Canvas login is the student sign-in query for Instructure's Canvas learning management system, and Google Search interest for the phrase sits at 52 of 100 for the week of August 22 2026. That reading is up 73.33% from 30 on August 15 and up 173.68% from 19 on July 25, per Trends MCP get_growth on Google Search pulled August 27 2026. The 261-week series peaks at 100 on August 30 2025, so this week is the back-to-school ramp, not the ceiling. App Store Top Free had Canvas by Instructure at rank 18 as of August 27 2026 14:01 UTC. Same-week 2025 was 72 and same-week 2024 was 61.
About canvas login
Canvas login is how students and teachers reach Canvas, the web-based learning management system from Instructure Holdings in Salt Lake City, a company Wikipedia dates to 2008 founders Brian Whitmer and Devlin Daley, two BYU graduate students, and a 2011 Canvas launch. Early funding came from Mozy founder Josh Coates, who served as chief executive from 2010 to 2018. Canvas shipped in 2011 under an AGPL license, with Instructure selling hosting. The iOS app arrived in 2011 and Android in 2013. Wikipedia cites 4,000 institutions using Canvas as of 2020, $530.2 million in 2023 revenue, and 1,466 employees in 2022. KKR and Dragoneer completed a $4.8 billion purchase on November 13 2024 at $23.60 per share.
The phrase is a school-calendar query. Wikipedia's 2026 Canvas data-breach section places a late-April intrusion and an early-May outage against 8,809 institutions. The May 9 2026 Google Search print of 49 sits in that window and still trails the 100 school-year peak. ParentSquare is the K-12 family messaging tool climbing the same seasonal chart.
What the time series shows
Google Search interest for canvas login is 52 for the week of August 22 2026, up 173.68% from 19 on July 25, with get_growth also printing +73.33% over 7 days from 30 on August 15, on a 261-week series that still peaks at 100 on August 30 2025. 2026 sat at 19 on July 4, 20 on July 18, 19 on July 25, 18 on August 1, 22 on August 8, 30 on August 15, then 52 on August 22. Absolute change from July 25 to August 22 is 33 points. June 20 was also 19, so the prior 30-day window was flat. 90-day change from 31 on May 23 is +67.74%.
The curve is an August and January pulse with a summer floor. November still searches the query: 49 on November 22 2025. App Store Top Free ranked the iOS app at 18 on August 27, down the board from the mid-August cluster as more school apps joined the chart.
How 2026 sits against prior August ramps
Same-week 2026 at 52 trails 72 on August 23 2025, 61 on August 24 2024, and 78 on August 26 2023, a familiar calendar lag that shows up every August until the first full instructional week prints on the series. 2025 went 44, 72, then 100 on August 30 and 76 on September 6. 2024 went 38, 61, then 73 on August 31. 2023 went 42 on August 19 and 78 on August 26. The 2026 four-week run of 18, 22, 30, 52 is steeper week to week than the 2025 jump from 44 to 72, yet it starts from a lower base. Week-over-week percent-change sample standard deviation on the last 52 weeks is 35.44%.
Neighbor queries on the same Google Search pull move with the login page. parentsquare is +182.14% over 30 days, 28 on July 25 to 79 on August 22. schoology is +358.33% over 30 days. instructure is +60.0% from 15 to 24. canvas instructure is +63.64% from 11 to 18. The generic canvas query is +38.24% from 34 to 47. canvas lms is the laggard, -14.29% from 21 to 18. App Store Top Free on August 27 14:01 UTC had ParentSquare at rank 10 and ClassDojo at rank 39 beside Canvas at 18. Google Search data is the source behind every percentage on this page. Schoology is the other LMS login curve in the same August window.