"Canvas is a Security Nightmare"

Canvas is a Security Nightmare. New to my University, the program was rolled out without piloting with students and staff. Too many glitches to mention, but biggest is security. The program is interrupted by Norton Anti-Virus... not because Norton is bad, but because of the scripts being used in the open source platform. Students have had to dump their security software in favor of one that doesn't catch Canvas' problems.

If the student logs in to the app, but doesn't log out - the app stays open and logged in (even when shut down).

If the student LOGS OUT of the app, and closes the window, the next time they access the program - it is ALREADY LOGGED IN.

This is supposed to be the largest / most successful LMS in the world??? Anyone see a cybersecurity target?

"Could be a little better."

For the past four years, my campus had everyone in the 9th-12th grade complete our college assignments in our early college classes. Although it had a few bad things about it, I still liked the platform. Here is my above average experience.
I like how you have three different page views. They are the calendar, the little squares, and stack view, which I prefer the most. You can easily send an email to another student or your professor. I also enjoyed the little icons for each class on the page. No two students have the different color for their class, which I found interesting.
I don't like it how when you try to access a certain page on a college class you completed, you won't be allowed to view any pages of that course again. The classes disappear without your permission, as if they think you're being nosy. I also don't like how we have many awful professors in our district, but that's the district's fault, not the fault of Canvas.
To summarize this, I enjoyed using the easy, simple tool of Canvas. If you have a school district that mainly supports online college work, you might want to give this a try.

"CANVAS is difficult to configure"

CANVAS is difficult to configure, slow to update, not user-friendly, and, in my opinion, benefits do not surpass other systems like MOODLE.

"Open source product of very poor quality"

Thier Canvas app is open source, but terrible.

Just to give you an idea, some notifications I get 5 times, some not at all. In either case, a read notification is not marked as read, so I have many 'unread' notifications, that I read. This caused me to miss important information before.

And this is just notifications, a lot on the platform works this poorly.