Cidi Design Tools For Canvas

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Tools that empower Canvas course designers everywhere to do more.

Build a better Canvas experience for students
and course design practices that scale.

We provide plugins for Canvas that help
organizations enhance and scale their
online course design and delivery practices

It's nice to share.

Our products were developed by innovative universities to address challenges they faced in online course development. Cidi Labs makes these innovations available to educational institutions everywhere by putting them in the Cloud – a.k.a. SaaS-sharing – and providing top-notch training, maintenance and support.

Our customers say the darndest things.

Our customers include more than 350 school districts, community colleges and institutions of higher education of all sizes throughout the US and internationally.

Cidi Labs has opened up so many new design ideas for our team. It raises the bar in design for our courses and has potential to dramatically lower the workload of academic staff as we roll this out to each of our global regions.

One School Global DesignPLUS

Ever since we started using DesignPLUS...my course designs have gone to a whole new level. I'm able to build a visually interesting course that is easy to navigate quickly.

Shenandoah University DesignPLUS

Cidi Labs is the best thing that ever happened to our team.

Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University Worldwide DesignPLUS

Students deserve to be presented with high-quality content and DesignPLUS design tools make that possible. Implementing consistent course design across entire degree programs is much easier with the assistance of DesignPLUS.

University of North Florida DesignPLUS

We love everything about Cidi Labs. In addition to opening our world to beautiful and consistent front pages in Canvas, it has also led us to further explore our Canvas course design and our language of learning.

Kristin School (New Zealand) ReadyGO

Cidi Labs has built a whole suite of tools that make using Canvas so much easier and more intuitive.

St. Charles Community College DesignPLUS

Cidi Labs has the most responsive customer service, innovative programming, and dedication to continuously improving the student, faculty, and designer experience across its product lines.

University of Minnesota DesignPLUS

Ever since we started using DesignPLUS, our courses have had a more consistent design and navigation, better branding for our university, and more positive comments from students than ever before. Faculty who were Canvas-resistant are now spotted importing our DesignPLUS-formatted course template into their courses because it makes good design easy. And let's face it, good design makes us look good.

Dordt University DesignPLUS

Our Story

Cidi Labs was started in partnership with Utah State University's Center for Innovative Design & Instruction (a.k.a. "CIDI", hence our name!), with the mutual goal of finding better ways to design high quality online teaching and learning experiences. These origins in innovation and a passion for continuously enhancing the student experience is part of the Cidi Labs DNA.

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