 Good afternoon everybody and welcome to the day two canvas networking lunch I hope everyone's had a great morning at day two of the all annual conference and that you had a productive afternoon yesterday Thank you for joining us again For those that didn't join us on yesterday's session will do some brief introductions And then we'll get into the kind of the meat of our conversation today. So my name's Sam Wilson I'm a senior account executive here in structure. I Look after institutions of kind of all different stripes from further education colleges vocational academies To training providers, you name it and we have conversations with them I'm looking forward to kind of leading the session with you today But before we get into that like to hand over to my colleague Marina Hi everyone, welcome back My name is Marina Vicente. I'm the regional director for the Spanish market as some we work together at instructor We work with different institutions as well as with corporations as well and I'm really happy to have you again guys and for the new ones welcome and I will leave it to some again Thank you, Marina. So just to cast everyone's minds back to yesterday We run an activity we want to in which we wanted all of you folks to share some of your Experiences about kind of the shift to online over the past 18 months We focused yesterday more on some of the challenging more challenging aspects of that shift And we want to pivot today a little bit. We want to focus on the successes We would like you to share with us some of the things that have been super successful over this kind of 18 months of Utilizing technology potentially more heavily than your institution might have done in the past And that could be for the teaching staff that could be for your students that could be Institutional that could be wholly technologically led it could be a change in delivery method Or it could be an institutional policy that's kind of helped lubricate the gears of change at your institution What we're going to do is Marina will share the link to the mural board Which I think I've seen people log into so that's excellent And if you would like to share some of your successes in these different columns all you need to do is right click your mouse You should get this little sub navigation bar and you can add a sticky note and then start typing And what we'll do is as these points start to kind of get filled up on the board We'll start talking about some of them will also share some of our experience working with institutions Across Europe and then hopefully here from some of you folks as well that would be best I think hearing your experience is your successes things that have been game changers out of these these kind of interesting 18 months is super super powerful. So what I will do is we start to see some of the text Start to fill up. I'm going to throw a question out to Marina just to kind of get everyone's Everyone's minds racing. Marina What have you seen as one of the biggest successes at the institutions you've liked with over the past 18 months where? Were kind of a bigger need for online education has been prevalent So one of like the key things that the university because just like for the ones that you don't know me I'm also a teacher. I'm teaching in different universities here in Spain One of the key successes that we had in one of the universities that I work for was just like to transition from Adobe connect to teams So that was just like a great investment from the university actually because Adobe My students and the university students had a lot of issues just like to connect with Adobe connect because some of them they use They were using like Mac others They were using Microsoft and so so we decided just like the university actually decided to move Into teams right with teams we had better experiences Also, we had the possibility to take the attendance We have we had the possibility to run different reports and integrate those reports into the elements And obviously we had like all the chats, you know, we had like all the historical Conversations That we had together as a class and that was really good to actually Perfect. Thank you. I think it's really good to hear your Perspective Marina not only is someone that works within ed tech within an ed tech organization But also on the front lines as a member of the academic team So I think you have got kind of a two-perch to a point approach to kind of sharing sites Going back to the mural board now I'm starting to see some things kind of pop up and populate and one of the big things that jumps out to me here And I kind of just circulate with my mouse is the kind of the recognition of ed tech And it's definitely something that I've had with my conversation in my conversations with institutions It's often seen that ed tech is maybe something like supplements. It's on the side of delivery methods You know nothing can beat that in person bricks and mortar delivery, which which is true But I think more institutions and more members of staff and more students are starting to see as see ed tech as a way to mobilize progression and where to give different approaches and different takes on their academic content and the way that they interact and Connect and engage with students and stuff alike is becoming becoming far more prevalent And I definitely have felt that in the conversations. I've had that Ed tech isn't just something you know that we have to look at as a as a byproduct of what institutions do But it's becoming a centerpiece of how institutions position themselves Within the the education sector Would you say Marina in your experience you've seen kind of a proliferation of positive opinions in ed tech in ed tech with all the institutions you work with Yeah, actually, yes, I mean You can see now that most of the universities that are investing in ed tech most of them actually they are just like making a chain a change towards Cloud-based elements is for example, they are doing an investment in different Gamification tools as well such as Kahoot, for example our mood all the the tool that we are using Today here at our networking session So they are just like investing in these kind of things right now Excellent excellent. That's really really interesting another cool one. I've just seen pop up on the board It's this this leveraging of video presentations Definitely something we see in the kind of utilization in canvas with some of our clients that we work with in the discussion around some of our tools is How can you take those kind of in-person experiences? Put them into a digital format and then present them in a VLE or an LMS and still have that kind of that same kind of tactile quality and Video is often and and people in the discord chat can go in there and agree and disagree and etc Video is often been seen as kind of a passive experience But what we want to do is make that more Interactive way so if you're submitting a video presentation other ways in which you can overlay Quizzing questions on top of that video or have that kind of dynamic Comments within the video almost kind of like a more robust version of YouTube So you can actually stimulate conversation and engagement within those video presentations Yeah, thank you for that comment. Whoever made the video presentation piece Just going to have a look This one is this one's an important one and often overlooked but the kind of moving to a more Technology-based approach planning the reduction of things like paper Which is going to be such an important consideration for a lot of people as we talk about a more carbon neutral Education sector. I'm just kind of cutting down on printing and posting and and some of the kind of physical Attributes, I know there's always going to be a need to have those within education But if we can do things to kind of reduce those those kind of heavy Physical items that that's got to be a positive move forward. So thank you for that submission I think this one is a good one and this one's a broad one in it it can take many forms but the thinking outside of the box so Sometimes when we're thrown into a challenging situation or you know that the the environment in which we're working gets a little bit more Different and complex we sometimes have to challenge our preconceived notions of how we create content use technology even interact with our colleagues in the corporate sector and Sometimes challenges give you the environment to nurture thinking outside of the box So I know that's a really broad one and if anyone has any specific examples of how Themselves their colleagues or their institutions Fought outside of the box throughout this interesting 18 months Please go over to discord and share your examples there and Marina will probably read some of those out for me as we start To see them pop up. Is there anything in the discord at the moment that I have maybe we have somebody typing Yeah, yeah, we have somebody typing. We will just like wait and I will use that time because last week We were just like delivering a women here with the Spanish Customers that we have here in Spain with instructor and there was one of the teachers that actually As we were just like talking about thinking outside of the box He shared with us that actually as as a type of assessment and he was using room scapes Just like to yeah for as a formative activity and I asked him What was he teaching rights and he said that he was just like teaching computing Something about computers and engineering and Yeah, something like that. So I found this pretty interesting Just like to utilize escape rooms as a way of assess, you know, the knowledge that our students have Interesting Yeah, we have Laura on the chat some And she says I was mind blown when some of my colleagues revealed a new green Screens and what they were doing with them. Some of them were decorative, but some really innovative uses Excellent and Laura you might be able to elaborate online discord Was that when you were in kind of virtual? Presentations and you would augment your backgrounds and then create kind of a more visually engaging kind of experience for your students I'd be keen to know what some of the things you saw throughout that period was that sounds sounds really interesting I'm just moving as we maybe get a follow-up from Laura in discord I just want to move to one of the points I've seen over on the mural board and it's kind of in the institutional best practices great and it's a Clear as standardized procedures now in place And I think this is really important the conversations that we have as members of in structure Take many forms and there'll be the kind of the use of technology and their functions and their features How to engage students and teaching staff and administrators? Do you know kind of a lot of showing of functionality? But also one of the kind of the types of conversations we often have is how does this new piece of technology and your kind of hope to adopt this new piece of technology aligned to your institutional strategy or your institutional procedures and policy and Often we see when things start to kind of get a little bit bumpy is when there's a disjunct between the strategy and The software or the strategy and the tool strategy in the delivery method So I think anything that allows an institution from from my experience You folks will know better has been members of institutions But anything that aligns an institutional strategy with the actual kind of boots on the ground usage of new delivery methods technology VLE's LMS is when you see a kind of a stronger end goal a stronger kind of Adoption rate success rates, etc. So I think to have a clear most on this standardized policy in place and Procedures in place. It is is a great one to hear Excellent anything coming up in discord that I think I should that you think I should address Marina or No, we have Laura elaborating more about using like new green screens She said actually that they were using them as a virtual background as you mentioned some For their slide so they could move around stimulating a lecture based experience, for example It allowed them to be more animated rather than talking heads and She also said that she also saw lecturers Rig up equivalents of overheads projectors so they could draw processes Some things are just based on with a pen and a paper, but it's difficult not in person Cool. Well, thank you. Thank you for Reading that out very annoying. Thank you for Laura for that elaboration. That's really cool I think there's some important factors to address that appearing on the mural board and arguably actually not even arguably just the most important thing that's been successful is the kind of collectively ensuring that the health of our students of your teaching staff of your Institutions has been a high priority. So kind of the comments around, you know, the grip on us that everyone or Everyone who could be is has been in a good position and maybe leveraging technology is allowed to provide a more safer Environment throughout the pandemic is super important. I definitely don't want to neglect those comments. So thank you. Yeah, health and Prosperity of the individuals associated with an institution is super important. So thank you for raising those really really important Points, thank you. We've seen one and I mean it's music to our ears. I don't want to hang But thank you for the comment about the transition from Transition to Canvas from that board We really do try and make sure that every institution that's using our technologies is the power of using our technologies So thank you for that comment Let's see what else we've got. There's comments there about kind of working Cross-working. So if I'm right in thinking please correct me in discord Is that the ability to kind of work more dynamically across different departments across different functions and kind of, you know alleviate some of the kind of I don't know bottlenecks in comms when you're maybe across a big campus by having some of those communications and cross Institutional working within the digital space. Is that just been a little bit more proactive about you? I'd love to hear a little bit more from whoever posted that within the discord and channel. That would be great I'm more involved in okay, so This is an important one And it's in the student column in the highlights and whoever whom ever posted this one said that one of the successes is having students more involved in the planning and structure maybe of their courses and You know students are you know a super important stakeholder within any institution And maybe having their involvement in how the digital structure of a course is Presented maybe considering things like if modules or units are broken up into more bite-sized pieces When we're creating online lectures and online videos are there kind of time-capped for You know easier digestion Is there a multitude of different accessibility features within the structure of that course taking into account different accessibility Requirements and educational needs. I think having a student voice within the kind of the structure of a Educational program and provision is super important in some of the institutions out of the pleasure of working with Over the past 80 months. I've definitely had some level of student delegate within the conversations that I've been privileged to be a part of So I've definitely seen that appearing in lots of the conversations I've been having Coming towards the end of our our session now maybe got time for a few more Is there is that anything else in discord that I should maybe touch upon Marina before we start kind of picking up on the last Last couple of elements in the mural board and then kind of wrapping up We can wrap up. We don't have anything new on the discord Perfect well just before we start to kind of wind it into the last two minutes of our Session I just want to kind of talk about some of the kind of the big things that I've seen in this presentation so far So thinking outside the box, you know if I've been thrust into a really unpredictable environment It gives us the ability to kind of reposition Breathing get creative be some more inspired and I'm sure the workload has been intense And I'm sure it's there's been some kind of difficult moments But sometimes out of those kind of difficulties comes kind of really successful things that have been deployed It is great to hear that there's a higher opinion and more recognized Approach of using ed tech at institutions. It's great to see people are working across departments Using technology to support that cross department working and Seeing all of these cool and creative features starting to pop it into kind of formalized procedures and Formalized policies and all that kind of thing. I think it's really good Really happy to have had all those points shared So what we'll do now is give you a little bit of a peek into what we'll be talking about in tomorrow's Session so in day one as I mentioned at the top of our conversation We talked about some of the challenges that were faced in this kind of really really volatile time today We've talked about some of the successes and to get everyone's kind of minds thinking in preparation for tomorrow's session What we would like you to think about and share with us is any of the things that you will be taking forward it into the quote-unquote new normal things that have kind of Allowed you to institutionalize something different for the future So tomorrow is going to be really set amongst kind of the future of using ed tech Your institution well, that's a big. Thank you for me from me today. Thanks for participation. Everyone's been great Marina Thank you. Thank you everyone For this participation, and we hope to see you tomorrow again, and if you have like any question I mean just like posted on the disco channel Thank you. Goodbye