City University of Hong Kong A Canvas Case Study: Higher Education Rapidly Scaling Online Learning With Canvas www.instructure.com/canvas 800-203-6755 Kowloon, Hong Kong 30,000 Users Started 2015 As the spread of the coronavirus began impacting educational institu- tions across the globe, many schools were forced to design and imple- ment plans for remote learning. A Canvas customer since 2015, City University of Hong Kong (CityU) met the challenges of COVID-19 early on. In just eight days, they became one of the first local universities to shift all classroom instruction online using Canvas. The Challenge Adopting a cloud-first strategy, CityU had replaced Blackboard, their original learning management system (LMS), with Canvas in 2015—due to Canvas’ reliability and ability to scale

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