# Canvas Parent

> Education

Canonical page: [https://chrome-stats.com/d/id1097996698](https://chrome-stats.com/d/id1097996698)

## Overview

- **ID:** `id1097996698`
- **Platform:** Apple
- **Type:** Apple app
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** Instructure Inc.
- **Category:** Education
- **Rating:** 4.40 / 5 (111,641 ratings)
- **Version:** 3.29.0
- **Last updated:** 2026-08-03
- **First published:** 2016-09-04
- **Size:** 167 MB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-18
- **Store listing:** [Apple App Store](https://apps.apple.com/us/app/canvas-parent/id1097996698)
- **Website:** [http://www.instructure.com/features-higher-education/](http://www.instructure.com/features-higher-education/)
- **Privacy policy:** [http://www.instructure.com/policies/privacy](http://www.instructure.com/policies/privacy)

## Description

Canvas Parent helps families stay connected to student progress and school updates. It enables real-time communication with teachers, lets you view grades, assignments and due dates across courses, and receive alerts for missing work or new announcements.

Beyond monitoring, it encourages student success by highlighting teacher feedback, milestones, and organized planning with a calendar view to track upcoming tasks and events.

## Rankings

- #3,597 — Overall

## Review summary

User reviews consistently cite severe reliability issues: the app freezes or crashes while scrolling through courses, grades, or assignments, often forcing a restart and preventing full visibility of data. The problem repeats across updates and devices (notably iOS 26 on newer iPhones). A small number of users acknowledge it has potential or is straightforward when working, and that it’s the main way to monitor a child’s grades, but the frequent freezes overshadow any positives.

### Pros

- Has potential to be a useful tool for parents.
- Pretty straightforward to navigate when it’s working.
- It’s the primary/sole way to monitor a child’s grades and assignments.

### Cons

- Frequent freezing/crashing when scrolling through grades/assignments.
- Must force-close/relaunch repeatedly; still freezes in the same spot.
- Cannot see all assignments/complete grade data due to freezing.
- Performance issues persist across updates and device/OS versions (e.g., iOS 26).
- Support can be unresponsive or hard to reach (e.g., 404 in app support).

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