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Louisville Mixtapes: Replay the Best of InstructureCon26!
The wait is over! We’ve celebrated that all breakout sessions and select keynotes from InstructureCon26 are available in the Instructure Community. Now it’s time for the next step: mixtapes. Think of them as curated playlists of 5-7 sessions grouped around a theme or segment, designed to help you dive deeper into topics…
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[Louisville Mixtape] Skills, Credentials, and Career Readiness
This playlist is for turning learning into something portable and provable. From badging pathways to workforce readiness to peer learning that proves real skill acquisition to a student-driven recognition program built from the ground up, these sessions show credentials becoming currency learners can actually carry…
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[Louisville Mixtape] Professional Learning
This playlist is for making PD something educators actually reach for. From building meaningful teacher PD with digital badges to a full toolkit built just for teachers to a 170-institution advisory group shaping Canvas itself, these sessions treat professional learning as a shared, ongoing practice rather than a…
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[Louisville Mixtape] Learner Engagement and Success
This playlist is for keeping learners genuinely in the work, not just logged in. From gamifying a biology course to accelerating English learners' speaking skills to delivering just-in-time nudges at exactly the right moment, these sessions cover engagement as something designed, not left to chance. Featured Sessions…
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[Louisville Mixtape] Innovation in Education
This playlist is for the change management behind the shiny new feature. From treating Canvas as a change-management tool to scaling new tools past the pilot stage to rethinking course architecture around how minds actually work, these sessions are about what it takes to make innovation stick past the first semester.…
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[Louisville Mixtape] Equity and Accessibility
This playlist is for building courses that work for every learner from the start, not as an afterthought. From an AI-powered accessibility coach to bringing handwriting back into a 1:1 classroom to scaling UDL institution-wide, these sessions treat accessibility as a design habit rather than a compliance checkbox. Featured…
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[Louisville Mixtape] Data and Analytics
This playlist is for turning Canvas data into something you can actually act on. From predictive assessment data that helps districts intervene earlier, to evidence-based edtech vetting, to Canvas learning to read a whole curriculum instead of just a page, these sessions show data doing real work at every level of the…
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[Louisville Mixtape] Assessment
This playlist is for the mechanics of assessment itself — the systems, the transitions, and the outcomes they're meant to drive. From full-scale New Quizzes migrations to evidence-based assessment strategies to experiential learning as its own kind of measure, these sessions cover assessment as infrastructure, not just as…
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[Louisville Mixtape] AI Strategy and Institutional Readiness
This playlist is for the leaders building the scaffolding around AI, not just turning it on. From certifying strategists and navigating pilots through partnership, to reconsidering what expertise even means in an AI-saturated world, these sessions zoom out to the institutional decisions that make AI adoption durable…
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[Louisville Mixtape] AI in the Classroom
This playlist is for the day-to-day reality of AI in a live course — not the strategy deck version. From reclaiming instructor time to grounding an AI teaching assistant in your own course content to hearing directly from students and administrators about where AI is actually landing, these sessions stay close to the…
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[Louisville Mixtape] HigherEd: Assessment & Integrity
This playlist is for the campuses rethinking what assessment measures and how it gets adopted. From rebuilding trust in what assessments actually show now that AI sits in every draft, to designing AI-resilient assignments and real-time feedback tools, to the harder institutional work of turning assessment technology into…
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[Louisville Mixtape] HigherEd: Skills, Credentials & Career Pathways
This playlist is for institutions turning coursework into portable, career-ready proof. From badging national career-readiness competencies into a systemwide graduate course to launching a full workforce-training catalog in under a year, these sessions show how credentials move from a nice-to-have into a real bridge…
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[Louisville Mixtape] K12: Coaching & Professional Learning
This playlist is for the districts building professional learning people actually want to do. From crafting small-batch PD experiences to coaching pedagogy-first innovation in tech-heavy classrooms to using admin analytics to target training where it's actually needed, these sessions treat teacher growth as something to…
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[Louisville Mixtape] K12: District Implementation & Rollout
This playlist is for the districts doing the unglamorous work behind a rollout that actually holds. From onboarding required courses across tens of thousands of students to getting Canvas right in K-5 classrooms to auditing a sprawling edtech stack before it collapses under its own weight, these sessions cover what it…
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[Louisville Mixtape] Business/Government: AI Adoption & Workforce Impact
This playlist is for the organizations putting AI to work outside the classroom. From centering human connection on distributed teams using AI, to the honest UX post-mortem of an AI feature nobody found, to turning custom workforce training into an open catalog product, these sessions show what AI adoption looks like when…