Canvas Teacher vs Suffield Academy
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Canvas Teacher
This mobile companion helps educators grade assignments, provide feedback, and manage classes efficiently from anywhere. It allows for annotation, audio/video feedback, and communication with students. The app streamlines class management tasks for teachers on the go.
- Mobile grading with SpeedGrader
- Annotate assignments
- Audio/video feedback
- Post class announcements
- Manage Inbox and messages
- Update assignment content
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Save time. Teach on the go. Canvas Teacher helps educators, instructors, and teachers grade, give feedback, and manage their classes from anywhere. What you can do • Grade or mark work: Use mobile friendly SpeedGrader to annotate assignments, apply rubrics and give written, audio, or video feedback • Communicate: Post class announcements, reply in discussions, and send messages right from your device • Update content: Adjust due dates, publish/unpublish assignments, or fix typos in seconds • Stay connected: Manage your Inbox, reply to student questions, and keep class communication flowing on the move Canvas Teacher is designed for educators—making mobile grading and class management faster and easier.
Suffield Academy
This app centralizes essential information for parents, students, and faculty, including news, events, and contact directories. Users can easily access photos, documents, and filter content for personalized updates.
- News and announcements
- Photo and document access
- Calendar events
- Constituent directory
- Content filtering
- Faculty contact information
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The Suffield Academy app provides parents, students, and faculty members with all the information they need in one place, conveniently accessed and explicitly formatted for consumption on their mobile devices. The App includes: - Blogs, news and announcements - Pictures and documents - Calendar events - Constituent directory and more Download the app today to ensure you are always aware of the most important news, announcements, and calendar events, and you have access to the most current community directory. Users can: - Browse the latest published photos - Filter content and store those preferences for subsequent use - Catch up on current news - Browse calendars for information about upcoming events. Filter calendars to see the events most relevant to their interests - Quickly find faculty contact information - Email a constituent directly from your device The information in the Suffield Academy app is drawn from the same source as the Suffield Academy website. Privacy controls restrict sensitive information only to authorized users
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Suffield Academy at 100% against Canvas Teacher's 26%. Suffield Academy also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.6) and iOS requirement (15.5 vs 18.0). Canvas Teacher's advantage is ratings volume (96K vs 2). On price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Suffield Academy holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Canvas Teacher has 96K ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 26% of Canvas Teacher's written reviews are positive against 100% of Suffield Academy's.
Canvas Teacher ships an update every 4 weeks, Suffield Academy every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on November 6, 2026 and November 4, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Canvas Teacher | Suffield Academy |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (96K ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 26.4% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 96K — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 4 weeks — better | Every 2 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 | 15.5 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 183 MB | 78 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Instructure Inc. | Suffield Academy |
Customer experience
Canvas Teacher
Suffield Academy
Bugs and requests
Canvas Teacher
Reported bugs
5 issues- App crashes frequently
- Inability to save grades and annotations
- Inconsistent behavior when rotating device
- Issues with loading student submissions
- Problems with syncing data between app and web version
Requested features
5 requests- Add ability to access and edit modules
- Improve grading tools and functionality
- Allow customization of notification settings
- Enhance integration with other platforms
- Improve stability and reliability
Suffield Academy
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Canvas Teacher
No in-app purchases
Suffield Academy
No in-app purchases
Questions
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