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Scaffold Archiving

An archiving solutionfor your Canvas LMS.

Back up your courses, reduce clutter, and secure your data — maintaining a cleaner Canvas instance results in cleaner, more targeted data.

What it is

Archiving, purpose-built for Canvas.

Scaffold Archiving for Canvas allows Canvas customers to archive course content and student data on an archiving platform that fully integrates with Canvas. Institutions can back up, access, and retrieve content at any time.

Reduce your institution's risk of security breaches and compliance issues related to your aging student data.

Fig. 01 — Scaffold Archiving for Canvas

Customer voice

“We needed a way to back up and secure our course content and data, and that's what we got. With Scaffold Archiving, we can secure our student data, stay compliant, and remain in good standing for accreditation purposes.”

Sam Kelly — LMS & Senior Systems Administrator

What you get

Active archiving, always within reach.

Scaffold Archiving works by extracting course content and student data from your Canvas platform, then storing it securely on K16 Solutions' state-of-the-art Scaffold Platform. Course content and student data remain integrated with your Canvas instance and easily accessible at all times. Users can push individual archived course content back into the LMS and retrieve student data and submissions as needed.

  1. Step 01

    Active Archiving

    Content and data can easily move back and forth between the Scaffold Archiving platform and your Canvas LMS with a push of a button.

  2. Step 02

    Ensures Compliance

    Retain student data for accreditation purposes and manage submissions to comply with data privacy laws.

  3. Step 03

    Content Availability

    Archived content is fully searchable through an LMS-like interface, not stored in zip files or cold storage.

Course content availability

Easily access historical Canvas LMS course content whenever needed:

  • Institutions can access archived course content for grade challenges, audits, and accreditation purposes.
  • Archived content, available whenever you want — yet secure
Course content availability illustration
Fig. 02 — Course content availability

Student data retention

Retain student data, indefinitely

Retain student data and content indefinitely — view, review, or export. Captured content includes:

  • Enrollment Information
  • Student Submissions & Feedback
  • Discussions & Replies
  • Assignments & File Attachments
  • Quizzes
  • Gradebook

Get started

Ready to take control of your data?

See how the Scaffold Platform unifies, migrates, and archives your institution’s data — in a demo tailored to your systems.

  • SOC 2 Type II
  • ISO 27001
  • FERPA Aligned