 Back in March 2020, teachers had to quickly adapt to their new classrooms in the virtual world. Through their online learning platform called Canvas, Instructure enabled schools, colleges and universities to continue learning when the country was in lockdown. We went to Grimsby Institute to learn more about their experiences with edtech and to investigate its role in the classroom of the future. Like every educational institution, Grimsby Institute had to move all its learning delivery online in March 2020. Canvas played a crucial role in facilitating this adaptation. So this is the Canvas dashboard when a student logs in and as you can see it's really clean and simple and easy to navigate. One of the team from Instructure, the company behind Canvas, told me educators trust them because they're proven to be reliable. We're always thinking about the student experience because that's why organisations come to us. They want to provide the best learning experience for students and that's what we're passionate about as well. So for us, working with them in creating that online experience, they know it's going to work, that it's not going to fail, it's not going to drop out, that they're going to have issues communicating with their students. They know that these high-stakes assessments are submitted and secured. That's really, really important for teachers and the students. Grimsby Institute's principal told me their belief in technology as a means of transforming young people's perceptions of the world is key to making the dreams of their 15,000 students achievable. Canvas is a very well-embedded piece of our technology along with a number of other tools that we use to enhance the learner experience. It provides an interactive learning platform for our students so that whether they're learning from here, from the bus on the way in whether they've got Wi-Fi on, whether they're at home, whether they have to stay away from the area because of the pandemic, it allowed all of them to have equal access to their learning experience. Grimsby Institute is just one example of how an educational establishment has embraced technology to enhance the learning experience. And while technology can never replace the teacher, lockdown has shown us that they can work alongside each other along the learning journey. These Grimsby Institute students say their learning during lockdown would simply have been impossible had it not been for Canvas. It's very easily laid out. When you go onto it, it's very well-labeled on the computer and you can access it through a computer or a phone or a tablet or anything so anyone can access it. So what would happen a lot of the time is a teacher or a tutor would set an assignment but leave us all in the call. The tutor included. So we'd all just sit in there, we can talk. It's like a classroom. It was as close to the classroom as we could get without actually being in the class. It was really good. Here in Grimsby, they believe embracing a technology-enriched future is key to opening up unprecedented opportunities for their students, not just in the UK but globally. I think the fourth industrial revolution is on us and we have a responsibility to build technology into everything that we teach because it will be in every job that is available over the next 10 years. The level of digital skills that are going to be required over the next 10 years will only increase exponentially and we have a generation who's just been immersed in it via the pandemic. We need to build on those skills so that when they leave us and they go into the wider world, they have real benefit to the industries they join. In terms of education technology in the future, it will just be expected by students. There's no excuse really for them not to have access to their resources and their materials and it'd be accessible for everybody. The technology already exists. It's already there. I think the growth will come in the use of it and the innovation in the way that teachers use it align to their individual subjects and I think they'll be looking for those tools to embed that onto the platform and keep things simple. It really is just a case of having simple navigation for students and making it easy to learn and that's really what we're aiming for with the platform. It's an easy user interface that connects teachers with their students. The team behind Canvas say it's crucial they continue to support educators to find the tools that work specifically for them to elevate learning to the next level.