is a complex undertaking. Imagine scaling that effort to encompass all 1,264 K-12 public schools in Queensland, serving more than 572,160 students and 73,000+ teaching staff. That’s the ambitious feat achieved by the QLearn digital learning system, launched in 2022. Canvas is the main gateway for QLearn, providing core functionalities to manage courses, deliver content, facilitate communication, and run assessments. Two leading Queensland Department of Education staff offered an “under-the-hood” perspective on QLearn at CanvasConnect 2023.