Your expertise. Multiplied.
Canopy helps educators capture and share proven approaches, create and respond with greater efficiency, and find useful patterns in student and course activity.
One source of expertise. More ways to use it.
Educators develop approaches that work: criteria, instructions, explanations, resources, questions, and ways of interpreting evidence. Canopy makes that expertise reusable and shareable.
Templates capture expertise. Educators decide how to use it.
Templates are reusable building blocks for the work of teaching. Use them to create content, guide analysis, develop feedback, and give Canopy Assist and Canopy Insights precise instructions.
Keep Templates personal, share them with colleagues, or publish institutionally approved Templates for common work.
Your expertise, ready for more of the work
Capture and share expertise
Turn criteria, instructions, explanations, resources, and proven approaches into reusable Templates. Keep them personal, share them with colleagues, or manage them across an institution.
Put expertise to work
Use Templates wherever you teach to create content, analyze information, and respond to students with greater speed and consistency. Canopy Assist can prepare drafts using the standards and context you define.
See patterns and decide what comes next
Canopy Insights brings relevant course evidence together so educators can recognize progress, recurring needs, participation patterns, and opportunities for action.
AI that drafts. You decide.
Canopy Assist starts with a Template you control, not a blank prompt. Use your criteria, language, course context, and expectations to guide drafts for feedback, instructional content, progress summaries, analysis, and other repeatable work. You review, revise, use, or discard every result.
Create and respond
Prepare a starting point for detailed feedback, instructional content, summaries, and other teaching tasks using instructions you define.
Work from your standards
Build Templates around your rubric, learning objectives, preferred language, course context, and institutional resources. Institutions can publish approved Templates for shared work.
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Bring important patterns into view.
Student and course activity generates more evidence than educators can easily examine at once. Available for Canvas and D2L Brightspace, Canopy Insights helps organize that evidence so educators can ask better questions, decide where to look more closely, and choose what happens next.
Understand student progress
Review evidence across assignments, rubric selections, feedback, and other course activity to identify developing strengths and recurring needs.
Prepare progress summaries
Bring together relevant course evidence to develop a clearer picture of a student's strengths, needs, and progress over time.
Examine participation and engagement
Explore discussion activity to identify unanswered exchanges, isolated students, and patterns of participation, even without generative AI.
Connect evidence to action
Use what you find to prepare conferences, progress updates, instructional changes, review sessions, interventions, and learning-outcomes analysis.
Canopy Insights will continue to expand with deeper quiz, rubric, discussion, and outcomes analysis.
Educators decide what happens next.
Canopy brings useful evidence and starting points into view. Educators apply their knowledge of the student, the course, and the context.
- You decide when to use Assist.
- You define the instructions and standards.
- You review every draft before using it.
- Institutions can control access to generative AI and Canvas data.
- Student data is not sold or used to train AI models.
- Useful Insights can be produced without generative AI.
Some of the most valuable work in teaching takes time. Educators use Canopy to make more room for that work.
From classroom evidence to a clearer picture of learning.
Educators create valuable evidence every day through assignments, rubrics, quizzes, discussions, and feedback. Canopy helps schools, districts, colleges, and universities examine that evidence without separating it from the teaching practices that produced it. Share Templates, establish common approaches, manage access to AI and course data, and explore patterns, from individual students and courses to programs and institutions.
What happens to Annotate PRO?
Your Annotate PRO libraries and familiar workflows are not going away. They are becoming part of Canopy. At the October launch:
- The Annotate PRO Chrome extension becomes Canopy.
- Your existing content carries forward.
- AP comments are renamed Templates.
- Core library and feedback workflows continue.
- Canopy Assist and initial Canvas Insights become available according to your plan.
- Institutional administrators gain controls over AI and Canvas-data access.
The existing web editor remains available separately during this stage. A unified Canopy web experience is planned for a later release.
Plans for every level of use
Canopy Essentials is forever free for individual educators, including every Canopy Library and platform integration. Canopy Plus is $4 a month, Canopy Assist $6 a month, and Canopy Insights $7 a month, and annual billing saves $12 a year on each. See the pricing page for more details.
- Create and use Templates to add text to EDU platforms
- All Canopy Libraries
- Favorites, sorting, and color-coding
- Every supported platform: Canvas, Google Docs, Word, Gmail, Slack, and more
- Everything in Canopy Essentials
- Feedback Forms and Dynamic Rubrics
- Everything in Canopy Plus
- Canopy Assist grading
- Everything in Canopy Assist
- AI-powered Analytics and discussion insights
What educators are saying
"Canopy allows you to develop libraries of comments that you can use and re-use throughout the Canvas platform. It has cut down the time it takes me to provide feedback by about 50%, and besides the time saving, I truly believe it has improved the quality of my feedback."
"I can provide more feedback, higher quality feedback, in a third of the time it used to take, without the frustration of writing the same thing over and over. The comment libraries let me address common errors consistently, and the analytics make individual conferences more focused and productive."
"Canopy lets me streamline grading and add frequently used comments to student work regardless of the platform I'm using. A huge timesaver that lets me work through a stack of exams or papers, and even respond to emailed questions, surprisingly quickly and easily."
Common questions about the move to Canopy
Is Canopy replacing Annotate PRO?
Canopy is the new name and expanded direction for Annotate PRO. Your existing libraries and core feedback workflow carry forward.
Do I have to use AI?
No. Canopy's core feedback tools do not require AI, and some Insights capabilities, such as discussion-engagement analysis, can operate without generative AI. Institutional administrators can also control access to AI features.
What is the difference between Assist and Insights?
Assist helps draft a response or report using instructions you control. Insights helps uncover patterns in student and course evidence so you can decide what action to take.
Is the Canopy web app changing in August?
The August launch focuses on the renamed Canopy Chrome extension and the first production release of Assist and Insights capabilities. The existing web editor remains separate while 11trees builds a more unified Canopy experience.
Does Canopy automatically grade students?
No. Canopy can produce a draft based on your Template, criteria, and selected evidence, but the educator reviews and controls the result.
What happens to my existing Annotate PRO content?
Your existing content carries forward. The main terminology change is that AP comments become Canopy Templates, reflecting the broader range of things they can do.
Is Canopy free?
Canopy Essentials is forever free for individual educators, including every Canopy Library and platform integration. Canopy Plus is $4 a month, Canopy Assist is $6 a month, and Canopy Insights is $7 a month, with a free trial on Insights. Annual billing brings those to $36, $60, and $72 a year. Institutional pricing is available by department, college, or campus-wide license.
Keep the workflow you trust. Discover what it can do next.
Annotate PRO is now Canopy: reusable educator expertise, controlled assistance, and actionable insight in one growing toolkit.