Features

Everything you need to design better Canvas courses.

Scaffold gives your team a full library of interactive blocks plus the quality and workflow tools Canvas leaves out. Here is what is inside.

Block library

Accordions, tabs, flip cards, timelines, scenarios and more — accessible and on-brand out of the box.

Home Page Generator

Turn a blank Canvas course into a polished, structured home page in a few clicks.

Blueprint

Set account-level rules once so every course inherits your institution's standards.

Scaffold Advisor

In-editor guidance and AI quality checks that catch issues before you publish.

Rollover Assistant

Carry a course into a new term — dates, links and structure — in an afternoon, not a week.

Multi-course Audit

See readiness and consistency across every course from one dashboard.

Version Manager

Version every block, stage rollouts, and roll back within 30 days if you need to.

Global Styles

Set typography and colour once; every course and block stays on brand automatically.

Scaffold Advisor

A quality reviewer built into every course.

Advisor checks each course against your standards as your team builds, flagging accessibility, structure, and consistency issues before students ever see them.

  • Accessibility and readability checks
  • Structure and navigation warnings
  • Consistency across every page

Block library

Interactive blocks, ready to author.

Every block is accessible, on-brand, and native to Canvas. Pick one, add your content, and publish. No plugins, no code.

  • Accordions, tabs, flip cards, and timelines
  • Scenarios, hotspots, and sorting activities
  • Knowledge checks and reflection prompts

Home Page Generator

A polished course home page, generated in clicks.

A blank Canvas course is intimidating, and an inconsistent one is worse. The Home Page Generator lays out a structured, on-brand home page — banner, outcomes, module roadmap, and navigation — that you then make your own.

  • A structured layout from the first click
  • On brand automatically, using your Global Styles
  • Every block stays editable in the Canvas editor

Blueprint

Your standards, enforced by the platform.

Decide once which blocks a course must use and how strictly. Blueprint keeps every course in line without a reviewer chasing it, at account, sub-account, or collection level.

  • Pin required blocks across associated courses
  • Lock, require, or recommend, per scope
  • Set it at account, sub-account, or collection level

Rollover Assistant

A new term in an afternoon, not a week.

Rolling a course into a new term used to mean hunting for old dates and broken links by hand. The Rollover Assistant scans a course for term-to-term readiness — dates, links, blocks, and stale content — and tells you exactly what to fix.

  • Date, link, block, and staleness checks
  • A clear readiness result: ready, review, or blocked
  • Fix the flagged items and ship the new term

Accessibility & compliance

Quality you can prove, not just claim.

Accessibility is not a checkbox at the end. Scaffold builds it into every block and gives you the evidence to show for it.

WCAG 2.1 AA blocks

Every block is built to WCAG 2.1 AA, so accessibility is the default rather than a fix you retrofit.

ACR / VPAT exports

The Advisor turns a course's assessment into an Accessibility Conformance Report you can hand to procurement, as PDF, HTML, or CSV.

Quality score & audit

A deterministic quality score per course, and a multi-course audit that shows where standards slip across the account.

Start building better Canvas courses today.

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