If you missed it, you missed it. But here's your chance to catch up (and crash the next one).
We're two weeks into Prompt Party season, and the sessions keep getting better. Week two brought us Hinds Community College's @AmandaMarbury and Brandon Mitchell, plus Instructure Solution Engineer @Daniel Guillot, three educators with three real workflows and zero prepared slides.
This week brought a full house: 19 educators showing up on a Wednesday to watch live demos says everything about where the interest is. The chat was moving fast. And at one point, someone invented a new product feature live on the call.
That's a Prompt Party.
Three demos, three different problems, one very busy room
1. Amanda built a study guide without ever leaving Canvas
Amanda Marbury, Director of Strategic Initiatives and Assessment at Hinds Community College, opened her Bio 1131 course and showed us something deceptively simple: instead of pulling content out of Canvas to paste into a separate AI tool, why not just build inside the course?
Her prompt:
"Can you help me create a page in Module 8 that summarizes material in Modules 2–6? This will be a study guide that my students use to take the Bio 1131 Midterm Exam."
The agent checked what already existed, recognized a proctored exam in the course, and scaffolded a study guide organized by module. Amanda then iterated live — asking it to add study tips, working through an approval step she almost skimmed past, and landing on a final page with everything where she wanted it.
The lesson from the happy accident: those confirmation prompts aren't friction. They're the agent making sure it understood you.
"That's what I appreciate! It asked clarifying questions. It's like, I think I know what you want me to do, but can you coach me?" — Kristin Lundstrum
2. Brandon ran a full course review, and got a novel back
Brandon Mitchell, Director of Instructional Design and Technology at Hinds Community College, handed the agent his entire course and asked it to think like a mentor.
His prompt:
"Review this course from the perspective of an experienced online instructor supporting a first-time online instructor. Identify areas where additional guidance, clearer organization, improved communication, or stronger student engagement practices may help. For each recommendation, explain why it matters and provide practical suggestions that are easy for a new online instructor to implement."
The output? An extremely thorough report. Brandon called it "a novel." No rubrics on any assignments. Missing submission guidelines. Opportunities to strengthen discussion facilitation. All the things an instructional designer would flag in a course review — surfaced in one pass.
Then he took it somewhere useful: "Let's say I only have 15 minutes. What can I tackle first?"
The agent broke it into a prioritized action list. Step one: a Start Here page. And when Brandon said "can you build it for me?" — it did.
"The amount of time that a designer would have to go through with a checklist to go through this course line by line, page by page. Saves an amazing amount of time." — Brandon Mitchell, Hinds Community College
That's the real value of this prompt. It's not just a report. It's a thinking partner for instructors who don't have a designer in the room with them at 11 pm.
3. Daniel made template consistency a one-sentence job
Daniel Guillot, Solution Engineer at Instructure, tackled something every instructional designer loses sleep over: course pages that don't match the institutional template.
His prompt:
"Create a copy of this Page. Rename it to 'Optimization (From Template)'. Update it so that the general design follows the general format of the Page 'Content Sample'."
One prompt. A duplicated page (smart habit — Daniel always makes a copy first after learning the hard way). Then the agent analyzed the HTML formatting of the template page and rebuilt the new page to match it.
The agent was briefly fussy. Daniel pushed back. It delivered.
"I've become paranoid. I always make a copy first so that if it overwrites something, I don't lose it." — Daniel Guillot, Instructure
The sharper point landed at the end: when your institution updates the template next year, you won't need to reformat every page manually. You just tell the agent what changed.
"It never stays the same from year to year. That would be too easy." — Daniel Guillot, Instructure
Then someone invented a feature request on the spot
After Daniel's demo, the chat lit up with a question from Emily: what about updating text across multiple pages — say, swapping "2025–26 school year" for "2026–27" everywhere it appears?
Daniel's take: tell it to check every page and replace it. It'll find it. You'll just be approving a lot of individual updates until batch approvals arrive — hint hint, Olivia.
That sparked Brandon.
"What if you could produce that checklist completed as the output? Upload a PDF checklist, have the agent fill it out, and get it back as a file in the course — or send the data to analytics?"
@OliviaKido from the Ignite product team was in the room. She loved it. Amanda called it "a dashboard and intelligent insights and course readiness all in one."
That's what happens when you put the right people in the same room. Ideas get made.
The Prompt Library is open. Go feed it!
Every prompt from this session lives in the Community Prompt Library. Post what's working. Vote on what earns it. There are prizes on the line for the prompts that get the most love this month into June, and honestly, bragging rights aren't nothing either.
Andrea put it well in the chat: it matters to use Canvas vocabulary when prompting the agent. That kind of field-tested insight is exactly what the Prompt Library is for.
Read the original Prompt Party announcement if you want to catch up on how this all started.
Don't miss the next one
Week three is already lined up. If this recap gave you the smallest twinge of FOMO — good. That's the point. Forward the invite to the colleague who'd love this. Bring a prompt you're proud of, or one that's half-baked and you can't figure out why. Both are welcome. Our next party will take place on May 28, 2026!
And if you want to do more than watch, we'd love to feature you. Leave a comment if you're interested in demoing a prompt live! No script required. Just you, your course, and something worth showing.
See you in the Instructure Community!
