Canvas by Instructure

LearnWise is an AI platform that installs into Canvas through the theme editor, LTI 1.3, or the Canvas API, and adds four products your institution can turn on independently: AI Campus Support, AI Student Tutor, AI Feedback & Grader, and AI Ops Assistant. Each one runs inside Canvas itself.

Your institution decides what the AI can access, which courses it appears in, and where conversations escalate. That depth is what makes institution-wide rollouts practical.

What you can deploy in Canvas

Canvas AI Campus Support

The front door: a 24/7 AI assistant published across Canvas through the theme editor, answering registration, enrollment, deadline, and grade questions before they become tickets.

• On average, LearnWise AI assistants resolve 97% of student queries instantly
• Sensitive topics such as enrollment appeals, integrity, and wellbeing route to the department that owns them instead of being answered by AI
• Escalations land in the ticketing system your team already uses
• Answers in 100+ languages

Canvas AI Student Tutor

AI tutor embedded at Canvas course level via LTI 1.3, and answering from that course's own pages, files, assignments, syllabus, and discussions rather than the open web.

• Faculty and CTLs set the pedagogy per course or program: Socratic questioning, skill mastery, competency-based, or something else. A chemistry lab and a literature seminar are not forced to share one teaching model
• Study Mode turns existing Canvas content into quizzes, flashcards, study plans, and practice exercises
• When a student needs a person, custom flows hand off to advising, disability services, or academic integrity, and proactive notifications let the institution reach out first
• Licensed to the institution, so every enrolled student has access as part of the course. The institution, not the individual student, sets what the tutor can reach

Canvas AI Feedback & Grader

Grading assistance inside Canvas SpeedGrader. Instructors open a submission and the draft feedback is already there, aligned to the rubric attached to that assignment.

• Drafts rubric-aligned feedback and suggests grades against assignment criteria
• Instructors review, edit, and approve every response before students see it
• Reduces time per submission while keeping feedback consistent across large sections and multiple graders

Canvas AI Ops Assistant

Ask Canvas a question in plain language, then act on the answer. Built for faculty, course operations, and leadership.

• Check submissions, apply accommodations, extend due dates, schedule announcements, each confirmed before it executes
• Course teams and instructional designers run cross-course quality audits, identify at-risk students across programs, and see course readiness such as missing rubrics, empty modules, unpublished content, or broken structure flagged across the full catalog
• Bulk operations that previously meant an IT ticket and a multi-day wait
• Three preset permission templates for Teaching Faculty, Course Operations, and Leadership, all customizable, with human approval required on every write action

How the Canvas AI integration works

There are three integration layers. They are independent, so you can adopt them in any order.

Placement: Publish a floating assistant across Canvas through the theme editor, or embed an assistant at course level through LTI 1.3, or both. Canvas administrators publish in a few clicks and can roll out department by department rather than institution-wide on day one.

Content ingestion: Select which Canvas content types the assistant reads, then add institutional policies, guides, and FAQs alongside course content. Knowledge sources refresh automatically each week, so the Canvas AI assistant stays current without manual upkeep.

Deep API integration: Connect through the Canvas API so the assistant reads discussion posts, assignment information, the syllabus, and other live course data, and recognizes each user's Canvas role. This is what makes answers role-aware: a student, an instructor, and an administrator asking the same question get different responses.

Knowledge sources refresh weekly on their own. Full setup steps per product are in the support guides.

Governance and control

The institution decides what the AI can reach, not the individual student. Access is scoped by course, content type, and Canvas role, and you configure every escalation path.

• Your data is hosted in your own region, owned by your institution, and never used to train AI models
• SOC 2 Type II, ISO 27001, and Cyber Essentials Plus certified, with HECVAT available on request
• GDPR and FERPA aligned
• WCAG 2.1 AA compliant

Learn more in our Trust and Safety Hub.

Institutions using LearnWise AI in Canvas

Moraine Park Technical College reached 151 Canvas courses in month one.

Northcentral Technical College embedded AI within Canvas across every program.

Citizens High School supports learners across multiple countries in a K12 Canvas environment.

Read more institution stories

Frequently asked questions

What is the best AI for integrating with Canvas LMS?

Depends what you are solving. Ticket volume points to a support assistant, learning outcomes to a course-level tutor, grading turnaround to SpeedGrader integration, and admin overhead to an operations assistant. LearnWise covers all four through one integration, which matters mostly because it means one security review and one contract rather than four.

How is AI integrated into Canvas?

‍Through three layers you can adopt in any order: a JavaScript assistant published through the Canvas theme editor, a course-level tutor launched over LTI 1.3, and an Instructure API connection for role-aware answers, grading, and write actions.

Can AI help with instructional design in Canvas?

Yes, in two directions. LearnWise AI Ops Assistant flags course readiness problems across the catalog before term start, and enable them to fix them in minutes. The LearnWise Insights dashboard shows which topics students ask about most and which questions existing content fails to answer.

How does AI grading work in Canvas SpeedGrader?

LearnWise AI drafts rubric-aligned feedback and a suggested grade inside SpeedGrader itself. It can also help instructors refine their notes and feedback drafts. The instructor reviews, edits, and approves. Nothing reaches a student unreviewed.

Which other platforms can connect to a Canvas assistant?

‍SIS platforms, ticketing systems, video platforms such as Kaltura and Panopto, student portals, and content hubs, alongside 400+ other EdTech tools.

Is AI Student Tutor licensed to the institution or to individual students?

‍To the institution. It is configured centrally and available to every enrolled student as part of their course, with no individual subscription, and the institution decides what content it can reach.

Can a single department pilot LearnWise AI in one course?

‍Yes. A tutor can be scoped to specific Canvas courses, so a department can run a pilot without an institution-wide rollout first.

With LearnWise AI for Canvas, your LMS becomes an intelligent learning ecosystem — supporting every learner, simplifying every workflow, and amplifying every educator’s impact. Here's why LearnWise is the ideal choice for Canvas:

• Seamless Canvas LMS AI integration via Javascript, LTI, or API
• Omni-channel assistance that enhances student retention and satisfaction
• Smart analytics to identify trends and improve institutional performance
• Effortless deployment with automatic updates and zero maintenance overhead

Enhance your Canvas LMS with AI to create an engaging, efficient, and personalized digital campus. Whether through AI grading, intelligent tutoring, or 24/7 automated support, LearnWise makes Canvas smarter, faster, and more human-centered.

Start with one product. Expand when you're ready. LearnWise products activate independently inside Canvas through the same LTI 1.3 and API integration. Start with the product that solves your most pressing problem today and add more at any time. Adding a product is the pricing delta, not a full reprice.

Transform your teaching and learning experience with LearnWise, the leading AI assistant for Canvas.