Canvas Parent

4.3
4.58K reviews
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Rated for 3+
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Content rating
Rated for 3+
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About this app

Traditionally, parents seeking information about their students' progress had to sift through assignment planners, email instructors, or wait for report cards. But the wait is over! Canvas Parent is designed to provide visibility into your child's education at a glance. Canvas Parent allows parents to:

• View assignment descriptions and due dates
• Set reminders for assignments
• View assignment grades
• View course grades
• Set grade alerts
• View course announcements

Important: This mobile app is only usable by parents whose children attend schools that have enabled Canvas Parent.
Updated on
Jun 29, 2026

Data safety

Safety starts with understanding how developers collect and share your data. Data privacy and security practices may vary based on your use, region, and age. The developer provided this information and may update it over time.
This app may share these data types with third parties
Location, App activity and 2 others
This app may collect these data types
Location, Personal info and 6 others
Data is encrypted in transit
You can request that data be deleted

Ratings and reviews

4.3
4.49K reviews
Vikki Leigh
March 23, 2025
Update: The calendar finally started working but stopped again. I haven't been able to use it since January. It says, "There was an error loading your calendar." Once again, I have signed out and back in. Then, I uninstalled and reinstalled the app. I gave it 2 stars because the calendar does not work. It just keeps telling me there was an error in loading my students calendar. I have refreshed it, Uninstalled the app and reinstalled it. I still cannot get the calendar to work.
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Instructure
November 15, 2024
Hi, Sorry to hear you were having problems. Let us investigate more detail at https://www.instructure.com/canvas/support-faq. If you're open, we'd love to hear your thoughts on the parent app notification topic by the end of November 2024: https://t.maze.co/296167385
Alex
April 23, 2026
As a parent, this app has been a pain to deal with, pending tasks from courses gives no alerts and emails received don't open the app. a nightmare. Also messages don't include child names.
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Jesus Torres
March 18, 2026
Alerts don't work. Says error. You need to manually check every class/assignment to see if they have a new one, have been submitted, and grade received. Last semester 100+ alerts came through last week of school at same time. One student alerts work and not calendar, other students calendar works but not alerts. 🤯 Hopefully problem gets fixed. Have submitted multiple requests. *update has been fixed
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What’s new

- Added Open Source & Licenses to the About screen
- Grades screen now loads faster with fewer network requests
- Various bug fixes and stability improvements, including edge-to-edge display fixes