# Kannu Reviews **Vendor:** Kadenze **Category:** [Learning Management Systems](https://www.g2.com/categories/learning-management-system-lms) **Average Rating:** 4.7/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 19 ## About Kannu Kannu is a learning management system designed by educators, for educators. Our goal is to activate online learning with pedagogical flexibility and peer interaction, on a thoughtfully designed platform. With Kannu, courses are engaging, interactive, and customizable. ## Kannu Reviews ### 1. Excellent Service and Product **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Debra I. | Founder, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 16, 2021 **What do you like best about Kannu?** I love the people at Kannu, they are highly responsive and have helped me so much in building my school. **What do you dislike about Kannu?** I wish I had more options for sorting my classes **What problems is Kannu solving and how is that benefiting you?** I love all the options I have for class materials and community building. Its also well suited for creative classes which is rare to find. ### 2. Kannu for Art and Design Classes **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Michael F. | Adjunct Professor, Higher Education, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 05, 2018 **What do you like best about Kannu?** The overall modular approach lets many different instructors approach setting up classes differently. It's great for structuring your core classes to be consistently organized every semester. The system and software is easy to use for the instructors to setup with varying levels of tech experience. The students also like the organization and consolidated resources. **What do you dislike about Kannu?** Some of the initial set up is quite tedious and the dates don't transition well between semesters. The solutions for the user is to set up two different versions of the same class for different semesters, but it would be nice if there are some power user data modifications systems such as using a csv to manage all the dates **Recommendations to others considering Kannu:** Good for visual arts college classes, has lots of opportunities for customization and modular design **What problems is Kannu solving and how is that benefiting you?** Kannu helped keep some of the visual arts classes more organized and well documented. For design education classes, it helps provide a good basis for documenting student research. ### 3. Intuitive and elegant UI that encourage student engagement **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Nilesh T. | Head of Business Development, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 31, 2018 **What do you like best about Kannu?** 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 is very cool. This was our first step to encourage students to engage in peer assessment. Once they got used to commenting or liking a peer's work on the gallery, they were able to do more detailed and criteria referenced 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. **What do you dislike about Kannu?** 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). **Recommendations to others considering Kannu:** Kannu is suitable for media rich and student centric course delivery. It has a reasonable learning curve, so you might want to make the best use of the demo period by getting your instructional design leads / course authors to really build and deploy a micro course to familiarise with the workflow. **What problems is Kannu solving and how is that benefiting you?** Blended delivery of on-campus courses 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. ### 4. Kannu is a powerful and flexible tool for both teaching and learning **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Michael B. | Associate Dean, Higher Education, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 22, 2017 **What do you like best about Kannu?** The Kannu LMS continues to be a great tool that helps me to help for my students. The platform has the flexibility to format my courses the way I want to teach them. The process of creating a course on Kannu helps me to think through what I want to my students to learn and how I can guide them through the learning process. In this regard, Kannu is more than a learning management system, it is a vital part of my teaching practice. Anyone who has ever taught a course knows that unexpected tangents happen and these may often have a huge impact on student learning. This LMS allows me to add material that I could never have anticipated at the beginning of the semester or that was discovered by my students during the semester. This allows me to model real world, real time discovery and synthesis. This adds to the student experience far beyond just the content of the course. I appreciate the flexibility, but also the fact that I can copy a course from previous semesters to upcoming semesters. After all, some content is predictably similar among permutations of a single course. The value added when copying a course is that over time the content grows and the archive of resources can be curated as the subject matter itself develops and changes. **What do you dislike about Kannu?** All Learning Management Systems have a learning curve, Kannu is no different. Luckily the curve is fast. **What problems is Kannu solving and how is that benefiting you?** This program helps organize and deliver course resources to my students. I has the capacity help me evaluate and provide feedback to my students. ### 5. aesthetics matter; a thoughtfully designed and elegant LMS (at last) **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Ge W. | Associate Professor, Higher Education, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 21, 2017 **What do you like best about Kannu?** 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. **What do you dislike about Kannu?** Compared to other LMS's I've used, there is nothing Kannu does less effectively, and many things it does significantly better, more elegantly. **What problems is Kannu solving and how is that benefiting you?** full-featured LMS for the courses I teach at Stanford University, useful and elegant experience for my students. ### 6. A clean, usable system **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Rebecca F. | Senior Lecturer, Higher Education, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 25, 2017 **What do you like best about Kannu?** Kannu provides an easy to use and responsive interface for student learning, assessment, and online community. Plus it comes with features that are essential for people working with technology and media, such as the ability to work with program code, video, sound, etc. **What do you dislike about Kannu?** Kannu is not as flexible as tools like Moodle; it may not do absolutely everything you can imagine. But the tradeoff is that the things it does are actually very easy to understand, and it looks nice in the process. **Recommendations to others considering Kannu:** If the feature set matches what you need, I highly recommend it! Your students/users will be very happy. **What problems is Kannu solving and how is that benefiting you?** I have used Kannu to run an online course with several thousand students. It allows me to spend time interacting with students about the actual course content, not worrying about course logistics. ### 7. Kannu LMS review **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Jacob P. | Software Developer, Music, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 04, 2018 **What do you like best about Kannu?** I like the ease of use, ability to track all essential course needs, as well as facilitate interaction between students. **What do you dislike about Kannu?** It was sometimes a bit hard to know when I could scroll on a 13" macbook **What problems is Kannu solving and how is that benefiting you?** I was teaching a music technology course. It made tracking resources, assignments, and lessons a breeze. ### 8. Kannu adds self-learning to our university courses **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Priyanka S. | Program Director, Non-Profit Organization Management, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 23, 2017 **What do you like best about Kannu?** Capabilities for uploading and embedding rich media e.g. video, audio **What do you dislike about Kannu?** Nothing I dislike - but we’d love to use it to run student competitions with judging and feedback. **Recommendations to others considering Kannu:** Kannu looks and feels great! **What problems is Kannu solving and how is that benefiting you?** We needed a way for our in-person university students to self-learn and self-serve before and after our courses - they had pre-work and resources to prep before, and competitions to submit to afterwards. Kannu let us easily set up and run online components to these courses under our own organization’s brand with a lot of customization. ### 9. Kannu for teaching media-heavy classes **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Philippe P. | Associate Professor, Higher Education, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 20, 2017 **What do you like best about Kannu?** This LMS is the best to deal with media content. Given how pervasive these often heavy audio / video / media files are, Kannu is handling it best. The online galleries are second to none too. **What do you dislike about Kannu?** The one thing that I think could be improved is the resources associated with a given class. Right now, it is just a list of links and adding structure to this would be useful. **What problems is Kannu solving and how is that benefiting you?** Kannu is helping to solve the problem of online teaching of media-heavy and computer-intensive classes. ### 10. Kannu is flexible and elegant **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Carl L. | Assistant Professor, Higher Education, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 06, 2017 **What do you like best about Kannu?** Kannu support is top notch. I've always gotten a prompt and thorough reply and I can tell that my input is making a difference in the direction of the product. Kannu makes it very easy to manage student submissions, which is a big deal for us because our projects have complex and varied deliverables. As an art and design school, interface and experience is important. Kannu is well designed, and the experience had by students is consistent with our aesthetic and interface standards. Finally, this is not glamorous, but extremely important: Kannu functions well as a communication platform for the course. Communications between faculty and students, students and students, and students and TAs can all happen in one place. **What do you dislike about Kannu?** Our school is a "google apps" integrated through and through. We use google apps, especially google drive, for everything. I would love to see Kannu/google drive integration. Without that, there are a few tasks that end up being redundant, such as end of semester archival and departmental selection of the best work. **What problems is Kannu solving and how is that benefiting you?** I teach large coordinated studio classes (multiple sections of students, I teach a section and lead a team of teachers who each have their own sections). Organization takes a huge amount of time. Kannu keeps us all on the same page and saves me so much time that I would otherwise spend holding meetings. ### 11. Easy to use for all of my classroom/teaching needs **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Spencer S. | Special Faculty, Higher Education, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 24, 2017 **What do you like best about Kannu?** Ease of use, fluid interface for adding lectures and creating/grading coursework **What do you dislike about Kannu?** Sometimes loads a little slowly; doesn't always look right on my desktop computer screen **What problems is Kannu solving and how is that benefiting you?** Kannu solves our problem of posting lecture materials for our students to see, posting assignments, and tracking student progress through the course. ### 12. Intuitive, clean, and elegant learning management system. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Joshua V. | Associate Professor of Architecture, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 27, 2017 **What do you like best about Kannu?** The interface is intuitive, customer service (when I do have a question or problem) has been excellent! Also much nicer graphics and visual layouts than other learning management systems I've used in the past. **What do you dislike about Kannu?** The Session Media portion seems a bit clunky to me--I haven't found a good use for it yet. However, this is trivial compared to the rest of the system. **What problems is Kannu solving and how is that benefiting you?** Easier time managing university level course--lectures, resources, coursework, grading and feedback. ### 13. Developing a course on Kannu **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Higher Education | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 24, 2017 **What do you like best about Kannu?** The community aspect really sets it apart from the competition. More than the other products out there it emphasizes the communal nature of learning and takes pains to produce a social learning environment online. **What do you dislike about Kannu?** I wish their was a lightweight version for managing traditional classes so i could offer students a seamless experience. **What problems is Kannu solving and how is that benefiting you?** Quickly able to create a full online course. ### 14. Kannu is awesome **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Donna B. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 29, 2017 **What do you like best about Kannu?** I love the flexibility of the platform. We have been able to plug in our curriculum to the Kannu tool set and create a robust education experience for our learners. **What do you dislike about Kannu?** There is nothing to dislike. Kannu has enabled us to bring our program to life with ease. **What problems is Kannu solving and how is that benefiting you?** Scaling a curriculum to reach more students ### 15. Kannu is an LMS leader **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Christoph Alexander G. | Founder and CEO, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 09, 2017 **What do you like best about Kannu?** Kannu offers an elegant and sophisticated learning management system that is easy to use. It only takes a couple quick clicks to upload video content, add/delete quizzes and format tests to create a superbly engaging experience for students. **What do you dislike about Kannu?** There are too many features available that I haven't had time to use! Honestly, I wish I could see more analytics on individual user engagement but I have been told that this is in the pipeline. **Recommendations to others considering Kannu:** Finalize your education and student engagement strategy so the Kannu team can help you get started with all the right features on their LMS. Don't try to teach yourself everything on your own because the Kannu team is there to help with product support. **What problems is Kannu solving and how is that benefiting you?** I use Kannu to manage my "One Minute Academy", whereby students from around the world learn to film and edit one minute videos (http://www.oneminuteacademy.org/). Kannu is streamlined, elegant, powerful and the perfect fit for us because we're trying to deliver high quality educational content through a safe and encrypted online learning platform. ### 16. Kannu is a platform that is designed for managing a using contents intuitively and flexibly **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Higher Education | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 23, 2017 **What do you like best about Kannu?** Simplicity and accessibility of use. The graphic layout is beautiful and the quality of substancial information is excellent **What do you dislike about Kannu?** There is nothing that I particularly dislike **What problems is Kannu solving and how is that benefiting you?** Effective Learning Management System ### 17. Good Learning Management System - especially for visual learners **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Gina G. | Director of Operations and Programs, Design, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 17, 2016 **What do you like best about Kannu?** We've worked with Kannu for more than a year now and overall are happy with the service and the versatility of the product. It is a great looking portal. We looked at a lot of systems and most are outdated and don't work for visual learners (which is almost everyone). Kannu has an updated app like interface that is easy to use. They regularly provide smart upgrades. **What do you dislike about Kannu?** We would like more extensive on-boarding. Videos that help our students with the portal would be great. Some features are a little tricky but once you've got them down, they work well. **Recommendations to others considering Kannu:** They are a newer company and as a result, try harder. Especially good from smaller programs (we are a boutique school). **What problems is Kannu solving and how is that benefiting you?** We have an online program and this portal is responsive and user friendly. It also works for our on ground classroom management. Students are able to find resources from our classes easy as they are a click away. They like it too. ### 18. Ali Akbar College of Music Uses Kannu **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Music | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 18, 2016 **What do you like best about Kannu?** This is the first time we have used a product to manage our online class webinars, and we are enjoying the simplicity of the final product that our students interact with. In the past, our interaction with our students was primarily through emails, and sorting through the emails to find lessons was cumbersome. We don't actually use many of the features Kannu offers, mostly because of the size of our organization, but what we do use has streamlined our webinar interactions with the students in a very beneficial way. The setup was easy to understand because of the personal training session I received, and Kannu's customer service is amazing. When issues have arisen their response has been prompt and the follow through has been quick. They were responsive to the needs of our school and tailored a few sections the way we needed things to run. **What do you dislike about Kannu?** When we first started, back in February 2016, there were a few bugs in the system that needed to be worked out. However, Kannu has just launched, so I wasn't surprised by it. 7 months later, many positive changes have taken place and things have evened out for us. **Recommendations to others considering Kannu:** If you are a small organization, like us, Kannu is a great way to manage online classes without needing a large staff. **What problems is Kannu solving and how is that benefiting you?** Organization of our review classes, getting the links out to the students and interaction between our online students was cumbersome in the past. Having one easy to use portal for all of our classes has made the administration end of our job a breeze, and our student's satisfaction with the ease of use of the product has made the maintenance of the classes enjoyable. This wasn't always the case. ### 19. The future of higher education, online learning, and corporate training **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Jay L. | Executive Director, Non-Profit Organization Management, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 15, 2016 **What do you like best about Kannu?** Kadenze's Kannu is an incredibly flexible business model and versatile platform. We were looking for a solid tool to build our own portal for Real Industry's educational content and also white label the platform for prospective industry partners. Kadenze said “no problem.” Did I mention that we’re a small non-profit - not a Fortune 500 company or a major University? My students have found their courseware “refreshing and pleasant to use.” The product design is clean and intuitive for both viewing and completing assignments. The dashboards for educators are simplified and user friendly - no user manual required to update, create assignments, view grades and performance analytics. I use this platform for teaching at top universities (Stanford, University of Michigan, NYU,...) but also have portals for running academic workshops, small group tutoring, and even corporate training! **What do you dislike about Kannu?** Analytics are available to instructors, but not quite as robust as you'll get from other platforms... yet! **What problems is Kannu solving and how is that benefiting you?** Platform to use for teaching at major universities; platform that can also be used as a custom portal with our 3rd party workshops and content partners ## Kannu Discussions - [What is Kannu used for?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-is-kannu-used-for) - [View Kannu pricing details and edition comparison](https://www.g2.com/products/kannu/reviews?section=pricing&secure%5Bexpires_at%5D=2026-05-13+08%3A48%3A19+-0500&secure%5Bsession_id%5D=2e80df49-30d9-4ce9-aab4-a906dc7535f5&secure%5Btoken%5D=ff3c7fd4a451d797bc927d0054b3a1bb81ef5d3a4cd02ba9deb34863c378bcbe&format=llm_user) ## Kannu Features **Generative AI** - AI Text Generation - AI Text Summarization **Course Authoring** - Course Builder - Role-Based Templates - Assessments & Quizzes - Instructor-Led Training **Course Delivery** - Learning Paths - Communication & Notifications - Assignment Scheduling **Course Management** - Gamification - Varied User Types - Certifications - Industry Compliance **Platform** - Customization - Integration APIs - Internationalization - User, Role, and Access Management - Performance - Mobility - Reporting - Dashboards **LMS Marketplace** - E-Commerce - Course Marketplace - Subscriptions **Interface** - White Labeling - Multilingual **Training & eLearning** - Assessments and Practice - Content Delivery and Tracking - Content Creation - Customer Training - Manager Portals - Content Storage and Management - Content Libraries **Generative AI** - AI Text Generation - AI Text Summarization - AI Text-to-Image **Agentic AI - Corporate Learning Management Systems ** - Adaptive Learning - Natural Language Interaction **Platform Features** - Interactive Quizzes - Presentation Building - Instant Messaging - Student Assignment Distribution - Student Assignment Collection - Shared Content Libraries ## Top Kannu Alternatives - [Canvas LMS](https://www.g2.com/products/canvas-lms/reviews) - 4.5/5.0 (1,730 reviews) - [Moodle](https://www.g2.com/products/moodle/reviews) - 4.1/5.0 (431 reviews) - [Google Classroom](https://www.g2.com/products/google-classroom/reviews) - 4.5/5.0 (1,467 reviews)