Instructure announced it has signed an agreement to acquire Certica Solutions, an industry leader in K12 assessment and analytics, and longtime partner of Canvas and MasteryConnect. Through this acquisition, Instructure will provide the comprehensive and open set of tools educators need to drive student outcomes by bringing together a learning management system, assessment management system, assessment content, and data analytics into one streamlined K12 learning experience.
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“This topsy-turvy year has only underscored just how important it is to know if our students are learning, whether they are being taught in the classroom or online,” said Steve Daly, CEO of Instructure. “Welcoming Certica into the Instructure family will support educators by combining our assessment platform with smarter, standards-based assessments, assessment item banks, and powerful analytics empowering educators to make learning personal for each student.”
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Certica has been a pioneer in K12 assessment creating a high-impact program of standards-aligned item bank content, predictive benchmark assessment, rigorous formative assessment, and teacher-ready analytics to provide the most immediate, accessible and actionable data for educators to use in the classroom.
As part of this acquisition, Instructure will add to its learning platform Certica’s Videri, a powerful K12 analytics solution that integrates district data from multiple sources into one place, making the data more actionable in the moment. The result is immediately actionable data shown with rich visualizations to support educators in addressing individual student needs, revealing district trends, and identifying at-risk students earlier.
More than 1,500 districts use Certica’s solutions in the United States, improving the learning experience for more than 12 million students.
“We have maintained a mission of helping educators drive student improvement in the most effective and meaningful ways,” said Mark Rankovic, CEO of Certica Solutions. “Joining the Instructure family will open doors to helping more students and educators find the value of a rigorous standards-aligned assessment program with rich analytics.”