Product Roadmap: Driving Innovation, Engagement and Lifelong Learning through the Instructure Ecosystem
Alright. We've got a ton of really talented product people who are gonna talk you through our road map, share some of the ways that we think about how our product influences and hopefully improves, the educational outcomes that all of you are working towards. So without further ado, it is my very great pleasure to welcome two of the most talented and innovative people that I know. Sharon and Michael, please come up to the stage. Hello, everyone. Good afternoon.
We are so excited to be here. I'm Sharon Vijay Singh. I'm the Chief Product Officer here at Instructure. And I'm Michael Leiser, chief technology officer. So we're here mainly to introduce, the the real speakers, the real talent behind all the work that we're gonna do.
But we're so excited to be here. We wanted to to spend some time with you all and, get to know you a little bit. And one of the things that, you know, we've heard from, a number of the conversations we've been having is we have this product that's a global product, and we're building it for a global audience for folks just like you. And so one of the things that, Michael and I bring uniquely to the table, is that we both hail from different different parts of the world than America. Right? So I was born in Malaysia, and Michael can speak to his, his Irish traditions here, but I think that shapes, our global perspective as we think about the products that we're building for you all.
No. That's good. Alright. So, you're gonna hear from a couple of folks today, but I'll talk a bit about the themes you're gonna hear, in our sessions. So we're gonna we're gonna talk through the product investments or product and technology investments together in sort of three core areas.
The first area, obviously near and dear to you, is just innovating in the teaching and learning experience. This is a place where you all, where your teams, where your educators, they're spending the most time, and how are we doing things to improve those core the core experiences to help make your jobs a little easier, to help save time through those kinds of things. We also know that we've got a huge ecosystem of partners, many of whom you've seen out in, the partner hall areas, and many of whom are sitting in the room here with you. And so we know that working with those partners is something you want to be really seamless, and so we'll be talking a little bit about how all of these things can connect together more seamlessly to make the tool ecosystem really effective. And the third thing that I've been hearing more and more recently is this idea of a lifelong learning journey.
A learner who may be pursuing learning at multiple stages of their, of their life, even in career, even post career. And so you'll be hearing some themes around this idea of lifelong learning and how that fits through core Canvas offerings as well as all of our other products and offerings around it. Yeah. And underpinning this is a deep investment by us in our technology and our platforms. So, I think with the, evolution of Gen AI, we're seeing the pace of technology change and advance, at a pace we haven't seen before.
But it's not just that. We're investing in all areas of our technology. So whether it's core infrastructure, whether how we ship and how we build code so we can do that better and faster, with a higher quality bar, or how how we instantiate our infrastructure. We're working on a global identity that is going to allow, you and all our users and students to have a global, identifier that they can use to log in across all our product portfolio. But it also unlocks things like, learner mobility or more fine grain controls fine grain controls over your security.
So if you wanna turn on multi factor authentication, etcetera. And it's it goes deeper. It's, every conversation I'm having with, whether it's faculty or the educational institutions, privacy, security, accessibility is coming up in every single one of those conversations, and we're deeply investing in those as well. So, you know, it's the underpinning of the product investments starts with a foundational, investment in our technology. And the way we're thinking about it is as technology changes, we want to be your partner and evolve for the next decade and beyond so that we can have better outcomes for all of our students.
Great. So with that, we'll bring on the real talent, starting with Joao and then followed by Zach who will tell you a little bit about about the the road map and the strategy. So come on up, Joao. Thank you so much, Sharyn. Thank you so much, Michael, not only for this brilliant introduction, but also for being here with us today.
Sorry. I needed to talk a little bit of Spanish as we are in Barcelona. I'm Joel Silveira, and I'm the global growth product manager for the EMEA region. Meaning that my main objective, my main responsibility by being the g g p m, as we like to call it internally, is to really make sure that all the necessities, all the objectives of our institutions, as well as the challenges that we have as a region, are not only being well known by our teams of product development, but they are being addressed as well when we are creating new products and new features here at Instructure. It is in that sense that the first thing that I must say here is just a big, big thank you for everyone that I've been having the privilege to meet and learn all different languages on how to say thank you as well here from the EMEA region.
This has been instrumental for me to understand really what are the challenges that we have, as well as to pass this on to our product teams. And it's because of those communications that we have been having, through user groups, meetings, individually, webinars, and so many other opportunities of communication, And I'm very excited today to talk a little bit about the things that we have created, and we'll be creating in the future as well, in terms of road map. Of course, taking into consideration the three, product investment teams that we have. So starting with the innovating for the teaching and learning experience, honestly, the bread and butter, or the rice and beans as I come from Brazil, of the whole work in between the communication of teachers, students, and admins within our products. Here, honestly, we have been done so many things, over the product and investments in the innovation for the teaching and learning experience.
I couldn't have time enough to feed all the things, but I made sure to address some common challenges that I've been hearing from all of you. So from personalizing content to analyzing your data, as well as using AI and the capabilities that we have in that sense, it all fits on this bucket and we will spend some some couple of minutes talking about this right now. Now, in my communications, with a lot of the customers on the EMEA region, a common question that comes to me is always, what is Instructure doing, and how are we working in order to provide more individual learning pathways for our students? In that sense, one of the things based on those communications, as well as a lot of feedback that we have received in our community, we created the differentiating content release. This is available for everybody at the core campus as of July. And what is amazing about this too is that it actually gives you the possibility not only to assign specific modules to individual students, but you can also do that with pages as well as new and ungraded discussions.
So let's say for example, you have a student that is well advanced in comparison to the other students in the classroom. He or she can then be assigned to specific modules that are, with his own or or her own pace. As well as those individuals that those students that are not quite yet at the same pace as the other students in the classroom. They now are gonna be able to receive specific content from modules, pages, and and greater discussions. So that they can learn at their own time with their own pace in a very private and unique way.
Still in the relationship between teachers and students, another thing that I really enjoy about, on canvas is the speed grader experience. What an amazing tool when it comes to providing quality feedback to our students. It is true that there are many ways that we can do that. You can do that by, recording yourself as a teacher and provide that feedback. You can do that by, sending an audio to your student.
You can, for example, comment on the on your feedback if you want to. But we always knew that there was other ways that we could provide this quality feedback to our students. So what we have done is releasing the screen capture for SpeedGrader. This is also something that is at a core Canvas, but what makes makes, in my opinion, most amazing about this, technology is the fact that it comes from Studio. But even though if you're not a Studio user, you can still utilize it in Canvas.
And what this capability does is actually provides our teachers the possibility not only to use all those feedback options, but also they are now able to screen capture and show on their own tabs the exact information that they want to show in terms of feedback to our students. So it's all about bringing more flexibility and more engaging feedback in the relationship between teachers and students. More than that, one other thing that we have just released is just out of the oven. It's the live version for speedwear comments. What is great about this tool is just bringing you more possibilities to utilize the rich content editor now inside of the speed grader in order for you to really format your feedback comment in the way that you want.
You can, for example, bold, any part of the information that you really feel that is significant to our students really pay attention to. You can add hyperlinks if you want to so that those students can go to external resources and really understand better their feedback, and so many more options as you can see here in the image. So we're keep we're gonna keep working on the speed grader experience, always bringing more flexibility and better usage, on this workflow. But I wanna move on now from the relationship in between teachers and students and go more specific on another topic that I always hear a lot as well, which is the grade book. Now, it is true that until now, in order for you to settle schemes, on the grade book experience, you need to do this course by course.
And this leads not only to a lot of manual work, but it can also lead to discrepancy in between courses and the information that you are seeing on the grade books. So in order to change that and based on the feedback that we have received, so that we can work better with the grade book experience, We are releasing at the end of this month the default grading schemes. That will give you the possibility not only to keep using those, course by course schemes, but you're also going to be able to do that and set that by both account and sub account level. Bringing a better standard in in terms of, of gradings for your whole institution so that you all can keep that same standard. As you can see, easy as the images here.
With just a few clicks, you're gonna be able to do that at both account and sub account levels. But let me go a little bit more granular here with all of you. I wanna talk about the filters for the grade book. Something that is really helpful in the day to day work for our teachers and our admins when it comes to really seeing those informations that are important, in the grade book experience. It is also true though that if they leave the grade book and re enter on the grade book, they will lose all those filters that they have just done.
This is not only a manual work, but it's also time consuming. And we are always working to make the life of our teachers and their admins, and our students, of course, more efficiently. So in that sense, a small tweak that we are gonna do, here and that it's already been used and available actually, It's the preset filters for the grade book that gives you the possibility not only to create those filters, but we utilize them in a better way. Honestly, I want to hear more from you regarding grade book. So after the panel, I'll be in the corridors and I would love to hear more from your personal experience and how can we work and engage more in terms of the immediate necessities on this area.
But let me move on to another one here. Big work that we have done this year in regards of the redesign of the rubrics. Such amazing tool that now brings more a better design, better user interface, more capabilities such as the possibility for you to review the rubrics, both horizontal and vertical ways. You can drag and drop. And this and so many other things were just released on the phase one.
I wanna talk now about the phase two that will be available until the end of the year. Starting with the self assessment, an amazing opportunity for our students to really have that critical thinking when they are, submitting their own content. As they will be able not only to submit, as they already do, but they will have and can be able also to, self evaluate themselves. Not only that, but really provide a comment on why they are choosing the rubrics that they are choosing. Again, providing not only a flexible opportunity for them in terms of their own learning process, but also giving them the ability to be more critical on their process.
And another thing that, honestly, I have heard a lot in terms of, how to create rubrics on our system, especially for those new institutions that are starting to use Canvas, It's the fact that it takes a lot of time and it's a very manual work as well. And to change that, we are releasing it until the end of the year, the enhanced rubric management. This will give you the possibility not only to import and export both in bulk or not, if you want to, the, all the rubrics that you want to import to Canvas, but you're also gonna be able to share in between courses, in between classes, so that again, you can have that standardized institutional rules of engagement when it comes to the rubrics as well. Now, I want to talk about new quizzes with all of you. This also has been a topic which I hear and I hear a lot of questions regarding new quizzes.
And then the most common question that I receive regarding new quizzes is, what is happening with new quizzes after all? And honestly, it's kind of a joke that I say, but it's also the truth. A lot. As you can see here, this is our, all the things that we have releasing between January and September when it comes to new quizzes. Both things that, we brought from classic quizzes based on your feedback, but also things that we knew that we needed to pay attention to in order to provide a better and a more meaningful experience in the quizzes. So as you can see here, there are more than twenty new features that we have released, and we are not stopping there.
Let me tell you a little bit about the things that are coming soon as well. On the new quizzes experience, something that we are bringing that, comes from classic quizzes, but as well with new enhancements, is the manage students result view. What is interesting about this capability is the fact that now our teachers, they're gonna have the option to when, what, and to who they wanna show. Not only feedback regarding their quizzes, but also when and how they wanna show the results. If they wanna show after the last attempt or so many other possibilities that you have here.
Not only that, but we are also adding time to existing sessions. And this is all about inclusivity to our students. This is all about our students asking for that more time to do the quizzes if they need that, and ask directly to the teachers. And the teachers, as you can see here, will easily be able to do that, giving that extra time to those individual students that are asking for this help. Lastly, sorry.
Another thing that we are also bringing, and this really excites me because it's another area that I hear a lot from all of you. Canvas Commons and your quizzes. Well, what's amazing about the fact that Canvas Commons and why it's so big here is that, and this is already in our community as well, is that we are not only sustaining Canvas Commons anymore. We are developing new features. We're developing new capabilities.
We know how much this is available for all of you, and we want to provide this, enhanced experience. So in that sense, one of the things that we'll be bringing soon as well is the new quizzes inside of Canvas Commons so that you can share those quizzes not only on your own institution, but to the whole world. Imagine sharing to another region. You're going to be possible to do that with, with Canvas Commons and new quizzes. And finally, one of the most desired products that we are working on, the block editor.
First of all, just want to say a big thank you to all the institutions from the EMEA region that are working with us in regards of the block editor. And I just want to give a, a little, spoiler about what is happening with Block Editor. Well, first of all, Block Editor will be the new solution that we are building, here at with Instructure, where you as an institution are gonna be able to create content easily without being an HTML expert, for example. You're gonna be able to create, as you can see here in the GIF, choosing the font that you want, choosing the color that you want, adding content easily, images, all through blocks. We want to facilitate your life.
We want to make the workflow easier when it comes to create content. And that's why your feedback is so important to us in that sense. You're also going to be able to see, a preview of how this content will be shown. For example, for both desktop, tablet, and mobile. Because we know that there are differences in between how you see in each of those and we want to provide you this preview previous to you creating the content.
This is all that I wanna share right now. I'm gonna just drink some water. As you can see, I'm coughing here. But I wanna invite Zac Padden to our chief architect. He's gonna talk about AI and the amazing things that we're doing.
I'll be right back. Thank you. Alright. Thank you, Joe. Thank you, everyone.
Welcome to Canvas Con, and thank you so much for having me. I will say to those of you who are local, we cannot all thank you enough for hosting us in your beautiful country and and letting us enjoy a few days here. The best. K. Alright.
Oh, there we go. In the back. Alright. My Spaniards, come see me afterwards. K.
I'm really lucky as chief architect at Instructure to work with our research team. Because I get to spend a lot of time talking with institutions like yours about the challenges that you're facing, and thinking with our team about ways that we can use technology to provide new and interesting solutions to those problems, and no technology, I think, has been talked about more in the last few years than generative AI. So I want to talk a little bit about how we think about the future of AI in education and some of what we're doing. Here you'll see the ways in which we think we can use artificial intelligence to improve and to transform education for the better. First, we promise that we're going to be laser focused on making educators' and administrators' lives better.
We would like you to spend less time managing the LMS and more time doing the things that you love. Right? And so you'll see that we're investing in building a better LMS using generative AI. Second, you may have heard a lot of conversation around the challenges in artificial intelligence being biased or introducing equity problems into education. That's true. But the other side of it is that we can use these tools to improve equity and access in education.
And so we're focused a lot on how we can extend the reach of education and make it not only more available to more educators across or more students across the world, but to make sure that when students are then learning, that whatever challenges they have are accommodated and accounted for. And then last, we know that while I think we're doing some pretty innovative exciting things, we're not the only people doing those things. I've had the chance to meet with so many of you during this conference and in other sessions and hear about the incredible things you're doing. And we want to empower you, and we want to give you the tools and give our partners the tools to do even more exciting innovative things. And so we're investing heavily, as Michael mentioned, in that core platform and in building a better ecosystem so that you have the tools you need to plug in and use generative AI in the way that's appropriate for you and your students.
So the first thing we're doing to improve teachers' lives and the LMS, we announced that in StructureCon is discussion summaries. Now my first thought as we were talking about this feature is my own experience in education. I thought, you know, I I would love to be able to have a computer tell me what the students were talking about, so that I didn't have to read every single post. I'm a little lazy. But, those of you in the room who are much smarter and brighter than me had other ideas here too.
This is an opportunity if we've got a tool that can read an entire discussion thread and provide you as an educator a summary of students' challenges, their opinions, their questions. We could start using discussions in courses where it wasn't possible before. So we can take this tool that increases student engagement and we can expand it now out to classes of five hundred students, out to classes of a thousand students. So we're not only saving educators time, but we're making it easier for them to bring best practices into classes of any size. This feature is available today.
Like all of our AI features, it's behind a feature flag, so that you at your institution can decide if it's the right tool for you, how and where to use it. And if you go to our community, you'll see these nutrition fact labels that just like a nutrition fact label on a piece of food tells you what in that food is good for you or bad for you, these nutrition facts will tell you what large language models we use, what regions they're hosted in, though all of these are available, in the EU so that you can keep your data in the EU. And it'll also tell you what the expected outcomes are and the expected risks so that you can make an informed decision about these features. The next feature we announced at InstructureCon was AI powered analytics. If any of you have ever tried to write a custom report, I think, you know, step one, come up with the idea for the report.
Step two, take six months of computer science classes to learn SQL, right, and then practice writing the report. Well, not anymore because artificial intelligence is very good at being able to take natural language and translate that into programming language. Right? So here, inside of our new Ask Your Data feature, you're able to describe the report that you want and have Canvas build that report for you, and then you can save that and rerun it later. So here we're able to democratize expertise and make it possible for any admin at any technical ability level to be able to build custom reporting into Canvas. The next feature gets at equity and access.
Many of you serve as students from all across the world and as someone, you know, personally who has lived in countries where I do not speak the native language well, this is near and dear to my heart. It can be difficult sometimes to get up to speed. It can be difficult to learn that language. And so here we've introduced translations into the inbox and discussion features so that students who may not immediately or natively speak the language of instruction can get a little bit of help as they practice. This is another feature that's available today and you can expect that we will expand this out, across the rest of Canvas, except maybe in your language classes.
Right? You can turn it off at the course level. And I talked a little bit about that ecosystem. This is a piece of the ecosystem that I get very excited about. This smart search feature works by taking the content inside of your courses, indexing it in the same way that a large language model would, which allows us to understand the relationships between concepts and words, and then allows students and instructors to use that search feature. So here, I can search, for content about violins, and I may get back content about guitars.
Right? Not because that content talked about guitars, but because they're both instruments with strings. Now this is a useful feature inside of a course because it works in the way that our brains do. Right? I I remember something about this thing, but this gets really exciting when we talk about our partner ecosystem because it means that as you bring your own large language models into Canvas or as you work with partners who have AI tools, they can use this feature to steer the large language model to respond in the way that the educator would. So we're not creating a third robot voice in the classroom, we're extending and amplifying the teacher's voice to make sure that students get the right content that is factually accurate, is level appropriate, and has been blessed by the educator. And this is again available today both in the LMS and also through an API available in our API documentation.
Now that's not all we're doing. Our research team is actively working on a number of other areas. Some very small print here at the bottom that tells you you should not trust anything I'm about to tell you, because it is research. So we may decide to move in a different direction. Currently, our team is really excited about being able to use large language models to align content to outcomes and skills.
Being able to take an existing curriculum and tag it to an outcomes framework that you're using or to a skills taxonomy that you're interested in. It's very promising work. So if you're interested, please come see me after. The next one is being able to simplify rubric authoring by helping it using an artificial intelligence system, to look at an assignment, help an instructor identify learning outcomes, and then to build rubrics automatically. So that one again, we're, have some really promising results there.
So we're partnering with some institutions now, to see if we can harden that, make sure that it works across many different pedagogies, but we'll see where that goes. And then last, looking broadly again at how we can help educators save time. So if you were able to join us in Las Vegas at InstructureCon, I hope you were able to see our educational moments of the future room where we talked, in one booth about how we can use large language models to infer or to guess at what educators are trying to do inside of the LMS and then suggest it so that they'd spend less time learning the LMS and more time just describing the things they want. The example there was a student emailing a professor asking for an extension on an assignment. A large language model was able to classify that intent, find the assignment, suggest an assignment override, and we took a flow that today spans four or five screens in Canvas and takes over twelve clicks down into two clicks.
We're also working on the existing LMS outside of our AI features. So we're modernizing a number of our key workflows, we're unifying the user experience so that your users see and feel the same thing at any place inside of Canvas. And as Michael mentioned, we're working a lot on improving our performance and scale. If you've used SpeedGrader in the last six to twelve months, you may notice that it it still does a lot of grading, but as your class grows, it doesn't do it very quickly. Alright.
We are working very hard right now. We just entered alpha, with improved SpeedGrader internals that are, this says thirty percent faster. Oh, SpeedGrader team. Oh, yeah. Okay.
Well, the team is able to move much faster. They develop code a lot more. The load times on the new SpeedGrader, almost instant. So whether you're working in a large course or a small course, SpeedGrader just works, and we're doing similar things right now with the grade book and other parts of Canvas. And with that, I'm gonna welcome Joao back on stage, the expert.
Thank you so much for your time and I hope to see you all this afternoon. Take care. Thanks, Zach. Awesome. Let's talk about data now.
You know, as soon as I enter one of the things that was really clear to me was how much we pay attention to our customers' data and how much we wanna share this in the most transparent way. So in the meantime, it has been at least three years that I've been here. It has been a lot of products that we have released in that sense. And a lot of questions on how to better utilize those. So to start doing that, one thing that we are offering as a core capability inside of Canvas is the analytic hub.
It's already available for everybody. And it's the centralized space where you see actually all the data informations that you have in your, institution. We're talking here about informations regarding commerce data too. We're talking about intelligent insights, for example, as you might have known already that, Zach also mentioned a little bit about Asker Data, one of the capabilities of intelligent insights, the new analytics, dashboards, and so much more. In that sense, one of the things that I wanna show that is still regarding intelligent insights is two new dashboards that we have inside of the analytic hub if you're utilizing the intelligent insights, which is course readiness and students in need of attention.
What is amazing about both of these opportunities here is the fact that you as institutions gonna decide what is actually a course that is ready and what is actually a student that is in need of attention. We know that we have so many different profiles of students, and we want you, the owners of that data, to really decide the standards in terms of those two dashboards that you're seeing here. Awesome. I I have some minutes still, and I would like to cover a little bit more with all of you on the two next things, starting with maximizing attack effectiveness. And honestly, it is true that for some of you, probably most of you, this is the first time meeting me.
But I'm pretty sure that there's someone here in the room that you all have had the chance to speak at least once and you have seen him today in the panels. I'm talking about mister Sid Oberoi here. And Sid and his team, has been diligently on working on creating stronger relationships and more relationships with our partners all around the world. While his team is building those relationships, we, from the product side, are creating ways and better ways for you to really see those partners and make sure that you can choose the ones that you want to utilize in our system. One of the things that we are doing in that sense is building the Canvas app discovery space.
What is amazing about this new capability that is coming until the end of the year is the fact that not only you're going to be able to discover, but you're going to be able also to manage those l t i's that you want to use. Not only that, but the fact that here, as you can see, there are some, standards where you can really understand, some and get more knowledge about those partners. You can see, for example, if they are utilizing the LTI one point three standard. You can see which ones are one attack trusted app certificates and so much more. Not only that, but we wanna make the workflow easier for you in terms of styling those.
So again, thank you for all region that are participating in the closed beta that we are doing in the new app registration flow. Easy as you can see here in the video. We wanna, reduce the number of clicks and we wanna make the experience more seamlessly all inside of Canvas without you having to leave and seeing external resources for doing that. And finally, again, if you are a intelligent insights user, we are also given the capability for you to not only, see the usage, but also compare in between those products, those partners products that you are utilizing. What is amazing as well is the fact that if you are an impact user, you're gonna be able to directly create campaigns to those specific users that are maybe not utilizing, the LTI as they should be, which will promote a better engagement, with the whole educational ecosystem that we have in Instructure.
Finally, I still have time. Good. I wanna talk with all of you about supporting the lifelong learn journey. In the last two days, I'll be I'll be hearing a lot from all over, all of that have been speaking with me. And it seems that this this topic is growing more and more here in the region.
And we wanna really pay attention to standards, and the processes very specific to our region regarding the lifelong learning journey. The truth is as well that in terms of this, theme here, we feel the instructor is really well positioned and uniquely positioned to help you doing this full cycle of the lifelong learning process. From, discovering new programs and enrolling those, through campus catalog to the teaching and learning process through campus that are amassed our portfolios both for the traditional and the non traditional learning. As well as the acknowledgment of your achievements through micro credentialings in campus credentials. All of this culminating in this, experience that we want to provide to all of you in terms of continuing education.
So that you as a student can really understand the pathway that you should follow in order to be hired on that specific job that you are looking for. In that sense, let me tell you a little bit about the things that we are doing in those those products that I was just mentioning to all of you. If you're a community user, you probably have seen already all the blog posts that Mate, our new product manager of catalog has been doing, the product blog posts. Not only sharing his vision about the future of this product, but also asking for your help for forms and comments inside of the community. One of the amazing things that his team is doing right now is not only giving you more options of user defined fields, and so that you can really pick and choose the ones that you wanna utilize, But we are also making better the integration with Salesforce as well as adding the integration with Power BI, making sure that you can not only utilize, the catalog data inside of Power BI, but you can do that seamlessly integrated with Canvas catalog creating your own dashboards.
Oh, just one more that I forgot to mention. We are reimagining the checkout of Canvas catalog. We heard a lot of feedback from all of you that we needed to make up this a better experience with less clicks and with an easier way, for example, to consoling, and enrollment if wanted. So we are reimagining this and we are rebuilding this capability of the checkout experience, and we wanna hear from you. So if you could just, take a look at the blog post that Matteo is doing, as well as let me know, your vision about the whole experience in Canvas catalog.
We'll be happy to hear it. It. Another thing that we are doing is the better integration between catalog and credentials. And here we really want to give you the possibility and to our students mostly, the possibility to really understand the pathway that they should follow on the enrollments of the the catalog courses so that they can achieve those hard skills, those soft skills, as well as the micro certifications that they must have in order to go to the next step of the education process. And finally, I want to talk about journey.
If you were at InstructureCon and you have heard a lot of about this as well today, this is our vision, a new product that we are building over here at Instructure that will help both students, institutions, and employers. Students to make sure that they are, not only acknowledge of the all the skills that they have, but they will also be able to show those achievements in an easy way. They will be able to create their curriculum through these, capabilities here. And not only that, but they will be able to really understand which steps should they take in order to be hired on that program or on the job that they want to be hired. We're making this through the communication that we're having with customers and we'll keep hearing from all of you so that we can, q one of twenty twenty five, release the data, with all the information that are most significant in this relationship in between students, institutions, and the employers so that we can continue doing the lifelong circle that I was mentioning previously.
That was it from my side. I just want to really thank you for the opportunity to be here today. I hope that you are as excited as I am with all the features that we have released and we'll be releasing in the future. And I hope to see you next year. Thank you. Thank you.
We are so excited to be here. I'm Sharon Vijay Singh. I'm the Chief Product Officer here at Instructure. And I'm Michael Leiser, chief technology officer. So we're here mainly to introduce, the the real speakers, the real talent behind all the work that we're gonna do.
But we're so excited to be here. We wanted to to spend some time with you all and, get to know you a little bit. And one of the things that, you know, we've heard from, a number of the conversations we've been having is we have this product that's a global product, and we're building it for a global audience for folks just like you. And so one of the things that, Michael and I bring uniquely to the table, is that we both hail from different different parts of the world than America. Right? So I was born in Malaysia, and Michael can speak to his, his Irish traditions here, but I think that shapes, our global perspective as we think about the products that we're building for you all.
No. That's good. Alright. So, you're gonna hear from a couple of folks today, but I'll talk a bit about the themes you're gonna hear, in our sessions. So we're gonna we're gonna talk through the product investments or product and technology investments together in sort of three core areas.
The first area, obviously near and dear to you, is just innovating in the teaching and learning experience. This is a place where you all, where your teams, where your educators, they're spending the most time, and how are we doing things to improve those core the core experiences to help make your jobs a little easier, to help save time through those kinds of things. We also know that we've got a huge ecosystem of partners, many of whom you've seen out in, the partner hall areas, and many of whom are sitting in the room here with you. And so we know that working with those partners is something you want to be really seamless, and so we'll be talking a little bit about how all of these things can connect together more seamlessly to make the tool ecosystem really effective. And the third thing that I've been hearing more and more recently is this idea of a lifelong learning journey.
A learner who may be pursuing learning at multiple stages of their, of their life, even in career, even post career. And so you'll be hearing some themes around this idea of lifelong learning and how that fits through core Canvas offerings as well as all of our other products and offerings around it. Yeah. And underpinning this is a deep investment by us in our technology and our platforms. So, I think with the, evolution of Gen AI, we're seeing the pace of technology change and advance, at a pace we haven't seen before.
But it's not just that. We're investing in all areas of our technology. So whether it's core infrastructure, whether how we ship and how we build code so we can do that better and faster, with a higher quality bar, or how how we instantiate our infrastructure. We're working on a global identity that is going to allow, you and all our users and students to have a global, identifier that they can use to log in across all our product portfolio. But it also unlocks things like, learner mobility or more fine grain controls fine grain controls over your security.
So if you wanna turn on multi factor authentication, etcetera. And it's it goes deeper. It's, every conversation I'm having with, whether it's faculty or the educational institutions, privacy, security, accessibility is coming up in every single one of those conversations, and we're deeply investing in those as well. So, you know, it's the underpinning of the product investments starts with a foundational, investment in our technology. And the way we're thinking about it is as technology changes, we want to be your partner and evolve for the next decade and beyond so that we can have better outcomes for all of our students.
Great. So with that, we'll bring on the real talent, starting with Joao and then followed by Zach who will tell you a little bit about about the the road map and the strategy. So come on up, Joao. Thank you so much, Sharyn. Thank you so much, Michael, not only for this brilliant introduction, but also for being here with us today.
Sorry. I needed to talk a little bit of Spanish as we are in Barcelona. I'm Joel Silveira, and I'm the global growth product manager for the EMEA region. Meaning that my main objective, my main responsibility by being the g g p m, as we like to call it internally, is to really make sure that all the necessities, all the objectives of our institutions, as well as the challenges that we have as a region, are not only being well known by our teams of product development, but they are being addressed as well when we are creating new products and new features here at Instructure. It is in that sense that the first thing that I must say here is just a big, big thank you for everyone that I've been having the privilege to meet and learn all different languages on how to say thank you as well here from the EMEA region.
This has been instrumental for me to understand really what are the challenges that we have, as well as to pass this on to our product teams. And it's because of those communications that we have been having, through user groups, meetings, individually, webinars, and so many other opportunities of communication, And I'm very excited today to talk a little bit about the things that we have created, and we'll be creating in the future as well, in terms of road map. Of course, taking into consideration the three, product investment teams that we have. So starting with the innovating for the teaching and learning experience, honestly, the bread and butter, or the rice and beans as I come from Brazil, of the whole work in between the communication of teachers, students, and admins within our products. Here, honestly, we have been done so many things, over the product and investments in the innovation for the teaching and learning experience.
I couldn't have time enough to feed all the things, but I made sure to address some common challenges that I've been hearing from all of you. So from personalizing content to analyzing your data, as well as using AI and the capabilities that we have in that sense, it all fits on this bucket and we will spend some some couple of minutes talking about this right now. Now, in my communications, with a lot of the customers on the EMEA region, a common question that comes to me is always, what is Instructure doing, and how are we working in order to provide more individual learning pathways for our students? In that sense, one of the things based on those communications, as well as a lot of feedback that we have received in our community, we created the differentiating content release. This is available for everybody at the core campus as of July. And what is amazing about this too is that it actually gives you the possibility not only to assign specific modules to individual students, but you can also do that with pages as well as new and ungraded discussions.
So let's say for example, you have a student that is well advanced in comparison to the other students in the classroom. He or she can then be assigned to specific modules that are, with his own or or her own pace. As well as those individuals that those students that are not quite yet at the same pace as the other students in the classroom. They now are gonna be able to receive specific content from modules, pages, and and greater discussions. So that they can learn at their own time with their own pace in a very private and unique way.
Still in the relationship between teachers and students, another thing that I really enjoy about, on canvas is the speed grader experience. What an amazing tool when it comes to providing quality feedback to our students. It is true that there are many ways that we can do that. You can do that by, recording yourself as a teacher and provide that feedback. You can do that by, sending an audio to your student.
You can, for example, comment on the on your feedback if you want to. But we always knew that there was other ways that we could provide this quality feedback to our students. So what we have done is releasing the screen capture for SpeedGrader. This is also something that is at a core Canvas, but what makes makes, in my opinion, most amazing about this, technology is the fact that it comes from Studio. But even though if you're not a Studio user, you can still utilize it in Canvas.
And what this capability does is actually provides our teachers the possibility not only to use all those feedback options, but also they are now able to screen capture and show on their own tabs the exact information that they want to show in terms of feedback to our students. So it's all about bringing more flexibility and more engaging feedback in the relationship between teachers and students. More than that, one other thing that we have just released is just out of the oven. It's the live version for speedwear comments. What is great about this tool is just bringing you more possibilities to utilize the rich content editor now inside of the speed grader in order for you to really format your feedback comment in the way that you want.
You can, for example, bold, any part of the information that you really feel that is significant to our students really pay attention to. You can add hyperlinks if you want to so that those students can go to external resources and really understand better their feedback, and so many more options as you can see here in the image. So we're keep we're gonna keep working on the speed grader experience, always bringing more flexibility and better usage, on this workflow. But I wanna move on now from the relationship in between teachers and students and go more specific on another topic that I always hear a lot as well, which is the grade book. Now, it is true that until now, in order for you to settle schemes, on the grade book experience, you need to do this course by course.
And this leads not only to a lot of manual work, but it can also lead to discrepancy in between courses and the information that you are seeing on the grade books. So in order to change that and based on the feedback that we have received, so that we can work better with the grade book experience, We are releasing at the end of this month the default grading schemes. That will give you the possibility not only to keep using those, course by course schemes, but you're also going to be able to do that and set that by both account and sub account level. Bringing a better standard in in terms of, of gradings for your whole institution so that you all can keep that same standard. As you can see, easy as the images here.
With just a few clicks, you're gonna be able to do that at both account and sub account levels. But let me go a little bit more granular here with all of you. I wanna talk about the filters for the grade book. Something that is really helpful in the day to day work for our teachers and our admins when it comes to really seeing those informations that are important, in the grade book experience. It is also true though that if they leave the grade book and re enter on the grade book, they will lose all those filters that they have just done.
This is not only a manual work, but it's also time consuming. And we are always working to make the life of our teachers and their admins, and our students, of course, more efficiently. So in that sense, a small tweak that we are gonna do, here and that it's already been used and available actually, It's the preset filters for the grade book that gives you the possibility not only to create those filters, but we utilize them in a better way. Honestly, I want to hear more from you regarding grade book. So after the panel, I'll be in the corridors and I would love to hear more from your personal experience and how can we work and engage more in terms of the immediate necessities on this area.
But let me move on to another one here. Big work that we have done this year in regards of the redesign of the rubrics. Such amazing tool that now brings more a better design, better user interface, more capabilities such as the possibility for you to review the rubrics, both horizontal and vertical ways. You can drag and drop. And this and so many other things were just released on the phase one.
I wanna talk now about the phase two that will be available until the end of the year. Starting with the self assessment, an amazing opportunity for our students to really have that critical thinking when they are, submitting their own content. As they will be able not only to submit, as they already do, but they will have and can be able also to, self evaluate themselves. Not only that, but really provide a comment on why they are choosing the rubrics that they are choosing. Again, providing not only a flexible opportunity for them in terms of their own learning process, but also giving them the ability to be more critical on their process.
And another thing that, honestly, I have heard a lot in terms of, how to create rubrics on our system, especially for those new institutions that are starting to use Canvas, It's the fact that it takes a lot of time and it's a very manual work as well. And to change that, we are releasing it until the end of the year, the enhanced rubric management. This will give you the possibility not only to import and export both in bulk or not, if you want to, the, all the rubrics that you want to import to Canvas, but you're also gonna be able to share in between courses, in between classes, so that again, you can have that standardized institutional rules of engagement when it comes to the rubrics as well. Now, I want to talk about new quizzes with all of you. This also has been a topic which I hear and I hear a lot of questions regarding new quizzes.
And then the most common question that I receive regarding new quizzes is, what is happening with new quizzes after all? And honestly, it's kind of a joke that I say, but it's also the truth. A lot. As you can see here, this is our, all the things that we have releasing between January and September when it comes to new quizzes. Both things that, we brought from classic quizzes based on your feedback, but also things that we knew that we needed to pay attention to in order to provide a better and a more meaningful experience in the quizzes. So as you can see here, there are more than twenty new features that we have released, and we are not stopping there.
Let me tell you a little bit about the things that are coming soon as well. On the new quizzes experience, something that we are bringing that, comes from classic quizzes, but as well with new enhancements, is the manage students result view. What is interesting about this capability is the fact that now our teachers, they're gonna have the option to when, what, and to who they wanna show. Not only feedback regarding their quizzes, but also when and how they wanna show the results. If they wanna show after the last attempt or so many other possibilities that you have here.
Not only that, but we are also adding time to existing sessions. And this is all about inclusivity to our students. This is all about our students asking for that more time to do the quizzes if they need that, and ask directly to the teachers. And the teachers, as you can see here, will easily be able to do that, giving that extra time to those individual students that are asking for this help. Lastly, sorry.
Another thing that we are also bringing, and this really excites me because it's another area that I hear a lot from all of you. Canvas Commons and your quizzes. Well, what's amazing about the fact that Canvas Commons and why it's so big here is that, and this is already in our community as well, is that we are not only sustaining Canvas Commons anymore. We are developing new features. We're developing new capabilities.
We know how much this is available for all of you, and we want to provide this, enhanced experience. So in that sense, one of the things that we'll be bringing soon as well is the new quizzes inside of Canvas Commons so that you can share those quizzes not only on your own institution, but to the whole world. Imagine sharing to another region. You're going to be possible to do that with, with Canvas Commons and new quizzes. And finally, one of the most desired products that we are working on, the block editor.
First of all, just want to say a big thank you to all the institutions from the EMEA region that are working with us in regards of the block editor. And I just want to give a, a little, spoiler about what is happening with Block Editor. Well, first of all, Block Editor will be the new solution that we are building, here at with Instructure, where you as an institution are gonna be able to create content easily without being an HTML expert, for example. You're gonna be able to create, as you can see here in the GIF, choosing the font that you want, choosing the color that you want, adding content easily, images, all through blocks. We want to facilitate your life.
We want to make the workflow easier when it comes to create content. And that's why your feedback is so important to us in that sense. You're also going to be able to see, a preview of how this content will be shown. For example, for both desktop, tablet, and mobile. Because we know that there are differences in between how you see in each of those and we want to provide you this preview previous to you creating the content.
This is all that I wanna share right now. I'm gonna just drink some water. As you can see, I'm coughing here. But I wanna invite Zac Padden to our chief architect. He's gonna talk about AI and the amazing things that we're doing.
I'll be right back. Thank you. Alright. Thank you, Joe. Thank you, everyone.
Welcome to Canvas Con, and thank you so much for having me. I will say to those of you who are local, we cannot all thank you enough for hosting us in your beautiful country and and letting us enjoy a few days here. The best. K. Alright.
Oh, there we go. In the back. Alright. My Spaniards, come see me afterwards. K.
I'm really lucky as chief architect at Instructure to work with our research team. Because I get to spend a lot of time talking with institutions like yours about the challenges that you're facing, and thinking with our team about ways that we can use technology to provide new and interesting solutions to those problems, and no technology, I think, has been talked about more in the last few years than generative AI. So I want to talk a little bit about how we think about the future of AI in education and some of what we're doing. Here you'll see the ways in which we think we can use artificial intelligence to improve and to transform education for the better. First, we promise that we're going to be laser focused on making educators' and administrators' lives better.
We would like you to spend less time managing the LMS and more time doing the things that you love. Right? And so you'll see that we're investing in building a better LMS using generative AI. Second, you may have heard a lot of conversation around the challenges in artificial intelligence being biased or introducing equity problems into education. That's true. But the other side of it is that we can use these tools to improve equity and access in education.
And so we're focused a lot on how we can extend the reach of education and make it not only more available to more educators across or more students across the world, but to make sure that when students are then learning, that whatever challenges they have are accommodated and accounted for. And then last, we know that while I think we're doing some pretty innovative exciting things, we're not the only people doing those things. I've had the chance to meet with so many of you during this conference and in other sessions and hear about the incredible things you're doing. And we want to empower you, and we want to give you the tools and give our partners the tools to do even more exciting innovative things. And so we're investing heavily, as Michael mentioned, in that core platform and in building a better ecosystem so that you have the tools you need to plug in and use generative AI in the way that's appropriate for you and your students.
So the first thing we're doing to improve teachers' lives and the LMS, we announced that in StructureCon is discussion summaries. Now my first thought as we were talking about this feature is my own experience in education. I thought, you know, I I would love to be able to have a computer tell me what the students were talking about, so that I didn't have to read every single post. I'm a little lazy. But, those of you in the room who are much smarter and brighter than me had other ideas here too.
This is an opportunity if we've got a tool that can read an entire discussion thread and provide you as an educator a summary of students' challenges, their opinions, their questions. We could start using discussions in courses where it wasn't possible before. So we can take this tool that increases student engagement and we can expand it now out to classes of five hundred students, out to classes of a thousand students. So we're not only saving educators time, but we're making it easier for them to bring best practices into classes of any size. This feature is available today.
Like all of our AI features, it's behind a feature flag, so that you at your institution can decide if it's the right tool for you, how and where to use it. And if you go to our community, you'll see these nutrition fact labels that just like a nutrition fact label on a piece of food tells you what in that food is good for you or bad for you, these nutrition facts will tell you what large language models we use, what regions they're hosted in, though all of these are available, in the EU so that you can keep your data in the EU. And it'll also tell you what the expected outcomes are and the expected risks so that you can make an informed decision about these features. The next feature we announced at InstructureCon was AI powered analytics. If any of you have ever tried to write a custom report, I think, you know, step one, come up with the idea for the report.
Step two, take six months of computer science classes to learn SQL, right, and then practice writing the report. Well, not anymore because artificial intelligence is very good at being able to take natural language and translate that into programming language. Right? So here, inside of our new Ask Your Data feature, you're able to describe the report that you want and have Canvas build that report for you, and then you can save that and rerun it later. So here we're able to democratize expertise and make it possible for any admin at any technical ability level to be able to build custom reporting into Canvas. The next feature gets at equity and access.
Many of you serve as students from all across the world and as someone, you know, personally who has lived in countries where I do not speak the native language well, this is near and dear to my heart. It can be difficult sometimes to get up to speed. It can be difficult to learn that language. And so here we've introduced translations into the inbox and discussion features so that students who may not immediately or natively speak the language of instruction can get a little bit of help as they practice. This is another feature that's available today and you can expect that we will expand this out, across the rest of Canvas, except maybe in your language classes.
Right? You can turn it off at the course level. And I talked a little bit about that ecosystem. This is a piece of the ecosystem that I get very excited about. This smart search feature works by taking the content inside of your courses, indexing it in the same way that a large language model would, which allows us to understand the relationships between concepts and words, and then allows students and instructors to use that search feature. So here, I can search, for content about violins, and I may get back content about guitars.
Right? Not because that content talked about guitars, but because they're both instruments with strings. Now this is a useful feature inside of a course because it works in the way that our brains do. Right? I I remember something about this thing, but this gets really exciting when we talk about our partner ecosystem because it means that as you bring your own large language models into Canvas or as you work with partners who have AI tools, they can use this feature to steer the large language model to respond in the way that the educator would. So we're not creating a third robot voice in the classroom, we're extending and amplifying the teacher's voice to make sure that students get the right content that is factually accurate, is level appropriate, and has been blessed by the educator. And this is again available today both in the LMS and also through an API available in our API documentation.
Now that's not all we're doing. Our research team is actively working on a number of other areas. Some very small print here at the bottom that tells you you should not trust anything I'm about to tell you, because it is research. So we may decide to move in a different direction. Currently, our team is really excited about being able to use large language models to align content to outcomes and skills.
Being able to take an existing curriculum and tag it to an outcomes framework that you're using or to a skills taxonomy that you're interested in. It's very promising work. So if you're interested, please come see me after. The next one is being able to simplify rubric authoring by helping it using an artificial intelligence system, to look at an assignment, help an instructor identify learning outcomes, and then to build rubrics automatically. So that one again, we're, have some really promising results there.
So we're partnering with some institutions now, to see if we can harden that, make sure that it works across many different pedagogies, but we'll see where that goes. And then last, looking broadly again at how we can help educators save time. So if you were able to join us in Las Vegas at InstructureCon, I hope you were able to see our educational moments of the future room where we talked, in one booth about how we can use large language models to infer or to guess at what educators are trying to do inside of the LMS and then suggest it so that they'd spend less time learning the LMS and more time just describing the things they want. The example there was a student emailing a professor asking for an extension on an assignment. A large language model was able to classify that intent, find the assignment, suggest an assignment override, and we took a flow that today spans four or five screens in Canvas and takes over twelve clicks down into two clicks.
We're also working on the existing LMS outside of our AI features. So we're modernizing a number of our key workflows, we're unifying the user experience so that your users see and feel the same thing at any place inside of Canvas. And as Michael mentioned, we're working a lot on improving our performance and scale. If you've used SpeedGrader in the last six to twelve months, you may notice that it it still does a lot of grading, but as your class grows, it doesn't do it very quickly. Alright.
We are working very hard right now. We just entered alpha, with improved SpeedGrader internals that are, this says thirty percent faster. Oh, SpeedGrader team. Oh, yeah. Okay.
Well, the team is able to move much faster. They develop code a lot more. The load times on the new SpeedGrader, almost instant. So whether you're working in a large course or a small course, SpeedGrader just works, and we're doing similar things right now with the grade book and other parts of Canvas. And with that, I'm gonna welcome Joao back on stage, the expert.
Thank you so much for your time and I hope to see you all this afternoon. Take care. Thanks, Zach. Awesome. Let's talk about data now.
You know, as soon as I enter one of the things that was really clear to me was how much we pay attention to our customers' data and how much we wanna share this in the most transparent way. So in the meantime, it has been at least three years that I've been here. It has been a lot of products that we have released in that sense. And a lot of questions on how to better utilize those. So to start doing that, one thing that we are offering as a core capability inside of Canvas is the analytic hub.
It's already available for everybody. And it's the centralized space where you see actually all the data informations that you have in your, institution. We're talking here about informations regarding commerce data too. We're talking about intelligent insights, for example, as you might have known already that, Zach also mentioned a little bit about Asker Data, one of the capabilities of intelligent insights, the new analytics, dashboards, and so much more. In that sense, one of the things that I wanna show that is still regarding intelligent insights is two new dashboards that we have inside of the analytic hub if you're utilizing the intelligent insights, which is course readiness and students in need of attention.
What is amazing about both of these opportunities here is the fact that you as institutions gonna decide what is actually a course that is ready and what is actually a student that is in need of attention. We know that we have so many different profiles of students, and we want you, the owners of that data, to really decide the standards in terms of those two dashboards that you're seeing here. Awesome. I I have some minutes still, and I would like to cover a little bit more with all of you on the two next things, starting with maximizing attack effectiveness. And honestly, it is true that for some of you, probably most of you, this is the first time meeting me.
But I'm pretty sure that there's someone here in the room that you all have had the chance to speak at least once and you have seen him today in the panels. I'm talking about mister Sid Oberoi here. And Sid and his team, has been diligently on working on creating stronger relationships and more relationships with our partners all around the world. While his team is building those relationships, we, from the product side, are creating ways and better ways for you to really see those partners and make sure that you can choose the ones that you want to utilize in our system. One of the things that we are doing in that sense is building the Canvas app discovery space.
What is amazing about this new capability that is coming until the end of the year is the fact that not only you're going to be able to discover, but you're going to be able also to manage those l t i's that you want to use. Not only that, but the fact that here, as you can see, there are some, standards where you can really understand, some and get more knowledge about those partners. You can see, for example, if they are utilizing the LTI one point three standard. You can see which ones are one attack trusted app certificates and so much more. Not only that, but we wanna make the workflow easier for you in terms of styling those.
So again, thank you for all region that are participating in the closed beta that we are doing in the new app registration flow. Easy as you can see here in the video. We wanna, reduce the number of clicks and we wanna make the experience more seamlessly all inside of Canvas without you having to leave and seeing external resources for doing that. And finally, again, if you are a intelligent insights user, we are also given the capability for you to not only, see the usage, but also compare in between those products, those partners products that you are utilizing. What is amazing as well is the fact that if you are an impact user, you're gonna be able to directly create campaigns to those specific users that are maybe not utilizing, the LTI as they should be, which will promote a better engagement, with the whole educational ecosystem that we have in Instructure.
Finally, I still have time. Good. I wanna talk with all of you about supporting the lifelong learn journey. In the last two days, I'll be I'll be hearing a lot from all over, all of that have been speaking with me. And it seems that this this topic is growing more and more here in the region.
And we wanna really pay attention to standards, and the processes very specific to our region regarding the lifelong learning journey. The truth is as well that in terms of this, theme here, we feel the instructor is really well positioned and uniquely positioned to help you doing this full cycle of the lifelong learning process. From, discovering new programs and enrolling those, through campus catalog to the teaching and learning process through campus that are amassed our portfolios both for the traditional and the non traditional learning. As well as the acknowledgment of your achievements through micro credentialings in campus credentials. All of this culminating in this, experience that we want to provide to all of you in terms of continuing education.
So that you as a student can really understand the pathway that you should follow in order to be hired on that specific job that you are looking for. In that sense, let me tell you a little bit about the things that we are doing in those those products that I was just mentioning to all of you. If you're a community user, you probably have seen already all the blog posts that Mate, our new product manager of catalog has been doing, the product blog posts. Not only sharing his vision about the future of this product, but also asking for your help for forms and comments inside of the community. One of the amazing things that his team is doing right now is not only giving you more options of user defined fields, and so that you can really pick and choose the ones that you wanna utilize, But we are also making better the integration with Salesforce as well as adding the integration with Power BI, making sure that you can not only utilize, the catalog data inside of Power BI, but you can do that seamlessly integrated with Canvas catalog creating your own dashboards.
Oh, just one more that I forgot to mention. We are reimagining the checkout of Canvas catalog. We heard a lot of feedback from all of you that we needed to make up this a better experience with less clicks and with an easier way, for example, to consoling, and enrollment if wanted. So we are reimagining this and we are rebuilding this capability of the checkout experience, and we wanna hear from you. So if you could just, take a look at the blog post that Matteo is doing, as well as let me know, your vision about the whole experience in Canvas catalog.
We'll be happy to hear it. It. Another thing that we are doing is the better integration between catalog and credentials. And here we really want to give you the possibility and to our students mostly, the possibility to really understand the pathway that they should follow on the enrollments of the the catalog courses so that they can achieve those hard skills, those soft skills, as well as the micro certifications that they must have in order to go to the next step of the education process. And finally, I want to talk about journey.
If you were at InstructureCon and you have heard a lot of about this as well today, this is our vision, a new product that we are building over here at Instructure that will help both students, institutions, and employers. Students to make sure that they are, not only acknowledge of the all the skills that they have, but they will also be able to show those achievements in an easy way. They will be able to create their curriculum through these, capabilities here. And not only that, but they will be able to really understand which steps should they take in order to be hired on that program or on the job that they want to be hired. We're making this through the communication that we're having with customers and we'll keep hearing from all of you so that we can, q one of twenty twenty five, release the data, with all the information that are most significant in this relationship in between students, institutions, and the employers so that we can continue doing the lifelong circle that I was mentioning previously.
That was it from my side. I just want to really thank you for the opportunity to be here today. I hope that you are as excited as I am with all the features that we have released and we'll be releasing in the future. And I hope to see you next year. Thank you. Thank you.