Case Study: Oconomowoc Area School District expands assignment options with Instructure Canvas LMS

Oconomowoc Area School District rethinks assignments for 5,500 students with Instructure

The Oconomowoc Area School District, a Wisconsin district with over 5,500 students, faced a challenge with its reliance on Google Classroom, which limited assignment creation and submission options for teachers and students. They sought a more robust learning management system to provide greater flexibility and more valuable methods for assessments and feedback. To address this, the district partnered with vendor Instructure to adopt its Canvas LMS platform.

Instructure's solution involved implementing Canvas LMS, which provided a wide array of assignment and submission types far beyond simple document sharing. This gave teachers diverse options to present information and allowed students multiple ways to demonstrate their learning, including file uploads, website URLs, media recordings, and integrations with external tools like Google Docs. The result was a significant expansion of pedagogical tools for Oconomowoc's educators, enabling them to improve efficiency and offer students more choice in how they learn and show their understanding, all while maintaining the familiar Google environment.

Oconomowoc Area School District