Instructure Services Year-End Celebration "Unwrapping 2024's Innovation and Success Stories"

But, what we'll do is we'll welcome everybody to our final webinar of the series. So this was our maximizing your EdTech ecosystem series of webinars that we've been delivering this year. We are going to be back, next year from February where we'll be running these sessions monthly. So if there is any sort of feedback on topics and things that you want to pop in the chat or Q and A for us, you know to consider delivering next year sessions that you'd like to hear us talk about, you know, please please do that. I'm Jonathan Perry. For those of you who don't know me, I'm the Senior Manager of Client Services for Instructure here in EMEA.

So that means I have the absolute privilege of leading the implementation and services team who get to work with all of our fantastic customers. And so Emily and Jess, who is with us and is gonna be speaking today, you know, we're part of the same team and, they are experts in the instruction learning ecosystem and will be telling us some of their stories, about customers and about the product releases we've had this year. Something different we're doing today as well, you'll see we've got Joao with us. Joao is, dialing in from Brazil, but I know that there's, Joao's gonna be over in EMEA soon with us. And, Joao is our EMEA product manager.

And, what we wanted to do was bring together that connection between our sort of product development and our product goals and roadmap and link back to all the fun stories and all the sort of links that we have with, our existing customer base and the work that we've been doing with them and the product developments we've seen that have the biggest impact on on our customers or the things that we like that have have a big impact as well. So thank you for joining us today. What we'll do is, we've, we'll give everybody a chance sort of just to do their introductions of themselves on this in a moment. And then what we'll do is for the rest of the session, we'll jump into sort of gel going through, the product perspective on things. And then what we'll do is we'll connect to that with conversations from Jess, Emily, myself about things we've been seeing customers do this year and the product releases that we really really like.

So, Jess, I'm gonna give you a couple of seconds to tell people about yourself and something fun that you've done this year with our customers. Oh, I thought you meant in general I was gonna talk about my holiday. Hello everyone. It's really lovely to see some familiar names, here today. And for those of you who have met in the first time, hello.

My name is Jessica Jones. I've been at Instructure for around seven years now, and I am a principal consultant for learning services. So something really fun that I've done this year working with Emily is we've really focused on a service we refer to as optimization, which I think looking at the list of names here is applicable to many of us where we've been using Canvas for a while, maybe even for a few years. We're at a point in our organization now where we're thinking, okay. We're really happy with the basics.

We're comfortable with what we've got, but we would like to know, are there things we can do more efficiently? Are there things in the product we're not using to their full potential? Perhaps because we've stuck to the ways we've always done things, and just taking the time to look at where we are, what we're doing, and how we can improve on that. And that's something I've really enjoyed this year. Sweet. Perfect. Thank you very much, Jess.

Right. Emily, same question for you then. So something fun that you've done with the customers this year and, a little bit about your role. Yeah. So, hi, everyone.

My name is Emily Neesk. I am a services consultant working with, the wonderful John and Jess. I've been with Instructure for about a year and a half, but I've been on Canvas for, quite a lot longer, a little bit over ten years. So something of fun that I've done this year is is just did steal my thunder with the optimization service, and and that is has been a joy to work with customers on and to build out. But, something else that we've done this year is we had a fantastic time in Barcelona, meeting lots of our customers in person at Canvas Con this year.

And I think there might be a few, people in the chat who got to be with us in sunny Barcelona in October. And that was just fantastic to hear from lots of customers. And, it basically what we did there was is kind of like a speed dating service for customers of getting people together and getting those conversations going, and that was that was brilliant to be a part of. Excellent. Thank you.

Thank you, Emily. Joao, is it your role's a little bit different, so if you want to do your introduction, but then you've got to explain to our customers in EMEA that the fun stuff you've been doing with EMEA customers this year. The fun stuff you've been doing with EMEA customers this year. Oh, definitely the drinks that we shared in in Barcelona. That was the the funniest part.

But other than that, definitely as well all the prioritization work that we have done, a couple of with a couple of the user groups that we have in the EMEA region. And this tells a lot as well about what I'm doing with the as the EMEA product manager is really making sure that we are addressing the challenges of our users. And for that, of course, we need to first really understand what we need to do better, within our products, right, in order to achieve the the educational goals that we have in our market. So really, really happy to, I mean, to be at the region already and to share so many opportunities with our customers and with all of my colleagues. Actually, I'm very, very happy to be here today with the this cool team and being invited to be part of this and excited for the next couple of minutes and all the things that we're gonna share.

Excellent. No. Thanks, Jo, and thanks for joining us as well. I'll quickly say my favorite bit of the year, because I've had some really, really good experiences this year as well with customers. In my role now, I I don't get I don't get to work with customers directly as often as I used to, but I got the opportunity to work with a group of schools and meet the teachers, from South Africa and spend a couple of days working with them on, on looking at how they were going to apply Canvas within their group of schools, and that was just absolutely fantastic seeing these really sort of energetic and, you know, really motivated teachers who were looking at using technology to improve the sort of experiences of their students.

So, you know, that was, you know, just a fantastic couple of days workshop. What I'm gonna do is I'm gonna ask Joao to sort of shout at me when to change, slides. But what we're going to do is we're gonna give Joao, a a few minutes to talk to us about sort of product themes and sort of, the product role and, our sort of goals and what we've been doing in product land. Amazing. Thank you, Johnny.

And, I mean, I I think that most of the people that are here today, if in if it was in CanvasCon or in other events that we have done for the year, might already have seen this slide. But as we are doing, and remembering all the things that we have done this year, I just wanna make a quick introduction in terms of the product investment areas in which we are working on. And, you know, all of this translates as well with the conversations that Instructure has, within all the the educational market. And I'm not only telling about my side here as the product and investment team, but also all the work, that the group here has done. All my colleagues as well have been speaking with the market, with institutions, with partners, and so on.

And it's really clear for us that when we think about education, there are five big trends in the market. So let me take a step back here and just talk real quickly about them because the first one and those all translate in the the the streaming blocks here. We are always seeing a lot of changes in the profile of our students, how they are demanding new opportunities on their learning process. This also, summarizes with the the necessity and the clear shift towards these involved learning needs, particularly when we think about the educational, workforce for our students. We see how much our institutions are increasingly prioritizing, for example, job readiness and, development of tangible skills and how can we support you as an institution to showcase those skills as well as support your students to understand which skills do they need to achieve in their learning process.

All of this, of course, comes with a lot of challenges for our educators. So this is another topic that we hear quite a lot is, the fact that our our teachers, I mean, the the scalability, of the quality of instruction remains as such a significant hurdle for everybody. We need to make sure that we are addressing sorry. My computer is asking for me to upload the system. Let me see again the slides.

Thank you. Amazing. We're seeing a lot of of the changes in terms of how our our institutions are are working with a lot of ad tech companies. And at the same time, we as a a software development, company are working every day with more and more partners. So how can we support you as an institution to really utilize those ad tech tools that you wanna utilize in a better way within our products here at Instructure? And lastly, another topic that we see a lot in as a conversation in education, is and will be, as always, AI.

So how can we, as a software institution, really help you to utilize AI, not as an emerging technology anymore, but rather as something that you're gonna use on everyday, on everyday challenges that you have and on everything that you would do in your, working experience as an educator, as in student, or as an admin as well. So all of this translates in the topics that you're seeing here in the product investments and how we are working on in the things that we are building. You have been part of this, webinar series. You have seen a lot of the great things that we have done in this year, and those translate, always in the streaming blocks. Things things that we are gonna do for now and for the future as well.

So innovating for the teaching learning experience, the main focus here, is really creating tools that empower educators to deliberately, more impactful, more engaging, and more personalized learning for everybody. Not only for the educators, but also how can we make the life of our students easier in that process. We also have the maximizing ad tech effectiveness and operational efficiency. And it's, again, it's that those conversations that I was mentioning about the the AdTech's pro and how can we better support you as an institution to have all of it in just one system and how to find new LTIs that you can easily download and, install inside of Canvas so supports your day to day activities. And finally, we have a dedicated space, of course, for supporting the lifelong learning journey.

This is one of the hottest topics in education right now and will keep being for the future. So definitely something that we are working very deeply, with new products that are coming in the future of twenty twenty five, but also with a lot of changes that we have done in the products that, that are integrated in this space, such as catalog credentials, impact, and some of the things that we are gonna talk today as well with all of you. All of this, of course, with generative AI, as I was mentioning. Not an emerging technology anymore, but rather something that we know that we need to tackle, in each of the blocks of investments that we have here in the project area. And finally, if you could go into the next slide here, John, and then I'm I'm gonna stop talking a bit.

But just to show to everybody here and this is actually, when I was adding the slides, I should have put this in the, yeah, the plans for twenty twenty five because this is a long term, investment that we do here at Instructure when we think about our twos. Not only Compass itself, but the whole experience for our customers. We have these three main pillars here that translates a lot, not only in the conversations that I was mentioning, but the product investment areas as well. So the first pillar on the top here, the cohesive user experience. It's really how we as a a company are focused on delivering the user experience that is more responsive, faster, and even more accessible for everybody.

If you are a, an educator managing multiple tools or even a student that is navigating, personalized learning paths, we need to support you, and we need to do that in a better and a faster in a more responsive way. So this is a our long term commitment to create this cohesive user experience for everybody and also a commitment to the innovating for the teaching learning experience block of the product investments. In the middle there, you can see the platform capabilities. You know already that our platform is built on repose capabilities. It includes open APIs, a lot of LTIs integration, data access of of some work on AI that will keep growing, this year and next year as well.

And also one of the things that we're working, which is the identity management as well, which is really making sure that you can easily go through one to other product inside of Instructure without needing to access different users and different log pages. So these elements are the foundation of our efforts to maximize that tech effectiveness and operational efficiency as well. We wanna provide you this open, scalable, and interoperable solutions, within our products. And then on the the last layer here that sustains everything, honestly, is governance. And this is a solution that will help us as well to scale with the needs of the lifelong learners from supporting micro credentials to leveraging AI for personalized learning paths.

Here, the idea is that we are deeply aligned with the goal of the support for the lifelong learning journey because this pillar ensures not only everything in terms of the cohesive user experience platform capability, but also ensures that our platform can grow alongside learners as in navigating education in career and so on. So thank you so much for the the time here to, talk a little bit about our vision in the long term, and I'm think I'm gonna pass to Jess. I'll, Yeah. I'll move it I'll move it forward. Oh, John.

Yeah. No worries. No worries. What what we'll do is we'll we'll hand over sort of certain things that the, the product team have built and and released this year, and what we'll do is we'll link that to some stories from Jess and Emily. As we're going through these, if you have got questions, or comments, please put them into the chat and what we'll do is we'll come to those at the end.

If there's anything essential on it then what will happen is Jess will shout at me and say, hey John there's a question that we need to look at or if Jess is talking, then, what we'll do is we'll ask Emily to shout at me and say that there's a really important question that we we need need to answer. But, let's give this little section to to Jess, or was this Emily that was taking Rubik's redesign? Emily was taking Rubik's redesign. You can tell I read the agenda that I wrote, don't you? So, yeah. Let's let's go through, Rubik's redesign, then Emily and, your experience of it and thoughts on this product release. Yeah.

This one, I was super excited by because I you know, I'm a former, history teacher, so I spent a lot of time in the classroom, and I'm a massive fan of rubrics. I really love how rubrics can make the grading process more equitable and it, transparent for learners. It makes them getting feedback a lot easier. So, from a student perspective, when we have a rubric in place, all of the comments can stay on the rubric, their scores and their feedback. They have the criteria with them, and they have the criteria before they start doing the assignments.

So, it it just makes that process a lot more transparent and makes the feedback a lot more accessible for our learners. So with the Rubrics redesign, we've gone from, it's basically an updated UI for the Rubrics design and creation process. So if you can kind of see a little bit small on the screen, I'd recommend you check this out. It is a feature option, on the Root account. So and it's available for all Canvas customers.

But it makes that design process, the creation of rubrics, a lot easier. We can then see very clearly, how we, organize all of the different criteria. And then when we're in SpeedGrader, we now have two additional views, available to us. So we have the horizontal view and the vertical view, which you can see in that video on the screen. So it just makes viewing the rubric and providing feedback in SpeedGrader a lot more accessible.

And what we hope happens with, this addition of and and making that accessible for teachers and making giving feedback for teachers much faster is that it encourages more use of rubrics for, institutions. We can build our rubrics at a subaccount level. We can share grading practices. And so our teachers can get the advantages, but then our students can get the advantages as well. And we make feedback easier to view for our students, and they can start, taking action in response to that feedback.

So it really makes that feedback process a lot easier. And I also think from a product perspective, and not to step on your toes, Joao, but, I think it signals our investment in, making that feedback process even easier. So this is the phase one release of Rubrics, and and there's more, exciting stuff to come, but it also signals we're we're going to be investing back in that feedback process, peer review processes. So this is the the start of some exciting feature options that will be coming in the future. I think it's our thing, isn't it? Feedback is I think every teacher will probably agree that grading and feedback is probably one of the most is the most time consuming part of the job, and so actually having this this in place and I think the flexibility of this now as well I think is really really good for the region because I know specifically from like a UK sector as well in the UK sort of k-twelve secondtor, the specific ways that rubrics are set out for certain exam boards, along those lines, and so being able to align to that a little bit more closely I think makes the experience a bit more aligned for students and less chance of misunderstanding on the feedback on that side.

I don't know if, if Jo or Jess, if you've got any other thoughts on sort of the Rubik's redesign that you wanted to add in or, if you wanted us to The thing that I've seen people excited about is now we have the ability to archive rubrics. So those of us who are in organizations where rubrics are managed and created at the account level, you'll know that your rubrics page gets busy. Like, you could have we work with some organizations of hundreds, if not thousands of rubrics, but now we can archive them. We have a way of workflow to manage that effectively. So yeah.

That's one of the things that I really like about the rubrics redesign. I can see a question's come through on how do we use, where do we turn it on. We want to use the rubric redesign. It's in as a feature option. I think it's called rubric enhancements.

Yeah. And you can turn it on at the account level. But what I will say is you do turn it on at the account level, and it will make that change straight away for your teachers. So absolutely test it in beta. Have a play in beta, but you will want to couple that with some communication to your teachers that the UI there's gonna be a UI change.

For your students, I wouldn't say there needs to be a communication. They'll just see an enhanced UI. But your teachers, you probably wanna put some comms around that so they're not surprised when they come in. There's no change from the student perspective. If you've been using rubrics before, students won't see any differences.

It's the teachers that will see the main differences when they create a new rubric from the rubric section of their course or the rubric section of their subaccount, And they'll now have a drop down in SpeedGrader so that they can switch to the traditional, so they can switch from the traditional view to the horizontal or vertical view, which means they don't need to scroll over to view the criteria and then provide the score. It just keeps it all in line. Yeah. I think it's something yeah. I'm not sure who asked the question, but if you're a teacher within the institution and don't have admin rights, it'll be a conversation to talk to.

Basically, your admin, on on that one, with that. Okay. Conscious of time, and we've got lots to get through this afternoon. So what we're gonna do is we're gonna move on and, apologies if you can hear Alexa talking in the background. I'm not sure how good my phone is at isolating things but obviously somebody in my household has been ordering things from a large online company that I probably can't name for legal regions or promotion and marketing or something.

But let's get to selective content release because this one is is massive and has been spoken about, for such a long time and I'm I'm really really happy about this one. But I'm gonna hand this to Jess, to talk about selected content release for a few moments. Yeah. Sure. So, those of you who've been with us a while, place right in the chat if this is something that you have been waiting for because I know that I've been waiting for this for many years.

So when we learned that it was coming out, we were all really excited. So if you haven't had the chance to look at this, selective content release now provides the ability for us to differentiate content for individual students or for sections inside a course. So this is something we've always been able to do with Canva. Well, I say always. I've been using Canvas maybe ten years.

Ten years is always in SaaS technology, surely. We've always been able to differentiate assessments. We've been aligned and aware that that's a need, since the dawn of time, let's say, the last ten years at least. So we've always been able to do that in Canvas. But now what we can do is differentiate learning content, whether that's full modules or individual pages.

We can make those available to specific students. Individual students or to sections. And with pages, the added functionality that came with that is we can also set availability dates around pages. Now, this is a relatively, I guess, perhaps small change. It's not a big new tool.

It's not new quizzes. It's not AI. But actually, the impact for educators is massive because it means that we can provide different content to students either proactively, we can plan for it, or responsively. And we do that in the classroom all the time, you know. K twelve, we might have different worksheets.

Higher ed, we know some students are applying for a short course in between their profession whereas some students in the room are a full time degree student. So we talk to them, maybe give them different accommodations. But now, we can actively plan for that online. And as Jo said, one thing we can be certain of is change. Right? Like, our cohorts are becoming more and more diverse.

Diverse in terms of where they are regionally, how they're accessing our content, what their starting point is, what they need. Some of this diversity we know at the beginning and some of it we don't. Some we we come to learn as we move through the course. But now our educators can easily differentiate the learning experience when needed. And we're already seeing this being used in lots of different ways.

So really common, and I'm sure many of you have this use case is extension opportunities. You know, we go through an exam board or assessment board. We want to give students an extra opportunity to succeed, but good practice. We don't just give an extra assessment. We need to give learning content to address the gap in knowledge to help them succeed later on.

So now we can put together the a module designed to bridge the gap to give some content to people who may be taking extension assessments. Where we're seeing this used in other ways to provide different context or different content, I should say, for different students based on how they're learning. So maybe our online students meet a module about how to use Zoom or how to engage remotely or the collaboration activities that they'll be doing because that might be different to our on campus students. Maybe our students who are taking a particular course is just a short course, a micro credential compared to our students who are doing it for their full degree. Maybe they have different assessments and now we can house those in different modules with different content to support that even though we're facilitating them from one course.

So we're really empowering teachers to differentiate to students proactively or reactively, but also we're simplifying workflows because I think or I know what I've seen happen before. Let us know if this is the case for you. Maybe we were trying to use blueprints as a workaround before for this. Maybe we were asking teachers to manage multiple Canvas courses for what was actually one course that they were teaching in practice. But because we needed different content, teachers are asked to manage multiple courses.

Now we can do that all from the same spot in Canvas. And the thing that I really like about this with lots of our product releases that come out, I like it when it's easy to use Like this, it's a it's a workflow that's familiar to us from assignments and quizzes. So when we're enabling colleagues, we're not enabling them on clicks, actually. We're enabling them on differentiation, the power that brings, the flexibility that brings so they can focus on the pedagogy and not on having to learn the clicks. But that's why it was my favorite this year.

I think that's the thing with it, isn't it? It's, you know, Emily and I, we were meeting with a a customer at a German school earlier, and it's just that common occurrence of, you know, their situation with a course which maybe had two classes in there. And, you know, sometimes with the institutions we work with, that's either based on ability or it could be based on the programs, you know, in the university like you said. And this is just such a simple way of, you know, rather than on an individual basis, but being able to sort of bulk some of that content together and, and align it to to the appropriate students. So, yeah, simple release, isn't it? But I think it's sometimes those simple bits that make the massive difference. So thanks for that, Jess.

What we'll do, I think it moves on to me for a little bit. I I'm gonna go on to something from a from a slightly different perspective, which for me was, really, really important this year. You know, I I had, you know, the sort of situation where I was working with some of our solutions engineers. We were looking at sort of the sources of data that we have, and the sources of data that, basically our institutions have as well. And we were getting asked a lot of questions from our institutions about, you know, accessing data in the system, but also accessing and combining data with with their other sources.

You know, we were working with one university that was looking at their data from their library systems and courses and content that the library was producing to help students with their learning outside of the normal university modules. And they were wanting to combine that with data from their student information system to look at sort of the demographics of who was accessing it. And so sort of access to our data was like a a really, really important piece. And I think we have data in admin analytics, and we had our data in other tools such as Impact along those lines, and we had the data that was within the courses. And I think, what we did here when we released the Analytics Hub was for for admins.

We made using that data more easily, and it it's that really sort of obvious saying that the only useful data is data that you use. And, you know, maybe we had access to all of this, but we weren't actually using it. And so for me, things like the analytics hub where it has things such as course readiness is is a massive piece in that sort of student experience as well and and and helping educators. You know, they've got a lot of priorities educators. They're probably, you know, one of the busiest jobs in the world And, you know, when they've got to remember certain things, sometimes they need support and a bit of help.

But we don't want to be sort of blanket emailing people all the time. So things like course readiness and accessing sort of, the data of how sort of our courses are being designed. I think that's really useful in a implementation scenario. But what we've been working with and I've seen sort of, institutions do is use this analytics hub at certain times in the academic year and the academic cycle. So it means that if courses, you know, we do have a separate set of modules in semester one to a set of modules that are in semester two, you know, they've got that ability to check the publishing, the content that's going in there, and support teachers, and find success stories, and share the good news across the organisation.

So from a change management perspective, breaking out the data into its sort of purpose and the questions that it can answer and what actions you might take with it, really, really simple, but really, really useful. So I was really, really happy to sort of see the analytics hub and, you know, again, another change that just makes access to data easier. And, you know, with this as well, I know this is a a separate product that some people may have purchased compared to others, But intelligent insights as well, being able to source that data and, you know, Joe was talking about AI earlier. Using that to be able to sort of formulate our questions, we know what we want to ask, but to have to go through that process of creating SQL and and things along those lines can be time consuming and uses the resources. So Intelligent Insights, when that was released this year, I think along with the the analytics hub, I think they were sort of really big steps in making access to data easy for the people that needed needed to use it.

So that was the big thing for me. I don't know if anybody else wants to chip in on a data from, you know, from from the team or if they've been, I know, Emily, you've been working with customers where they've been looking at data as well. I don't know if you've got any insights you'd like to share. Yeah. I think with the I mean, I don't think it was this year, but, maybe end of last year, it was launching out with CD two.

It it we I think Canvas is really or Instructure is really signaling that we want to give our customers access to all of their data, and free and open access to so you can build reports yourself and and offering free solutions for how to or offering free solutions so that you have free and open access to your data. I think the reports that we have here are fantastic. If you don't have a super technical team or you need support in in building reports or getting SQL copies of x SQL queries, Intelligent Insights is fantastic. But, definitely, if you're interested in building out reports and and you want free and open access to your information, I would definitely have a look at CD two as well if it's not something that you've taken a look at in detail. Perfect.

Thank you. Okay. I think we've got one more thing to talk about before we sort of go back to jail and sort of think about, the future and we start looking at your questions that you've got as well. We're just gonna move on to one. This is gonna be Jess.

Jess has done a lot of work with our customers on credentialing and sort of that, you know, badging and basically did, learning pathways for for students. So, Jess, you did want to talk about credentials and and Talent Bureau on on this. I'll hand this one over to you. Yeah. Thanks, John.

So this year, I've really seen an increase of organizations using credentials, and that's actually been really enjoyable for for me personally to work on. Jo earlier spoke to the increased trend in lifelong learning and absolutely that's something we're seeing. But for me on a personal level and John knows because I'm always asking for more time off to do professional development. That really speaks to my context and the context of lots of our team and lots of our wider networks. People are looking for professional development opportunities and looking for ways to continue learning.

Learning in AI space has been massive this year. We all need to upskill and continually be learning. So, yeah, I'm seeing seeing that trend, to lifelong learning in that more and more organizations seem to be doing lots of things in that space, whether that's putting forward short course offerings that speak to more lifelong learning, where we might be aiming to support, learners who are already in their career and coming for small micro opportunities. That's one avenue. Another big conversation we've really been involved with is actually supporting students to understand how what they're doing in their education is preparing them for the next step in their career.

And how not only my my degree was in music. So not only was I learning how to play the saxophone, but I was also developing skills in collaboration, in presentation, in communication. All of these things that we may struggle with when we're earlier on in our career and understanding how what we're doing in the classroom or in canvas or at university, how that translates to the big wide world of work. And that's that's a challenge. So when I saw this come out in the product, I think it was around August time, had a really busy July, August this year.

This really excited me. So this will be visible to anybody who's already using credentials, but you may it may have slipped you by because many of us take leave in August. Maybe we missed the release notes in August. But with credentials, you've always had the ability to map skills against badges that you want to award. But we now have a partnership with TalentMuron, which is a really wonderful integration Because when we're now mapping skills, not only are we tagging the skill itself and aligning on a definition of the skill that we're saying this badge will represent or allow our learners to to achieve that particular skill.

But we're also mapping it against information that's updated in real time for job opportunities that are currently out there. So there's thousands of skills that are being pulled from, job adverts, job descriptions, resumes. And before our students study with us, if if they want to, they can take a look at the badge to see what skills are aligned. Or for our students who are already studying and maybe earning badges in Canvas, they can see the skills that they're earning, how they're actually being used in the job market today. That includes lots of different things.

It includes things like, how popular the skill is, how demand that skill has been over time, what are the top companies that are posting and looking for these skills, the hierarchy and the relationship between skills, what other skills are being listed on jobs with this description. You can even see a job count of jobs that are looking for this skill at the moment with a link to how to apply to that job. And it has the job title, the salary, the location, and just the link through to apply to that job. So really really powerful tool I think for allowing our students to really understand how what they're doing in canvas or in the classroom or with us, how that translates to job opportunities and career progression. But also where we may have I don't like saying adult learners because I think our students are adults, but it slipped me.

Continual learners, lifelong learners, returning learners, people like us who have jobs, who are go who are still looking for opportunities to learn. If I can see on the badge what skills that I'm gonna learn if I commit to taking that course, if I can see how those skills are currently needed in the job market, if I can see that there are jobs currently looking for that skill, wow, that's an incentive for me to take the course or at least reassurance that the course I'm looking at is aligned to the job prospect that I'm that I'm hoping to to move forward in. Thank you. Yeah. It's massive, isn't it? And I think, you know, how many how many institutions and universities have we worked this with this year where, you know, they're looking at credentials, they're looking at, you know, using catalog, and and basically they're offering courses to their students beyond the modules that are simply on their program as well.

There's so many scenarios that this this applies. Conscious of the time, and I'm I'm sure people are interested in in hearing from Jo again as we, move on to sort of next year. You know, we we've we've celebrated this year and, you know, we've looked back and everybody loves New Year's Eve as well and moving into to a new year, especially Emily because she lives in Scotland where they celebrate it more extensively, the Nazem party, right the way through January as well. But let's move on to twenty twenty five, Jo, and, you know, let's talk of, you know, about some of the things that are coming and, you know, some of the main things that that you wanted to discuss. Obviously, the block editor is one of those, but I'll open the the the floor up to you.

Thank you, Jim. Can you just click once again on the slide? Because there's another yeah. Perfect. Let me see. So there's quite a few things that are coming in twenty twenty five.

One, for example, as, you were mentioning, John, about integrations in between and collaboration between Canvas catalog and Canvas Prudential. So, really, how can we better support you as an institution and your students as well to really understand and visualize easily inside of Canvas catalog, the whole vision of the badging achievements that they need to achieve in order to go to that next level of their education. Things in terms of, better integrations and better support in between all of our products, amazing things are coming as well within your quizzes, with better enhancements on our APIs and easier ways for you to integrate any proctoring tools that you utilize on your quizzes experience. So things are coming on q one of next year. Amazing things as well in Compass Commons, not only in terms of accessibility because we are gonna be double c h e two point one compliant, with a VPAT as well, to be released in q two of twenty twenty five.

But also a lot of on other things that are coming in terms of features, both for enhancements in the user experience, but also, in the user interface to make your life easier when sharing new contents there. We have, SpeedGrader enhancements as well, not only in the technological side, so making your life faster when you're utilizing, the SpeedGrader, specifically for those who have large courses, for example. But also, and, again, as we think about the pillars that I was showing you in the beginning, it's really making sure that all of our products can have a more modernized technology. So you'll see that happening as well in the great book experience, in q one of next year, and so many of them. But the thing that I'm most I'm most excited to show you all and to talk about it is something that we have been speaking a lot this year.

The easier way for you to create content through the block editor. And we actually have a video in the next slide to show you how this is gonna be looking on. And also just wanna mention real quickly that, we we will be releasing this as an open beta, in just I'm not that good in math, but in just twelve days. That's our our expectation. No.

Actually, it will be in see? I'm not good in math. December nineteen is the is the date that we are gonna be able to release this as an open beta. So in order for you to utilize the block editor, just ask your, CSM so that they can enable that for you as well. But let's take a look actually on the video and and see how this is gonna be looking like in December nineteenth for everybody. Okay.

I'm gonna hope that I've set things up technically correct, Jao, and that the audio audio is gonna play on this. Let me just double check my selectings. But if not, I can I can also talk about it? No worries. Cool. My brand name is Oh, there you go.

So up until now, the only way to create content really was using the rich content editor in conjunction with external tools, but we will be very soon introducing our new block editor. So the idea behind the block editor is to create consistent visually appealing content without the need to be, you know, a web designer and have that level of experience. So you will be able to template content and leverage pages of content like this as a starting point. But you'll also be able to start from scratch. So the idea here with the block editor is that we have a block toolbox, which is a combination of sections and individual blocks.

So what I can do here is I can add a hero section right at the top. Maybe I will have some cards in here as well. And finally, I'll end off with a knowledge check. Now the individual blocks themselves are combinations of a number of different visual elements. Right? So this can be buttons, text.

There's that rich content editor. It's not gone anywhere. We still have access to that, and you'll be able to embed using external tools just like before. But now, with these individual custom blocks, I can, for example, come in here and say I'm going to leverage a course image as the background there. We'll be able to have links out to, different areas of the course itself.

Each one of these, different tabs here, of course, we can, add different icons, have links to different areas, change the background colors. All of that is consistent and and, customizable. And finally, we'll be able to actually introduce elements of assessments and interactivity into a page of content. Right? So rather than just being static content that you would learn from and then go and take a quiz somewhere else, for example, I can actually select from this course a singular question actually that exists. So as a student or a learner is going through and working their way through the course or working on their way through this page of content, you can have a formative knowledge check type question just to make sure they're on the right track.

And along with all of this, you'll have the ability to preview what this will look like. Right? Both for a desktop view, a tablet view, and a mobile view. Right? To make sure that no matter where your learners are accessing this content, it will be accessible and readable for them. Nope. Oh.

A brand new way to create a con. Pause that, and I'll stop sharing as I think that's our last slide that we've got there or I'm just unable to move on to the next one. But the block editor looks great and I think, you know, you know, on that perspective, Jel, you know, we work with institutions and we we get to talk students and the most common thing that they they say to us, they they wish their teachers would do things in a similar way and the navigation was consistent so they can find things, easily, you know, within there. And and this gives us that ability to create this content in the same way. So, you know, I think that's gonna have a massive impact next year.

So we're we're really looking forward to that. And, like you said, people can start playing with that before before the end end of the year. I don't know. Is there is there anything else you wanted to add from a product perspective, Jao, on, you know, twenty twenty five? Just that we're gonna keep working on accessibility as one of our main focus integrations in between our products as I was mentioning and just making sure that we can support you with the lifelong learning, the new learners, the, even the nontraditional learners or as we were seeing so many different names in the market. One of the things that we're gonna release actually is a product in that sense on next year.

So there are great things coming to better support our customers on how they can showcase their the that skills, not only for the institutional level, but also for employment level as well. Yeah. No. Definitely. No.

And and thank you for taking the time and sharing sort of the product perspective with us today. I do hope everybody on on the call has enjoyed listening to us from our perspective and we do plan next year, you know working very closely with Jiao, to offer more of these sessions much more sort of targeted at particular areas of our product releases, but also linking that to sort of the real world stories from the, you know, the services team in EMEA where we're working directly with customers as well on on that. So we'll probably got a few minutes for sort of questions. I don't know whether anybody on the team has been reviewing any of the questions and there's ones in particular that we should pick up. Jess, do you want to sort of choose a question that we should maybe cover or something that's come up or any themes from the chat from the participants today? We all seem to be excited about the blog editor in the chat, as do we on the team.

So look out in the new year. Keep an eye on those, production release notes depending on if and when you break up for Christmas. But I think we're gonna have the ability to look at something in beta fairly soon. So, yeah, excited to see. Yeah.

And I think, you know, one of the questions that I see Phil's asked about the block editor. Is it a free additional function? With that one, do you want to take that gel? You know, are people gonna have to pay for the block editor is the question. Not at all. Yes. I'm happy to answer it.

Not at all. We won't have to pay for this. This is a a core functionality that we are bringing as well for for our Canvas users. Yep. No.

Perfect. Okay. I I see Jed's got a question. We'll probably take that one separately about HTML unless Jell knows that. But what we we can do is get somebody to follow-up with you, Jed, around the HTML side of that, and we'll probably discuss that with, your your CSM, and that to give you information on on that one.

For those Just on on that, if I understood correctly, you're still gonna be able to edit and create content through HTML, but we are also gonna give you the ability to create content through the rich content editor. Now in terms of adding through HTML inside of the block editor, this is not a current capability that we are working on. So you're gonna be able to utilize the templates that we have there, and create your content through those. But if you still wanna create content through HTML, you're gonna be able to do that as well. K.

Okay. Thanks for that, Chao. Okay. I think we're we're coming up to up to time. I'd really, really like to thank everybody that joined us.

And like I said, once again, we'll be back in February next year. We'll run these again, potentially at the same time. And so what we'll do is we'll be working with all of your customer success managers to send details out on that so people can sign up to, next year's webinars. I think Emily's penciled in for February already. Emily, can you remind us what, your topic was going to be that you were going to look at? So the intention, and and we've not talked about this with Xiao yet.

So but the intention is that, we'll be doing, some work and some q and a on the block editor, because we'll that will be an open demo, but it would be good to kind of spend some time looking at some different options for how that can be implemented once it's, in the open beta process when other, institutions have access to it. And and I'll add because I I don't know if if, I wanna make sure this is highlighted for Xiao, that it's still accessible in beta, but there might be some some more updates coming in, to that release when it's in the beta version. So, expect to see when you're testing it out, expect to see changes from time to time as we continue to refine, this tool. Yep. Perfect.

Thanks, Emily. Well, I think it it's time to do the the old fashioned it's it's goodbye from me, goodbye from them, or whatever that was, but I'm sure we'll all be watching those comedy shows over Christmas when we we have a bit of a break. But everybody who's joined us today, we wish you all the best. You know, thanks for working with us this year. We look forward to working with you next year, and, you know, I hope you get the time to get some rest over the festive season.

So have a great day, everybody, and, we'll see you next year. And that's what that's what everybody in the team can wave. Bye. Thank you so much. Bye.