Instructure Holdings, Inc. is an educational technology company based in Salt Lake City, Utah, United States.

Founded in 2008 by two BYU graduate students, Brian Whitmer and Devlin Daley, Instructure's initial funding came from Mozy founder Josh Coates, who served as Instructure's CEO from 2010 to 2018 and chairman of the board through 2020,[3] and funding was also received from Epic Ventures.

[6] In February 2011, Instructure announced they were making their flagship product, Canvas, freely available under an Affero General Public License (AGPL) license as open-source software, a move which garnered press coverage, due to its threat to former market leader Blackboard.

"[13] On November 13, 2015, the firm began trading as a publicly held company on the New York Stock Exchange.

The states said that by adopting Canvas as a statewide solution to the challenges raised by the global COVID-19 pandemic, they hoped to provide stronger support to students and educators.

[28] Canvas features a comprehensive REST API that allows developers to programmatically interact with the platform, offering functionality for managing courses, users, assignments, and grades.

The API supports a wide range of integrations, enabling external systems to communicate with Canvas efficiently and automate administrative tasks.

In 2019, Instructure acquired Portfolium and integrated their pathways, Program Assessment, and ePortfolio network into the Canvas.

In 2020, Instructure acquired Certica Solutions,[30] which provides assessment content and analytics primarily to K–12 districts in the United States.

On February 18, 2015, Instructure officially launched Bridge,[32] a cloud-based corporate learning management system.

At launch, Bridge served 6 corporate clients, including Oregon State University, which had also been using Canvas for their students since fall 2015.