20150220 Instructure Canvas Catalog

Sent email to Peggy Powell and Chris Harvey at SPH (2/20 10:00 am) in response to their inquiries about Canvas Catalog.

Peggy,

Instructure Canvas Catalog makes it easy to publish courses to the whole world, and allow users to sign up and even pay fees for their online courses

http://www.canvaslms.com/higher-education/catalog

Their pricing model is:

An annual subscription fee, plus

An annual fee per outside user

We received a quote from Instructure for this service. Even though the fee per outside user was $4.65 per person per year, their annual subscription fee was $45,000 per year. This cost was considered prohibitive, given the expected use of this tool.

We are always happy to reconsider this if an argument can be made that this would be cost-effective.

Thanks

Greg