CanvasConEU 25 - Product Roadmap
Good morning. Good morning, Canvas Gong. I will say I am a proud member of that generation x. I know exactly what to do with that pencil. Excited to be here today. But but more interesting than the on stage time, honestly, is the conversations that we've been having off the stage.
Right? You know, insights from doctor Redman like that, some of the conversations in the hallway, the one to ones that have been happening, the little coffee chats that turn into impromptu product demos. In fact, some of the customer discovery sessions where we've had all of you kind of talking to us and us being able to listen, those have been profound and have been helpful in helping us understand what is important. And I think one thing has come through over and over in those conversations and that is the pace of change. Right? New starts into learning, people who are switching careers, people who are thinking about returning to learning, all of these changes, the pace of that change is crazy. The introduction of technology and how AI is showing up in the way we're learning, the pace of that change is incredible.
And so how do we think about what we do? And so when we talk about being future ready at Instructure, it is not just about the technology. It is about the culture. It is about the posture. It is about the things that we are doing that set us up to be open by default, that set us up to be able to integrate with the partner solutions that you already use today. It is setting us up to have that commitment to pedagogy and to culture.
Those are the things that are critical for us. And one of the things that's most important for us as we think about that is the connection to having it be private and to have it be transparent and to have it be connected to the work that you're doing. And so the technology that we build is in service of all of you. It is doing the heavy lifting, but it is about people first. It is about a community of people who create with us.
It is about the people like you, our educators, our academics, our partners who are helping bring these products to life. Now, you saw Sid talk about this idea of the three products. I'll talk about the concept of our three products and how that comes to life for us. The backbone of course is Canvas, the teaching and learning foundation for everything that we do, the backbone of our educator journey, the backbone of our learner journey, and all of the pieces that connect to it. Mastery is our assessments offering.
It connects quizzing and the authentic forms of assessment that allow a learner to demonstrate their proficiency and the skills that they have. And parchment, the newest of our offerings that translate the things you know, the things you can demonstrate as a learner into something you can translate into an outcome, you can take to a job, can show, including the recent addition of credentials into the Parchment family. Underneath all of this though is a foundational base, a foundational base that's powered with AI that is transparent, that is clear, that is GDPR compliant, and that is relevant for an audience that cares about things like the clarity and the transparency of a technology that enables all of you. And the outcome is clear. It sets the tone for what a learner will do in Canvas to learn, will demonstrate through mastery proficiency, and will translate into others in the way they go.
So to set this up, we've got two exciting folks who are going to talk a lot about our product roadmap, and I'd like to introduce to the stage Elizabeth DiRenzo and Joao Sovere, who are going to talk to you about our product roadmap. Please welcome them. Tous and Tak, Kieran, and good morning, Oslo. If there are my friends from Sikh here, please let me know if after this amazing pronunciation in Norwegian, I can use my badge properly. It's a pleasure to be here today with all of you.
I am so so excited. I'm so happy to be here. Me too. Already seen a lot of familiar faces. Looking forward as well to meet many of you during the day.
But for those who haven't had the chance to introduce myself yet, I'm Jean Silveira, and I'm the EMEA global growth product marketing manager for the region. I'm really, really excited today because I am together side by side with a leader that I deeply, deeply respect, someone who's already creating a lot of impact with our product teams, and that if you haven't had a chance to meet her yet, I think it's the perfect time to do so. Right? So Thank you. Thank you, Joelle. The feeling is obviously mutual.
I'm grateful to be on stage with you today. Hi everybody. I'm Elizabeth DiRenzo, Etsy. I have been with Instructure for a little over two years, holding a variety of leadership roles, working on a variety of initiatives over my time here. I was a product leader who partnered with our engineering team to explore some of our first steps into AI in our Instructure products.
I've also worked pretty extensively in our non traditional space leading our catalog and credentials and portfolio teams. And, as of last month, I've expanded my role to take on the leadership of the Canvas portfolio, which I'm thrilled to do and to continue my journey here with Instructure. And, you know, I'm just grateful to be in Oslo today with you all to learn from you. Over my time at Instructure, I've already learned from so many of you in the room, from site visits in our Budapest office and bringing some of you in to councils in which we've connected on a monthly basis. So, it only is fitting to start my journey as the Canvas leader here with you today.
And, this community really is what makes us go. Right? Yeah. Joelle? Absolutely. Absolutely. I mean, it's all about our community.
Right? One of the biggest pleasures that I have in my role is really the opportunity to travel as well over Europe, Middle East, and Africa and connect with our our customers. And I really like to look on this through the lens of the user groups that we have here in the region. Now since Canvas Conversalana, my gosh, it's already one year and one month, I think, that we have met there, we have been able to travel and connect with all the user groups that you're seeing here. At least once, for some more than once. Those conversations were so strategical for us here at Instructure because they gave us the opportunity to look back to the things that we have built for you.
But most importantly, you look to the future. Right? To the things that we're going to build with you. We have made a lot of user group prioritization exercises. If you were in the room, you know about that. A lot of whiteboards were completed, testings, beta experiences that we involve with a lot of our customers here.
And I'm so proud to say that more than fifty percent of our road map from twenty twenty four up until today and what's coming next as well, it's aligned directly into those user group prioritizations. So this is just a a moment to really thank you, not only those who are here in these pictures, if you're here, shout out to you, but if you're not as well, I know that you were there with us. Thank you so much for the opportunities, and we'll keep working together to create a product that is meaningful for our region here, Both not only for the technological point of view, but most importantly, from the pedagogical ends. Yeah. I wanna just ask for a quick round of applause for the customers who have partnered with us.
Thank you so much everybody. As a product leader, it's it's impossible to build incredible products without the partnership of our customer bases. So thank you for giving your time to working with our teams. We even have some teams attending this event to continue connecting with customers and and learning to shape our investments over the coming years. So Yeah.
Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. I know that you have already seen this live this morning, but we would like to ask you to take a moment as well and and let let this information here sink in your minds. You know, from what Dan has shared, everything that we are gonna share today as well in this session and many of the things that we are gonna learn from each other during the day are so well connected to all the information that are here in this live.
Right? We are making sure that we are reaching learners across their whole learning life cycle, that instruction. Absolutely. And, you've heard it a few times today and Sharon reiterated at the start of this session that our North Star as a company is to develop a future ready, open ecosystem that connects you not just to us but to all of the incredible partners, many of which are in the room that help you create the custom experience in Canvas that you need at your organizations. And, why is this our North Star? Why does this matter? It's because this is how we can support you in fostering student confidence development alongside their academic achievements. It's how we can support you in creating a learning environment in which everyone thrives if you are in a leadership position.
And, you know, it means so much to us to, you know, drive this vision forward with your partnership. Yeah. And all about tailored learning. Right? I mean, if we don't make our students feel energetic, compelled with what they're learning, really in the in the driver's seat of that journey, there's no platform that we're gonna make them really feel compelled with what they are learning. Absolutely.
I think doctor Redmond really teed that up. Yeah. There's a there's a lot of opportunity for us out there to create the ideal user experience for the future of learning together. Yeah. So we're gonna spend the next couple of minutes just delving into the three main themes of our event here, and we will start with the first one.
Right? What is Well, not just themes of our event, themes of our roadmap as well. Absolutely. Yes. So you will see these themes really reflected throughout the investments that we've made and are making. And that's really what Joao and I are here to talk about.
Yeah. Yeah. So let's see what are we are making in order to engage learners and improve outcomes. And, you know, as doctor Paul has mentioned, we are always so much in in our cell phones. Right? I spend hours just scrolling on TikTok and Instagram and sharing memes with my friends and colleagues.
Yeah. Guilty. I think it's like the modern day love language. Right? To send memes back and forth. Yeah.
We all do it. Or just spending the whole weekend watching a whole season of a TV show because I don't want to get spoilers on the Internet. One hundred percent. I'm already waiting for the December eighteenth release of Emily in Paris to be my Christmas break binge. So, yes, this is really the way that we consume content now.
Yeah. But it's so hard for us to make sure that we can get just twenty minutes of attention of a whole class that has so much mix of generations Yeah. Into it. So we really need to make sure that from the beginning of their educational days, from the moment that they enter on the system, they can already understand what they are doing and where should they go to. So very excited to say that we are building widgets for the learner dashboard.
Now the first thing is that this is specifically a dashboard built for learners. And those widgets, they work such as a GPS. Right? They they answer the main questions that the students might have, being a a further educational student who has just ended the his or her shift and is now really needing to look into the system, into the dashboard and understand what they must do next, to a parent who has so many familiar activities but also needs to focus on what matters in their days. And also to the Gen Z or even in the future the Gen Alpha who needs that extra level and boost of confidence on their day to day. So they need to understand where should I go and when should I deliver for the purpose of my education.
Absolutely. And, as we heard from doctor Edmond, the way that we consume content outside of learning influences the way that we expect to consume content within learning. We are humans and our lives transcend personal to learning to work and the consumption of content has changed. Yeah. You know, we're really investing in ensuring that students can have a gamified experience with their learning completion and their learning progress.
That's something that many of us have come to expect in learning apps that we use in our personal time even. And, we're ensuring that when a learner lands on their dashboard, they're seeing a personalized view of the things that are most important to them. And, I think in the future, maybe customizable. Yeah. Now, educators, don't worry.
We have not forgotten about you. This is a look at our educator dashboard. Like I said, we are all people, whether we are learning actively or educating and maybe gonna be learning in the future, we all need the support of really seeing the most important information right at our fingertips at all times. I'm pleased to give you a look at our new educator dashboard in development. I think you'll also notice that it might look a little bit differently different than the Canvas design and feel that you're used to.
So, here are also some looks at the new design patterns that we're testing right now to really modernize the look and feel of Canvas. I love the gradient personally. This is my favorite thing. I don't know why. It's just so pretty.
Right? It like makes you wanna use it. You'll also notice some sparkle icons throughout our product. This is our way of denoting when AI is being leveraged in the product to support you so you always know that there's assistance through AI here and you have full control over how to leverage it. For an educator, the educator is also able to work this should be a video. Let me see if it will play.
It's not playing but hopefully darn. Sorry about that. What you would have seen if it was playing is that what we've also done is embed key workflows directly from the dashboard. So as you're an educator going through your dashboard, you're gonna see things like ready to assess or ready to grade and you're able to launch the grading workflow speed grader immediately from your dashboard, saving you so many clicks so that you can spend your valuable time focused on focused on educating your learners, providing quality feedback to your learners versus clicking around the product to find the grading workflow you you need to use. Yeah.
And more than just creating a dashboard and technologies that empower you, we are building together with you as we were mentioning. Tomorrow actually, we're gonna have a session with sixty students from the University of Oslo. So thank you so much for the university for letting us and give us the opportunity to do that. It's so special for us to be in a space learning directly from our customers and not only that, learners directly. Absolutely.
And also with admins and educators to check the development that we're building and validate it as we have done already in Budapest a couple of months ago. So a lot of exciting things coming, but when the direction is clear, right, for both the educator and the students, the learners, we also need to make sure that the content itself is accessible. And you might have seen a little bit of a spoiler here on the next slide. You know, I I said at the beginning that I am surrounded by people that I deeply admire here at the event. And with professor Martin Bien is no different.
Last year, he set a quote during his keynote here at in Barcelona at CanvasCon that really got into my mind. Right? When we design inside Canvas, accessibility cannot be an afterthought or a nice to have. It really has to be a fundamental building block. Now, not only I truly believe on this quote, but we also have data to reinforce it. Some very alarming data as well.
Nineteen percent of our European students have reported that they have a disability or a health barrier to study. But what was really alarming is how much or how little PDFs academic PDFs are actually accessible for our users Yeah. From a study that was made between two thousand and fourteen and two thousand and twenty three. Yeah. There was a time in my life where eighty percent felt, you know, decent for an achievement.
But, when we look at this stat and we see that we may only be serving eighty percent of our learners in the way that they need to be met, it's simply not good enough. And so, at Canvas, we we want to be a part of this solution to ensure that all learners are served in the way that they need to be served for their learning and just be a vehicle to support you in that work. Yeah. So two very exciting things that we are building in order to enhance and and promote this experience that is accessible to all of Did we did we both click? Yeah. We've been double clicking sometimes when we practice and going too ahead.
Exciting. I I saw I was supposed to do it. Alright, everybody. This is our block editor. We are so excited to bring the block editor to you.
It is currently an experimentation and being tested with real educators and instructional designers and administrators to ensure that it meets your need. This is such an important part of Canvas, building content, building learning. As we talked about, the expectations that we have around content are only evolving. Right? The the world of content is changing rapidly and we need to ensure that the tools you have to continue building your content on Canvas match the expectations that you and your learner you learners have when it comes to engaging learning. So the block editor is something that we haven't skimped on.
We've spent a lot of time really working directly with you to make sure that we're delivering a solution that truly meets your needs. And that means a lot of iterations and a lot of experimentation and testing in partnership with you. And we're very excited that we've really landed on a solution that feels ready for prime time based on your feedback. And so I know there are many, you know, HTML lovers in the room, people who enjoy using HTML to customize your content experience. Yeah.
But I also know that there are many incredible instructional designers in the room and beyond who may not be HTML experts or if you are, you're like, it could be a lot easier than this. And I don't wanna have to always rely on HTML to create an accessible, scalable content experience. And so the block editor removes the requirement of leveraging HTML and it makes creating content on Instructure excuse me, on Canvas much easier to do, much more in line with the content creation tools that many of us have started to leverage in our outside of our learning. And so the Block Editor also supports structure that ensures that your content is accessible by design. So it gives some guardrails so that you can feel confident that the content you are creating using the block editor is scalable and accessible accessible.
That's right. And together with the block content editor, we are also building something really excited here, adding structure, which is the course accessibility checker powered by Ignite AI that really brings to our users a very quick way to visualize what is not accessible in their courses. We are talking here about Yeah. Images that are not aligned to the most up to date accessibility standards. Images that don't have an alternative text.
But I really like the fact that we are now gonna be able as well to convert those old p d f's into assignments, pages, and so many more. So this will not only empower people. Oh, thank you. I'm seeing some excitement here in the room, finally. I'm hearing some voices.
Yes. I'm very, very excited with this as well. Is something that will not only save time, but will actually provide that that accessibility in the level that we need and want to bring to our users. Absolutely. And you know, Joelle, everybody that I talk with about accessibility wants to drive an accessible learning environment.
Yeah. But we're not all accessibility experts and creating tools that can help everybody with that expertise and free up their time to continue focusing on delivering that high quality learning and feel confident in that content being accessible is something we're proud to continue supporting. Yeah. And, you know, it doesn't stop there. We are so excited about AI at Instructure but not for technology's sake, for the sake of solving problems in learning for our customers that we've heard for years and really have struggled to solve at scale.
But with AI technology, we have a technology for the first time that allows us to take a look back at that laundry list of opportunities that we've been keeping in our backlog and think, is there a better way to solve this now? Did this technology bring a way for us to solve this problem of it's very time consuming to build rubrics or give in-depth feedback when I'm teaching, you know, a thousand plus students at any given time. But, I really wanna be doing that. And so, we're so excited and you'll notice that there's AI woven throughout the solutions that we're presenting today and that's really because we've evaluated what's the best way to solve this problem. Let's go back to that problem and can AI help us solve that problem in a way that's more meaningful than we could before. Rubric generation is one of those problems.
We heard from so many people, hey, there's a time and place for multiple choice quizzes. But I'd really love to be able to assess at points on a deeper level and provide more personal feedback, create a rubric that is aligned to more of an open ended assessment. But rubric generation isn't easy. And so we've developed a rubric generator that will help you assess the materials that you have brought to the assignment seamlessly. So it takes the content that you've brought to the table and recommends a rubric for you and it's all editable.
This is I like to think of this as like your first pass. Yeah. Right? Use this as your first pass. I use AI for a lot of first passes in my life now from sending a thoughtful Slack message to my team to responding to a tough email to meal planning to giving my husband a to do list when I travel for work, all of the things. So, this is really your first pass companion and that you are in the driver's seat of how you edit it and how you deploy it.
And we did some research Yeah. On this, Joao, during our experimentation phase to see how this was landing with customers. Because like I said, we wanna make sure we're deploying solutions that actually make a difference in your workflows. Yeah. And it was pretty staggering.
It was. It was. Yes. We actually, we we saw together with everyone who is testing with us that they were able to reduce the overload that they have in creating those rubrics in about seventy percent of the time. So from ten minutes to just three minutes.
So that first iteration, right, that first draft, with the time so reducible, it makes them feel more empowered so that they can focus on what really matters for them. Yeah. I mean, I've been in education and ed tech my entire career and the conversation that we've been having far before AI has been about time. There's not enough time. There's not enough time.
But why does time matter? It's because people get into education to educate, to support learners, to help people grow, not to necessarily do like, you know, work workflows. Right? Things that maybe feel like they're very time consuming. And so why I'm so excited about these solutions is it can really help to start deliver on the promise of of why we all got into education. Now, if you write a rubric, you need to give some great feedback. Right? And one thing that I think is actually harder than writing that single rubric is giving qualitative, personalized feedback at scale for every learner aligned to that rubric.
The rubric is like a minute part of the battle. Yeah. Scaling feedback to your entire learning body that's valuable, that's personalized is really where it gets tricky. And so, it wouldn't be enough to bring the rubric generator to you without some support in giving personalized scale feedback, and so we invested in that as well. So, if you're taking a look here, you will notice that there's marks around showing you where AI is being leveraged.
Like I said, we always denote AI support so you know exactly where it's happening in product and you can make the decisions that are best for you. We wanna be transparent with you. That's one of our core AI principles and we want you completely in control at all times. And so, what's great here is that the rubric that you have developed, whether you wrote that you're on your own or you've leveraged the rubric generator, can be supported by AI generated feedback. And again, you are seeing that there's an auto evaluate experience here and you are able to give personalized feedback and draft it again.
Sometimes that first step of personalization is like the hardest step, at least I find, and so this is always a starting point for you. Use it as is or edit it and make it your own. But we're excited to pair this with the rubric generator so that we can support you in giving that personalized feedback at scale when you're supporting so many learners at once. Yeah. And, you know, there's many other things that we are also building that is powered by Ignite AI here at Instructure.
But let's take a just a a quick pause from the features and the solutions that we are building and remind ourselves why we're doing what we're doing here at Instructure. First of all, thank you so much Andrea for letting us use your quote here. It really translates at least to me really well what we are making here. Right? We are building this consistency, this empowerment to learners from South America or here in Norway to study together and to have the same level of education. And for that, we need not only to create the technology but to empower the people who are behind that technology.
But also, this means with great technology, it also means that we need to make sure that there's alignment in between the educators and the learners. And one of the top priorities from all of our user groups here in EMEA was always one, surveys in your quizzes. So I'm very, very happy to say that we are finally bringing the surveys so that you can ask questions during your course without needing to wait until the end and your students can provide that level of feedback and and clarity, but also transparency into how they are going through their progress. This is not only exciting but it is also for regulatory purposes. But most importantly, it's because you have said that loud and clear for us.
So thank you so much for all the all of our customers who have shared your thoughts with us, from Oxford University to Universidad Alberto de Catalonia. All your feedback was meaningful so that we could build this. And, can I say the date? You can say the date. Alright. It's close enough.
Yeah. This is coming in December. So, please, let's start using it as best as we can. I know a lot of people I know a lot of people excited about this, not just for the student engagement, but Joao, can you believe that I've actually talked to some of our customers and what I've learned along my time here Yeah. Is that many of our customers are actually having to purchase other survey platforms and sometimes spending upwards of one hundred thousand dollars plus.
Sorry, I'm American. I know there are lots of currencies in the room. But, really having to invest in multiple platforms to solve these problems. And this is something that we hope not only supports you in better engaging with your learners, but really thinking about your tech stack and your holistic platform experience on Canvas. Yeah.
So a lot of things are coming into engage learners and improve their outcomes. Many others as well that are in our road map. But we because of time and also because of everything that we're gonna still learn today During the day, we are gonna move to the next topic here. How are we making sure that we are preparing learners for the world of work? You know, when I when I was graduating in law school in Brazil, a lot of years ago, I had one certainty and a lot of questions. The only certainty that I had is that I didn't want to follow that linear path that was being shown to me in Brazil, or you become a lawyer or you become a judge.
And I have no idea what I wanted to do at that time. But I think that that's the beauty of where education is right now. Right? I was able to get the skills that I that I got from my my law degree, but also learn from a lot of online schools in order to become the product manager that I am today. Get those skills, clear pathways that show me that I'm here today, which by the way, if by the time someone said to me that I would be in Oslo sharing about education, sharing about the context of EMEA in a room with so many inspiring people, I would at least doubted you or laugh about it. So that's the beauty that we are in education that is through skills and pathways.
And at Instructure, we are doing two things in order to promote that for our learners, our educators, and our institutions as well. But this also aligns to what we are seeing with data. Right? Absolutely. We are seeing a major shift and, you know, yes, the credential that is conferred to you, the diploma is, of course, high value, but more and more valuable is the skills that you have developed. Like Joao said, you know, he was able to bring transferable skills from his studies in law to end up here working in product at Instructure.
And we also see on the flip side that it's not just learning that's changing a focus on skills, it's also hiring. And so, I've spent a lot of time actually talking to employers as we explore how we can be a better partner in connecting the learning and the workforce ecosystem and this is what I hear over and over again. I don't really care, you know, about the diploma or the badge. Like, what I care about is that the skill is demonstrated and that achievement of skill is what I'm looking for because people can say a lot of things. Right? But that evidence of skill is the most crucial element here.
And so, our team has been investing and will continue to invest in this space as this is where learning and hiring is really headed. But one of the areas that we've invested in recently is taking a look at our portfolio solution. Prior to now, we've had a variety of portfolio solutions, some in one in Canvas, we had Portfolium and we made the decision that it was time to consolidate portfolios and put them right into Canvas LMS. So portfolios will be a part of Canvas at no additional cost right in the experience to ensure that you are able to connect learning that is happening in the LMS to the curation and showcase of that learning evidence for for your learners. And so, what I really love about the portfolio is it doesn't stop with the assignments that are happening in Canvas, it also opens up this opportunity for you to set requirements that go beyond the LMS assignment.
So, requirements like extracurricular activities, internships Volunteering. Volunteering. Yeah. So many different off LMS experiences that you might require for evaluation of a holistic learning experience. And, not only that, your learners can also curate their own portfolios that they drive, that they own and telling the story that they want to tell about their experiences and their learning.
And, side by side with everything they've learned within Canvas, but also the ability to bring evidence of other experience into one place and share it with the world. And so, we're very excited to be making the transition to bringing the portfolio into Canvas LMS and this is actually available now. So if you haven't joined our early adopter or preview period, it is available to you now. And so please join us in experimenting with this this new solution and seeing if it's a fit for your organization. Yeah.
And, you know, preparing learners for the world of work doesn't just stop with the curation. There are also opportunities to use it side by side with badges and evidence of skill. A hundred percent. When the students are in the center, right, and and off their journey and and they have that clear pathway with achievements that they can prove and and create evidence about it, then the badges do the next part of the job. So for quality teams, that means alignment to frameworks and policies.
For the employers, the skills, as you were mentioning, are really showing if the badges are showing if skills are aligned to the role that they are looking for. But for the students, really answer the the biggest question. Right? Is the return of investment to my education being meaningful to the pathway that I wanna follow? So you heard about Parchment Digital War Badges this morning. You have heard quite a lot from the last few months as well. We have built a lot of features that are really interesting to support both the perspective of the institution, the educator, but also and mainly the the students as well.
We have built a a beta environment so that you can, as an institution, safely test the badges and the skills that you want to align into your curriculum. We have also made available a skill set menu for all of your institutions so that educators can align their courses, their classes with the same badges that are aligned to market trends. And for the students, that means a pathway that is also aligned to evidences from Canvas, but also from Canvas catalog as well. So it's about the connection of all the experience of our users throughout their day to day activities with the platform. Not only that, but I'm really, really happy to say that we are now part of Packed for Skills from the European Commission.
So yeah. Exciting. Yeah. This means that our badges are also aligned with the pack. But hey, don't listen that from me.
We are actually gonna have a full session just to talk about policies here in Europe with Simone at three thirty at Central Park room number eight. The true expert. Yes. Yes. If you haven't met Simone and you're interested in this Deep definitely recommend you attend.
He's wonderful to get to know. The next part is truly my favorite. You know, like you, Joao, I didn't start my educational journey knowing that I would end up here. I wanted to be a dentist. I have a biology degree.
Yeah. I know. And then, I figured out that really don't like dentists and I really wanted to be liked. But, no. I I started my journey really thinking that I was gonna go into dentistry and over time, I've developed new skills, definitely leveraged some of my bio ones, I guess.
And lifelong learning has become something that I've realized I will always be doing. Yeah. Yeah. We all will always be doing it. You quoted Martin Bean who is so quotable.
I've heard him speak on so many topics and I'm always learning something new from him. But, I distinctly remember, you know, a slide when I took on my new role of non traditional and met with him to learn more about the space in which he showed this continuum of, you know, learning to work That previously was just like one solid line. Yeah. And, now, really that is not a solid line. It's this cyclical experience in which we are always working and we are always learning and we have many stops in our careers and our learning in parallel along the way of our journey.
And so, why am I so excited about this? This, what I'm gonna announce to you today is is for all of us. Right? We are all lifelong learners. And so, what this does is really expand the world of Canvas from supporting traditional education to being a tool that maybe you will be learning on yourself Yeah. Over the course of your lifetime. You know, we hear a lot about how jobs are going away.
Right? But the reality is that there are more jobs being created, almost two times the amount of jobs being created than are being displaced. Displaced. I made up a new word. Displaced. And so, we look at this research by the World Economic Forum, we see that there is such an opportunity.
All of the gray, these are jobs that exist today that rely on reskilling and training to continue evolving in the workforce and the green are the jobs that are being created and it's our charge to skill up. Is that a term? I think that could be skill up. Upskill. Yeah. I like skill up though.
Upskill and reskill the people who exist today to fill these roles, to help our society evolve in the workplace. And so, it's not about jobs being lost, it's about the opportunity to educate in new ways on new skills for all of the jobs evolving and being created. I've had the pleasure of leading a very small but mighty team over the last year in developing a new experience of Canvas LMS. It's our first second experience of Canvas LMS. You know Canvas LMS, but this is the first time that we've brought another experience of Canvas LMS to market.
And this experience of Canvas LMS has been uniquely designed and built for the needs of adult professional learners who are continuing their journey. I've already learned on it. I've taken a course from Instructure right on Canvas Career and I love it. It feels like it really meets my needs and it's focused on that skill development that I as a professional rely on. And the design.
Oh, yeah. So, let's take a look. Let's let the Canvas Career do the talking for itself. Introducing Canvas Career, a new LMS experience built on the backbone of Canvas, specifically designed for businesses, governments, and continuing education organizations alike. Canvas Career helps organizations scale their learning programs without sacrificing personalization or control.
To create a learning program, simply select and upload your source material, and Ignite AI automatically creates your learning content from courses to structured programs mapped to relevant workforce skills. The content library organizes all of your learning assets, natively built and external alike. From here, you can easily make changes that sync across all your courses. Once finalized, you can assign the program to learners or enroll automatically by role or department. Get the insights you need with a dashboard that tracks real time progress, engagement, and skill development.
Ignite AI surfaces alerts and recommends actions, helping you stay ahead of the trends and learner needs. From their dashboard, learners can easily track their learning progress. In platform messaging keeps them engaged with scalable communication and coaching. Learners can interact with content by creating personal notes and getting real time support from Ignite AI. In Skillspace, learners can see their progress towards skills in real time.
Based on their performance and progression, they'll see content recommendations to keep learning relevant and continuous. Exciting. I would be remiss if I didn't thank our customer advisers from the EMEA region. We got together about a year ago exactly today in our Budapest office to learn together and we've continued the collaboration over the last year alongside, you know, many other customers to help us shape Canvas Career. Canvas Career was truly co created in partnership with our customers and we're so excited to bring it to market.
It is available now in preview. So please, your CSMs are ready to connect with you, to support you in the opportunity if you are interested in checking it out. And just one quick thing because I know it's really important for us, all languages available. Yes. In January.
Now, Canvas Career isn't the only innovation that we've been investing in and we certainly didn't have enough time nor enough screen space to share some of the investments over the last, you know, year, what we're working on right now and what's up next on our roadmap. This was the smallest we could really get it with hoping that you'd still be able to read it and that's all we could fit. But there's so many innovations happening across Canvas and here's just a snapshot at our very near term investments and we are excited to continue partnering with you. My product our product teams are very excited to continue the collaboration to help us shape the future of Canvas. Like I said, there's not enough slide space or time to speak about every initiative.
But if you'd like to learn more, we have a product booth. Right, Joelle? Can find us there. I think it's right in the front or close to the desk. So please come and find us. We're happy to share more and more.
Absolutely. Thank you so much for your time today. Greatly appreciate it. Thank you, Elizabeth. Yeah.
Right? You know, insights from doctor Redman like that, some of the conversations in the hallway, the one to ones that have been happening, the little coffee chats that turn into impromptu product demos. In fact, some of the customer discovery sessions where we've had all of you kind of talking to us and us being able to listen, those have been profound and have been helpful in helping us understand what is important. And I think one thing has come through over and over in those conversations and that is the pace of change. Right? New starts into learning, people who are switching careers, people who are thinking about returning to learning, all of these changes, the pace of that change is crazy. The introduction of technology and how AI is showing up in the way we're learning, the pace of that change is incredible.
And so how do we think about what we do? And so when we talk about being future ready at Instructure, it is not just about the technology. It is about the culture. It is about the posture. It is about the things that we are doing that set us up to be open by default, that set us up to be able to integrate with the partner solutions that you already use today. It is setting us up to have that commitment to pedagogy and to culture.
Those are the things that are critical for us. And one of the things that's most important for us as we think about that is the connection to having it be private and to have it be transparent and to have it be connected to the work that you're doing. And so the technology that we build is in service of all of you. It is doing the heavy lifting, but it is about people first. It is about a community of people who create with us.
It is about the people like you, our educators, our academics, our partners who are helping bring these products to life. Now, you saw Sid talk about this idea of the three products. I'll talk about the concept of our three products and how that comes to life for us. The backbone of course is Canvas, the teaching and learning foundation for everything that we do, the backbone of our educator journey, the backbone of our learner journey, and all of the pieces that connect to it. Mastery is our assessments offering.
It connects quizzing and the authentic forms of assessment that allow a learner to demonstrate their proficiency and the skills that they have. And parchment, the newest of our offerings that translate the things you know, the things you can demonstrate as a learner into something you can translate into an outcome, you can take to a job, can show, including the recent addition of credentials into the Parchment family. Underneath all of this though is a foundational base, a foundational base that's powered with AI that is transparent, that is clear, that is GDPR compliant, and that is relevant for an audience that cares about things like the clarity and the transparency of a technology that enables all of you. And the outcome is clear. It sets the tone for what a learner will do in Canvas to learn, will demonstrate through mastery proficiency, and will translate into others in the way they go.
So to set this up, we've got two exciting folks who are going to talk a lot about our product roadmap, and I'd like to introduce to the stage Elizabeth DiRenzo and Joao Sovere, who are going to talk to you about our product roadmap. Please welcome them. Tous and Tak, Kieran, and good morning, Oslo. If there are my friends from Sikh here, please let me know if after this amazing pronunciation in Norwegian, I can use my badge properly. It's a pleasure to be here today with all of you.
I am so so excited. I'm so happy to be here. Me too. Already seen a lot of familiar faces. Looking forward as well to meet many of you during the day.
But for those who haven't had the chance to introduce myself yet, I'm Jean Silveira, and I'm the EMEA global growth product marketing manager for the region. I'm really, really excited today because I am together side by side with a leader that I deeply, deeply respect, someone who's already creating a lot of impact with our product teams, and that if you haven't had a chance to meet her yet, I think it's the perfect time to do so. Right? So Thank you. Thank you, Joelle. The feeling is obviously mutual.
I'm grateful to be on stage with you today. Hi everybody. I'm Elizabeth DiRenzo, Etsy. I have been with Instructure for a little over two years, holding a variety of leadership roles, working on a variety of initiatives over my time here. I was a product leader who partnered with our engineering team to explore some of our first steps into AI in our Instructure products.
I've also worked pretty extensively in our non traditional space leading our catalog and credentials and portfolio teams. And, as of last month, I've expanded my role to take on the leadership of the Canvas portfolio, which I'm thrilled to do and to continue my journey here with Instructure. And, you know, I'm just grateful to be in Oslo today with you all to learn from you. Over my time at Instructure, I've already learned from so many of you in the room, from site visits in our Budapest office and bringing some of you in to councils in which we've connected on a monthly basis. So, it only is fitting to start my journey as the Canvas leader here with you today.
And, this community really is what makes us go. Right? Yeah. Joelle? Absolutely. Absolutely. I mean, it's all about our community.
Right? One of the biggest pleasures that I have in my role is really the opportunity to travel as well over Europe, Middle East, and Africa and connect with our our customers. And I really like to look on this through the lens of the user groups that we have here in the region. Now since Canvas Conversalana, my gosh, it's already one year and one month, I think, that we have met there, we have been able to travel and connect with all the user groups that you're seeing here. At least once, for some more than once. Those conversations were so strategical for us here at Instructure because they gave us the opportunity to look back to the things that we have built for you.
But most importantly, you look to the future. Right? To the things that we're going to build with you. We have made a lot of user group prioritization exercises. If you were in the room, you know about that. A lot of whiteboards were completed, testings, beta experiences that we involve with a lot of our customers here.
And I'm so proud to say that more than fifty percent of our road map from twenty twenty four up until today and what's coming next as well, it's aligned directly into those user group prioritizations. So this is just a a moment to really thank you, not only those who are here in these pictures, if you're here, shout out to you, but if you're not as well, I know that you were there with us. Thank you so much for the opportunities, and we'll keep working together to create a product that is meaningful for our region here, Both not only for the technological point of view, but most importantly, from the pedagogical ends. Yeah. I wanna just ask for a quick round of applause for the customers who have partnered with us.
Thank you so much everybody. As a product leader, it's it's impossible to build incredible products without the partnership of our customer bases. So thank you for giving your time to working with our teams. We even have some teams attending this event to continue connecting with customers and and learning to shape our investments over the coming years. So Yeah.
Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. I know that you have already seen this live this morning, but we would like to ask you to take a moment as well and and let let this information here sink in your minds. You know, from what Dan has shared, everything that we are gonna share today as well in this session and many of the things that we are gonna learn from each other during the day are so well connected to all the information that are here in this live.
Right? We are making sure that we are reaching learners across their whole learning life cycle, that instruction. Absolutely. And, you've heard it a few times today and Sharon reiterated at the start of this session that our North Star as a company is to develop a future ready, open ecosystem that connects you not just to us but to all of the incredible partners, many of which are in the room that help you create the custom experience in Canvas that you need at your organizations. And, why is this our North Star? Why does this matter? It's because this is how we can support you in fostering student confidence development alongside their academic achievements. It's how we can support you in creating a learning environment in which everyone thrives if you are in a leadership position.
And, you know, it means so much to us to, you know, drive this vision forward with your partnership. Yeah. And all about tailored learning. Right? I mean, if we don't make our students feel energetic, compelled with what they're learning, really in the in the driver's seat of that journey, there's no platform that we're gonna make them really feel compelled with what they are learning. Absolutely.
I think doctor Redmond really teed that up. Yeah. There's a there's a lot of opportunity for us out there to create the ideal user experience for the future of learning together. Yeah. So we're gonna spend the next couple of minutes just delving into the three main themes of our event here, and we will start with the first one.
Right? What is Well, not just themes of our event, themes of our roadmap as well. Absolutely. Yes. So you will see these themes really reflected throughout the investments that we've made and are making. And that's really what Joao and I are here to talk about.
Yeah. Yeah. So let's see what are we are making in order to engage learners and improve outcomes. And, you know, as doctor Paul has mentioned, we are always so much in in our cell phones. Right? I spend hours just scrolling on TikTok and Instagram and sharing memes with my friends and colleagues.
Yeah. Guilty. I think it's like the modern day love language. Right? To send memes back and forth. Yeah.
We all do it. Or just spending the whole weekend watching a whole season of a TV show because I don't want to get spoilers on the Internet. One hundred percent. I'm already waiting for the December eighteenth release of Emily in Paris to be my Christmas break binge. So, yes, this is really the way that we consume content now.
Yeah. But it's so hard for us to make sure that we can get just twenty minutes of attention of a whole class that has so much mix of generations Yeah. Into it. So we really need to make sure that from the beginning of their educational days, from the moment that they enter on the system, they can already understand what they are doing and where should they go to. So very excited to say that we are building widgets for the learner dashboard.
Now the first thing is that this is specifically a dashboard built for learners. And those widgets, they work such as a GPS. Right? They they answer the main questions that the students might have, being a a further educational student who has just ended the his or her shift and is now really needing to look into the system, into the dashboard and understand what they must do next, to a parent who has so many familiar activities but also needs to focus on what matters in their days. And also to the Gen Z or even in the future the Gen Alpha who needs that extra level and boost of confidence on their day to day. So they need to understand where should I go and when should I deliver for the purpose of my education.
Absolutely. And, as we heard from doctor Edmond, the way that we consume content outside of learning influences the way that we expect to consume content within learning. We are humans and our lives transcend personal to learning to work and the consumption of content has changed. Yeah. You know, we're really investing in ensuring that students can have a gamified experience with their learning completion and their learning progress.
That's something that many of us have come to expect in learning apps that we use in our personal time even. And, we're ensuring that when a learner lands on their dashboard, they're seeing a personalized view of the things that are most important to them. And, I think in the future, maybe customizable. Yeah. Now, educators, don't worry.
We have not forgotten about you. This is a look at our educator dashboard. Like I said, we are all people, whether we are learning actively or educating and maybe gonna be learning in the future, we all need the support of really seeing the most important information right at our fingertips at all times. I'm pleased to give you a look at our new educator dashboard in development. I think you'll also notice that it might look a little bit differently different than the Canvas design and feel that you're used to.
So, here are also some looks at the new design patterns that we're testing right now to really modernize the look and feel of Canvas. I love the gradient personally. This is my favorite thing. I don't know why. It's just so pretty.
Right? It like makes you wanna use it. You'll also notice some sparkle icons throughout our product. This is our way of denoting when AI is being leveraged in the product to support you so you always know that there's assistance through AI here and you have full control over how to leverage it. For an educator, the educator is also able to work this should be a video. Let me see if it will play.
It's not playing but hopefully darn. Sorry about that. What you would have seen if it was playing is that what we've also done is embed key workflows directly from the dashboard. So as you're an educator going through your dashboard, you're gonna see things like ready to assess or ready to grade and you're able to launch the grading workflow speed grader immediately from your dashboard, saving you so many clicks so that you can spend your valuable time focused on focused on educating your learners, providing quality feedback to your learners versus clicking around the product to find the grading workflow you you need to use. Yeah.
And more than just creating a dashboard and technologies that empower you, we are building together with you as we were mentioning. Tomorrow actually, we're gonna have a session with sixty students from the University of Oslo. So thank you so much for the university for letting us and give us the opportunity to do that. It's so special for us to be in a space learning directly from our customers and not only that, learners directly. Absolutely.
And also with admins and educators to check the development that we're building and validate it as we have done already in Budapest a couple of months ago. So a lot of exciting things coming, but when the direction is clear, right, for both the educator and the students, the learners, we also need to make sure that the content itself is accessible. And you might have seen a little bit of a spoiler here on the next slide. You know, I I said at the beginning that I am surrounded by people that I deeply admire here at the event. And with professor Martin Bien is no different.
Last year, he set a quote during his keynote here at in Barcelona at CanvasCon that really got into my mind. Right? When we design inside Canvas, accessibility cannot be an afterthought or a nice to have. It really has to be a fundamental building block. Now, not only I truly believe on this quote, but we also have data to reinforce it. Some very alarming data as well.
Nineteen percent of our European students have reported that they have a disability or a health barrier to study. But what was really alarming is how much or how little PDFs academic PDFs are actually accessible for our users Yeah. From a study that was made between two thousand and fourteen and two thousand and twenty three. Yeah. There was a time in my life where eighty percent felt, you know, decent for an achievement.
But, when we look at this stat and we see that we may only be serving eighty percent of our learners in the way that they need to be met, it's simply not good enough. And so, at Canvas, we we want to be a part of this solution to ensure that all learners are served in the way that they need to be served for their learning and just be a vehicle to support you in that work. Yeah. So two very exciting things that we are building in order to enhance and and promote this experience that is accessible to all of Did we did we both click? Yeah. We've been double clicking sometimes when we practice and going too ahead.
Exciting. I I saw I was supposed to do it. Alright, everybody. This is our block editor. We are so excited to bring the block editor to you.
It is currently an experimentation and being tested with real educators and instructional designers and administrators to ensure that it meets your need. This is such an important part of Canvas, building content, building learning. As we talked about, the expectations that we have around content are only evolving. Right? The the world of content is changing rapidly and we need to ensure that the tools you have to continue building your content on Canvas match the expectations that you and your learner you learners have when it comes to engaging learning. So the block editor is something that we haven't skimped on.
We've spent a lot of time really working directly with you to make sure that we're delivering a solution that truly meets your needs. And that means a lot of iterations and a lot of experimentation and testing in partnership with you. And we're very excited that we've really landed on a solution that feels ready for prime time based on your feedback. And so I know there are many, you know, HTML lovers in the room, people who enjoy using HTML to customize your content experience. Yeah.
But I also know that there are many incredible instructional designers in the room and beyond who may not be HTML experts or if you are, you're like, it could be a lot easier than this. And I don't wanna have to always rely on HTML to create an accessible, scalable content experience. And so the block editor removes the requirement of leveraging HTML and it makes creating content on Instructure excuse me, on Canvas much easier to do, much more in line with the content creation tools that many of us have started to leverage in our outside of our learning. And so the Block Editor also supports structure that ensures that your content is accessible by design. So it gives some guardrails so that you can feel confident that the content you are creating using the block editor is scalable and accessible accessible.
That's right. And together with the block content editor, we are also building something really excited here, adding structure, which is the course accessibility checker powered by Ignite AI that really brings to our users a very quick way to visualize what is not accessible in their courses. We are talking here about Yeah. Images that are not aligned to the most up to date accessibility standards. Images that don't have an alternative text.
But I really like the fact that we are now gonna be able as well to convert those old p d f's into assignments, pages, and so many more. So this will not only empower people. Oh, thank you. I'm seeing some excitement here in the room, finally. I'm hearing some voices.
Yes. I'm very, very excited with this as well. Is something that will not only save time, but will actually provide that that accessibility in the level that we need and want to bring to our users. Absolutely. And you know, Joelle, everybody that I talk with about accessibility wants to drive an accessible learning environment.
Yeah. But we're not all accessibility experts and creating tools that can help everybody with that expertise and free up their time to continue focusing on delivering that high quality learning and feel confident in that content being accessible is something we're proud to continue supporting. Yeah. And, you know, it doesn't stop there. We are so excited about AI at Instructure but not for technology's sake, for the sake of solving problems in learning for our customers that we've heard for years and really have struggled to solve at scale.
But with AI technology, we have a technology for the first time that allows us to take a look back at that laundry list of opportunities that we've been keeping in our backlog and think, is there a better way to solve this now? Did this technology bring a way for us to solve this problem of it's very time consuming to build rubrics or give in-depth feedback when I'm teaching, you know, a thousand plus students at any given time. But, I really wanna be doing that. And so, we're so excited and you'll notice that there's AI woven throughout the solutions that we're presenting today and that's really because we've evaluated what's the best way to solve this problem. Let's go back to that problem and can AI help us solve that problem in a way that's more meaningful than we could before. Rubric generation is one of those problems.
We heard from so many people, hey, there's a time and place for multiple choice quizzes. But I'd really love to be able to assess at points on a deeper level and provide more personal feedback, create a rubric that is aligned to more of an open ended assessment. But rubric generation isn't easy. And so we've developed a rubric generator that will help you assess the materials that you have brought to the assignment seamlessly. So it takes the content that you've brought to the table and recommends a rubric for you and it's all editable.
This is I like to think of this as like your first pass. Yeah. Right? Use this as your first pass. I use AI for a lot of first passes in my life now from sending a thoughtful Slack message to my team to responding to a tough email to meal planning to giving my husband a to do list when I travel for work, all of the things. So, this is really your first pass companion and that you are in the driver's seat of how you edit it and how you deploy it.
And we did some research Yeah. On this, Joao, during our experimentation phase to see how this was landing with customers. Because like I said, we wanna make sure we're deploying solutions that actually make a difference in your workflows. Yeah. And it was pretty staggering.
It was. It was. Yes. We actually, we we saw together with everyone who is testing with us that they were able to reduce the overload that they have in creating those rubrics in about seventy percent of the time. So from ten minutes to just three minutes.
So that first iteration, right, that first draft, with the time so reducible, it makes them feel more empowered so that they can focus on what really matters for them. Yeah. I mean, I've been in education and ed tech my entire career and the conversation that we've been having far before AI has been about time. There's not enough time. There's not enough time.
But why does time matter? It's because people get into education to educate, to support learners, to help people grow, not to necessarily do like, you know, work workflows. Right? Things that maybe feel like they're very time consuming. And so why I'm so excited about these solutions is it can really help to start deliver on the promise of of why we all got into education. Now, if you write a rubric, you need to give some great feedback. Right? And one thing that I think is actually harder than writing that single rubric is giving qualitative, personalized feedback at scale for every learner aligned to that rubric.
The rubric is like a minute part of the battle. Yeah. Scaling feedback to your entire learning body that's valuable, that's personalized is really where it gets tricky. And so, it wouldn't be enough to bring the rubric generator to you without some support in giving personalized scale feedback, and so we invested in that as well. So, if you're taking a look here, you will notice that there's marks around showing you where AI is being leveraged.
Like I said, we always denote AI support so you know exactly where it's happening in product and you can make the decisions that are best for you. We wanna be transparent with you. That's one of our core AI principles and we want you completely in control at all times. And so, what's great here is that the rubric that you have developed, whether you wrote that you're on your own or you've leveraged the rubric generator, can be supported by AI generated feedback. And again, you are seeing that there's an auto evaluate experience here and you are able to give personalized feedback and draft it again.
Sometimes that first step of personalization is like the hardest step, at least I find, and so this is always a starting point for you. Use it as is or edit it and make it your own. But we're excited to pair this with the rubric generator so that we can support you in giving that personalized feedback at scale when you're supporting so many learners at once. Yeah. And, you know, there's many other things that we are also building that is powered by Ignite AI here at Instructure.
But let's take a just a a quick pause from the features and the solutions that we are building and remind ourselves why we're doing what we're doing here at Instructure. First of all, thank you so much Andrea for letting us use your quote here. It really translates at least to me really well what we are making here. Right? We are building this consistency, this empowerment to learners from South America or here in Norway to study together and to have the same level of education. And for that, we need not only to create the technology but to empower the people who are behind that technology.
But also, this means with great technology, it also means that we need to make sure that there's alignment in between the educators and the learners. And one of the top priorities from all of our user groups here in EMEA was always one, surveys in your quizzes. So I'm very, very happy to say that we are finally bringing the surveys so that you can ask questions during your course without needing to wait until the end and your students can provide that level of feedback and and clarity, but also transparency into how they are going through their progress. This is not only exciting but it is also for regulatory purposes. But most importantly, it's because you have said that loud and clear for us.
So thank you so much for all the all of our customers who have shared your thoughts with us, from Oxford University to Universidad Alberto de Catalonia. All your feedback was meaningful so that we could build this. And, can I say the date? You can say the date. Alright. It's close enough.
Yeah. This is coming in December. So, please, let's start using it as best as we can. I know a lot of people I know a lot of people excited about this, not just for the student engagement, but Joao, can you believe that I've actually talked to some of our customers and what I've learned along my time here Yeah. Is that many of our customers are actually having to purchase other survey platforms and sometimes spending upwards of one hundred thousand dollars plus.
Sorry, I'm American. I know there are lots of currencies in the room. But, really having to invest in multiple platforms to solve these problems. And this is something that we hope not only supports you in better engaging with your learners, but really thinking about your tech stack and your holistic platform experience on Canvas. Yeah.
So a lot of things are coming into engage learners and improve their outcomes. Many others as well that are in our road map. But we because of time and also because of everything that we're gonna still learn today During the day, we are gonna move to the next topic here. How are we making sure that we are preparing learners for the world of work? You know, when I when I was graduating in law school in Brazil, a lot of years ago, I had one certainty and a lot of questions. The only certainty that I had is that I didn't want to follow that linear path that was being shown to me in Brazil, or you become a lawyer or you become a judge.
And I have no idea what I wanted to do at that time. But I think that that's the beauty of where education is right now. Right? I was able to get the skills that I that I got from my my law degree, but also learn from a lot of online schools in order to become the product manager that I am today. Get those skills, clear pathways that show me that I'm here today, which by the way, if by the time someone said to me that I would be in Oslo sharing about education, sharing about the context of EMEA in a room with so many inspiring people, I would at least doubted you or laugh about it. So that's the beauty that we are in education that is through skills and pathways.
And at Instructure, we are doing two things in order to promote that for our learners, our educators, and our institutions as well. But this also aligns to what we are seeing with data. Right? Absolutely. We are seeing a major shift and, you know, yes, the credential that is conferred to you, the diploma is, of course, high value, but more and more valuable is the skills that you have developed. Like Joao said, you know, he was able to bring transferable skills from his studies in law to end up here working in product at Instructure.
And we also see on the flip side that it's not just learning that's changing a focus on skills, it's also hiring. And so, I've spent a lot of time actually talking to employers as we explore how we can be a better partner in connecting the learning and the workforce ecosystem and this is what I hear over and over again. I don't really care, you know, about the diploma or the badge. Like, what I care about is that the skill is demonstrated and that achievement of skill is what I'm looking for because people can say a lot of things. Right? But that evidence of skill is the most crucial element here.
And so, our team has been investing and will continue to invest in this space as this is where learning and hiring is really headed. But one of the areas that we've invested in recently is taking a look at our portfolio solution. Prior to now, we've had a variety of portfolio solutions, some in one in Canvas, we had Portfolium and we made the decision that it was time to consolidate portfolios and put them right into Canvas LMS. So portfolios will be a part of Canvas at no additional cost right in the experience to ensure that you are able to connect learning that is happening in the LMS to the curation and showcase of that learning evidence for for your learners. And so, what I really love about the portfolio is it doesn't stop with the assignments that are happening in Canvas, it also opens up this opportunity for you to set requirements that go beyond the LMS assignment.
So, requirements like extracurricular activities, internships Volunteering. Volunteering. Yeah. So many different off LMS experiences that you might require for evaluation of a holistic learning experience. And, not only that, your learners can also curate their own portfolios that they drive, that they own and telling the story that they want to tell about their experiences and their learning.
And, side by side with everything they've learned within Canvas, but also the ability to bring evidence of other experience into one place and share it with the world. And so, we're very excited to be making the transition to bringing the portfolio into Canvas LMS and this is actually available now. So if you haven't joined our early adopter or preview period, it is available to you now. And so please join us in experimenting with this this new solution and seeing if it's a fit for your organization. Yeah.
And, you know, preparing learners for the world of work doesn't just stop with the curation. There are also opportunities to use it side by side with badges and evidence of skill. A hundred percent. When the students are in the center, right, and and off their journey and and they have that clear pathway with achievements that they can prove and and create evidence about it, then the badges do the next part of the job. So for quality teams, that means alignment to frameworks and policies.
For the employers, the skills, as you were mentioning, are really showing if the badges are showing if skills are aligned to the role that they are looking for. But for the students, really answer the the biggest question. Right? Is the return of investment to my education being meaningful to the pathway that I wanna follow? So you heard about Parchment Digital War Badges this morning. You have heard quite a lot from the last few months as well. We have built a lot of features that are really interesting to support both the perspective of the institution, the educator, but also and mainly the the students as well.
We have built a a beta environment so that you can, as an institution, safely test the badges and the skills that you want to align into your curriculum. We have also made available a skill set menu for all of your institutions so that educators can align their courses, their classes with the same badges that are aligned to market trends. And for the students, that means a pathway that is also aligned to evidences from Canvas, but also from Canvas catalog as well. So it's about the connection of all the experience of our users throughout their day to day activities with the platform. Not only that, but I'm really, really happy to say that we are now part of Packed for Skills from the European Commission.
So yeah. Exciting. Yeah. This means that our badges are also aligned with the pack. But hey, don't listen that from me.
We are actually gonna have a full session just to talk about policies here in Europe with Simone at three thirty at Central Park room number eight. The true expert. Yes. Yes. If you haven't met Simone and you're interested in this Deep definitely recommend you attend.
He's wonderful to get to know. The next part is truly my favorite. You know, like you, Joao, I didn't start my educational journey knowing that I would end up here. I wanted to be a dentist. I have a biology degree.
Yeah. I know. And then, I figured out that really don't like dentists and I really wanted to be liked. But, no. I I started my journey really thinking that I was gonna go into dentistry and over time, I've developed new skills, definitely leveraged some of my bio ones, I guess.
And lifelong learning has become something that I've realized I will always be doing. Yeah. Yeah. We all will always be doing it. You quoted Martin Bean who is so quotable.
I've heard him speak on so many topics and I'm always learning something new from him. But, I distinctly remember, you know, a slide when I took on my new role of non traditional and met with him to learn more about the space in which he showed this continuum of, you know, learning to work That previously was just like one solid line. Yeah. And, now, really that is not a solid line. It's this cyclical experience in which we are always working and we are always learning and we have many stops in our careers and our learning in parallel along the way of our journey.
And so, why am I so excited about this? This, what I'm gonna announce to you today is is for all of us. Right? We are all lifelong learners. And so, what this does is really expand the world of Canvas from supporting traditional education to being a tool that maybe you will be learning on yourself Yeah. Over the course of your lifetime. You know, we hear a lot about how jobs are going away.
Right? But the reality is that there are more jobs being created, almost two times the amount of jobs being created than are being displaced. Displaced. I made up a new word. Displaced. And so, we look at this research by the World Economic Forum, we see that there is such an opportunity.
All of the gray, these are jobs that exist today that rely on reskilling and training to continue evolving in the workforce and the green are the jobs that are being created and it's our charge to skill up. Is that a term? I think that could be skill up. Upskill. Yeah. I like skill up though.
Upskill and reskill the people who exist today to fill these roles, to help our society evolve in the workplace. And so, it's not about jobs being lost, it's about the opportunity to educate in new ways on new skills for all of the jobs evolving and being created. I've had the pleasure of leading a very small but mighty team over the last year in developing a new experience of Canvas LMS. It's our first second experience of Canvas LMS. You know Canvas LMS, but this is the first time that we've brought another experience of Canvas LMS to market.
And this experience of Canvas LMS has been uniquely designed and built for the needs of adult professional learners who are continuing their journey. I've already learned on it. I've taken a course from Instructure right on Canvas Career and I love it. It feels like it really meets my needs and it's focused on that skill development that I as a professional rely on. And the design.
Oh, yeah. So, let's take a look. Let's let the Canvas Career do the talking for itself. Introducing Canvas Career, a new LMS experience built on the backbone of Canvas, specifically designed for businesses, governments, and continuing education organizations alike. Canvas Career helps organizations scale their learning programs without sacrificing personalization or control.
To create a learning program, simply select and upload your source material, and Ignite AI automatically creates your learning content from courses to structured programs mapped to relevant workforce skills. The content library organizes all of your learning assets, natively built and external alike. From here, you can easily make changes that sync across all your courses. Once finalized, you can assign the program to learners or enroll automatically by role or department. Get the insights you need with a dashboard that tracks real time progress, engagement, and skill development.
Ignite AI surfaces alerts and recommends actions, helping you stay ahead of the trends and learner needs. From their dashboard, learners can easily track their learning progress. In platform messaging keeps them engaged with scalable communication and coaching. Learners can interact with content by creating personal notes and getting real time support from Ignite AI. In Skillspace, learners can see their progress towards skills in real time.
Based on their performance and progression, they'll see content recommendations to keep learning relevant and continuous. Exciting. I would be remiss if I didn't thank our customer advisers from the EMEA region. We got together about a year ago exactly today in our Budapest office to learn together and we've continued the collaboration over the last year alongside, you know, many other customers to help us shape Canvas Career. Canvas Career was truly co created in partnership with our customers and we're so excited to bring it to market.
It is available now in preview. So please, your CSMs are ready to connect with you, to support you in the opportunity if you are interested in checking it out. And just one quick thing because I know it's really important for us, all languages available. Yes. In January.
Now, Canvas Career isn't the only innovation that we've been investing in and we certainly didn't have enough time nor enough screen space to share some of the investments over the last, you know, year, what we're working on right now and what's up next on our roadmap. This was the smallest we could really get it with hoping that you'd still be able to read it and that's all we could fit. But there's so many innovations happening across Canvas and here's just a snapshot at our very near term investments and we are excited to continue partnering with you. My product our product teams are very excited to continue the collaboration to help us shape the future of Canvas. Like I said, there's not enough slide space or time to speak about every initiative.
But if you'd like to learn more, we have a product booth. Right, Joelle? Can find us there. I think it's right in the front or close to the desk. So please come and find us. We're happy to share more and more.
Absolutely. Thank you so much for your time today. Greatly appreciate it. Thank you, Elizabeth. Yeah.