Attendance
1 in 4
students are chronically absent, still elevated years after the shift online.
RAND / Return to Learn Tracker, 2024-25
Canvas delivers content.Delphinium delivers Engagement!
Delphinium transforms the Canvas courses you already teach into engaging student experiences and an early-warning system for parents and teachers. No migration. No extra work. Just turn it on.
Cut failures, up to31%!
- Go live in less than 3 minutes. Keep Canvas, enhance with Delphinium.
- Zero learning curve. Teachers keep using Canvas exactly as before.
- Built on science. 14 years of published behavioral research.
The hidden costs
Education moved online, Engagement didn't follow.
In a classroom, teachers can read the room, catch a glance, and stand by the student who is drifting. None of that survives the move to a screen.
When engagement breaks down...
Achievement
1 in 3
students score below grade level. The lowest performers keep losing ground.
The Nation's Report Card (NAEP), 2024
Cost
$229K
the cost of a K-12 education and lost potential when students don't finish.
U.S. Census Bureau, FY2024
Three crises, one cause: disengagement. Doing nothing is the most expensive option you have.
Canvas knows who's falling behind. It just won't tell you.
Every missed login, late assignment, and skipped module is a warning sign. Canvas records all the signals, then scatters them across pages nobody has time to read. By the time a struggling student shows up in the gradebook, the window to help them has often already closed.
Invisible until it's too late
Struggling students rarely speak up. They go quiet, one missed assignment at a time, until they're too far behind to catch up.
Thirty messages, one at a time
Every check-in is written by hand, one student at a time. So most of the messages that could save a student never get sent.
Detective work, not teaching
You get hours of digging through gradebooks and reports, paid for with nights and weekends instead of time with students.
Parents in the dark
Parents want to be the coach in their kid's corner, but most find out they're struggling after it's too late.
Stop hunting for struggling students, Delphinium brings them to you.
Control Tower
See everything, Act in seconds.
Delphinium pulls all of Canvas's scattered data into one clear view, so teachers see who needs support at a glance, and can reach out in seconds.
- Turn Canvas into an early-warning powerhouse
- Red, yellow, and green reveal who needs help first
- One click gives the full picture: grades, progress, missing and late work, and more!
- Send mass messages to parents
“I can see, with color, my students' progress – see their points, their percentages… to tell me where a student is very quickly. This has saved most of my Saturday nights!”
Natalie NiederhauserHigh School Math Teacher, Davis Connect
Community Builder
The right nudge, Right on time.
Stop blasting the whole class. Target exactly the students who need to hear from you, with exactly the right information – automatically. And include their parents too!
Right message, right person
- Message one student, a group, or the whole class
- Trigger outreach automatically from performance data
- Automatically personalize with students' data
- Keep parents in the loop with a single click
- Auto-translate into 240160 languages
Less work, wider reach
- Schedule messages to arrive at just the right time
- Progress reports and reminders that send themselves
- Start from a saved template, or let AI draft for you
- One message, six channels: Canvas, personal email, SMS, etc.
- One history of who was told what, and when
“You just saved me hours of mail merging! This saves teachers so much time and really brings that part of personalized learning that we all strive to reach.”
Sarah RuizCurriculum Director
“We can send targeted communication to specific groups of kids – and the data shows us exactly who those kids are.”
Ryan HansenDigital Learning Director
Early intervention for every at-risk student. Do more, in less time.
Engagement Builder
Which class would YOU rather finish?
For online students, Canvas is school, and too often it looks too often looks like a gray wall of text.
Clear progress. Real wins.
When it's hard to see progress and what's next, students fall behind without realizing it. One missed assignment becomes three, grades start to slip, and by the time a student realizes they're behind, catching up feels out of reach.
With Delphinium, students can see at a glance what's done, what's in progress, and what comes next, so they own the journey. And parents get the same view! Turn parents from frustrated bystanders into the support system every student needs.
“If you ask kids, they don't like Canvas. It's basic… it needs something else to engage…”
Ryan HansenDigital Learning Director
“I was sitting on the couch watching Netflix and the thought popped into my head: I could be doing homework right now, and I did!”
Delphinium student survey response
Nobody quits when they're winning.
Every app on a student's phone is designed to capture their attention. Delphinium brings that same science of engagement into Canvas, so students build toward mastery instead of watching their grade slip away. Those apps took years to build. Adding Delphinium only takes minutes.
Delphinium automatically creates success signals and milestones from the course you've already built. And teachers can always customize every piece.
- Progress they can feel – Color-coded trackers count every point earned
- Always a next step – Students know what's done, what's due, and where to go
- Encouraging success signals – Avatars, prize boxes, achievements, celebrations, and more
- Learning WITH others – Anonymous and optional comparison and competition build community
- Urgency students can see – Nudges keep "I'll do it later" from turning into "I forgot"
“Our students absolutely love the interactive elements where they earn points to enhance their avatars and unlock prize boxes.”
“We have had students redo a quiz that they did poorly on to earn more points so they could just earn googly eyes for their avatar!”
Tiffany DanceInstructional Coach
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Proof
Years of research behind every design decision.
Long before Delphinium was a product, its founders were researchers, studying what actually drives students to engage, and publishing what they found. Every engagement principle in the platform is grounded in peer-reviewed research, built on decades of work by the field's leading scholars.
- Peer-reviewed14 yrsof published research behind the platform
- Publications10peer-reviewed studies & book chapters
- Cited by the field230+citations by other researchers
The Davis Connect study
31%
decrease in course failure rates.
Davis School District, Utah. 72 online classes and 6,000 students.
The courses didn't change. The teachers didn't change. Engagement did, and so did the outcomes.
More motivation
72%
of students say a Delphinium course is more or much more motivating than a traditional Canvas course.
In their words
“Fun.”
One of the most common words used when we ask how a Delphinium course is different.
Delphinium is built on three proven theories of student engagement
Self-regulated learning
When students have the right information, they can set meaningful goals, monitor their progress, and reflect on what's working, adapting and driving their own learning.
In Delphinium
- Students see their progress, performance, and priorities at a glance
- Progress updates create a feedback loop students use to adjust and improve
- A clear view of the whole journey helps students set goals and take ownership
Behavioral economics (Nudge theory)
When next steps are clear, timely, and easy to act on, students are more likely to follow through and build momentum toward success.
In Delphinium
- Clear visual cues make priorities and next steps easy to follow
- Timely nudges prompt action before students fall behind
- Celebrations and success signals reinforce momentum and persistence
Social presence
When students feel seen, connected, and supported, they are more likely to engage, participate, and persist.
In Delphinium
- Personalized outreach helps students feel seen and valued
- Students feel the class moving around them and know they're not alone
- Teachers reach the right student at the right moment, before silence turns into withdrawal
Easy to deploy
Teachers and content don't change, Engagement does.
Lightning fast setup
Go live in less than three minutes. Delphinium adds a layer over the Canvas courses you already have and builds itself from your existing content. You keep Canvas, just enhanced, with no migration, no rebuild, and no new platform.
Zero learning curve
Teachers keep using Canvas exactly as before. Edits in Canvas flow through automatically. Teachers do not learn a new tool. And because every course shares the same layout, students can navigate all their classes with ease.
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Your turn
See Delphinium on one of your Canvas courses.
Meet Dr. Jared R. Chapman, the researcher behind Delphinium. See how it will work in your Canvas courses and get your questions answered.
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Delphinium + your Canvas courses
Dr. Jared R. ChapmanThe researcher behind Delphinium
Good to know
- No migration to plan
- Nothing to install before the call
- You stay in Canvas