What Etudes does

Etudes, Inc. is a 501(c)(3) non-profit corporation headquartered in Redwood City, California, that develops and sells educational software applications tightly integrated with the Canvas Learning Management System (LMS) via the LTI (Learning Tool Interoperability) standard. Its core product portfolio consists of three LTI external applications: CourseEval HQ for administering course evaluation surveys within Canvas, Adjust-All HQ for centralized management of course dates and settings across courses and sections, and Accommodate HQ for granting student accommodations such as extended time on assignments and quizzes. The company also offers two professional services lines — Canvas & Pedagogy Training for faculty professional development and Course Design Services for instructional design support — which extend its institutional footprint beyond pure software. All applications are hosted on Amazon Web Services and rely on deep Canvas integration to automatically sync terms, courses, rosters, and notifications without requiring file uploads.

The company's roots trace to 1994, when Foothill College Professor Michael Loceff inspired the creation of Etudes Classic, one of the first learning management systems supporting distance education in California Community Colleges. The Etudes Consortium formed in 2002 to extend the platform to dozens of California community colleges, and Etudes, Inc. was incorporated as an independent non-profit in May 2008. In 2015, the company expanded beyond its proprietary LMS to develop tools for other platforms, including Canvas and Sakai. The organization is governed by a board of directors and operates with 1-10 employees.

Etudes generates revenue primarily through annual subscription fees for its three LTI applications, priced on tiered schedules based on institutional full-time equivalent (FTE) student enrollment, with a 30-day free trial and a discount for institutions subscribing to all three products. Pricing is published publicly and ranges from $150/year (Accommodate HQ entry) up to $9,000+/year (CourseEval HQ mid-tier) plus enterprise quotes above 30,000 FTEs. Customers are primarily higher education institutions, with named references including Foothill College and the California Community Colleges system. The go-to-market is direct, via the Etudes.org website, with inside sales for institutional subscriptions and professional development services.

Name

Etudes

Legal name

Etudes, Inc.

Website

https://etudes.org

Company type

Private

Founded year

2008

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Etudes, Inc. is a 501(c)(3) non-profit that builds LTI-integrated educational software for the Canvas LMS, including CourseEval HQ, Adjust-All HQ, and Accommodate HQ, serving higher education institutions through FTE-based annual subscriptions and professional development services.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Higher Education Software / Learning Management System Tools

NAICS

Educational Support Services (61171), Educational Services (611), Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools (6113)

SIC

Services-Educational Services (8200), Services-Computer Programming Services (7371)

akta.pro primary industry

LMS Integrations, Interoperability & Identity (LTI/SCORM/xAPI, SSO, APIs) (EDAFAAAI)

akta.pro secondary industries

Learning Management Systems (LMS) & Academic Application Support (EDALAMAC), Standards, Packaging & Interoperability Tools (SCORM/xAPI/cmi5/LTI) (EDAFAHAH), Higher Education Course Design & Online Program Development (EDAGAKAB)

Keywords

• Learning management systems
• Educational software
• Course evaluation tools
• Canvas LMS integration
• Higher education technology

Headquarters

HQ city

Redwood City

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Software

Cost components

Personnel, Technology or R&D, Infrastructure, Marketing or Sales, Operations

Revenue model

1. Software Subscription Revenue: Annual subscription-based pricing model for academic institutions, with tiered plans based on institutional full-time equivalent (FTE) student enrollment. As a non-profit corporation, Etudes offers education software at low-cost, stable pricing.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels3 records

Core offering

Etudes, Inc. develops and sells LTI external applications that integrate with Canvas LMS to support online instruction in higher education. Its core offerings are three Canvas-integrated software tools — CourseEval HQ (course evaluations), Adjust-All HQ (course date and settings management), and Accommodate HQ (student accommodations) — sold as annual subscriptions priced by institutional FTE, plus professional Canvas & Pedagogy training and Course Design Services.

Product overview

Etudes, Inc. is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization offering a suite of LTI-based tools integrated with Canvas LMS, along with professional services. The core product portfolio includes three Canvas-integrated applications: CourseEval HQ for course evaluations, Adjust-All HQ for course date and settings management, and Accommodate HQ for student disability accommodations. Additionally, Etudes offers Canvas & Pedagogy Training services and Course Design Services for instructional design support. All applications are LTI external applications that integrate tightly with Canvas and are hosted on Amazon Web Services cloud infrastructure.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• CourseEval HQ: LTI external application for administering course evaluations online in Canvas LMS with efficient creation and distribution of student evaluations.
• Adjust-All HQ
• Accommodate HQ

Products and services

• CourseEval HQ An LTI external application that integrates tightly with the Canvas learning platform to provide easy-to-use course evaluation functionality. Enables efficient creation and distribution of student evaluations campus-wide, within a division, or in a single course, with confidentiality protection, automatic result compilation and distribution, and response rate reporting.
• Adjust-All HQ
• Accommodate HQ
• Canvas & Pedagogy Training
• Course Design Services

Quantifiable outcome

• Foothill College piloted CourseEval HQ during 2016 Summer Session with 'resounding success'

Named customers2 records

Segments2 records

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration3 records

Feature3 records

Partnerships

One partnership is on record.

• Canvas Learning Management SystemcoreTechnology or IntegrationDeep LTI integration partnership with Canvas LMS. Etudes develops CourseEval HQ, Adjust-All HQ, and Accommodate HQ as external LTI applications that integrate tightly with Canvas, supporting terms, courses, rosters synchronization, and Canvas mail notifications.

Scale indicators3 records

Recent moves9 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Direct peers

• CidiLabs: Builds LTI-based tools that integrate with Canvas LMS to address accessibility, course design, and instructional workflow needs — directly overlapping with Etudes' product surface area in the same Canvas community college segment.
• EvaluationKIT: A Canvas LTI course evaluation tool used by higher education institutions, directly competing with CourseEval HQ in the student-faculty evaluation workflow.

Broad incumbents

• Anthology (formerly Campus Labs): Provides a broader suite of higher education tools including course evaluations, assessment, and accreditation management — competing with Etudes' evaluation product as part of a much larger EdTech portfolio.
• Watermark: Offers course evaluations and faculty activity reporting for higher education institutions, partially overlapping with CourseEval HQ while also addressing broader accreditation and faculty insight workflows.
• Explorance: Provider of course evaluation and feedback analytics for higher education, competing with CourseEval HQ in the institutional faculty/student evaluation market.
• Instructure (Canvas LMS): Maker of the Canvas LMS platform that Etudes integrates with; Instructure's own evolving ecosystem of native and partner tools creates both the opportunity and the platform-displacement risk for Etudes' LTI add-ons.
• D2L Brightspace: A competing LMS platform that Etudes explicitly mentions expanding into (alongside Sakai); D2L's third-party app ecosystem is a future battleground for Etudes' LTI tools.
• Blackboard: Major LMS provider with its own course evaluation and accessibility tooling; a potential expansion target for Etudes and a competitive incumbent that could bundle equivalent functionality.
• Qualtrics (Higher Ed): Survey platform with higher education–branded offerings for course evaluations and student feedback, representing an alternative to CourseEval HQ for institutions wanting a generalized survey tool with campus-wide licensing.

Emerging players

• SoftChalk: Provides LTI-integrated content authoring and course-building tools for LMS environments, comparable to Etudes' Course Design Services and adjacent to its LTI Canvas app model.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles6 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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