Canvas LMS Development
We build custom apps, LTI integrations, and API tools for Canvas LMS, so your tool works inside Canvas the way instructors and learners expect. Standards-compliant, tested against real Canvas instances, built to keep working through Instructure's updates.
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Building on Canvas is harder than it looks.
Canvas is the LMS your customers or campus already use, so your tool has to live inside it: launched from a course, logged in automatically, passing grades back. But the Canvas API is deep, LTI setup is unforgiving, and every institution's Canvas is configured a little differently. What works in one instance quietly fails in another.
A Canvas integration that half-works reflects on you, not Canvas.
When your tool won't launch from a Canvas course, or grades don't post to the gradebook, the instructor blames your product, not their LMS admin. Every failed launch is a support ticket and a shaky renewal. And Canvas ships updates on its own schedule; an integration that isn't built to standard breaks the day Instructure changes something. Guesswork here costs you customers.
Canvas tools built to standard, tested in the real thing.
We build on Canvas properly: LTI 1.3 integrations, custom LTI apps, and tools on the Canvas LMS API. We test against real Canvas instances and check what the documentation leaves out. Your tool launches cleanly from a course, signs learners in automatically, and posts grades back reliably, across the different Canvas setups your customers run.
LTI 1.3 integrations for Canvas
Your tool launches inside any Canvas course, with secure sign-on and grade passback.
Custom Canvas apps
Build the exact tool your program needs, embedded where instructors and learners already work.
Canvas API development
Automate enrollments, sync data, and connect Canvas to your other systems through the API.
Grade passback that syncs
Scores post to the Canvas gradebook automatically, correctly, every time.
Tested across instances
Validated against real Canvas configurations, so it holds up in production.
How we build on Canvas
Discovery call
A free 30-minute call to understand your tool, your Canvas targets, and where things stand today.
Scope & plan
A clear plan: what we build, which Canvas setups we test against, the timeline, and the cost. Fixed and upfront.
Build & test in sprints
You get working builds to test, validated against real Canvas instances your customers use.
Launch & handover
We ship it, confirm it works in production, and hand over the full build. We stay available for Canvas updates.
How much does Canvas LMS development cost?
Canvas development costs vary with what you're building: a single LTI integration starts at a few thousand dollars, while a custom Canvas app or full API integration runs higher. The price depends on the Canvas services you need (sign-on, grade passback, deep linking, API automation) and how many Canvas setups you support. At Rizon, we scope it during a free discovery call and give you a fixed price before any work starts.
What moves the price: whether you need a standard LTI launch or a full custom app, how much Canvas API work is involved (enrollment automation, data sync), which LTI Advantage services you use, and whether you're fixing an existing integration or building new. A single-instance LTI launch sits at the low end; a multi-instance app with API automation sits higher.
Canvas LMS development, answered
Can you build an LTI integration for Canvas?
Yes. We build LTI 1.3 integrations that let your tool launch inside any Canvas course, sign learners in automatically, and pass grades back to the Canvas gradebook, tested against real Canvas instances.
Can you build a custom app for Canvas?
Yes. We build custom Canvas apps and LTI tools embedded directly where instructors and learners work, so your functionality lives inside the Canvas courses they already use every day.
What can you do with the Canvas LMS API?
The Canvas API lets us automate enrollments, sync data between Canvas and your other systems, pull reporting, and connect Canvas into your wider stack. That work isn't possible through the standard interface alone.
Will the integration keep working after Canvas updates?
Built to the LTI and API standards, yes. Integrations that cut corners break when Instructure ships updates; we build to standard and stay available to handle platform changes so your tool keeps working.
Do you work with both Canvas and Moodle?
Yes. We build LTI integrations and custom development for Canvas, Moodle, and any compliant LMS. That's useful if your tool needs to run across multiple platforms.
Let's make your tool work inside Canvas.
Tell us about your tool and how it needs to run in Canvas. In 30 minutes, we'll tell you how we'd approach it. No pitch, no obligation.