What is Canvas Career?

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The Canvas Career experience is designed specifically for adult learners in continuing education and career development. Its features and functionalities are tailored to support their unique learning goals, providing a streamlined and intuitive experience that enhances skill-building, credentialing, and career advancement.

Canvas Career Defined

Canvas Career addresses the evolving needs of learners, recognizing that not all users are pursuing traditional degree programs. Canvas Career is designed to support adult learners, whether they are upskilling for career advancement, transitioning to a new career path, or participating in internal training at their current workplace. This platform addresses the need for a learning environment that accommodates asynchronous learning, a non-academic user interface and doesn't always require an instructor-led, on-campus presence.

Key Canvas Career Features

Canvas Career combines skill-building, automation, data insights, and learner-first design to support career growth. Key features include:

• Skillspace: A personalized hub where learners can track skills gained, see progress in real time, and receive recommendations for the next steps.
• Skills Manager: Helps admins and instructors organize and align skills with courses and programs, using Al-powered extraction to save time and ensure relevance.
• Course Recommendations: Learners receive suggested courses and content aligned to the skills they're actively developing, keeping growth focused and career-driven.
• Automation and Integrations: Rule-based enrollment, customer relationship management (CRM) and human resources information system (HRIS) integrations, and Al-assisted content creation reduce manual effort and streamline management.
• Data and Insights: Dashboards and progress tracking provide measurable outcomes, while Al-driven insights suggest actions to improve learner success.
• Learner-First Tools: Features like the Course Progress Tracker, Estimated Time metadata, Notebook, mobile-first design, and Al Assist keep learners engaged, organized, and supported at every step.

Canvas Career Users

Canvas Career includes the following standard course-level user roles:  Learner, Instructor, Facilitator, Designer, and Observer, as well as an account-level Admin role. Institutions may also create custom course-level or account-level user roles with varied Canvas access.

Using Canvas Career

You can find more information about using Canvas Career Product Preview user group in the Canvas Community, where members can share insights, ask questions, and help each other make the most of this new product.