Trust Index · Work, school and software
Instructure (Canvas) gets a D. Here's what loads before you agree
Checked October 25, 2026 in a US browser, with no choice made on any banner.
Grade D
instructure.com
65/100
- Online since 1998, 28 years
- No consent banner seen
Consent and tracking45
Security85
Accessibility56
Transparency90
What cost it points
- high
Ad networks log your visit before you choose.
- high
Screen readers can't describe these images.
- high
Form fields have no labels.
- medium
One hijacked script could reach the whole page.
- medium
No banner asks you, so there's nothing to refuse.
- low
No terms of use link found.
- low
Embedded frames have no names.
- low
Headings don't outline the page.
- low
"Learn more" links don't say where they go.
What loaded before you chose
Third-party trackers that fired before any choice, across 2 visits.
- Ad trackers
- Google Ads / DoubleClick, Meta (Facebook) Pixel, LinkedIn Insight, X (Twitter) Ads
- Analytics
- None
- Cookies before a choice
- 19
- Session recording
- None
- Consent banner
- None
- Opt-out link
- Yes
The fine print
- Terms of use
- Couldn't read it
- Privacy policy
- 5 min read (opens in a new tab) · 1,148 words
- Forced arbitration
- Unknown
- Class-action waiver
- Unknown
- AI in the privacy policy
- None
- Accessibility statement
- Yes
Read automatically, so unusual wording can be missed. Not scored.
Security
- HTTPS
- Yes
- HSTS
- Yes
- Content-Security-Policy
- No
- Framing blocked
- Yes
- Secret keys in code
- None
- security.txt
- Yes
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