article thumbnail

4 Items on Instructure’s To-Do List After the Sale of the Canvas LMS Provider

Edsurge

For example, despite increased activity on the platform—concurrent users on the Canvas LMS were up 60 percent from typical use patterns and video submissions are up tenfold from typical use patterns pre-Covid-19—the costs of moving more data and training more educators will keep the company from a short-term windfall, Benson says.

LMS 97
article thumbnail

World Backup Day March 31st: Student data security

Neo LMS

Another thing you can do is to discuss student data privacy and digital security with PTA members, teachers, and school board administrators. Simply requesting a meeting to share your concerns on the topic is a great way to start the discussion and review their protocol. Conclusion.

Data 150
Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

Overcoming security and privacy concerns with e-learning

Neo LMS

More students than ever before now have access to a quality education, no matter where they live. Lesson plans can be tailored to meet the learning needs of individual students. At the postsecondary level, more than 15% of students were enrolled exclusively online in 2017. took at least one online course.

Learning 254
article thumbnail

K-12 and Higher Ed Institutions Lead Consortium to Advance EdTech Innovation and Trust

Edsurge

Does your school district or higher ed institution use a learning management system (LMS), digital curriculum resources, learning tools, assessment applications, a badging platform, a single-sign-on application launcher or a student information system? You don’t have to be a member to attend.

EdTech 156
article thumbnail

Want to Organize Your Digital Assets?

EdNews Daily

Learning Management Systems (LMS). Student Information Systems (SIS). Collect as much detail as possible including what platform the software resides on and all other details about it technically, as well as descriptive tags and any standards it meets academically or technically for easy use and sharing.

LMS 133
article thumbnail

T&L’S ISTE 2018 BEST OF SHOW AWARDS WINNERS

techlearning

ACER SPIN 5 ( WWW.ACER.COM/AC/EN/US/CONTENT/HOME ) The Acer Spin 5 is a convertible Windows notebook PC line with a variety of options to meet administrator, teacher, and student needs. In addition, CatchOn helps district administrators mitigate student data privacy risks associated with unknown tool usage.

article thumbnail

Education Technology and Data Insecurity

Hack Education

. … ‘I think ultimately that’s going to be the largest data breach that we’ve ever seen in the history of our nation.’” Instructure, for example, undertook its fifth annual security audit this year to identify possible vulnerabilities in its LMS Canvas. Harris resigned shortly afterwards.

Data 40