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Our Valued Partners in Innovation
We are honored to collaborate with these prestigious institutions as they use our software to transform education. Over 400,000 licensed users. Three products. One shared goal: learning that works.
VISIARC is an Instructure partner. Our apps, VISIARC Progress™, Smartdesigner™ and Smartsearch™, are LTI 1.3 compliant and SOC 2 Type II certified.
Designed around how students actually move through a course
Wayfinding is not learning. Three tools designed around that distinction:
- A well-designed course page orients students immediately; clear, visual, and structured so they know where they are and what to do next before they’ve read a word.
- When students need to find something, a search that spans courses, calendars, and contacts removes the friction of having to navigate to the right place first.
- A persistent navigation panel and progress indicator keep the full picture visible as students move through a course. The questions — where am I, how far have I come, where do I go next — stop being questions.
Smartdesigner, Smartsearch, and VISIARC Progress each address one of these moments. Together, they form a coherent layer that lets students focus on the course itself, rather than on finding their way around it.
Discover How Saïd Business School, University of Oxford, Enhances Excellence with VISIARC Progress
Gain insight directly from the team at one of the world's leading institutions on their implementation of VISIARC Progress. The Saïd Business School's testimonial details their positive experience and the value it continues to deliver. Download the testimonial as a PDF.
» Improving navigation and providing visual feedback of progress in Canvas have been high priorities for us and VISIARC Progress has transformed how we can meet these requirements for our learners. It provides a clear learning path, intuitive navigation, and the visual progress tracking that our learners have been asking for. Our designers and faculty love the persistent course outline, while learners appreciate knowing exactly what to do next and where they are in their courses. It’s a great enhancement for supporting our learners’ journeys. «
Leo Prince
Senior Digital Learning Technologist, Saïd Business School
University of Oxford
» Smartdesigner is the design management system that has transformed our way of working. Our goal was to empower all colleagues within our organisation to easily create courses without HTML knowledge, and that is exactly what we have achieved. The intuitive interface has streamlined course development, allowing educators to focus on content without compromising on design. «
Pauline Van Neygen,
Learning Builder,
Vlerick Business School
» Smartdesigner empowers us to design Canvas content that minimize cognitive load for every learner. Using our shared as well as personal component libraries, we can recycle design elements to visually organize content in an engaging manner, applying signaling principles across all pages and courses etc. Smartdesigner allows us to create and reuse design templates ... facilitating comprehension of learning materials. «
Carina Bois
Instructional Designer & UDL Expert
Karolinska institutet, KI
Every Canvas setup is different. Yours probably is too.
The institutions above did not all have the same problem, or the same solution. Some needed better navigation. Some needed course design tools their faculty would actually use. Some wanted search that worked.
If any of that sounds familiar, we're happy to have a conversation about what you're trying to improve and whether our tools might fit.
And if our standard products aren't quite right for your setup, or if your Canvas environment is more complex, or you need something that doesn't exist yet, we build custom LTI apps and Canvas integrations too.
Several of our current customers started that way.
VISIARC Progress is a must-have app for Canvas. It resolves the most frequently received feedback from learners: Where am I? How much is left? Where can I continue? The tool is proven and used by some of the finest institutions. It allows learners to navigate Canvas easily and takes much of the cognitive load away from the learning experience.
Self-service and staying in control are key in Virtual Learning Environments. Progress is essential for online and self-paced courses, but it is most useful in any course.
Smartdesigner™ for Canvas LMS is a game-changing design toolkit that empowers educators to create mobile-friendly, accessible, and visually compelling course content with ease. Through intuitive visual tools and collaborative features, institutions can maintain design excellence while scaling quality across courses and departments. Experience how consistent components, templating, and streamlined workflows elevate both course aesthetics and learning engagement.
Your Canvas, shaped to your institution. When the standard tools don't quite fit — different workflows, deeper integrations, institutional constraints — we build custom LTI apps and Canvas extensions. We are an Instructure integrating partner and have done this for some of the institutions you've seen on this page.
