🆚 Canvas LMS vs. Google Classroom

Type

Learning management system
Learning management system

About

Canvas LMS is a cloud-based open source learning management system designed to help educational institutions deliver and manage online, hybrid, or in-person courses with tools for course authoring, grading, analytics, and mobile access.

It offers a modern user interface, standards-based gradebooks, learning outcomes tracking, open APIs, support for Learning Tools Interoperability (LTI), and integrates with a wide range of third-party apps such as Zoom, Microsoft Teams, Google Workspace, and Turnitin.

Google Classroom is a cloud-based learning management system that enables educators to create classes, distribute assignments, collect student work, and communicate with students through a centralized online environment.

It provides assignment distribution and grading tools with rubrics and comment banks, class streams for announcements and discussions, analytics on student engagement, and automated to-do lists with deadlines.

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Headquarters

Salt Lake City, Utah, United States
Mountain View, California, United States

Website

Pricing

Free version ✔️Open source
Cloud$25+/user/month
Free version ✔️
Google Workspace for Education$6/user/month

Categories

LMS › Rank #8
LMS › Rank #15

Popularity

Determined by the number of sites using each technology.

Canvas LMS is 6 times more popular than Google Classroom.
Total websites

Market share

LMS

Popularity by country

Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.

Canvas LMS is more popular in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Australia, while Google Classroom is more popular in Hong Kong, Italy, and Peru.
United States
United Kingdom
Australia
Hong Kong
Canada
Spain
Japan
India
Sweden
Italy

Awards

Popularity by domain category

Determined by the number of sites in each category.

Canvas LMS is more popular than Google Classroom in all market segments.
Education/Reference
Business
Software/Hardware
Art/Culture/Heritage
Marketing/Merchandising
Blogs/Wiki
Finance/Banking
Recreation/Hobbies
Sports
Online Shopping

Top sites

Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.

Name
Rank
#1,320
#1,841
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Name
Rank
#91,428
#132,365
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See also

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