If you missed it, you missed it. But here's your chance to catch up (and crash the next one).
Some Prompt Party sessions have a crowd. This one had a conversation.
A small group, a product manager who came ready to show her actual work, a solutions engineer thinking out loud about customers she’s worked with, and enough honest back-and-forth to fill a session twice as long. Smaller rooms have a way of going deeper, and this one did.
Three prompts, two presenters, one very candid session.
1. Olivia asked the Agent to be a student
Olivia Kido, Product Manager for the IgniteAI Agent, opened a real course and handed the Agent a role.
Her prompt:
"Walk through this course as if you're a student logging in for the first time. Are the scope and requirements clear? What's confusing?"
What came back wasn't a checklist. It was a perspective shift. The agent flagged outdated announcements, a missing syllabus, unpublished modules that students would never see, and vague expectations around point values and due dates. The kind of things a course designer might miss precisely because they built the course and know what they meant.
"It tells me what I did well, which is always helpful." — Olivia Kido, Instructure
From there, Olivia showed how you can act on the output immediately. Unpublished modules? Ask the agent to publish them. Prerequisites not set up across modules 6 through 10? Hand it the task. It builds the plan, walks you through each step, and flags when something is already partially configured so you don't accidentally redo work.
The student-perspective prompt is a low-lift, high-return habit for anyone prepping a course for a new semester.
2. Olivia set up 231 quiz accommodations (almost)
Time extensions. Every instructor knows the pain. Every accommodation coordinator knows it better.
Olivia's prompt:
"Jane Doe needs 50% extra time on all quizzes."
The Agent found every quiz in the course — all 231 of them — calculated the individual time extensions based on each quiz's unique time limit, and started working through approvals. Each quiz, different length. Each extension, calculated correctly.
It hit a snag live (231 quizzes will do that), but Olivia used the moment to name something real: bulk actions are actively in development. The Agent can already do a lot in bulk. More is coming. And when it lands, prompts like this one will run without friction every time.
"One of the big values of the Agent is when it can do a lot of things at once. That's on our mind." — Olivia Kido, Instructure
In the meantime: it works. It just takes a few more approvals than it will soon.
3. Sonia built a content page from the outside in
Sonya Martinez, Senior Solutions Engineer on the K12 team at Instructure, came with prompts she's been testing with real clients — and a use case that started with a question she didn't know the answer to.
Her prompt:
"I just started teaching a new unit on chemical and physical changes. Create a content page as a starting point using [external URL] and format it to match the template page [page name]."
Two things working at once: pulling content from an external source and applying an institutional template. The result kept the formatting consistent with what was already in the course — a detail that matters more than it sounds when you're thinking about the teacher who has the content knowledge but not the time to match a template manually.
"You can still be the content expert. Don't let the technology be the barrier." — Kristin Lundstrum, Instructure
Sonia also showed a follow-up prompt a client asked her about on the spot: could it create a second copy of the page at a lower reading level? Second-grade reading level, same learning objectives, same concepts?
It could. It did.
And then she showed one more: "Transform this into a table so students can compare differences and similarities." Also worked.
Three prompts, one content page, completely different outputs — each one useful for a different learner.
The Prompt Library has a May winner
Kristin revisited and celebrated it again: the top prompt from May 2026 was Reformat a Table by Christopher Gaudreau from Bay Path University. That's the one that made someone say "that was like watching a magician" back at the May 7 session. Turns out the Community agreed.
Browse the Prompt Library by tag, sort by trending, or filter by what's been recently commented. It's a living resource — and Olivia reads it regularly.
"If there are things you really want to see, or prompts that don't work that you wish did — my door is always open." — Olivia Kido, Instructure
Don't miss the next one
We're taking a week off, then coming back strong. The next session is scheduled for June 30 (North America) / July 1 (Australia) — an evening slot that finally catches our colleagues in Australia, New Zealand, and The Philippines at a reasonable hour.
Upcoming Prompt Parties are in Instructure Live. Click the I'm Interested button so we can plan — and if you want to demo a prompt, let us know in a comment! No script required. Just you, your course, and something worth showing.
Read the original Prompt Party announcement if you want to catch up on how this all started.
See you in the Instructure Community!
