Case Study: Trinity Grammar School achieves academic and athletic excellence with Instructure's Canvas LMS

Supporting academic and athletic excellence through technology

Trinity Grammar School, an Anglican independent day and boarding school for boys in Summer Hill, Sydney with about 2,200 users, needed a modern learning management system to support its 1:1 (K–4) and BYOD (5–12) initiatives and provide remote access for student-athletes; the existing platform served mainly as a file repository. In 2014 Head of eLearning Helen Bremner chose Instructure’s Canvas to provide a web-based, intuitive virtual extension of the classroom.

Instructure rolled out Canvas to all teachers and students (and enrolled K–6 parents as observers) at the end of 2014, delivering cloud-based anytime/anywhere access, easier content creation, and faster grading via SpeedGrader. The Canvas implementation produced significantly higher uptake than the previous LMS, increased teacher confidence and efficiency, enabled online-only and eLearning courses, supports off-site learning at their field studies centre, and positions Trinity to extend Canvas to sporting teams and other co-curricular groups.

Trinity Grammar School

Helen Bremner

Head of eLearning