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New Mexico State Chooses Canvas

New Mexico State University was founded in 1890. Its first graduating class, the class of 1893, had just one member – Samuel Steel. Unfortunately, Steel was shot and killed shortly before graduation (so it went in the wild, wild West). Since that time, the school has had quite a bit more success in graduating its students, and is now the home of illustrious programs like the Chile Pepper Institute (home of the world’s hottest pepper!), the NMSU Physical Sciences Laboratory (a partnership with NASA), and the Institute for Energy and Environment.

This pepper was specially bred to hold more cheese.
Now that's innovation.

Obviously, NMSU is an innovative school. Well, they just got more innovative. Today they announced that they have selected Instructure Canvas to replace their existing Blackboard LMS. Why did they choose Canvas? Well, they cited ease of use and Web 2.0 features like social media integration, SpeedGrader™, and streamlined multimedia as major deciding factors. We could say more, but Project Manager Steve Leask said it best: "While the other applications were the next version, Canvas was the next generation."

Welcome to the Canvas family, NMSU!