Video: Canvas Demo

Hello, everyone, and thank you for joining us for this session of EDUCAUSE demo day LMS platforms. I'm your host, Nikki House. Please use the chat to share your comments or ask questions to our presenters. Make sure you selected everyone in that chat drop down menu so we all can engage with your comments. And if you would like to view our closed captioning, click the show captions button located at the bottom of the Zoom room. Now please join me in welcoming our presenters from Instructure Canvas.

Kellen? Thank you, Nikki. We're excited to be here. Hello. I'm Kellen. I am I'm a principal product specialist here at Instructure.

Started at Instructure in twenty fifteen, so I've been around a minute in various capacities. Joining me is my colleague, Amina. She's she is our senior solutions engineer, and she will be actually leading the the majority of the demo today while I kind of kick things off and introduce kind of Canvas as a platform. Just a quick housekeeping item. As Nikki mentioned, please use the chat to ask us questions or anything like that.

We're happy to get to as many of them as possible. I will be manning the chat as Amina goes through the demo and interrupt her if needs be to get answers to some of our questions. So with that, I wanted to talk a little bit about Canvas and the history of Canvas as we kind of look back at the growth of Canvas and the popularity of Canvas and, a lot of the early success was centered around, you know, things like having a robust feature set, intuitive design, personalizing capabilities, things of that nature, all kind of built on the standard of being available when you are. So as a cloud native solution and having architecture that really allows for that scalability also really allowed us to focus on meeting users where they are and having a user focused approach to our design, and I think that led to a lot of these numbers. And it's exciting to to show these these numbers in this slide, but, I'd really like to look at kind of the current state and the future state of Canvas.

I'm really excited about the efforts our team is making in twenty twenty five to improve and modernize Canvas in new and exciting ways. So some of that you're going to see today. So I just wanted to highlight that quickly. But as I think about these things, I I tend to think about kind of really what makes the difference, like what has been in my time here at Instructure been what made the most difference for us. So if we go to the next slide, I like to look at these kind of pillars of, you know, ideas and what makes the difference in Canvas.

So as I said, I don't have a ton of time today. I want to make sure we dive into the demo as soon as possible, so I'm not going to go through all of these things, but I'm gonna focus on a couple of highlights. So one of the things that really comes to mind to me as an employee over the past ten years is the fact that our users are really what make the difference. You guys are some of the best at giving us feedback, engaging with us in a meaningful manner. So just you and our community, engaging with each other.

We have tens of thousands of monthly users in the community space engaging with each other, engaging with us and our product roadmap and things like that. So I really think that makes a big difference. And on that note, in twenty twenty five, we have rolled out a new customer connectivity program. I won't talk a lot about that today, but it's just allowing us to really co create with our users to ensure that as we modernize Canvas and as we develop new and useful tools, that we're really hearing from you throughout the entire development life cycle, not just after the fact when we launch a new tool. So we really are focused heavily on that.

In addition to our global community, having openness and partnerships with the these, other platforms. So working with industry leaders to consistently deepen and broaden our partner network. And, Canvas has kind of been, since day one, the open platform that it is today. We continue to work with our partners across all of EdTech, kind of expanding what openness means. And all of this, if you go to the next slide, kind of centers around the idea of teaching and learning.

So these are just a few of our partners and things like that. I like to show this slide because it really is at the heart of everything we do is teaching and learning. Providing options for our users is kind of like what we wanna do is make sure we meet you where you are. So kind of the last thing I'll kind of talk about before I turn it over to Amina is as we look at this partner ecosystem, we're going to be seeing, a lot of this kind of thing in action, actually, at our conference that we're having in July. I just wanted to plug that really quickly.

InstructureCon is coming up in July, and a lot of these partners are gonna be presenting there, sharing thoughts, having customers present with them. But we'll also be able to share our partner collaborations as well as kind of what we're doing with the future of, Canvas and AI and what that looks like. So, I just wanted to make that quick note, set that stage, and also, again, let you know I will be in the chat trying to respond furiously to any questions, but not furiously, in a negative way, just as fast as possible so that we can get those answers to you, as best as we can. So with that, I am going to turn it over to Amina. Yeah.

Thank you. Thank you, Kellen. And here's our last plug of the day, I promise, in terms of InstructureCon. It's a ton of fun, so highly recommend. If you've never been to the Pacific Northwest, it's a great time of your of your year to go and and travel.

This is what we're really going to cover today in terms of our demonstration. These are the elements I want you to take away in terms of understanding where we are going as an organization and as a company. So if you don't understand or haven't really seen Canvas before, I am going to delve into more of the elements within the tool that do require maybe some prior understanding. So I'll really try my best to go through very broadly and introduce some platform elements for those of you who may be not as familiar with with Canvas itself. I've been with the company for five and a half years, but before that, I was an instructor, so a faculty member.

I manage digital strategy and innovation, and, and I also leverage Canvas as a student. So I've really experienced it from all those different kind of viewpoints and and perspectives. And so when I'm jumping over into the platform here, I really just wanna focus on some of those elements that are going to make our lives as instructors a little bit more easy. And some of the these functions also will be really beneficial for our students. I really think about that in terms of my student populations that I used to teach where English was not their first language.

So we're going to delve into that. I'm on the main dashboard of Canvas right now. So the dashboard really just surfaces all of the relevant information that you're going to need access to as an instructor. On that agenda page, I had mentioned that there was course pacing. This is something that is a really important element to have in a self directed course or a facilitator led course or even a course that has a lot of, rolling enrollment.

So we're jumping over into my comp sci course right now, and I'm going to highlight for you what exactly course pacing is. And, certainly, this is a tool and a feature, that has been under development, that has been deployed into a production environment. If you are a current Canvas user and you've never seen course pacing before, I would highly suggest going over to your Canvas administrator at your school and asking more about it in terms of deployment inside of your Canvas environment. So course pacing really is going to allow us to distribute different due dates and tasks within a course based on when the student actually started the course. Again, for those rolling enrollment courses or self directed learning courses, this is going to be a fabulous tool.

When we log into our course pacing area, you're going to see here that my course, this current course, is divided in a few different ways. I have two different cohorts that are running within this course right now. So that means that learners were added at two different points of time. And then I also can see from this area that I have lots of different students that are just generally enrolled. And, yes, these students are students that exist within these particular cohorts.

So, again, if I wanted to set up a specific pace for these learners, meaning that they need to complete tasks in a certain time frame, I can go over into my settings area here, and I will be able to see the start and the end date currently within the course. I also have the ability to designate time to complete the course. So I can say, hey. If you start the course on a Monday, maybe you only have seven days to complete this entire course because it's some kind of a training that needs to be required by by a school. Right? So if something that's more professional development leaning.

In a situation where it's it's more generalized curriculum, certainly, we're gonna be able to go in and scan through every single element that is going to exist inside of the Canvas course that has some sort of a due date attributed to it and stipulate, okay. Well, if someone enters the course for the first time, what is a reasonable amount of time for them to complete the first assessment, then the second assessment, then the third assessment? And we can carry on and carry on in order to make sure that everyone has more of an equitable experience, but that everyone still is going to have due dates and items that they need to complete, and this will help keep everyone on track. So this is where you're going to be able to set up the duration. What is also really beneficial about this when we're thinking about, you know, course pacing more generally is if you want, you can make sure that when you're setting the date of time to complete something, you can skip out the weekends or you could include the weekends depending on the curriculum being taught. We also have the ability to manage any blackout dates if there is a holiday in place.

So we wanna make sure that the pacing of the course is not impacted by that. We are going to be able to add in that date. So if I put in Memorial Day or currently, I'm in Canada, so I would put Victoria Day, we're able to kind of stipulate what that day is going to be and then make sure that, that the pacing is is not going to, be muddied up with with that holiday taking place. Okay? So that is course pacing inside of Canvas. Highly suggest it for, again, facilitator led courses, running enrollment courses, and anything that requires more self directed learning from your students or even from your instructors doing professional development training.

We're going to jump over into another course right now, and this is my MechEng course, my mechanical engineering course. And I really wanna jump through some of the areas that are of great importance when it comes to work that we really have been focusing in on and developing as a company. So some of this work is going to be in terms of your course design, and other elements of this work is going to be in how we actually manage courses as an instructor. When it comes to course design, if anyone has utilized Canvas in the past or, if you've leveraged any learning platform, many of you are going to be familiar with something that looks like a WYSIWYG editor or what you see is what you get editor. In Instructure language or Canvas language, we call this the rich content editor.

And this is going to allow you to build out beautiful pages of content. It will also allow you to create your assessments and other collaborative activities with your students. So we have this in place here, but a lot of our customers have told us, hey. You know what? What if we don't really have much of a design eye when it comes to the creation of courses? What if we need a little bit of help, to to develop courses that are still aesthetically very pleasing but also very accessible for our students. And so to that, we have answered.

And as a part of our core product offering, we have created something called a block editor. And so this block editor here is actually still even being worked on by our engineers, and the full launch of this editor will be taking place at our conference in July at InstructureCon. But what it will allow you to do as an instructor or even as an instructional designer or development team who really focuses in on unification of content and, making sure your branding standards are going to be applied aesthetically within your courses, you're gonna be able to search through an entire library and an entire suite of prebuilt templated content. So this is not the actual curriculum within it. This is more just the aesthetic, page design that your students would would be reviewing when they go inside of a course.

You can go and search for all of the content that would exist within here. And what's really great is you can actually just click into one of these areas and quickly kind of have an understanding of what it is that we are offering, what the look and feel is, what the vibe is of this particular piece of content. If I've never really taught in an online fashion before, I could see this and say, well, hey. This is what, a module overview could look like when I'm introducing a brand new concept to my learner. So this is just a different way to think about our curriculum as well in terms of curriculum inspiration.

That's how I like to call it. I can jump into here and I can say, okay. I really like this. I wanna leverage this within my course. I can now go in and customize it.

So by customizing, I can change the language, however I see fit. I could go and if I already have Word documents and PowerPoint documents, of my lecture notes and content that I would wanna use in something like this, I can simply just copy and paste that over into this area and modify it as I see fit. I can scroll down here and continue modifying. But what's really beneficial with this particular editor is that we have, additional sections that we can put into the content that you're seeing. And remember, I'm just choosing one particular template.

There are many different templates that you are going to be able to choose from, and you are also going to be able to create your own, if you really want something that's very bespoke. So I can scroll through here, and I can see, well, here are all the different offerings in terms of how I can visualize my curriculum. Something that I really like to have at the end of my my learning modules is knowledge checks. And what's really, really great is I don't always have knowledge checks when my students are just reviewing, you know, an introduction to a particular theory or a topic. I don't always test them on this.

But this will allow me to have a couple of very formative questions put in place just so that they have a good sense and understanding that, that, you know, what they've read is something that they have indeed absorbed. So I can actually pull from quiz questions questions that I've already created inside of the course in order to build out my knowledge check, that's testing the knowledge based on whatever it is that they are reviewing within here. Now what I will also take mention of is that there are other aesthetic kind of web based attributes that we can put into this block editor here. If you wanted to add in more images or more media and videos or you wanted to have tabular organization in terms of the design where we're kind of clicking through different content areas. Certainly, all of that is is going to be made available to you.

And I've seen wireframes and mock ups of where this editor is still going to go, and it's it's really exciting and it's really special, especially if, again, you're leveraging, an online course or just learning how to use, an online platform for the first time and you don't wanna start from scratch. There's no need to remake the wheel, and and that's why we really wanna make this available for all of our instructors, who are on Canvas. So that is going to be our our block editor here. And and another area in terms of just the design of our courses and management of our courses is we can have all this lovely content. But but what about ways that, we need to have students review content, in a way that is going to be more custom and specific to to them? Right? So oftentimes, when we have students within our classes, they may need to have an extra module of learning distributed out to them because they've been unwell during the semester and they need to make up at the very end of the semester.

Or we have students that require, specific accommodations. Wouldn't it be really great to flag who those students are whenever we are creating due dates or adding in content? Well, this is something that has, been brought forward to us many, many times as a company by faculty and by students. And so we've come up with a solution for this, and it is called a differentiation tag. So a differentiation tag is where as an instructor, you are going to be able to create lots of different tags in your course pertaining to those topics that I mentioned earlier on, right, for accessibility and accommodations, or maybe it's that a student just requires access to an area of learning and the rest of the class doesn't need access to it. There are so many use cases where tagging students and deploying content that is differentiated is going to be important, and that is what this is going to allow you to do.

So I'm gonna be able to go in and create a tag. And let's just say, you know, maybe I'll call this after term content. So we are kinda finished the winter term right now. But what if, you know, I have a couple of students that need extra learning, and extra assignments so that they can complete the course? So I can create this tag. It's gonna be a single tag.

I can save that in my system, And then I can go over into my entire course roster here, and I can click on different learners. And maybe these three folks need to be given additional content after the term has ended. And then I'm going to be able to assign that tag to those folks. So I can say, okay. You're tagged as end of term makeup.

I see that you have that tag associated to you. And then what will end up happening is I will see, a little bit later on the ability for me to manage tags and what students are kind of attributed to which tag. Alright? So this is all the back end organization that takes place. And then what will happen is in my course, as I'm running the course, maybe I'm going over into my modules area, and I create a module at the very end for all the course makeup that needs to happen. I will be able to go into the assign to area, and I will be able to assign those students to that that fit within that tag to, to this area.

So I'll be able to find the tag into my assigned to area, and then all those students would have access to the content. So, again, so many use cases for why tagging students and being able to organize our content in this way is going to make a big difference in how we manage our classes. And it's something that is just being rolled out right now at Instructure. We have lots of big user groups that are giving us feedback on, how everyone kind of wants this to work, and that's something that is going to be coming very, very soon. So it's just a really great way, again, for us as instructors to operationalize our courses a little bit more.

And, you know, speaking around operationalizing our courses and managing our courses, I would really be remiss if I didn't make mention of the fact that we have been doing a lot of work when it comes to ensuring that where we give feedback to students is something that is going to be quick, be fast, and also allow us to give more authentic feedback. This area here that I'm going into is really a foundational tool of Canvas. It is called the SpeedGrader. It is our inline annotation grading tool. It is where you provide context over the content that exists.

So within this frame, I have a student assignment that they've taken a picture of on their phone and then uploaded it over into the space. I can then go in and utilize all my annotation tools and mark it up and add in commentary. When I submit this work, my students are going to be able to, to comment alongside me and add information, for me to review. So it's almost like having an asynchronous office hour in this space rather than having to meet up in person or synchronously online. So those are some of the foundational components of the SpeedGrader.

But what we've been doing in the back end that you cannot see on this page at all, just before I kind of explain what what it is over here in this rubric area, what we've been doing, what our engineers have really been crafting is putting an infrastructure in building out code so that the speed grader is going to be incredibly fast. I mean, speed is in the name, but we want it to be incredibly fast for those instructors that are teaching very large based enrollment courses. So if we've got those in core courses where we know we have eight hundred students enrolled in a Canvas course, we have TAs that are distributed out managing their own localized student groups, we wanna make sure that everybody going in and grading at the same time is going to have a very fast and quick experience and not have any lag. So we've been doing a lot in terms of the infrastructure behind, how the SpeedGrader is gonna operate to support specifically those very large format courses. I think that's a really big nice to have.

And then, of course, as I'm kind of grading over here, we do have access to our rubrics. Our rubrics inside of Canvas have gone through a major rehaul and a major design, especially in how we are able to construct the rubrics. And I am gonna show you that very shortly. But this is what a rubric can look like if you like using rubrics, and and this is how it's going to look inside of the SpeedGrader. Alright? So we have the capability to have graded, ungraded, point range based rubrics where I can go through and select where students fit within the particular criterion.

We also can attribute learning outcomes if you like curriculum mapping to this rubric itself. And then from in this space over here, there's a lot of different ways where we can give additional meaningful feedback. So the feedback over here in this window, is very targeted. But the feedback here can be a little bit more generalized based on whatever it is that the student needs to do next, let's say. So our options for giving feedback is obviously adding in an attachment, but we do have the ability now not only to record video, but we do have the ability to screen record.

So if I have a CAD drawing and I need to discuss with the student, you know, some of the vectors that they have gotten incorrectly, I can jump into the CAD drawing, record myself doing that work, and then upload that over inside of Canvas, always staying in the SpeedGrader. I think that is fantastic in terms of the user experience. It's something that is a little bit more unified. And then, obviously, in terms of being able to do stream of consciousness grading, which is something I also like, we do have the voice to text feature. And then lastly, over in this space, there is a comment library.

This is not something that is new because it's been around, since twenty twenty when everybody had to kind of go online. We put this library in place so that as an instructor, you have a library that follows you no matter what course you're teaching. And you're gonna be able to deploy, comments out from your library over into, into the student kind of general feedback area. It's really helpful to make your grading obviously very speedy. Alright.

So that's a little bit about our SpeedGrader and really some of the enhancements that we have done. Some that you can see, some that you absolutely cannot see because it is in the back end code and infrastructure. Alright. Let's jump over into the rubrics area because I know that I already showed what rubrics look like in the SpeedGrader, but how do you build rubrics? This has gone through, again, a massive overhaul. So what we're seeing on the screen right in here is my my rubrics, all the rubrics that exist within this particular course.

Alright? If I wanted to add a rubric or create a rubric, I have a few options available to me. So we always have the option where we can click on create a rubric, add in our criterion, and, you know, stipulate if there's this is point range based or if it's just numerical value with one point each, per kind of criterion, which is fairly standard. But what we have the ability to do now, which I really, really, really like, if I just kinda cancel out of here, is we can go in and import the rubric. We can download the templates. So we can download that CSV template, and then we are gonna be able to add in our content and then very easily upload it into the environment.

So this is something that's a little bit more new. I think it's really, really helpful. There's always going to be the search capability for our rubrics, especially if we have many rubrics in our class. And then you do have that capability to duplicate your rubrics, copy your rubrics out into another course that you may be teaching. Right? So why continuously remake the wheel or go through more of an arduous copy process where you can just select pieces of content that exist inside of Canvas and move it over to where you need it to be.

So we do have that option within here. So if I wanna move this rubric out into my comp sci course, I can very easily do that. I can even connect it to an assignment if I want to all from this space here. So I'm literally scanning another course saying where I want this rubric to go. So it is something that is going to create a lot more efficiencies when it comes to you managing your courses.

And then lastly, you can archive any of your rubrics so that you just have that history of using them in the system, but you may not no longer be leveraging them within a particular course. So that is a little bit around our our rubrics redesign. Alright. Now to kind of take a quick break, I wanted to to see if there were any questions in the chat or if, Kellen, you had anything to make note of. If not, I do wanna highlight, some of our our usage of AI in the system.

Currently, looks like we're okay. Questions so far. I'm sure we will at the end. Okay. Sounds good.

Alright. So AI, as we know, really hot topic. We've done some presentations, around AI that are a little bit more publicly available. When it comes to AI use, we are very intentional in approaching it from a very thoughtful and ethical way. We have a lot published on our Instructure website in terms of what our AI policies are.

And something that I think is really important to take note of as I jump into an AI tool is that we always explain to you how this tool works. On our website, you will be able to look at every single tool with AI, attached to it and review its what we call nutrition facts. So in nutrition fact, if we're at the store and we're in the cereal aisle and we look at a box of cereal, you can see the nutrition behind that cereal, how many, you know, fats, carbs, proteins, calories are going to exist within that. So we've done the exact same thing, but with our usage of AI. So with every tool, you're going to be able to really understand what the implications are, if you were to deploy it out inside of your Canvas environment.

Again, making sure that there's a lot of transparency in what we are all doing, especially too if you have an AI governance policy or AI governance committee at your school. It's really helpful for them to have that information. So this tool here, is called SmartSearch, and we've been asked a lot to develop a SmartSearch tool, at the course level for faculty and for students just to make it easier to find whatever it is that we need because we know our courses can be very lengthy in terms of content. So in this case here, if and this is a good example for your students. If you say, where is my Turnitin assignment? Like, where is this? When I search it, it will be the number one targeted hit in this search.

So it's going to be available to me here as the learner or even as the instructor if you get if you forget where you put something. I can jump over into this area here and then access my assignment. Anything beneath this is just going to be areas that maybe mention some of the keywords within this space, but are much less relevant. Right? So anything less relevant can, be collapsed over in this drop down, and everything the most pertinent will be featured for you here. And then you do have the option to say yay or nay in terms of did this help me, yes or no, so that the system kind of understands and learns from that.

So that's one of the lever one of the ways that we're using AI just for speediness and efficiency. Another way that we're leveraging AI is with translation support. So, again, if we are teaching international students or if we are, a campus that is more global outside of North America, this could be really beneficial different ways where we're enabling translation support. So one of those areas is inside of the discussion board, and we know that there are other kind of browser based translators that we can leverage and use. I used to have students that would honestly copy and paste everything from my courses and throw it up into Google Translate, and it would just be a lot of kind of extra click work that they would have to do when they were just trying to learn, and they were just spending their time doing other things that they probably should not have been having to do in the first place.

So that's why we put this, we put this tool in here for our learners. So I can go. I can see my discussion board. I can see, that there's all these different kind of prompts, and threads that students have created. And so I can click on translate the text.

I can select whatever it is my first language is. So I can scan all the languages or you can search for the language as well. Just type in the language that you want. So if I put in French right now, it will just take a touch of time. I'm on hotel Wi Fi, so we are a little bit beholden to, Marriott Hotels and their, IT structure.

But what will end up happening is this will translate for me, everything in the prompt, which is really helpful. So here I have my English, and now I have it in French. And then as I scroll down a little bit further, I then have all of my student responses in English and in French. So as that learner, as that student, when I respond to Oscar, I will be able to see in context what it is Oscar is saying in both my first language and maybe my second language. Alright? So, again, just making it easier for our students and for also our instructors as well.

And there's one other area in the in inside of the Canvas environment where I want to show you translation support, but I I would be remiss if I didn't also mention that we do have AI running in the background for our discussions when it comes different themes, questions, or quandaries that are taking place from student responses inside of a discussion. Discussion boards can be very lengthy. Right? We can have students, you know, going off on tangents within their threads, and there could be a hundred plus kind of responses to any given prompt that we have within a class. What this will do is it will tell us exactly what it is that they are talking about. Right? Pulling out those themes, pulling out these areas of concern, and highlighting it to us very simply.

Sometimes if we go on to ecommerce websites, you're able to see a synopsis of all the customer reviews and decide on, hey. Do I wanna buy this product or not based on the synopsis? This kind of works in a very similar way, obviously, not not for product purchasing, but just for understanding, hey. This is all what's going on inside of my course. Alright? And then lastly, for our translations, we've applied it to our inbox for Canvas as well. So if you were going to either create a message, or have a message, that was sent to you, I can go in.

And when I respond to this particular message, I would be able to also translate that message over to understand it a little bit more. Okay? So we do have that same translation capability in our inbox as we do, inside of, the discussions area. Alright. I just wanna make mention that there was a poll that was sent out. So please, pay attention to the poll.

And then lastly, what I do want to highlight and show is our, mobile application for our students and some of the improvements that have taken place on that mobile app. So I'm going to briefly stop my share of my desktop and jump over into sharing my screen of my phone. Alright. And now you can see my five month old, and we're gonna jump over here into the Canvas student app. I am currently on an Android device, but you can also leverage the Canvas student app on your iOS device, on your Apple phone, because it was built for both iOS and Android.

We have very talented mobile engineers here at Instructure, And there is a teacher app that will also work on both platforms too. But when it comes to some of the elements within mobile that are really relevant and important, I know a lot of my learners, a lot of my students in the past when I was teaching, they would be accessing most of their course content from their phones. And so in light of that and in knowing that, because we see stats as a company, we can tell that the majority of students that log in to Canvas for the first time are actually going from their phones and not going from their desktop desktop computers. So within here, I can go and click on dark mode. So we have light mode, dark mode, and we can mimic the mode of our system, which I think is really fabulous.

So that is really good also for not only saving our eyes for but for accessibility and inclusive design. So that's one element that we have within here. And then something else that's really popular is we do have the smart search enabled in the application now. And so I go into my course on my phone, and if I wanted to search for that turn it in assignment again, I'm gonna be able to do that. So where is the turn it in assignment? Search.

Alright. So here's that assignment that is brought forward to me. So the best thing when it comes to a learning platform experience is having parity between the desktop and and the mobile apps that that that, you know, that we develop and that we service. So just knowing that that exists is going to be beneficial. We also have a lot of the translation tools available on the applications themselves too.

And then lastly, what we've made available for students is the capability for them to review their content offline. Alright? So a lot of the times, we'll hear that maybe someone doesn't have the best access to Internet, they're rural, or maybe they're just on the subway a lot, and, you know, their Wi Fi signal is pinging back and forth. And it can be really frustrating trying to study and review content if your pages aren't loading. And so we've made it available for our learners to download essentially or or download and and review their content offline from their devices. Meaning that when I load this up, and and decide on which courses I want to review offline, I will be able to jump into the app and have that offline capability.

Now the offline capability is not for a student to complete assignments or anything like that, but it's just to review all the notes, videos, etcetera that would exist within, within the class. So you can see from this standpoint here, if I wanted to, review one of the courses offline, I would be able to click into that, decide on what offline access I would want, and then I can synchronize that with the application. Okay? So that's essentially what we have in place for students, just to make sure that we are being inclusive of of their experiences. Alright. So I see a question in here, around, access to a database to run queries.

And, Kellen, you are responding, so that's really great. Oh, someone said, Tiffany, could you tell us more about the groups on the dashboard? Absolutely. So within Canvas, we have our course level groups. Right? So those are groups that we're able to set up, for collaborative work. And then we have groups available, which are more cross functional groups.

We call them account level groups. And this just makes sure that when you set up clubs and teams as an organization, that the applicable people are going into those particular clubs and teams or faculty senates or student unions. Right? So the sky is the limit in terms of the different topics that would take place. But that's exactly what you're seeing here on my on my screen. So I can see here I'm in my women in tech group, and I'm going to be able to access any type of content that is available to me in this group.

It also is gonna allow me to connect with others in this group space kind of outside of of the standard kind of curriculum based course. Alright. No problem, Tiffany. Any other questions for me? That is the that is the presentation, so I do really appreciate all of you joining. I know that we have maybe just two or three minutes left, so I'll leave that time for questions.

And, I think Nikki might have a couple of things she might want to add. So let me know. What is BigBlueButton? Okay. So BigBlueButton is a, web conferencing tool. You're right.

It's not our web conferencing tool. We just have a partnership with a company called Blindside Networks, and there is available to you inside of Canvas kind of a freemium version of that particular tool at the course level. So it's something that can be really helpful for, you know, holding your your online lectures or making it available to your students as a as an avenue for collaborative work. Yeah. So it's another kind of Zoom and other Teams, that sort of thing.

Any other any other questions for us on the team? We do appreciate you all joining. Yep. So how does the mobile app handle third party content that is not mobile friendly? So dependent on the nature of that third party content, so if it's a a publisher or if it's some other tool because there's so many thousands of tools that integrate with Canvas, if it doesn't open up inline in the app, then it will bounce the user out into a responsive web based experience. Unfortunately, I mean, we wish that we can't always, manage and monitor the accessibility of every single software company's kind of content. Right? That being said, though, in terms of accessibility, Canvas is responsibly designed.

So, for any learner, let's say, that's low vision, they will be able to log in through the web app. Right? Just going into their Chrome browser, whatever browser they have on their phone and accessing Canvas that way. Great. Thank you all for joining and spending spending your time with us, your Tuesday afternoon, maybe evening, maybe morning for some of you on the call, depending on where you all are at. On behalf of all of us at EDUCAUSE, thank you so much, Amina and Kellen.

Kellen has also dropped a link there to the instructure dot com site. Want to thank you all for your attendance today throughout the entire demo day for many of you. Please feel free to share your feedback on this session by using the online poll that you see on your screen. The demo recording from today and the resources will be available on the event site, which has also been shared in the chat. You'll also be able to connect with the presenters today and put your information in the page link so you can get in contact with our presenters after this session.

On behalf of EDUCAUSE, we do hope that we see you at our next demo day on June the second where the focus will be on AI enabled cybersecurity tools. Thank you. Thanks, everyone. Take care.