Summary – Instructure Launches EdCo Partner Programme
• Launched to aid partners in enhancing student achievement.
• Allows direct communication between partners and instructors and students.
• Part of the EdTech Collective, a partnership ecosystem aimed at addressing educators’ issues.
• Program types include evidence partners, strategic partners, and solution partners.
• Provides bespoke support at all stages of partners’ journey.
Instructure, the premier learning ecosystem, recently launched the EdCo Partner Programme to assist partners committed to boosting student achievement. EdCo partners may communicate directly with instructors and students in the Instructure Learning Ecosystem, which is where learning occurs.
The Programme is part of the company’s ever-expanding EdTech Collective, a partner ecosystem created to assist increase educational impact by collaborating as an industry to tackle educators’ most pressing issues.
The new program types include evidence partners, strategic partners, and solution partners. This newly created Programme connects its resources to increase assistance for partners at all stages of their journey by providing bespoke help depending on the partnership.
Instructure, Inc. is an educational technology business headquartered in Salt Lake City, Utah, USA. It is the creator and publisher of Canvas, a web-based learning management system (LMS), and Mastery Connect, an assessment management system. Thoma Bravo, a private equity group, controlled the company before its initial public offering in 2021.
Instructure, founded in 2008 by Brian Whitmer and Devlin Daley, replaced Blackboard as the platform for Utah colleges and universities. The platform was used by over 300 institutions by 2013, and by the end of 2013, it had 9 million users.
In 2011, Canvas was made open-source under an Affero General Public License, a move that sparked press attention. Instructure secured $30 million in Series D funding in 2013, and $40 million in Series E funding in 2015.
The company began trading on the New York Stock Exchange in November 2015 and was ranked 4th on Glassdoor’s ‘Best Places to Work’ list in 2016.
The EdTech Collective was founded in 2021 to assist partners in overcoming the industry’s significant obstacles. Since then, it has expanded to over 1,000 members and provides organizations of all sizes and phases with unique tools for developing solutions, driving acceptance, and increasing impact. Salesforce, Grammarly, and Inspera are among the company’s latest partnerships.
Mitch Benson, Chief Strategy Officer of Instructure, commented on the newest development:
With the launch of the Instructure EdCo Partner Programme, we are expanding our long-held conviction in the ecosystem’s potential by linking the wide partner community with our users in ways that enable them to collaborate on creating learning environments that solve their most pressing concerns. The programme assists our partners in developing integrations, increasing tool use, and expanding their influence.
EdCo partners now have a variety of opportunities to collaborate with Instructure, including earning badges to display on their website and marketing materials to promote their connection.
Instructure provides targeted assistance to solve important difficulties such as high teacher turnover rates, low student test scores, and the requirement to demonstrate the usefulness of EdTech solutions when post-pandemic financing stops.
They have access to considerable industry experience, the capacity to cooperate with and learn from other partners, a worldwide network of educational institutions, and a distinct set of tools for bringing their solutions to market.
It can distinguish and develop its solutions through thorough formative research, unique implementation insights, and scalable technologies.
As InstructureCon sponsors, about 65 notable Instructure partners will be present to interact with participants, display their solutions, and conduct discussions. The sole Diamond Sponsors for InstructureCon 2024 are AWS, K16 Solutions, and Lincoln Learning Solutions.
The Platinum sponsors include Microsoft, Salesforce, Cidilabs, Respondus, Class, Jax Consulting, and Intelliboard.
EdCo Partner categories include Integration Partners, Evidence Partners, Strategic Partners, and Solution Partners, including Instructure’s ecosystem, Evidence Partners, Strategic Partners, and Canvas solutions.
CONCLUSION : Instructure has launched the EdCo Partner Programme, a collaboration between Instructure and its partners to enhance student achievement. The programme, part of the EdTech Collective, allows partners to communicate directly with instructors and students, providing tailored assistance at various stages of their journey.
