Built for Canvas, from the ground up.

A student opens their Canvas course, navigates to a module page, and reads through the week's content. Partway through, they encounter a Stackle activity - a reflection prompt, a knowledge check, a case study response. They type their answer, click submit, and continue with the page. They never logged in to another system. They never opened a new tab. They never noticed a boundary between Canvas and Stackle.

When students return to the same activity later in the semester, their previous response is there - exactly where they left it. For activity types that allow revision, they can refine their thinking, add to their earlier response, and see their own development over time. For Quick Reflect activities, their locked first-reaction response remains visible as an anchor point they can compare against their later thinking.

In Reflect and Compare activities, students submit their own response first, then see how their peers approached the same question. This peer visibility only activates after individual submission - protecting each student's authentic first perspective before group influence. The entire experience happens inside the Canvas page, within the flow of the learning content.

For activities connected to Canvas Assignments, students see the assignment in their Canvas To Do list, their Canvas Calendar, and their Canvas gradebook - exactly like any other assignment. There is no separate task management, no additional notification system, no second place to check. Stackle evidence collection is woven into the Canvas workflow students already know.

Educators create and manage Stackle activities from within Canvas. The Activity Builder is accessed through the Canvas course, allowing educators to assemble evidence collection activities from a flexible set of content items - open text questions, multiple choice, media responses, embedded video stimuli, resource files, headings, and text blocks. The authoring experience is designed for educators, not developers. No code, no configuration files, no IT tickets.

Once created, activities are inserted directly into Canvas pages. Educators position them within their existing content - after a concept explanation, between video resources, at the end of a module section - wherever the evidence collection point makes pedagogical sense. The activity appears inline, as a natural part of the page.

For assessment integration, educators connect activities to Canvas Assignments through the standard Canvas assignment workflow. Multipart Assignments allow multiple activities across different pages and weeks to connect to a single assignment entry. Evidence flows into SpeedGrader. Grades flow into the Canvas gradebook. The assessment workflow stays entirely within Canvas.