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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.

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Cut fail-rate 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.In a classroom, faculty 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...

Attendance

1 in 4

students are chronically absent, still elevated years after the shift online.

RAND / Return to Learn Tracker, 2024-25

Completion and retention

4 in 10

students drop out of college. About 2M a year leave with student loan debt, but no degree to help pay for that debt.

1 in 3

first-year students don't return for year two.

60%

of students don't finish a bachelor's in 4 years; 40% still haven't in 6.

National Center for Education Statistics (NCES / IPEDS)

AchievementHigher withdrawal rates

1 in 310–15%

students score below grade level. The lowest performers keep losing ground.for lower income and underprepared students in online courses.

The Nation's Report Card (NAEP), 2024Columbia University

CostEarnings and employment

$229K$1M

the cost of a K-12 education and lost potential when students don't finish.less in lifetime earnings without a degree, and twice as likely to be unemployed.

U.S. Census Bureau, FY2024Pew Research Center

ThreeThese are the stats that keep us up at night, and the reason we made Delphinium. 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 and students

“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
Schedule a demo Watch: Insightful data
Control Tower roster: every student in a row with grade, points, and green, yellow, or red activity and status flags.
Student detail panel showing grades, progress, observers, and engagement counts for past due, missing, and late work.

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 240 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
Message Center templates: Welcome to Class, Student Support Follow-Up, Weekly Progress Report, and Low Activity Warning, with default and disable settings.
Create Message window for personalized outreach, with a supportive note to students and an option to include observers.
Schedule a demo Watch: Communication that works!

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 like a gray wall of text.

CanvasA standard Canvas module: a gray list of pages, PDFs, and assignments for Unit 5, Nuclear Chemistry.
Canvas + Delphinium!The same kind of Canvas course with Delphinium on: a course home with teacher photo, a countdown to the last day to submit, and color-coded weekly unit cards with progress bars.

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.

Schedule a demo Watch: Meaningful engagement

“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 your 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.

Engagement Builder widgets: Who's Near Me alias leaderboard, prize boxes, an avatar, a percent-complete gauge, a performance ring, and achievements.
Who's Near Me alias leaderboard, prize boxes, and a student avatar.Percent of assignments complete gauge, performance ring, and achievements.

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"
Schedule a demo Watch: Effortless gamification

“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

See who's using Delphinium

Trusted by schools like yours.

  • Davis School District
  • Utah Virtual Academy
  • Baker Web Academy
  • Kings Peak High School
  • Kelsey Peak Virtual Middle School
  • Rocky Peak Virtual Elementary
  • American Heritage Online High School
  • Mewa
  • Virtual Prince William

The full story

Hear it from educators Who use Delphinium every day.

Digital Learning and Curriculum Directors
Teachers and Instructional Coaches

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 Delphinium 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.

  • 14 sections, ~420 students
  • High-enrollment, high-failure freshman gateway courses, just like the toughest ones at your school

The courses didn't change. The teachers didn't change. Engagement did, and so did the outcomes.

More from the UVU studies

  • 64% fewer failures for part-time faculty
  • 67% fewer withdrawals
  • 65% fewer dropouts

More motivation

72%

of students say a Delphinium course is more motivating than a traditional Canvas course.

In their words

“Fun.”

One of the most common words students reported 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 stay in sync with every student and build trust that fuels engagement
    • Parents and guardians get the visibility they need to support their student's success
Schedule a demo Watch: Evidence, research, and theory

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 get Delphinium-enhanced Canvas, 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.

FERPAHECVATWCAG 2.1 Level AALTI 1.3US-hosted on AWS

Schedule a demo Watch: Integration is easy!

Your schoolprogram already runs on Canvas, Make it work harder for you

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.

Schedule a demo with Jared

You're invited

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
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Delphinium End User License Agreement (EULA)

Delphi M.E., LLC

Effective / Last Reviewed: September 30, 2026

License Summary

(Non-binding overview — the full terms below control.)

  • Term follows the dates on your Order Form / invoice / Statement of Work (or agreed demo period).
  • You receive hosted access for educational use by your institution and Authorized Users — not a transferable software ownership sale.
  • You may not resell or re-license Delphinium as a product; using it inside tuition-bearing courses is allowed per your Order Form.
  • Student and institutional data are addressed in our Privacy Policy and any signed DPA — not transferred to Delphi as a sale of education records.
  • This Summary does not modify the binding terms below.

Preamble

This Agreement governs the relationship between the institutional purchaser identified on the applicable Order Form, invoice, or Statement of Work, and its Authorized Users (collectively, "Licensee"), and Delphi M.E., LLC, whose principal place of business is 1754 E 260 N, Spanish Fork, UT (hereinafter "Licensor"). This Agreement sets the terms, rights, restrictions, and obligations on accessing and using the Delphinium software and related SaaS services (hereinafter "The Software") created and owned by Licensor.

License Grant

Subject to this Agreement and timely payment of fees under the applicable Purchase Agreement / Order Form / invoice, Licensor grants Licensee a limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable, non-sublicensable (except to Authorized Users), revocable right to access and use The Software as a hosted SaaS service during the subscription Term, solely for Licensee's internal educational and administrative purposes (including delivery of courses to Licensee's enrolled students), in accordance with seat, course, and campus limits stated in the Order Form / invoice / Statement of Work.

"Authorized Users" means Licensee's employees, faculty, and staff (and, where the Order Form contemplates parent/guardian messaging features, parents/guardians contacted only as directed by Licensee), consistent with the Purchase Agreement. Students access The Software only through Licensee's LMS (e.g., Canvas/LTI) as enabled by Licensee; students are not independent licensees under this EULA.

Licensee may not resell, rent, or provide The Software as a standalone commercial product to third parties. Charging tuition or course fees for educational programs that use The Software as part of Licensee's curriculum is permitted and is not a prohibited resale of The Software.

Non-Assignable & Non-Transferable. Licensee may not assign or transfer rights and duties under this license except as the Purchase Agreement expressly permits (for example, to a successor educational entity).

Term

The Term of this license begins on the start date in the applicable Order Form, invoice, or Statement of Work (or the start of a mutually agreed demonstration period) and continues until the end date stated therein, unless earlier terminated under this Agreement or the Purchase Agreement.

Termination

Licensor may terminate this Agreement, including Licensee's license, if Licensee:

  1. becomes insolvent or otherwise enters into any liquidation process; or
  2. uses The Software in violation of applicable export-control laws; or
  3. is in material breach of this Agreement's terms and conditions and fails to cure within 30 days after written notice (or immediately if the breach is not reasonably curable); or
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  5. otherwise enters into any arrangement that causes Licensor to be unable to enforce its rights under this License.

Licensor may suspend access immediately for material Acceptable Use violations that threaten security or other customers, with notice when practicable.

Upon termination of this license, Licensor shall cease providing the SaaS Services unless a new license or agreement is signed.

Upon termination of this license and upon subsequent written request by the disclosing party, the receiving party of tangible Confidential Information shall return or destroy such information and provide written certification of such destruction, provided that the receiving party may permit its legal counsel to retain one archival copy in the event of a subsequent dispute. Customer Data is handled under the Customer Data section and the Privacy Policy / DPA, not solely under this Confidential Information paragraph.

Upgrades

Updates and Fixes: Licensor may provide Licensee, from time to time, with Upgrades, Updates or Fixes, as detailed herein and according to Licensor's sole discretion. Licensor shall provide any update or Fix free of charge; however, nothing in this Agreement shall require Licensor to provide Updates or Fixes.

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  • Fix: a minor amendment in The Software intended to remove bugs or alter minor features which impair The Software's functionality.

Support

Software is provided on an AS-IS basis and is supported only to the extent detailed in this agreement.

  • Bug Notification: Licensee may provide Licensor details regarding any bug, defect or failure in The Software promptly; Licensee shall comply with Licensor's request for information regarding bugs, defects or failures and furnish information, screenshots, and try to reproduce such bugs, defects or failures.
  • Feature Request: Licensee may request additional features in Software, provided, however, that (i) Licensee shall waive any claim or right in such feature should feature be developed by Licensor; (ii) Licensee shall be prohibited from developing the feature, or disclose such feature request, or feature, to any 3rd party directly competing with Licensor or any 3rd party which may be, following the development of such feature, in direct competition with Licensor; (iii) Licensee warrants that feature does not infringe any 3rd party patent, trademark, trade-secret or any other intellectual property right; and (iv) Licensee developed, envisioned or created the feature solely by himself.

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