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Canvas course design system

Scaffold

Scaffold gives course teams approved templates, reusable components, in-line editing and quality checks inside Canvas, so every course can be consistent, accessible and recognisably yours.

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The problem

Course quality shouldn't depend on who has time to format it

When every team builds independently, learners encounter inconsistent navigation and design, quality teams repeat the same checks, and small content changes require specialist support.

Static templates help at the beginning but are difficult to govern over time. Manual audits find problems late, after rework is already expensive.

Scaffold embeds your institution's patterns and expectations into the Canvas authoring experience. It gives the people closest to the content more independence while protecting the structure, accessibility and brand standards the institution needs.

What Scaffold changes

What Scaffold does

Start from an approved structure

Build with course and page templates aligned to your pedagogy, quality framework and brand, instead of beginning from a blank page.

Create with reusable components

Pre-approved layouts and content blocks make complex pages easier to build and more predictable for learners.

Edit directly inside Canvas

Instructors and learning designers update content through a guided in-line experience, no raw HTML or moving between disconnected tools.

Check quality earlier

Accessibility, consistency and completeness issues identified before release, designed and tested with WCAG 2.2 AA requirements in mind, so teams can correct them during production rather than at final audit.

Extend the learner experience

Purpose-built tools like contextual glossaries, bookmarking and improved rubric workflows, added where they support the course experience.

Govern at scale

A common design language across faculties and programs, with appropriate flexibility retained for discipline and teaching context.

How it works

Curio configures Scaffold around your institutional patterns, standards and Canvas environment. Authors assemble and edit courses using approved templates and components. Quality checks flag defined issues before publication, and teams review course quality and improve the design system as needs evolve.

178+ clients
500k+ learning hours
7 countries
2016 since
Designed for

Who Scaffold is built for

  • Institutions creating or uplifting many Canvas courses
  • Learning-design teams that need to increase production capacity
  • Quality teams seeking more consistent standards and evidence
  • Faculties that need controlled flexibility rather than identical courses
  • Teaching staff who should be able to make safe content updates themselves
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