Learn About Toddle's AI-first Approach to Teaching and Learning

So welcome, got more people joining us and coming in.

Thank you for being here with us today.

We are so excited to talk with one of, uh, uh, vendors

that is a new partner for Atlas.

Um, so we're very, very excited to have Todd.

They have come on to the scene

and they have been immensely popular.

We have several of our independent schools

and our Atlas members who are using taal

and they have some really innovative capabilities.

So, um, today we're going to hear from their team.

Um, so we have Sahil, Sahil is in charge

of the North American office,

and we also have Natasha who is their program manager

and they're joining us and they're gonna take us

through some really fascinating things

that their company is doing with ai

and kind of walk us through, show us, uh,

a little bit more about it.

And I also want to mention that if you would like

to continue this conversation, um,

they will be at the Atlas Annual Conference coming

up in Reno.

So we are very, very excited to have them there.

Uh, they have a very big presence at the conference.

Um, so we're looking forward to that.

And we want to thank them for, um, being an amazing partner

and a sponsor of Atlas.

So Sahil, Natasha, welcome. Thanks for being here with us.

Thank you so much. Happy to be here.

Yeah, and I actually, I do wanna make a correction.

So you guys, y'all, sorry, everything is relative new.

You guys were with us last year, uh, as well,

but still, um, I think this is such a developing area.

It feels very new, feels very fresh.

So I'm sorry I did mis misspeak about that,

but, um, we're so excited to to hear from you

and, uh, audience members.

IL's gonna go through and he will be, uh,

giving you kind of an overview.

He'll stop at particular points for questions.

Um, so do feel free to drop those in the chat

and do know that he, uh, will be again,

creating intentional pause points to make sure that, um,

we're, we're all on the same page.

So Sahil, take it away.

Thanks for coming and so excited

to see what you have for us today.

Thank you so much Ashley, and great to be here.

Really excited to be speaking to, uh, schools at Atlas

as well as being at the conference.

So we are really looking forward to meeting everyone at

Trino and everyone, thanks for joining.

So I'm Sahil, I lead the North American office

for tattle based out of Austin, Texas.

And I'm gonna be talking about what Tattle does

and how we're using AI for teaching and learning

and how it's making a difference at schools.

Before I do that, let me give you a bit of an introduction

of TA and why we exist and why we started.

So the founders of Total are teachers,

they were teaching in the classroom

and at their school they were struggling

to integrate technology meaningfully

across a range of workflows.

So they had one platform

for curriculum planning and mapping.

They had a separate learning management system,

a third system for portfolios, a fourth one for standards

and competency based reporting and grading.

A fifth one was their SISA sixth one for families.

Parents would, on top of of that, parents would get emails

and text messages all the time.

And there were hundreds

and thousands of Google Drive

folders and documents in between.

It was a real mess.

And to solve for that mess at their school,

they got started with total.

So what we have at Total is a teaching

and learning platform.

It's more than a learning management system.

We have curriculum planning and mapping.

We have LMS functionalities,

but we also have project-based learning portfolios.

A very strong module on family communication.

We are re-imagining how parents can foster

and build the relationship with the school

and a lot of cool stuff for you.

The difference that Todd makes, and I'm gonna dive into it

and show you the product right away,

but what the way this is different is

that these systems are in an interconnected ecosystem.

And now we've started re-imagining this with ai.

So specific modules are being reimagined on how

they can take teaching

and learning to the next level with ai.

And really it all comes together when all these modules, uh,

start talking to each other.

We're partnered with 50,000 educators across 1800 schools

and um, a significant number

of them are here in the United States

and very, very excited about that.

So with that, let me dive right into the total platform

and show you what it looks like.

So just a quick tech check. Can you see my screen? Perfect.

So I'm logged into the total platform

as a teacher and administrator.

We log for the first time, this is what I see.

Here's a banner for common functionalities.

There's uh, here's a banner for Total Library,

which has resources for teachers.

There's some common functionalities like announcements,

attendance, report cards, messaging, et cetera.

And here's all the classes in my school.

So one thing we've been very intentional about

as we build do is we integrate

with the leading student information systems out there.

So if you are using one of the leading SISs out there,

this roster can be pulled in directly from your SIS.

So you never have to roster. And the integration has other

use cases as well, which I'll speak about towards the end.

But this would reflect your classes in your school.

And every class here is a collaborative workspace,

which means that all the class teachers added to

that class can collaborate on all things curriculum,

timelines, calendar deadlines, et cetera.

So I'm gonna start with curriculum planning

and mapping, show you how AI is helpful in that

and then take you to the LMS and reporting side of things.

So when I go to grade one

or any grade level for that matter,

the first thing I can see are all the units

that I've been planned in one place.

So these are all my units, these are my idu,

these are my subject specific units.

If I click on the timeline button, I can get a sense for

what unit is happening at what point of time.

So this is very useful for say an English teacher

to know what's gonna be happening

or when the important math unit's coming up,

they can all collaborate and see each other's timelines.

So I'm gonna go into one of these units

and show you the planning, the unit planning process.

So this is a unit planning template, um,

that has the summary standards,

skills, transfer goals, et cetera.

What you're seeing is the understanding by design template.

But this template is completely

customizable to the school's needs.

So for example, a lot of schools, uh,

they use backwards design.

They use an inquiry based approach.

Uh, they don't want to track skills, they want

to track competencies, learning outcomes, habits

of the mind core values, sustainable development goals.

However, it is that your teachers departments

or as a school, you plan your curriculum,

any section on the planning template can be added,

deleted, modified, or renamed.

And you can have multiple templates, as many

as many templates as you want.

So what that means for teachers is when they make a new

unit, they can choose from multiple templates

and they have multiple options available.

In this template though, it starts with a title,

an image, a start and end date.

I can choose my subjects,

teachers can then add a summary of the unit here.

Then I have my subject standards.

So a lot of schools spend a lot of time tracking

and customizing their standards

and being able to report on them.

It's very easy. On total,

these standards are also customizable.

And when I say customizable, it takes 10 minutes

to customize them on the backend.

So you can upload all your standards here, we can map them

to different grade levels

and we can add custom tags as well.

So teachers can sort out say priority standards from power

standards or from many other tool that you want.

What it means for teachers though,

is they can simply navigate this outline.

They can search for standards if they want

and they can click and choose

what they'll be addressing in this unit.

Same thing for competencies

or learning outcomes where I can build the list

of outcomes here and I can click and choose what I address.

And then we have a variety of text-based prompts.

So here's an example of say transfer goals

or essential questions where I can prompt my teachers on

what thought provoking questions will foster inquiry

and meaning making and transfer.

And teachers can add their own response here.

So your teachers can respond to text-based prompts.

You can have open text boxes if you,

if you wanna give them a lot of autonomy

and you can have them pick

and choose from learning outcomes that you've built.

So this is unit planning on tunnel.

This can also be shared with everyone in the community.

So if a teacher is teaching multiple classes,

they don't have to make this over and over again.

They can just add other classes here.

They can also share this with teachers,

like a live collaborative Google doc.

So I can give others edit access,

I can give them view access

and I can also choose to share this with families.

So a lot of schools these days want

to share curriculum with families.

And if your school is one of those, you can choose

to give students and parents edit and view access

and you can choose what to share with them.

You don't have to share everything.

So teachers can control

how much information from the curriculum side

of things needs to be shared with parents.

This is also fully collaborative.

So if again, like a live Google doc,

I can tag my colleagues, I can say,

Hey Natasha, how does this look?

Or I can even record my voice and leave audio comments.

Teachers find it much easier to leave audio comments than

uh, type out long essays.

So fully collaborative. So this was unit planning.

If there's any questions, please feel free

to put them in the chat and I'll keep answering them.

But if there's any questions, please let me know.

Moving on for now. This was unit planning.

I showed you the timeline view

and I will now show you curriculum maps

and insights on total.

So I want to start with a table view here.

So in the table view, I can see all the units

for grade one listed here.

And I can see the number of skills, learning outcomes

and subject standards

that have been addressed at least once throughout the year.

So I can see that hey, uh, 46

or 78 English subject standards are addressed.

These are the units in which they're addressed,

these ones are addressed.

But I can also expand to see

that 32 have not been addressed even once these other 32,

in case of my example, they happen to be common core.

So teachers have live insights

and visibility into how uh, on curriculum coverage.

We also have curriculum maps.

So if I was a an English teacher,

what I can see on my screen is for the entire school from K

through 12, I can see the English curriculum

as one continuous cr.

So within a grade level, let's say grade six,

my customizable templates organized vertically.

So I can see a holistic view

of everything taught in grade six,

my summary standards, skills, et cetera.

But I can also see what was taught in grade five

and what will be taught in grade seven.

So I can place my own curriculum

and what I'm teaching in context of what teachers

and other grade levels are also teaching

and see it, how it all connects together.

Even for department and division heads, it's very helpful

because they can see the curriculum as one continuous thread

and they can see the narrative in one place.

This is supported with a timeline view.

So this is the visualization tool

that lets teams see which unit is

happening at what point of time.

And we have a standards view as well.

So this is a lot

of schools call this horizontal and vertical alignment.

And what you're seeing is for every group of standards,

the number of units in which it has been addressed.

So for example, literature has been addressed in four units,

but writing has been addressed only once.

And even within writing I can see

that only spelling words has been addressed,

but anything else has not been addressed

and I can see where this has been addressed as well.

So very helpful for teachers

for horizontal vertical curriculum as well.

If there's any questions, please feel free

to drop them in the chat.

But this was curriculum planning and mapping on total.

I now want to show you lesson planning

and how AI can help in lesson planning

and how the learning management side of things looks like.

So on the right hand side is where teachers can add

and store all assessments, all learning experiences

or any resources that they have.

So all of teachers have resources

in OneDrive and Google Drive.

They can import them directly from there onto total.

And when they've made their resources and assessments

and lesson plans, they can

then organize how to deliver them.

So here I can break my unit down into weeks

or I can break it down into themes.

I can move any of these around if I want.

And for every bucket here I can drag

and drop what I'll be doing in that category.

So let me now show you the making of one of these

and how assessments and lesson plans are made on total.

So here's an example. Uh, this is, I can, I can add a title,

I can tag the unit, the subject, et cetera.

I can add a description,

I can also add an audio description.

So very useful for K through five where teachers like

to supplement written instructions with verbal ones.

I can also add a template for students to work on.

So it could be a multimedia rich template such

as the DOT workbook where students can scribble,

they can add text, photos, videos, images,

and they can also record themselves while working on it.

So teachers not only see the student work,

but the process that went into it.

Alternatively, for those of you on Google Classroom,

you can also import any templates from Google Drive, such

as Word documents, slides, et cetera.

And totalle will automatically make a copy for each student

and you can work on that directly within totalle,

you don't have to leave the platform.

Then teachers can add assessment tools.

So if it's a score out of 20, I can do that.

I can add narratives and comments

or I can make an ADD rubric.

And finally I can tag standards skills

and learning outcomes that I'm addressing in

this specific activity.

So I'm intentional about my planned curriculum,

speaking to my taught curriculum.

So let's say in this specific activity, I want

to talk address these skills

and I want to rate students on the skills as well.

So I'm enabling competency-based learning.

So this was the making of a lesson plan on tar.

Before I show you how to assign this, let me show you

how AI can help do this.

And the way we're thinking about AI

and the question we're asking ourselves internally is

how can AI help teachers elevate their practice

and save time while doing so?

And lesson planning seem

to be a very good first use case of that.

So this is the same lesson plan template that I showed you.

It's empty this time. And on the right is total ai.

So I can ask total AI any questions that I want.

But as we know with all AI interactions, the quality

of answers you'll get really depends on the quality

of questions you ask and how specifically you define output.

So at total we've given teachers a starting point,

we've added a library of prompts from our side.

So if teachers want to create exit tickets

or check for understanding

or just brainstorm ideas to start the unit, they can start

with any of these prompt

or they can ask specific questions if they want.

So in the interest of time,

let's say I want ideas to open this unit.

So I'm gonna ask AI for that and let's see what it does.

So here's five ideas that AI has given me

and I want to highlight the relevant

and contextual nature of these responses.

What's happening in the background is all the information I

put in my unit plans such as my transfer goals,

my standards, my summary, the name of the unit, the subject,

the grade level, all of that is passed onto AI as context.

So what teachers end up getting is highly contextual

and relevant responses

for grade one English on a unit on stories.

If this was AP math

and I was in grade 12,

I would've gotten a very different response.

So let's say teachers

and teachers can keep refining these ideas.

I can say that, hey, I'm in Austin, Texas,

can you give ideas for a field trip?

Or, my students have learning differences.

Can you share some ideas for how

to approach this with dyslexic students?

I can keep quoing the system as much as I want,

but again, in the interest of time,

let's say I like these ideas

and I want to elaborate on them.

So I will say elaborate on idea, let's choose the first one,

elaborate on idea one.

So

It's gonna detail and expand on

the lesson plan that I really liked.

And again, I can keep refining this, I can uh,

change this any way I want.

But let's say I like this as a first

draft, it's a good first draft.

I click this add to learning experience button

and it comes from right to left.

So now it's in my workspace.

As a teacher I can, I have complete control,

I can add anything, I can change anything.

I can modify anything that I want.

Total AI is also good at helping you make assessment tools.

So God knows how much time teachers spend making rubrics

and single point rubrics and checklists.

So let's say I want to make a rubric

for this task, AI can help and let's find out how.

So here's an example of a rubric.

I notice how relevant the criteria is

to the activity on storytelling

and these levels are coming directly from my total account

because I've already configured it that way.

And once again I can add the rubric here.

I'm done with AI for now.

I like the rubric, I can make any changes that I want.

And uh, this is the first example of how AI is

supercharging lesson planning within total.

If there's any questions, we're happy

to answer them right now

or move on to the LMS side of things.

Great. So moving on,

what we've seen till now is unit planning,

curriculum planning and mapping lesson planning with ai.

Now I'm gonna assign this to my students.

So as I assign it I can add multiple classes to assign this

to so I don't have to copy paste.

I can also choose which students to assign it to.

So very helpful for differentiation.

If I've asked AI to make me a math activity

for a quick learners group, I can choose to only assign it

to them and not everyone else.

I can choose the due date due time,

I can enable a submission class discussion

and total also integrates with Turnitin so you can check

for similarity directly within tole.

And all the work that I assign

to my students lives in the classroom.

So this is my traditional LMS if you will.

This is where all my classwork is.

My classroom is segmented into

ongoing schedule and completed.

I can organize this into folders.

And here's a banner for each one of the assignments.

So let's say I go to this one

here, I have all my students.

I can see the work they've

submitted and the assessment tools.

So lemme go to Alex's work.

So if students have worked on the total template,

I can see their work here.

This can also be a template from Google

Drive and Google Docs.

I can directly work on that direct within total.

Once you give feedback, I can also send private messages

that hey, this is great,

or I can record my voice and leave audio feedback.

Once I've done both of those things,

I can then evaluate the student.

So there's a rubric I can evaluate on the rubric.

If there's a score, I can give a score

and the same standards and skills and competencies

and learning outcomes that I was tagging in the lesson plan,

I can now rate students on those.

So this scale is completely customizable as well.

So I can have an achievement scale,

I can have an effort scale.

One of them could follow the exemplary achievement model.

The other could be a numeric scale, completely up to you on

how you wanna do it or how departments

and divisions wanna do it.

And when teachers give feedback,

they can also see a performance history of the student

so they know where the student work is coming from

and how they've been doing for the last,

for the previous few times.

So once I've given feedback, once I've done my evaluation,

I can mark this as evaluated.

I can share feedback with the student

and move to the next student.

If I like the student work, I can add this directly

to their portfolio or I can add everyone's work

to their respective portfolio.

If this is something, if this was a submission

where I was expecting students' best work

and everything I add to the portfolio is here.

So portfolios on total are an Instagram, like scroll

of the classes work in one place.

So I can filter by students,

I can organize this into folders,

I can start seeing everything.

I can click pictures in the classroom.

And the way it typically works is a teacher might have tole

on their phone or their iPad in the classroom,

they see a show and tell happening

and they want to click a picture and tag students

as they work on the portfolio.

That's where a lot of the connections start happening

and how it connects back to lesson plans and curriculum.

So for example, let's say a teacher wanted to add

to the portfolio, you can choose a range of ways to add.

Let's say I wanted to add a note,

I can tag the students it corresponds to so I don't have

to apply, upload it over

and over again each in each

of their Google Drive folders us.

I can also tag anything from my curriculum,

from my assessments, from my lesson plans

or simply my learning goals throughout the platform.

So this becomes not only a part of the student portfolio,

but evidence of student having a accomplished

certain milestones.

So I can choose, let's say my learning goals

and I can say these are the other skills

that this has evidence for.

And then I can share this with students

and families only,

families only students or keep it private.

And if I choose to share it with everyone,

families on their end can like and comment

and they can engage

and they know what's happening in the class.

I was, if there's any questions, please feel free

to ask any questions at this point.

And as you type the questions in the chat, I, I would love

to share an anecdote that I heard from a school

as I was visiting them and they used Total

and they told me that after we started using portfolios

and connecting it to curriculum, the difference it made was

that previously parents would pick up students

and they would ask, they would ask questions like,

how were the tacos you had for lunch?

How was lunch? And students don't really care about that.

But with this what starts

to happen is parents pick up the student

and they ask, Hey, how is

that physics lab project you're working on?

What did you do today? And students are engaged about that.

They want to talk about that they're interested in that.

So it really enables families to get the pulse

of what's happening in the classroom.

If there's any questions, please

feel free to add them in the chat.

But for now I'll move on to the grade book.

So here's my assessment grade book.

So here I can see all my assignments, I can see

the scores I gave and I can see qualitative

and quantitative feedback next to each other.

So if it was a rubric, I can see the rubric.

If it was score, I can see that.

Or if I rated students on standards, I can see that as well.

You can also set up automatic calculations, uh,

grade boundaries, converting it to a percentage

and converting it to a local grade.

All of that's possible. This is supplemented

with the standards based grade book on tar.

So what you're seeing is for standards as well as skills

or any learning outcome when you track student progress

and when you key in an observation on where they are,

I can see for every standard and every student the latest

and the last observation of the student.

So Alex in English is currently excelling

and I can also see a performance history of the child.

So I can see where those observations are coming from.

So I can see over here

where these observations are coming from as well.

And I can see it on multiple criteria I spoke about

Where all of this becomes very, very powerful

and meaningful is in report cards.

So report cards on total are multimedia rich,

highly customizable,

and very, very powerful in

how they bring the connections into reporting.

So the way it works is administrators can define

report card templates.

So you can have a template for middle school,

a different template for elementary school,

a third template for end of the year.

And within each template you can customize

how you want the report card to look.

So for example, here I can have, I want my name

of my school, I want the term name, I want the student name.

Let's say on the next page maybe you want the assessment

criteria, maybe you want to report on the standards

you are you're addressing.

Maybe you want a letter from the head of school,

maybe you want a letter from the principal.

So you can customize all of that that you want

as you report on progress

because all the subject data is already on total,

the report card can pull that information in.

So I can see the overall score, I can see the grade,

I can see the grades, and I can also see the achievement

of the milestones that students have addressed.

But teachers have control.

So teachers can override any of the grades that they want.

So notice how the calculated grade is C,

but I've given an A to the student here.

Where this becomes very interesting is when you're

reporting specifically by subject.

So let's have a look. Let's say I'm reporting or not

and I can um, add a score, I can add a A grade

and I can, I can add the achievement effort here.

What I can also do is remember when I was doing the

portfolio, I was tagging the units,

I was tagging the standards and I was tagging the student.

All of those things are now available here as evidence

and I can add this evidence into the report card

and evidence-based reporting is very powerful for families.

So imagine a teacher is saying

that the student is improving in Spanish

and right below it is a video

of the child talking uninterrupted

for a couple of minutes in Spanish.

That evidence makes the teacher

comment really, really impactful.

This is also where the second use case of AI comes in.

So a common we we ask teachers,

what is something you spend a lot of time doing

and you don't particularly enjoy doing?

And invariably a common answer

that came up was writing report card comments.

So a lot of teachers told us that they have to write a lot

of comments, they're not sure if anyone reads them.

It's very hard to personalize every

comment for every student.

And realistically they usually have a common bank

where they're pulling in comments from.

So we asked ourselves that if we have the student history,

if we have the academic history, the curriculum, the LMS,

the unit planning here and we also have evidence

of student work, can AI help in generating comments?

So that's the second use case of AI that we've built

where if I click on this magic wand button,

AI is gonna give me a personalized comment

for this student in arts.

Let's have a look.

So here's an example of a comment. Let me make this again.

Here's an example of a comment that AI has generated.

Let me wait for it, do it again.

This is just the first draft

and the goal is for this to save teachers time.

The other thing is that this is also personalized

because it's able to read in the student's performance

history but teachers are in complete control.

I can choose my voice formal

or informal, I can choose my tone.

And very commonly a lot of schools

and teachers, uh, are bilingual families are bilingual,

they speak both languages.

So let's say I want to translate

this into Spanish AI is very,

very helpful in translating comments

into other languages as well.

And on total we have more than 30 languages that we support.

The other thing I want to highlight,

and this has been a concern

and a question that's come up a lot in

as schools talk about ai, which is safety and security.

So when you use Totalle ai, especially for this,

you can be assured that this is secure

and no personally identifiable information is

shared with the L lms.

So none of your school's academic data is shared

with the LLMs and it's being used to train them models.

That is not the case. Your data is private and for you.

But more than that, AI doesn't know

that Dave is a student at total emphatic school in Austin,

Texas and this is what he's been doing.

We anonymize all data while we interact with LLMs

and then we re-identified only on the total platform.

So this is a great way for teachers

and educators to access AI in a safe and secure way.

And once I make report cards,

I can track progress for all report cards.

I can share them directly with families on total.

So this was it from my side on the

core teaching and learning workflow.

Uh, after this I'd love to show

how students experience the platform,

talk about our integration as well as

with a few family functionalities.

But before that, are there any questions?

So there's a question from Anne.

We have specific guidelines

for comments based on strategies.

Can we load some of the info for AI to use?

So yes, you can do that.

So the way total AI works is beyond ai,

let me show you this directly.

Teachers can also make report card banks,

uh, sorry, comment banks.

So you can add those in the Common bank.

And what we're soon gonna be launching in the next version

of total AI is the ability for teachers

to configure AI in their own voice based on certain

guidelines and for administrators

to define a high level structure on what tone, language

and voice they want comments to follow In all

of that school's report cards.

We will also be introducing uh, features such

as one click spell check.

So if you are the head of school

and you wanna run a spell check on all report cards,

you can press that button and get a response

from AI on that as well.

So short answer is yes

and we are working, we're gonna be strengthening

that offering with new features.

So there's one more questions.

Um, faculty adoption.

We switched to canvas four years ago.

It takes two to three years for teachers

to accept the platform with

so many features in total do had,

do you have any feedback on how to get buy-in

and how long it takes?

That's a great question

and it's a million dollar question if I'm being honest.

'cause that is really the real, um, adoption

and change management is is a huge part of the challenge.

So at Atlas at the event in Reno, Nevada,

Mount Vernon School is gonna be leading a session on change

management answering exactly the same question.

So they adopted tole a year ago

and they've gone through that journey.

So they're gonna be sharing a lot of their insights

and experience on how the change management process went.

Um, some tips and tricks and do's and don'ts in that.

So I would encourage you if you're coming to Atlas,

if you're not coming, please come

and if you're coming then please be there.

The session, I think you'll really like it.

But to still answer your question to,

to substantially answer your question, a lot

of it comes down to the vision

and how you want to execute that.

So for example, a lot of schools don't want to,

they don't need to start

with all the functionalities in one go.

Some of them want to start with just curriculum planning

and mapping, then add the LMS and then add reporting later.

Other schools want to start with everything

but only for middle and upper school

but not for elementary or vice versa.

So the way you implement

and get everyone's buy-in is through a staggered approach.

You can either pick modules and expand modules later

or you can pick divisions where you roll this out

and then expand divisions later.

So I would love to have a personalized conversation on this,

understand your context and speak more

specifically on how to do it.

But this is what I've broadly seen work that first semester.

We're just gonna do curriculum. Second semester will do

LMS staggering.

Adoption is a is a great way.

And setting expectations internally on what's coming

is an equally great way.

And finally, at total we provide

a lot of training and support.

In fact, and I know every,

and to be honest, I know everyone says we provide training

and support, but at total we it.

What differentiates us is the quality of training

and support we provide

and the fact that we don't charge anything for it.

Training and support is built into the subscription cost.

So the total cost of total is the same

as the subscription cost of total

because you get unlimited training

and support at no extra cost.

And we are able to, it's a very structured onboarding

process where we show you different milestones.

We work with you on those timelines, we understand

what your timelines are,

break it down into different processes,

organize five different trainings for you, do a webinar

for parents and students if needed,

talk about the integration.

So we support you to handle you throughout the process.

So that also ensures adoption

and successful rollout at the school.

Sorry for my long answer to your short question,

but I hope that answers.

So there's a question from Christina,

what's next and what we're working on?

That's a great question and let me talk about some

of the things we've recently released

and then the roadmap on what we'll be working on.

So something we've recently released at TOLE is a messaging

feature built within the platform.

So for those of you that are familiar with Slack

or teams, think of this as Slack

or teams within the platform where you have students,

faculty, teachers, parents, everyone in one place.

So I can have one-on-one conversations.

So I can directly message someone if I want to.

Let me expand this for a second.

And I can also have channels.

So let me quickly refresh

so I can have one-on-one

conversation with students if I want.

Or I can also make channels

and I can make channels for if I want to make channels

for a specific student, I can do that.

If I want to make a channel for a field trip,

but I want to be able to plan a field trip with grade four

students with and invite parents

from grade five, I can do that.

The idea is that you can communicate in any combination

of users as you want.

And once again, schools have complete control.

So you can choose who you want to enable this for.

Do you want family, students and teachers on it?

And you can choose the amount of control everyone has.

Should teachers be allowed to make their own channels

or can only admin do that?

Can students initiate conversations with teachers

and can families do the same thing

or you want both of them to only respond

to questions when asked?

You have complete control

and even within channels you can set channels

to announcements only so nobody can respond

but just get one way communication.

What makes it interesting is the work we're doing with ai.

So let's say your entire community is on dot connect

and they're all talking here.

Let's say you are the head of school or the director of IT

and you went on a holiday and you come back

and you see that there are 400 unread messages.

You don't have the time to read 400 messages

and frankly you don't need to.

So AI is very useful in summarizing

those conversations for you.

So here I can see if there's unread messages,

AI can give me a summary and action items right here.

The other thing AI is very, very good at is flagging

and identifying conversations.

So if students are feeling stressed,

if students are feeling nervous,

if students are feeling anxious, if students are unhappy

or if there's anything that requires your attention

as an administrator, all those messages get flagged for you.

So you can view the conversation directly,

you can view a summary and you can see the exact

messages that was flagged.

Very, very helpful for educators to and

and school leadership to get the pulse of the community

and see what everyone's talking about

and what the concerns are.

So this has been, we've received very good feedback on this

and then schools are,

it's changing the way schools communicate internally

and with parents and how deeply parents are engaged.

You can also see some analytics on who's logging in,

what are the kind of conversations that are having,

I can filter this by the users.

So a bunch of cool stuff happening here.

So this was the family side of things on

how family communication happens on total.

Let me pause for questions.

So what access level do parents have?

The answer is it depends on you.

So similar to what I showed you in Total Connect,

you can enable or disable any of the module

for parents if you want.

So some schools don't like parents being involved

after in high school when kids are in high school,

they don't want parents to be involved, others want them

to be involved so much as they want them to be able

to see the LMS and what's happening in the class.

Others want them to be very involved

and actively reach out to teachers if there's a problem.

You can control how much access you want and you can enable

or disable any of these modules

and features for any combination of users,

be it teachers, students, or parents.

So I hope that answers your question.

Next I wanna talk about, um, on what's next.

So Christina had, uh, a great question on

what are the other things we're building.

So just to give you an idea, the first thing we're building

and we're gonna be building soon is a lot

of schools have asked us

for a reporting and analytics feature.

So a lot of academic data is on total grade books here,

attendance is here, a lot of data is here.

And they wanted to run reports and analytic

and get analytics on student performance.

So we're working on a module just for that.

So you have analytics

and reporting built directly within the

platform, the end state.

And the vision of that is it should be AI driven.

So you as an administrator should just ask a question on

how many students missed class more than twice in the last

three months and you should directly get a response.

So that's the end state we're working towards.

It's gonna take us time to get there,

but the first version of this is gonna go live soon

and it's gonna have some common use cases on common reports

students that are running behind and for educators

to make custom reports that they want.

So whatever views you want to see

and whatever cross sections of data you want to see,

you can make them a total.

So that's something that's gonna be coming very, very soon.

The other thing we are working on, and much of this is live

and some of this is work in progress, is integrating

with leading student information systems.

So the odds are that if you're in this room,

you probably use an SIS that we integrate with

and we have a fairly deep integration so we integrate

with them for rostering, meaning you can pull in the roster

we integrate for timetable

and attendance, meaning you can pull in your schedule from

your SIS onto total, take attendance within total

and pass back that attendance to the SIS

so teachers don't have to go to multiple systems for it.

And the third use case is, uh, final grade reporting.

If you are doing all reporting on totalle, if the,

if the grade book is on totalle,

then can we push back the final grades to your SIS.

So the first three are already live reporting is gonna

go live very, very soon.

So if you're interested in how this can save teachers time

and streamline their workflow on how they need

to be only on one system for teaching

and learning how you can innovate parent experience

and also keep your, keep your admin team happy

so they have the data in their SIS feel free to reach out.

I'd love to show you how that integration works as well.

So there's a question from David.

Uh, how is each your archived and kept accessible?

Great question. If a, if a teacher leaves, uh,

is their work left behind?

Fantastic question.

I think these are actually very seemingly minor concerns

but become operationally challenging

to do if the system doesn't support it.

So let me show you how it works on Todd.

Although I'm logged in as a teacher, it makes no difference

because I can go into any

of the previous academic years if I want

and if I go into the 2021 academic year,

my account's gonna refresh

and look exactly how I did on the last day

of class for that academic year.

So it's very easy for you

to access anything about the student here.

Let's say if you as a teacher want to go

to a specific student's history,

we have something called the student profile

where I can see the students

and this is everything the student has done on total.

So I can see an overview.

This again is pulled in from your SISI can see their

attendance, I can see a quick view

of the student's to-do list

and students can see that as well.

I can see their classes information

and I can see the student's portfolio.

I can see the students' specific grade book.

So this is only this student's grade book

and I can filter for any of the terms that I want.

I can see their report cards, I can see their timetable

and I can also add behavioral notes

and incident reports here along with student support plans

and strategies if I want to.

So student support plans can be added here as well.

So very robust in terms of tracking performance

and data for a specific student

and for you to be able to go to the previous sales as well.

To answer your second part of the question, where is

what does access look like?

This data and workspace is owned by the school.

So even if a teacher leaves,

and let's say a new teacher joins, all you need

to do is add them to grade one,

which you probably already did on your SIS.

They get rostered in, it automatically syncs

and they can see everything happening in grade one

or say AP history, world math, whatever that is.

They can see the timelines, they can see

what the teacher taught, they can see everything.

It's a collaborative shared workspace.

So sharing data

and information as teachers move across is also built into

the total workflow by default.

You have access to all of those.

Any other questions that I can answer for you all today?

And by the way, there's uh, usually we sort

of personalize this conversation

and uh, show

how total fits into a specific school's context.

If you're interested in knowing more, please feel

to reach out to us either at the event

or otherwise on email.

And I'd love to show you how this would work in your school.

So there's a question from Matthew.

Is there any way to import course content

from other systems like Canvas?

So Matthew, typically if your teachers have,

let me actually show you directly.

So we actually help schools migrate all

of their existing data from any other

system that they were on.

So your teachers don't have

to do anything as they move to total.

We'll migrate all the academic data for you.

Having said that, if your teachers are using external

content providers and uh, they have content or quizzes

or any other activities over there,

we are currently working on an LTI integration.

So you can import content from content providers as well.

We don't have a concrete timeline on that yet,

but we expect it to go live sometime around October.

So teachers that have content externally,

but activities, resources,

externally can bring those into total as well.

So yeah, seeing no other questions, um,

this was it from my side.

I see one more question. Yeah, perfect.

So on LT Azure, we're working on that work in progress

and we'll have good news pretty soon.

So Ashley, um, this was it from my

side. Is there anything you wanna

Yeah, so I, I had someone private message me in, uh,

as you were presenting

and they were saying this would be so great to share

with other people at my school.

You know, the people that handle curriculum mapping

or other administrators.

And so we encourage you to do that.

We're gonna send out an archive.

And so I think that that would be really great to, you know,

get more people in on the conversation.

So Sahil, one of my favorite things that,

that you talked about, there were so many amazing pieces,

but I love that you can kind of do it in baby steps.

You know, if you wanna just look at maybe piloting

curriculum mapping and roll that out in, in

that smaller group so that you're not doing this change

management of, you know,

this whole new system for the entire faculty.

I think that that's really powerful

and really smart of you guys to give different options and,

and different access levels

because I think once people see it, it's really exciting

and they're definitely gonna wanna play with, uh,

the features a lot more.

So thank you all so much for being here today.

Um, we really look forward to seeing you in person soon,

but this was fabulous.

You guys have an amazing product

and again, just congratulations on, um, all the success

that you guys have had so far

and I definitely look forward to seeing, um,

what y'all come up with next.

Thank you so much and great being here,

and I hope to see everyone here at Atlas

in Reno. Thank you.

Excellent. Bye everybody. Have a great day.