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Kannu(R) is a learning management system that connects people. It's beautiful, modern, and user-friendly. Businesses are using Kannu in all sorts of ways: raising the quality of product training, accelerating employee onboarding, or selling beautiful courses on a customized learning platform. Whether you have ten or ten-thousand users, Kannu scales with you. Now with native support for multiple languages.
Provider
Kadenze
Located In
United States
Foundation
2013
Open API
Unverified
Deployment
Cloud, SaaS, Web-Based
Training
Videos, Webinars, Live Online, In Person, Documentation
Support
Phone Support, Email/Help Desk, Chat
Businesses, universities, colleges & nonprofits use Kannu to raise quality of training/education, accelerate employee onboarding, and sell exceptional user experience courses on a customized platform.
Content Source: Kannu
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Kannu Reviews
Pros
It's especially terrific for media and has many features to handle animations, video, and programming work. The galleries are great and overall the visual design of the platform is beautiful.
Simplicity and accessibility of use. The graphic layout is beautiful and the quality of substancial information is excellent.
We love using Kannu for the CalArts CAP CABLE class - Harmony has been exceptionally excellent in customer support too.
I loved Kannu from the beginning because it was clear that they had a team of great designers. I didn't have being on the site like I normally do with lms.
Cons
Students had problems with uploading coursework. I had problems with posting comments, critiques, and grades.
We would run into occasional bugs and hiccups in the system but the team at Kadenze was always quick to respond and address the problems.
However, we are still finding it hard to facilitate this.
So back to the lms tools and our old one had a lot of things missing. Most notably, a community feature.
"aesthetics matters; a thoughtfully designed and elegant LMS (at last)"
Pros: Finally, a LMS whose interface was clearly designed by people who care about making full-featured systems, understand the importance of elegance, and grok the educational experience for teachers and students. Having long struggled with Coursework (tolerable) and Canvas (yikes), working with Kannu has been a breath of fresh air: 1) it doesn't feel like an endless hodge-podge of obligatory features checked off by some corporate committee, but a purposeful integration designed by educators; 2) the portfolio feature is simply excellent, particularly for courses with creative projects. Its presentation really elevates (rightfully) a sense of accomplishment and pride for the student as they go from project to project, and something they can later point to as part of a job application. LMS's are complex, and Kannu is no different (there is a learning curve). Yet Kannu is lightyears better than other LMS's I've used for one core reason: everything about it gives me the sense that it intensely cares about its quality of use, and by extension what my students and I can do with it.
"Intuitive and elegant UI that encourage student engagement"
Overall: Blended delivery of on-campus courses with Kannu helped reduce tutorial time. It is also helping to reduce the time spent on grading standardised assessments. We rolled out bite sized online courses that cater to a large segment of learners who could not come to our campus. This helped us make education accessible and affordable.
Pros: Course cards look very cool, modern and clean and is one of the most elegant course catalogue looks I've come across. Session and coursework building is simple, quick and efficient. Excellent communication features. We use the individual and group messages with students a lot. And students love to use these too since they have very familiar look and feel like popular social messaging apps. The Course Galley feature was our first step to encourage students to engage in peer assessment. The entire faculty team love the announcement feature, especially the ability to schedule any number of future announcements. We use them a lot to remind students to keep up with learning tasks, due dates, etc. All it takes is an hour at the beginning to the term to set up the entire messaging for the term (with planning of course!) Automatic grading of quizzes is a huge time saver, especially for classes with peak student numbers. We even run final exams in full automation by programming the start time, end time and fully automatic grading. In-video quizzes is simply awesome. Helps heaps to make videos into interactive learning tools with very simple quiz setup. This is a gem. And finally, the folks at Kadenze work with us (you) to solve challenges and to roll out features. Kadenze doesn't treat us like another client, we feel we are in a learning technology partnership, and that gives us the confidence to disrupt course delivery practices and effect change.
Cons: A faster server would be great (we can never get enough speed, can we?! :) ). Also, a deeper drill down of individual student engagement analytics would be awesome. We believe this is in the works. The App version of the Kannu is awaited. Though the mobile version of Kannu works/feels almost like an app, ability to send push notifications, etc. would be awesome. We would have loved to have the ability to lock/release individual sessions based on completion of the previous lesson in the sequence (and not just by time/date).
"Kannu support needs improvement"
Overall: I've taught online courses in design and drawing since 2007. I've experienced several different LMS as an instructor and a student. I have had the worst experience with Kannu, and the lack of responsiveness to cries for help is not acceptable. My overall experience was not easy, and I spent a LOT of time trouble-shooting. Right now, I'm attempting to download my courses and continue to receive error messages via email, and support tickets remain unanswered.
Pros: Having used other LMS platforms, Kannu didn't measure up. I didn't like much about it.
Cons: I want better instructor support. There's delayed or no response to support tickets/requests. There's no chat or ability to call and TALK WITH A HUMAN to resolve problems. Students had problems with uploading coursework. I had problems with posting comments, critiques, and grades.
"Very polished, friendly system"
Overall: It helped me run my MOOC
Pros: The system is easy for students and instructors to navigate, and it has a very polished feel throughout. I've used Moodle and Blackboard in teaching, and they are much clunkier and less intuitive for students (not to mention they are very ugly out of the box, and it takes a talented internal tech team to make Moodle/blackboard look good).
Cons: It is not as customisable as Moodle/Blackboard. For instance, group submissions are not supported as far as I'm aware.
"2 years using Kannu"
Overall: Support was quick and effective.
Pros: The site looked great, and was simple to use. Minimum additional instruction was needed when introducing users to the site - navigation was very obvious.
Cons: Video upload & processing could take quite a long time. When setting up repeats of a course, every element needed the dates manually changed and publishing.
