diff --git a/Rakefile b/Rakefile
index db950723018..b9bec1ef509 100644
--- a/Rakefile
+++ b/Rakefile
@@ -8,5 +8,3 @@ require 'rake/testtask'
 Bundler.require(:i18n_tools)
 
 CanvasRails::Application.load_tasks
-
-begin; require 'parallelized_specs/lib/parallelized_specs/tasks'; rescue LoadError; end
diff --git a/lib/tasks/parallelized.rake b/lib/tasks/parallelized.rake
deleted file mode 100644
index 4660d0242c0..00000000000
--- a/lib/tasks/parallelized.rake
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,77 +0,0 @@
-# Don't load rspec if running "rake gems:*"
-unless ARGV.any? { |a| a =~ /\Agems/ }
-
-  namespace :parallel do
-
-    task :nonselenium, :count do |t, args|
-      Rake::Task['spec:plugin_non_parallel'].execute
-      Rake::Task['parallel:plugin_parallel'].invoke(args[:count])
-    end
-
-    task :plugin_parallel, :count do |t, args|
-      require "parallelized_specs"
-      count = args[:count]
-      test_files = FileList['{gems,vendor}/plugins/*/spec_canvas/**/*_spec.rb'].exclude(%r'spec_canvas/selenium') + FileList['spec/**/*_spec.rb'].exclude(%r'spec/selenium')
-      test_files.map! { |f| "#{Rails.root}/#{f}" }
-      Rake::Task['parallel:spec'].invoke(count, '', '', test_files.join(' '))
-    end
-
-    task :selenium, :count, :build_section do |t, args|
-      require "parallelized_specs"
-      #used to split selenium builds when :build_section is set split it in two.
-
-      test_files = FileList['spec/selenium/**/*_spec.rb'] + FileList['{gems,vendor}/plugins/*/spec_canvas/selenium/*_spec.rb']
-
-      test_files = test_files.to_a.sort_by! { |file| File.size(file) }
-      args[:build_section].to_i == 0 ? section = nil : section = args[:build_section].to_i
-
-      unless section.nil?
-        test_files_a_sum = 0
-        test_files_b_sum = 0
-        test_files_a = []
-        test_files_b = []
-        test_files.each do |file|
-          if test_files_a_sum < test_files_b_sum
-            test_files_a << file
-            test_files_a_sum += File.size(file)
-          else
-            test_files_b << file
-            test_files_b_sum += File.size(file)
-          end
-        end
-
-        case section
-          when 1
-            puts "INFO: running section 1"
-            #runs upper half of selenium tests
-            test_files = test_files_a
-          when 2
-            puts "INFO: running section 2"
-            #runs lower half of selenium tests
-            test_files = test_files_b
-          else
-            test_files = test_files_a + test_files_b
-        end
-      end
-      test_files.map! { |f| "#{Rails.root}/#{f}" }
-      test_files.each { |f| puts f }
-
-      Rake::Task['spec:selenium_non_parallel'].execute(test_files)
-
-      puts 'starting paralellized selenium spec runtime'
-      Rake::Task['parallel:spec'].invoke(args[:count], '', '', test_files.join(' '))
-    end
-
-    task(:pattern, :count, :file_pattern) do |t, args|
-      require "parallelized_specs"
-      count = args[:count]
-      file_pattern = args[:file_pattern]
-      if count.nil? || file_pattern.nil?
-        raise "Must specify a thread count and file pattern"
-      end
-      test_files = FileList[file_pattern]
-      test_files.map! { |f| "#{Rails.root}/#{f}" }
-      Rake::Task['parallel:spec'].invoke(count, '', '', test_files.join(' '))
-    end
-  end
-end