1 00:00:01,280 --> 00:00:07,000 All right, we are live. Hello everyone, and welcome to 2 00:00:07,000 --> 00:00:11,560 our first live demo. My name is Holly Owens and my 3 00:00:11,560 --> 00:00:15,720 name is Nadia Johnson and we're your hosts of At A Bed Tech. 4 00:00:15,720 --> 00:00:19,720 We're so excited today because we get to do our first live demo 5 00:00:19,720 --> 00:00:24,480 with Shana Groy from Yellow Dig. It is a tool that I have used in 6 00:00:24,480 --> 00:00:27,520 my classroom in higher education. 7 00:00:27,520 --> 00:00:29,640 It is fabulous. It has been around for. 8 00:00:30,120 --> 00:00:34,680 I mean, I feel like I've seen it since inception kind of, but 9 00:00:34,680 --> 00:00:37,280 it's an awesome tool. It's a long time. 10 00:00:37,280 --> 00:00:39,360 I know you've been working really, really hard. 11 00:00:40,000 --> 00:00:41,800 So we're excited to have you here. 12 00:00:42,840 --> 00:00:46,920 Before we jump into the demo and all things Yellow Dig, can you 13 00:00:46,920 --> 00:00:49,320 just give us a little bit? Tell the audience who you are, 14 00:00:49,320 --> 00:00:51,840 your background, how you came up with Yellow Dig, and then we're 15 00:00:51,840 --> 00:00:53,600 going to get into the good stuff we're going to get into the 16 00:00:53,600 --> 00:00:55,360 demo. Awesome. 17 00:00:55,400 --> 00:00:56,800 Yeah. By the way, thanks, Polly. 18 00:00:56,800 --> 00:00:59,360 Nadia, thanks to be great to be here with you. 19 00:01:00,440 --> 00:01:04,160 So and whoever is dialing in, great to meet you all. 20 00:01:04,160 --> 00:01:07,560 Hopefully we'll have some good dark conversations as you get to 21 00:01:07,560 --> 00:01:09,760 see and learn a little bit more about what we're up to. 22 00:01:10,680 --> 00:01:14,120 So my name is Shawna Croy. I'm the founder and CEO of 23 00:01:14,120 --> 00:01:17,560 Yellow Big. We are an Etic company based out 24 00:01:17,560 --> 00:01:22,640 of Philadelphia. We work with primarily academic 25 00:01:22,640 --> 00:01:26,480 institutions, higher education institutions around the country 26 00:01:26,480 --> 00:01:27,800 and some other parts of the world. 27 00:01:28,600 --> 00:01:31,600 At this point, Holly, I think we had about 150 universities who 28 00:01:31,600 --> 00:01:36,640 have been using US and and and what we are essentially. 29 00:01:36,800 --> 00:01:38,160 Yeah, it's. Yeah. 30 00:01:38,520 --> 00:01:41,560 And and what we are doing essentially is to helping them 31 00:01:41,600 --> 00:01:45,600 kind of make learning more engaging for their students. 32 00:01:46,320 --> 00:01:49,840 Using technology. So we are a software platform, 33 00:01:49,840 --> 00:01:53,480 but we like to call ourselves an education platform because we 34 00:01:53,920 --> 00:01:56,000 try to focus on, you know, whatever we are doing is 35 00:01:56,000 --> 00:01:59,600 actually helping their students to be able to be more engaged, 36 00:01:59,600 --> 00:02:03,360 more excited about what they're learning as well as hopefully 37 00:02:03,360 --> 00:02:06,280 kind of finishing their programs and degrees, whatever they're up 38 00:02:06,280 --> 00:02:08,840 to do. So As for who we are, I don't 39 00:02:08,840 --> 00:02:10,120 know if there's any other questions. 40 00:02:12,080 --> 00:02:14,360 No, I'm going to encourage people to go listen to your 41 00:02:14,360 --> 00:02:16,840 previous episodes and we'll definitely put those in the show 42 00:02:16,840 --> 00:02:20,600 notes because it it is a nice timeline of all the things that 43 00:02:20,600 --> 00:02:23,520 have been happening at Yellow Dig from you were the second 44 00:02:23,560 --> 00:02:27,080 episode, so that was about three years ago of the show and then 45 00:02:27,080 --> 00:02:30,480 we have two Where are they now episodes and now we're doing the 46 00:02:30,520 --> 00:02:32,520 the live demo. So I would really encourage 47 00:02:32,520 --> 00:02:37,000 people to go back and listen and also go to Yellow Dig's website 48 00:02:37,000 --> 00:02:40,600 and learn more about the tool. Absolutely. 49 00:02:42,600 --> 00:02:46,560 So if you wanna get into it and start sharing more about Yellow 50 00:02:46,560 --> 00:02:48,200 Day. Yeah. 51 00:02:48,200 --> 00:02:52,880 So let me share my screen. So what I have for the audience 52 00:02:52,880 --> 00:02:58,040 is a quick presentation just to kind of set some context about 53 00:02:58,040 --> 00:03:02,560 what Yellow Day is all about. And then I have a quick demo 54 00:03:02,560 --> 00:03:04,680 too. So hopefully that will give you 55 00:03:04,680 --> 00:03:08,240 enough flavor what exactly we are doing in higher education 56 00:03:08,920 --> 00:03:12,240 before I dive in Holly. Or do you see my screen? 57 00:03:14,440 --> 00:03:16,960 We got it live and in action. It's all up there. 58 00:03:16,960 --> 00:03:18,040 Very pretty. Love the blue. 59 00:03:19,080 --> 00:03:23,520 All right, let's dive in. So yellow big, you know, we have 60 00:03:23,520 --> 00:03:29,920 been around since 2015, It's our 9th year and you know we are 61 00:03:29,920 --> 00:03:34,920 very happy to work with over 150 universities primarily in the 62 00:03:35,080 --> 00:03:40,600 US, North America, but also in you know Canada and in some 63 00:03:40,600 --> 00:03:43,280 parts of Europe as well increasingly. 64 00:03:44,880 --> 00:03:47,320 And you know, one thing I like to always say is that. 65 00:03:47,880 --> 00:03:52,200 You know, we are very fortunate to work with institutions of all 66 00:03:52,200 --> 00:03:54,920 types. You know, such as, as you can 67 00:03:54,920 --> 00:03:59,280 see some of the logos here, Arizona State University is a 68 00:03:59,280 --> 00:04:02,720 big public university which has been one of our earliest clients 69 00:04:02,720 --> 00:04:08,480 to Boston University and UC Davis, Purdue and others. 70 00:04:08,480 --> 00:04:11,280 So there's no one type of university we work with. 71 00:04:11,280 --> 00:04:14,520 We work with community colleges fully online programs. 72 00:04:15,400 --> 00:04:19,360 So the way the platform is built is to be able to support 73 00:04:20,000 --> 00:04:24,520 students from all walks of life. You also have use cases in high 74 00:04:24,520 --> 00:04:29,960 schools who started to adopt us. We have corporate partners who 75 00:04:29,960 --> 00:04:34,360 are using Yellowdig now for various corporate training. 76 00:04:35,560 --> 00:04:38,440 So that's kind of a little bit about the logo chart that we 77 00:04:38,440 --> 00:04:41,120 have. And before I dive into the 78 00:04:41,280 --> 00:04:44,480 actual platform, I want to give our audience a little bit of 79 00:04:44,480 --> 00:04:49,000 view about what Yellow Dick does, You know, at a higher 80 00:04:49,000 --> 00:04:52,680 level. So since the pandemic, we have 81 00:04:52,680 --> 00:04:57,120 launched 3 different solutions in the market. 82 00:04:57,520 --> 00:05:02,320 So our initial product that we launched back in 2019 was 83 00:05:02,400 --> 00:05:06,720 Engage, which is in the middle. What Engage does is that it 84 00:05:06,720 --> 00:05:10,880 transforms this whole in classroom or course based 85 00:05:10,880 --> 00:05:15,800 learning from just purely consumption of information to a 86 00:05:15,800 --> 00:05:19,720 much more community driven, engaged kind of as students are 87 00:05:19,800 --> 00:05:21,960 actively participating in the learning process. 88 00:05:21,960 --> 00:05:26,240 So that's our Engage solution. Then we have also launched two 89 00:05:26,240 --> 00:05:28,840 other solutions. One is our Kinect solution, 90 00:05:28,840 --> 00:05:33,120 which is our what we call is our early life cycle solutions where 91 00:05:33,560 --> 00:05:37,960 students get invited into our platform as soon as they show 92 00:05:37,960 --> 00:05:42,360 interest in a program. You know, a lot of universities, 93 00:05:42,360 --> 00:05:45,080 colleges that we work with. As you know, there is a lot of 94 00:05:45,280 --> 00:05:49,400 pressure around recruitment. Making sure students get to know 95 00:05:49,400 --> 00:05:51,880 what they're offering, understand the differences they 96 00:05:51,880 --> 00:05:55,920 offer versus all the programs they can consider, as well as 97 00:05:55,920 --> 00:05:58,800 make sure that they don't melt out before they actually start, 98 00:05:59,320 --> 00:06:01,160 you know, start the program formally. 99 00:06:01,160 --> 00:06:04,960 So our Connect product really helps them to make sure they 100 00:06:04,960 --> 00:06:08,200 create the sense of belonging early in the life cycle. 101 00:06:09,040 --> 00:06:12,440 And finally, we have a Succeed solution, which is our newest 102 00:06:12,440 --> 00:06:16,000 solution, which is focused on lifelong learning. 103 00:06:16,560 --> 00:06:19,800 As we know that, you know, learning doesn't stop as soon as 104 00:06:19,800 --> 00:06:23,000 you graduate, finish that course or program or degree, whatever 105 00:06:23,040 --> 00:06:25,840 one is up to. But there are ways to remain 106 00:06:25,840 --> 00:06:29,200 engaged with the academic institution so that they get 107 00:06:29,200 --> 00:06:32,000 more value as a lifelong learner, maybe come back to the 108 00:06:32,000 --> 00:06:36,600 program, you know, get access to newer content or research that 109 00:06:36,600 --> 00:06:37,960 is coming out of the institution. 110 00:06:37,960 --> 00:06:41,640 So being engaged in that process is what our succeed solution 111 00:06:41,640 --> 00:06:45,160 does. With that, you know, I chose 112 00:06:45,160 --> 00:06:48,440 this picture because, you know, we all in education are familiar 113 00:06:48,440 --> 00:06:50,040 with this. And people who are not in 114 00:06:50,040 --> 00:06:52,040 education probably have sat through some of these 115 00:06:52,040 --> 00:06:55,160 classrooms. I thought this kind of graphic 116 00:06:55,160 --> 00:07:00,480 explains what Yellow Rig does. Yes, right, huge lecture for the 117 00:07:00,480 --> 00:07:02,760 people who are listening to the audio version. 118 00:07:02,760 --> 00:07:05,480 There's a huge lecture hall full of people with the stage on the 119 00:07:05,480 --> 00:07:08,720 stage, the lecture, the instructor at the center of the 120 00:07:08,720 --> 00:07:10,560 room, and a whole bunch of different screens. 121 00:07:10,840 --> 00:07:12,960 Yes, definitely experienced as an undergrad. 122 00:07:13,760 --> 00:07:15,960 Yes, yeah. I mean and you know for Grant 123 00:07:15,960 --> 00:07:19,000 probably Holly, you know the size of these classrooms are 124 00:07:19,000 --> 00:07:22,160 smaller, but the the what we see is that the model is the same, 125 00:07:22,160 --> 00:07:24,960 which is the stage of the stage instructor is trying to engage 126 00:07:24,960 --> 00:07:27,680 the learners and it's always difficult, right. 127 00:07:27,680 --> 00:07:29,680 We all know that. Why is it difficult because it's 128 00:07:29,680 --> 00:07:32,600 constrained by time. You only get to see the students 129 00:07:32,600 --> 00:07:35,520 once or twice a week. And space, because only you have 130 00:07:35,520 --> 00:07:37,680 so many students get fit into a classroom. 131 00:07:38,120 --> 00:07:40,520 And of course, you know not every student is equally 132 00:07:40,520 --> 00:07:44,200 energetic or open enough to be able to talk to the professors 133 00:07:44,200 --> 00:07:47,280 or talk to one another. And we all know that learning 134 00:07:47,280 --> 00:07:50,280 happens through conversation, through true engagement. 135 00:07:50,280 --> 00:07:53,720 Because just absorbing knowledge is not just learning, but 136 00:07:53,720 --> 00:07:55,600 learning is that applying that knowledge. 137 00:07:55,840 --> 00:07:57,560 We all have good stuff, but it's very hard to do. 138 00:07:58,200 --> 00:08:00,560 So this is the problem we fundamentally solve. 139 00:08:00,560 --> 00:08:04,560 So we try to make imagine a world where instructor does 140 00:08:04,560 --> 00:08:07,640 their thing because they are teaching, but what Yellow Dick 141 00:08:07,640 --> 00:08:11,320 does is naturally engages the group of students. 142 00:08:11,320 --> 00:08:12,840 Doesn't matter how big is these classes are. 143 00:08:12,840 --> 00:08:16,240 We have classes around 2000 students now who are taking one 144 00:08:16,240 --> 00:08:18,400 class together, but they're naturally engaging with one 145 00:08:18,400 --> 00:08:22,120 another without the instructor having to spend a lot of time. 146 00:08:22,240 --> 00:08:24,240 So this is what the platform does. 147 00:08:25,080 --> 00:08:26,720 So. How do we do that? 148 00:08:26,720 --> 00:08:30,440 Like that's a real question. And before I jump into showing 149 00:08:30,440 --> 00:08:34,080 the platform, I wanted to kind of show you what is end result. 150 00:08:35,080 --> 00:08:37,440 So on the right side, and of course, if you're listening to 151 00:08:37,440 --> 00:08:40,640 this, what we do is that we create the environment where 152 00:08:40,919 --> 00:08:45,720 every learner is connecting to as many learners as possible in 153 00:08:45,720 --> 00:08:47,640 that environment, in that learning environment. 154 00:08:49,000 --> 00:08:52,520 So rather than kind of just talking to one or two students 155 00:08:52,520 --> 00:08:55,480 around you or maybe in a discussion board like you know, 156 00:08:55,480 --> 00:08:58,680 picking and choosing a few prompts or somebody kind of you 157 00:08:58,680 --> 00:09:00,400 want to kind of because you are the same group. 158 00:09:01,160 --> 00:09:03,720 Rather than doing that, you have this opportunity to kind of 159 00:09:03,720 --> 00:09:07,200 really engage with a much broader group of students around 160 00:09:07,240 --> 00:09:10,880 things that you care about, topics that are most exciting to 161 00:09:10,880 --> 00:09:15,080 you, as opposed to kind of being driven by the instructor always, 162 00:09:15,080 --> 00:09:17,440 which we all know is very difficult to manage. 163 00:09:18,320 --> 00:09:22,120 And on the left side, I kind of put a little graphic on what is 164 00:09:22,120 --> 00:09:25,960 the underlying theory behind this engagement is this theory 165 00:09:25,960 --> 00:09:29,920 of connectedness. So there is this popular theory. 166 00:09:29,920 --> 00:09:33,640 It's been around for a while. Started by John Dewey, which was 167 00:09:33,640 --> 00:09:37,560 he's one of the founders of constructivist way of learning, 168 00:09:37,560 --> 00:09:41,920 where the students are not mere consumers of information, but 169 00:09:41,920 --> 00:09:45,480 they have agency to be active participants in the learning 170 00:09:45,480 --> 00:09:48,120 process. And for that to happen, you need 171 00:09:48,160 --> 00:09:52,880 three kinds of presence, social presence, cognitive presence, 172 00:09:53,160 --> 00:09:56,160 and teaching presence. What is social presence? 173 00:09:56,160 --> 00:09:57,920 Social meanings. Students feel that they are 174 00:09:57,920 --> 00:10:00,440 actually part of a community. They belong there. 175 00:10:00,440 --> 00:10:03,560 They're not just sitting there to be created and judged, but 176 00:10:03,560 --> 00:10:07,160 they're they're there to be proactively engaging in that 177 00:10:07,160 --> 00:10:10,480 environment. Cognitive presence is of course 178 00:10:10,640 --> 00:10:13,880 not only just understanding the material or whatever is being 179 00:10:13,880 --> 00:10:16,400 discussed. But being able to participate 180 00:10:16,400 --> 00:10:18,960 proactively in that engagement, like really engaging it on the 181 00:10:18,960 --> 00:10:22,760 content that is being discussed or presented and the teaching 182 00:10:22,760 --> 00:10:26,640 presence is for the instructors to be able to interact not only 183 00:10:26,640 --> 00:10:30,120 as the stage, on the stage, but as a guide on the side. 184 00:10:31,160 --> 00:10:33,920 This is the kind of framework and this has been around for a 185 00:10:33,920 --> 00:10:37,800 while, but the hard part is that and it's been well proven that a 186 00:10:37,800 --> 00:10:41,400 lot of papers and research that has been done on this theory and 187 00:10:41,400 --> 00:10:44,680 it's well proven, but it's very hard to implement. 188 00:10:45,200 --> 00:10:47,240 Before we had beautiful technologies that you know, 189 00:10:47,240 --> 00:10:49,960 digital technologies can do a bunch of these things and this 190 00:10:49,960 --> 00:10:51,440 is exactly what we're doing at Yellow Day. 191 00:10:51,440 --> 00:10:55,160 We are taking some of these proven practices and we are 192 00:10:55,240 --> 00:10:58,640 building digital tools that can implement these practices in the 193 00:10:58,640 --> 00:11:01,640 real world. So how does it happen? 194 00:11:02,080 --> 00:11:06,040 So one of the things the way we have designed the platform is 195 00:11:06,040 --> 00:11:09,040 what we call a simple interface but complex learning. 196 00:11:10,160 --> 00:11:12,240 The simple interface that you see in the middle if you are 197 00:11:12,240 --> 00:11:13,720 actually looking at the video is. 198 00:11:14,360 --> 00:11:16,520 The text editor that the students have. 199 00:11:16,520 --> 00:11:20,040 So as I said, students have agency in our platform to be 200 00:11:20,040 --> 00:11:24,680 able to be creators of knowledge so that they can share ideas, 201 00:11:24,680 --> 00:11:28,640 links, videos, blogs, articles. And I'm going to show you some 202 00:11:28,640 --> 00:11:30,280 of that in the demo when we get to that. 203 00:11:30,800 --> 00:11:34,720 But they can really be a pretty kind of, you know, be very 204 00:11:34,720 --> 00:11:37,640 creative in the platform to be able to share their ideas and 205 00:11:37,640 --> 00:11:39,880 knowledge or, you know, things that they're thinking about. 206 00:11:40,720 --> 00:11:43,880 But what happens in the back end is the complex learning where 207 00:11:43,880 --> 00:11:46,120 they're learning not only from the content that they're 208 00:11:46,120 --> 00:11:50,280 creating, but also the content that peer group is creating and 209 00:11:50,280 --> 00:11:53,840 through all the interactions and ideations and idea sharing that 210 00:11:53,840 --> 00:11:58,320 happens into the platform. So I'll give you some examples. 211 00:11:59,920 --> 00:12:03,400 This is an example from one of our partners. 212 00:12:03,400 --> 00:12:06,840 In fact, I was in a presentation and I took the slide from that 213 00:12:06,840 --> 00:12:08,800 presenter. Because I loved it. 214 00:12:08,800 --> 00:12:12,520 Because this is an example of one student who kind of created 215 00:12:12,520 --> 00:12:17,520 a post in Yellow Day saying that I admit, feeling intimidated. 216 00:12:18,480 --> 00:12:21,600 You know, how often do we feel that we are very scared in an 217 00:12:21,600 --> 00:12:23,160 environment? Of course, if you know some 218 00:12:23,160 --> 00:12:25,840 topic we are not. But learning is fundamentally 219 00:12:25,840 --> 00:12:28,200 kind of jumping into the base and trying to understand what we 220 00:12:28,200 --> 00:12:30,480 don't know. And people are always very 221 00:12:30,480 --> 00:12:34,960 scared sometimes and sometimes, you know, having an opportunity 222 00:12:34,960 --> 00:12:38,760 to be able to be vulnerable. Is a great thing. 223 00:12:38,760 --> 00:12:42,160 So in this example, the student says that, OK, I'm in this data 224 00:12:42,160 --> 00:12:44,520 visualization class, but I've only used Excel. 225 00:12:44,520 --> 00:12:46,040 I've not really used any other tool. 226 00:12:46,680 --> 00:12:50,200 Is that something normal? And another student jumps in and 227 00:12:50,200 --> 00:12:52,320 says that, yeah, that's kind of normal because I'm in the same 228 00:12:52,320 --> 00:12:54,960 spot And somebody else says that, yeah, that is very much 229 00:12:54,960 --> 00:12:57,400 normal. By the way, you can actually 230 00:12:57,400 --> 00:12:59,800 benefit from like looking at these different resources. 231 00:12:59,800 --> 00:13:03,200 So it's not only students kind of opening up with one another a 232 00:13:03,200 --> 00:13:06,200 little bit, but they are also trying to help one another and. 233 00:13:06,720 --> 00:13:08,760 Really create the sense of belonging. 234 00:13:10,040 --> 00:13:11,400 And there are other things happened. 235 00:13:11,400 --> 00:13:14,280 I've just pulled another example from a business course. 236 00:13:14,280 --> 00:13:18,040 And again, of course these names have changed, but these content 237 00:13:18,040 --> 00:13:22,480 is real, where students can have very lively debates around, you 238 00:13:22,480 --> 00:13:23,960 know, things that they're learning in the class. 239 00:13:23,960 --> 00:13:26,080 So in this case, you know, they're in the business class 240 00:13:26,080 --> 00:13:29,680 and somebody says, puts a question that would you work for 241 00:13:29,680 --> 00:13:31,920 a company whose mission you don't agree with? 242 00:13:31,920 --> 00:13:34,280 Now that's a good question right in this economy. 243 00:13:34,680 --> 00:13:36,960 Students have to make hard choices like do you really want 244 00:13:36,960 --> 00:13:39,040 to go for the company that you're really excited about? 245 00:13:39,480 --> 00:13:41,960 But then you know you may have to take a job for the sake of 246 00:13:41,960 --> 00:13:43,040 it. And this these kind of 247 00:13:43,040 --> 00:13:46,120 conversations sometimes students have in their minds, but they 248 00:13:46,120 --> 00:13:49,240 can't really kind of bring it up, you know, in the front and 249 00:13:49,240 --> 00:13:52,960 have these conversations. So all we are doing is we are 250 00:13:53,040 --> 00:13:55,680 creating opportunities for the students to kind of really 251 00:13:55,680 --> 00:13:59,560 express themselves in authentic way, have that agency to be able 252 00:13:59,560 --> 00:14:04,440 to then be themselves. And be able to interact with 253 00:14:04,640 --> 00:14:07,960 others in that community or the set of communities they're part 254 00:14:07,960 --> 00:14:11,440 of to kind of really create that intellectual knowledge around 255 00:14:11,440 --> 00:14:14,200 that. So can I jump in here just as a 256 00:14:14,200 --> 00:14:17,240 user? Yes, And just say. 257 00:14:17,280 --> 00:14:19,400 Please, yes, I'd love to hear your thoughts. 258 00:14:20,640 --> 00:14:23,480 Just say teaching at the graduate level and adult 259 00:14:23,480 --> 00:14:27,080 learners, I feel like this is a great safe space for people to 260 00:14:27,080 --> 00:14:29,880 interact, not just about like course content. 261 00:14:29,880 --> 00:14:32,440 Initially the students are like, we're going to run this, we're 262 00:14:32,440 --> 00:14:34,240 in charge of this. I'm like, yes, this is all going 263 00:14:34,240 --> 00:14:36,000 to be generated through conversation by you. 264 00:14:36,280 --> 00:14:39,640 But I found that like there was a lot of crowdsourcing that 265 00:14:39,640 --> 00:14:42,240 happened in my class lecture. Great resources that were shared 266 00:14:42,240 --> 00:14:44,400 that otherwise wouldn't have been shared if we were doing 267 00:14:44,400 --> 00:14:48,160 like this post once, reply twice kind of discussion board 268 00:14:48,160 --> 00:14:51,520 situation and the students really felt connected to each 269 00:14:51,520 --> 00:14:52,840 other. By the end it was like we were 270 00:14:52,840 --> 00:14:55,880 one big community. We were all together kind of 271 00:14:55,880 --> 00:14:57,880 doing the same thing. It doesn't put like, well, 272 00:14:57,880 --> 00:15:00,200 here's the teacher, here's the students on the other side of 273 00:15:00,200 --> 00:15:02,160 the learners. It's like everybody's working 274 00:15:02,160 --> 00:15:05,280 together to get towards move towards a common goal and that's 275 00:15:05,280 --> 00:15:08,080 what I really, really love. And the options, like the 276 00:15:08,080 --> 00:15:11,520 polling is fun, like getting people's opinions about things 277 00:15:11,520 --> 00:15:15,240 and putting in videos. It's really, it was really 278 00:15:15,600 --> 00:15:19,360 intriguing and my my learners who are graduate level, so 279 00:15:19,360 --> 00:15:22,560 they're well into adulthood, really enjoyed it. 280 00:15:24,600 --> 00:15:27,120 Yeah, no, that's that's awesome Wally and thanks for sharing 281 00:15:27,120 --> 00:15:28,520 that. And you know, that's kind of 282 00:15:28,520 --> 00:15:30,880 what we are trying to bring to education, which is as you said, 283 00:15:30,880 --> 00:15:35,080 like you know, students have so much to say and they just need 284 00:15:35,080 --> 00:15:38,040 that kind of a platform to be able to kind of express that. 285 00:15:40,200 --> 00:15:43,240 So and you know this slide, you know, just to kind of summarize 286 00:15:43,240 --> 00:15:46,840 some of these ideas that we're talking about is you know, what 287 00:15:46,840 --> 00:15:50,320 drives the sense of belonging, which is connect with similar 288 00:15:50,320 --> 00:15:52,160 backgrounds and experiences, right. 289 00:15:52,160 --> 00:15:56,360 I mean often students who come to these programs, you know, 290 00:15:56,360 --> 00:15:58,920 increasingly we have online programs, hybrid programs, they 291 00:15:58,920 --> 00:16:01,200 come from different places. They may have not have met each 292 00:16:01,200 --> 00:16:03,360 other, but when they have a little bit of conversation, they 293 00:16:03,360 --> 00:16:06,560 kind of really discover that they have very similar feelings 294 00:16:06,560 --> 00:16:08,680 and backgrounds and kind of being able to connect on that is 295 00:16:08,680 --> 00:16:11,440 a great thing for them. Learning from each other that 296 00:16:11,440 --> 00:16:15,000 where we appear to be a learning that how can happen and and 297 00:16:15,000 --> 00:16:18,800 finally active reflection which is you know, not only they're 298 00:16:18,800 --> 00:16:22,720 learning the content but they're also learning how to reflect 299 00:16:22,720 --> 00:16:26,600 around that content and kind of really make meaning out of it is 300 00:16:26,880 --> 00:16:28,920 you know that really drives a sense of belonging for the 301 00:16:28,920 --> 00:16:31,200 students in our platform and for the instructors. 302 00:16:31,200 --> 00:16:32,680 I mean, what we hear from them is. 303 00:16:33,680 --> 00:16:35,000 You know, they get to learn from the students. 304 00:16:35,000 --> 00:16:38,480 We, you know, it's very kind of, you know, interesting how often 305 00:16:38,480 --> 00:16:41,160 we hear from instructors saying that, oh, I just had no idea 306 00:16:41,560 --> 00:16:43,120 that this is happening in the real world. 307 00:16:43,120 --> 00:16:45,840 And my students share this idea with me Or somebody posted in 308 00:16:45,840 --> 00:16:47,760 the other day and they'll bring that into the classroom 309 00:16:47,760 --> 00:16:49,800 discussion. And a lot of the classroom 310 00:16:49,800 --> 00:16:52,400 discussion, which used to be a lot of work for the instructors, 311 00:16:52,400 --> 00:16:55,520 would actually happen from Yellow Day as opposed to kind of 312 00:16:55,520 --> 00:16:57,360 really preparing for these courses classes. 313 00:16:58,480 --> 00:17:00,920 And you know interesting and unique experiences and 314 00:17:00,920 --> 00:17:02,600 backgrounds. I mean instructors always feel 315 00:17:02,600 --> 00:17:05,680 that they also shared with us that you know they they also 316 00:17:05,680 --> 00:17:08,319 feel a sense of belonging with their students because you know 317 00:17:08,319 --> 00:17:10,920 being an instructor is difficult sometimes if you if you don't 318 00:17:10,920 --> 00:17:14,480 know who their students are and and and that really helps. 319 00:17:14,480 --> 00:17:18,319 And having a platform like this kind of helps And one final 320 00:17:18,319 --> 00:17:20,560 thing and you know and I'm kind of going to show you the 321 00:17:20,560 --> 00:17:23,400 platform itself is there's a lot of data that we provide to the 322 00:17:23,400 --> 00:17:26,680 instructors because. You know, having a community is 323 00:17:26,680 --> 00:17:28,640 of course interesting, especially when the students 324 00:17:28,640 --> 00:17:30,680 have agency. But it's also interesting to 325 00:17:30,680 --> 00:17:33,800 understand that who is engaging, who is not engaging, how much 326 00:17:33,800 --> 00:17:36,760 they're engaging. We have different scores in the 327 00:17:36,760 --> 00:17:40,000 platform, such as sharing, listening, interacting scores 328 00:17:40,000 --> 00:17:41,720 and that all mean different things. 329 00:17:41,720 --> 00:17:45,080 And we track a lot of data in the background, but we kind of 330 00:17:45,080 --> 00:17:48,080 try to make it simple for the instructors to understand, kind 331 00:17:48,080 --> 00:17:50,640 of get a pulse on how things are going and where things are kind 332 00:17:50,640 --> 00:17:53,120 of maybe not going as much. We show benchmarks. 333 00:17:53,920 --> 00:17:56,800 Comparing different communities within the same network or the 334 00:17:56,800 --> 00:18:00,520 institution or across the, you know, across the alerted network 335 00:18:01,640 --> 00:18:03,400 all to kind of help the instructors to kind of make more 336 00:18:03,400 --> 00:18:05,040 meaning out of the interaction patterns. 337 00:18:05,040 --> 00:18:09,200 So with that, oh, there's one last slide I'll kind of show 338 00:18:09,200 --> 00:18:14,280 before I kind of show you the platform and and kind of dig 339 00:18:14,280 --> 00:18:16,480 into the some of the features and functionalities of the 340 00:18:16,480 --> 00:18:21,120 platform is what does it mean for the institution, right. 341 00:18:21,480 --> 00:18:24,840 Who adopt yellowdig? So typically for an institution, 342 00:18:25,360 --> 00:18:29,880 often we find that an innovative instructor or instructional 343 00:18:29,880 --> 00:18:33,920 designer would kind of bring in yellowdig into their program and 344 00:18:33,920 --> 00:18:36,840 really start using it in a limited number of forces where 345 00:18:36,840 --> 00:18:38,480 they see there is an immediate need. 346 00:18:39,120 --> 00:18:41,680 But then what happens is that once the instructor starts using 347 00:18:41,680 --> 00:18:44,840 it and the word spreads through the students or the faculty and 348 00:18:44,840 --> 00:18:47,240 it kind of really spreads quickly from there. 349 00:18:47,240 --> 00:18:50,360 Like we have institutions where we started with like 5 courses. 350 00:18:50,360 --> 00:18:53,320 Now we have thousands of courses using US for some of these large 351 00:18:53,320 --> 00:18:57,400 public universities. But from a from a value 352 00:18:57,400 --> 00:19:00,160 standpoint, there are three big things that we see that our 353 00:19:00,520 --> 00:19:02,960 clients talk about when they're not Yellow Day. 354 00:19:03,920 --> 00:19:07,560 The first one is the the biggest thing we hear is the sense of 355 00:19:07,560 --> 00:19:11,800 belonging And we do surveys. For example, the the latest 356 00:19:11,800 --> 00:19:17,000 surveys that we did in the last quarter, 77% of our users said 357 00:19:17,000 --> 00:19:19,640 that once they started using Yellow Dig that they had a 358 00:19:19,640 --> 00:19:24,000 greater sense of belonging into their courses and programs. 359 00:19:24,000 --> 00:19:26,960 And as you know, in these times where mental health and many 360 00:19:26,960 --> 00:19:30,240 other things are big challenge. Having a sense of belonging 361 00:19:30,240 --> 00:19:33,280 really helps the students to be more successful from an Academy 362 00:19:33,320 --> 00:19:36,880 point of view. The second one we very hear 363 00:19:36,880 --> 00:19:40,320 often is the time savings for instructors, right. 364 00:19:40,320 --> 00:19:43,200 One of the biggest pushback typically for technology 365 00:19:43,200 --> 00:19:47,920 adoption is additional time the instructors or the instructional 366 00:19:47,920 --> 00:19:51,240 staff has to spend to adopt A new technology. 367 00:19:52,240 --> 00:19:54,800 And when it comes to yellow egg, because of our game for 368 00:19:54,800 --> 00:19:58,160 learning, because a lot of the engagement is actually automated 369 00:19:58,160 --> 00:20:01,480 from a measurement point of view, and all of that is passed 370 00:20:01,480 --> 00:20:03,120 through directly into the learning management system. 371 00:20:03,160 --> 00:20:07,640 And we have functionalities like that which reduces enormous time 372 00:20:07,640 --> 00:20:11,400 instructors will spend in grading discussion boards or 373 00:20:11,400 --> 00:20:14,600 grading engagements, or sometimes like following up with 374 00:20:14,600 --> 00:20:18,040 students who are not engaging. Or sometimes, you know, they 375 00:20:18,040 --> 00:20:21,040 will have in the in answer the same questions as opposed to, 376 00:20:21,040 --> 00:20:23,200 you know, same questions to multiple students they can now 377 00:20:23,200 --> 00:20:26,720 answer in one community. So there's a there's a lot of 378 00:20:26,720 --> 00:20:29,320 time savings that happens because of implementing yellow 379 00:20:29,320 --> 00:20:30,640 Day. And then finally is the 380 00:20:30,840 --> 00:20:35,000 improvement in retention, student retention, which is a 381 00:20:35,000 --> 00:20:37,760 big problem not for every institutions but for quite a 382 00:20:37,760 --> 00:20:41,920 few. So every 1% of the students who 383 00:20:41,920 --> 00:20:46,000 are retained using Yellow Dick and we have done studies there. 384 00:20:46,000 --> 00:20:48,040 If you're interested, we can share those resources with you 385 00:20:48,040 --> 00:20:54,440 where institutions have seen as much as 8% on an average can go 386 00:20:54,440 --> 00:20:58,880 as high as 15% improvement in retention just by implementing 387 00:20:58,880 --> 00:21:00,840 Yellow Dick into their courses and programs. 388 00:21:02,400 --> 00:21:05,720 With that Holly, I was just going to jump into the the demo, 389 00:21:05,720 --> 00:21:07,080 but I don't know if you have any thoughts or comments. 390 00:21:07,120 --> 00:21:10,640 Yeah, let's. Yeah, no, I just love seeing all 391 00:21:10,640 --> 00:21:13,320 these statistics and the improvements that are being made 392 00:21:13,320 --> 00:21:15,080 because of implementation of Yellowdig. 393 00:21:15,360 --> 00:21:19,440 And I also want to tell people how easy it is to put it into 394 00:21:19,440 --> 00:21:22,080 your classes. A lot of times you think like I 395 00:21:22,120 --> 00:21:25,160 have to learn this an edtech tool and. 396 00:21:25,600 --> 00:21:28,280 You know, integrated into my, my classes, it's going to take 397 00:21:28,280 --> 00:21:30,640 forever. No, I did it in 20 minutes or 398 00:21:30,640 --> 00:21:33,800 less and it was, it was really easy and I work with my IT group 399 00:21:33,800 --> 00:21:36,560 to get it implemented into canvas and we were up and 400 00:21:36,560 --> 00:21:38,320 running and the students were in there. 401 00:21:39,040 --> 00:21:42,680 So everything is is is really easy and intuitive and I love 402 00:21:42,680 --> 00:21:47,280 the fact that it it's it's like that because I think there's a 403 00:21:47,280 --> 00:21:49,800 lot of tools out there that really do create some barriers 404 00:21:49,800 --> 00:21:55,800 for people and this one does not great no thanks for sharing. 405 00:21:55,800 --> 00:22:00,120 And so you know very quickly to jump into the platform then is 406 00:22:00,520 --> 00:22:02,760 what you're looking at right now is yellow leg. 407 00:22:03,520 --> 00:22:07,520 You know it's a web app and you can use that you know in a 408 00:22:07,520 --> 00:22:10,840 mobile phone or a tablet or you know in our website. 409 00:22:11,240 --> 00:22:15,080 But the the thing that to point out is that there is no separate 410 00:22:15,080 --> 00:22:19,160 login password. We always follow a one click 411 00:22:19,160 --> 00:22:23,760 implementation where students if you are in a course in canvas or 412 00:22:23,760 --> 00:22:27,480 blackboard or any other LMS with one click from your course you 413 00:22:27,480 --> 00:22:31,640 can join a yellow rig community. So in a Canvas for example, I 414 00:22:31,640 --> 00:22:36,240 can show you these examples with you where every course that you 415 00:22:36,240 --> 00:22:38,440 know typically this is what you're looking at is Canvas or 416 00:22:38,440 --> 00:22:43,400 Ms. You may be using other LMSS. But irrespective of that when 417 00:22:43,400 --> 00:22:48,240 you are in, you know in a canvas course you can integrate yellow 418 00:22:48,240 --> 00:22:51,040 in a variety of ways. You can have integrated in the 419 00:22:51,040 --> 00:22:55,360 left panel, you can add it as an assignment and our academic 420 00:22:55,360 --> 00:22:57,880 teams kind of works with you to kind of do the integration. 421 00:22:57,880 --> 00:23:01,160 But as Holly mentioned, we use LDI 1.3 which is. 422 00:23:01,280 --> 00:23:03,320 Literally, are you sharing? Are you sharing the? 423 00:23:04,800 --> 00:23:07,120 Just a quick, I want to make sure we get the screen up there 424 00:23:07,120 --> 00:23:09,480 for the demo portion. Nadi and I are probably going to 425 00:23:09,480 --> 00:23:11,640 cameras off so that the recording just has you on the 426 00:23:11,640 --> 00:23:13,480 screen, but are you sharing the demo portion yet? 427 00:23:13,480 --> 00:23:15,280 Because we just, we're just seeing the slide. 428 00:23:16,880 --> 00:23:19,200 You know what that's a good thing that you pointed out 429 00:23:19,200 --> 00:23:24,120 because I was, I was talking about another screen, all right. 430 00:23:24,120 --> 00:23:28,040 So yes, could that be caught in the? 431 00:23:29,520 --> 00:23:35,320 Chat. What a great teammate Bree is 432 00:23:35,680 --> 00:23:38,640 the best. She always catches these things. 433 00:23:38,800 --> 00:23:41,200 So thanks Bree. You can see my screen now. 434 00:23:43,640 --> 00:23:47,440 Yes, there it is. Awesome. 435 00:23:47,440 --> 00:23:50,840 So this is yellow League, you know it's like some things to 436 00:23:50,840 --> 00:23:52,840 kind of point out here. So I'm going to show you the 437 00:23:52,840 --> 00:23:56,560 simple part of yellow League, which is how the user experience 438 00:23:56,560 --> 00:24:00,120 works and the integration with LMS, which is very simple. 439 00:24:00,120 --> 00:24:02,800 It takes a few minutes and then you get launched from the LMS 440 00:24:02,800 --> 00:24:06,320 right into the platform. But there are a lot of settings 441 00:24:06,320 --> 00:24:10,080 that we allow our institutions to do in the back end to be make 442 00:24:10,080 --> 00:24:12,440 sure that they implement the LED in the right way. 443 00:24:12,440 --> 00:24:16,400 So there are ways to implement the loading in your program so 444 00:24:16,400 --> 00:24:19,040 you can do it at a program level, at a university level. 445 00:24:19,040 --> 00:24:22,480 And there are various ways to organize your communities by 446 00:24:22,480 --> 00:24:27,600 various networks and sub networks and you can give access 447 00:24:27,600 --> 00:24:31,440 rights in a certain way so that one college has access to one 448 00:24:31,440 --> 00:24:35,480 network or sub network and other colleges and other access levels 449 00:24:35,480 --> 00:24:37,520 and the data is also partitioned like that. 450 00:24:37,520 --> 00:24:42,160 So I just wanted to point out is that there are quite a few 451 00:24:42,160 --> 00:24:45,560 things that we have designed the platform around to be able to 452 00:24:45,560 --> 00:24:49,040 hundreds and thousands of users in our institution and be able 453 00:24:49,040 --> 00:24:52,040 to manage it. But from a user point of view, 454 00:24:52,040 --> 00:24:55,160 from a faculty or a student or administrator point of view, it 455 00:24:55,160 --> 00:24:57,560 is extremely simple to integrate. 456 00:24:57,560 --> 00:25:02,680 So you can imagine imagine the idea 1.3 integration with your 457 00:25:02,800 --> 00:25:05,200 learning management system. You can launch from there and 458 00:25:05,200 --> 00:25:07,400 this is where you come and when you come here, this is what it 459 00:25:07,400 --> 00:25:12,280 looks like. It's a very social media type 460 00:25:12,280 --> 00:25:16,520 engagement platform as I was sharing where you know, you 461 00:25:16,520 --> 00:25:19,480 know, users are so much used to kind of a scroll view where you 462 00:25:19,480 --> 00:25:22,920 can get, scroll and see content what their classmates or their 463 00:25:23,280 --> 00:25:25,880 peer group is kind of posting and commenting on. 464 00:25:26,720 --> 00:25:29,640 So it's very kind of similarly designed so that you don't have 465 00:25:29,640 --> 00:25:33,080 to really click multiple times to get to a post or a comment. 466 00:25:33,640 --> 00:25:36,720 But what we do is that we actually bubble the content on 467 00:25:36,720 --> 00:25:39,880 the top that is driving the highest amount of engagement. 468 00:25:39,880 --> 00:25:41,600 So that's how the feed is filtered. 469 00:25:42,200 --> 00:25:46,040 So if you come, let's say in the in an afternoon to look at the 470 00:25:46,040 --> 00:25:48,640 community for your course or your program, you'll see content 471 00:25:48,640 --> 00:25:51,720 that your peer group is actually engaging around at that time. 472 00:25:52,280 --> 00:25:54,760 But if you come later on, you might see a different feed view 473 00:25:54,760 --> 00:25:57,560 because those content is actually kind of bubbling up on 474 00:25:57,560 --> 00:25:58,960 the top. So that's kind of how we've 475 00:25:58,960 --> 00:26:00,880 designed it from a user point of view. 476 00:26:01,080 --> 00:26:03,560 You don't have to really do much to see the most, you know, 477 00:26:03,560 --> 00:26:05,800 mostly the interesting content that you would like to see. 478 00:26:07,360 --> 00:26:09,520 Firstly, I want to get to the content creation because, you 479 00:26:09,520 --> 00:26:13,040 know, I started with saying that it's a simple interface, but 480 00:26:13,040 --> 00:26:15,120 there are complexities which is behind it. 481 00:26:15,120 --> 00:26:19,240 So this is how the post creation works, and the first thing you 482 00:26:19,240 --> 00:26:22,280 do is that you select topics. What are topics? 483 00:26:22,280 --> 00:26:25,320 Topics are ones that your instructor or your admins Topper 484 00:26:25,320 --> 00:26:30,000 design to keep the discussion on a certain set of topics that are 485 00:26:30,000 --> 00:26:31,640 relevant for the community, right? 486 00:26:31,640 --> 00:26:35,760 For a for a finance course for example, topics could be various 487 00:26:35,920 --> 00:26:39,360 financial finance modeling exercise that you're kind of 488 00:26:39,360 --> 00:26:41,040 going to learn in that part of the course. 489 00:26:41,440 --> 00:26:44,280 For a different course of the program, it'd be very different. 490 00:26:44,280 --> 00:26:48,400 So these are customizable. Users can select multiple topics 491 00:26:48,400 --> 00:26:49,560 here. So I'm just going to show you 492 00:26:49,560 --> 00:26:51,800 how different topics can be selected. 493 00:26:52,280 --> 00:26:55,360 Topics can have points, not a point that we have. 494 00:26:55,360 --> 00:26:58,400 This concept of points which is a game for learning approach. 495 00:26:58,440 --> 00:27:00,760 I'll talk about that. So there is some amount of 496 00:27:00,800 --> 00:27:04,120 embedding of points into topics so that you can create different 497 00:27:04,120 --> 00:27:05,840 types of incentives for the learners. 498 00:27:06,600 --> 00:27:09,040 Once you select that these are the bright things on the top, 499 00:27:09,400 --> 00:27:13,440 then you can have there are other things like you know, 500 00:27:13,440 --> 00:27:17,280 scheduling of posts, you can go anonymous, you can pin to top 501 00:27:17,600 --> 00:27:19,520 where the posts will be kind of sticking on the top. 502 00:27:19,520 --> 00:27:22,320 So there's kind of various admin level functionalities that you 503 00:27:22,320 --> 00:27:25,120 have on a post. But primarily when you're in 504 00:27:25,120 --> 00:27:28,200 this content area, one of the ways we have designed this is to 505 00:27:28,200 --> 00:27:32,440 be very content rich. Very often our students are kind 506 00:27:32,440 --> 00:27:35,040 of creating content. This is just not text like text 507 00:27:35,040 --> 00:27:37,440 is. Of course you can normally done 508 00:27:37,440 --> 00:27:42,040 but but you can create multimedia in the platform like 509 00:27:42,040 --> 00:27:44,240 for example. And I'm just going to drop in an 510 00:27:44,240 --> 00:27:46,720 image here. So you can drop in an image and 511 00:27:46,720 --> 00:27:49,200 you can resize it. You can imagine like so many 512 00:27:49,200 --> 00:27:53,200 courses that can benefit from having different types of image 513 00:27:53,200 --> 00:27:57,240 configuration. A very popular feature is for us 514 00:27:57,240 --> 00:28:00,360 to create short videos, right? You can imagine in this world we 515 00:28:00,360 --> 00:28:02,600 are living in, where learners are going online, increasingly 516 00:28:02,600 --> 00:28:06,240 they can actually express using saying and words, and language 517 00:28:06,240 --> 00:28:09,080 learning courses can use that. Sometimes introductions of 518 00:28:09,080 --> 00:28:12,800 professors or students can benefit from creating videos. 519 00:28:14,240 --> 00:28:17,960 And here I'm just going to show you a very quickly what kind of 520 00:28:17,960 --> 00:28:20,480 videos can be created. So it's all browser embedded. 521 00:28:20,480 --> 00:28:22,160 You don't have to download anything. 522 00:28:22,480 --> 00:28:26,840 It's all in the browser and and then, you know, it gives you a 523 00:28:26,840 --> 00:28:29,640 pointer and you can start talking and as you're talking 524 00:28:29,640 --> 00:28:32,760 it, it gets recorded. And then all you have to do is 525 00:28:32,760 --> 00:28:35,560 you can just get pause or you can just kind of drop it here so 526 00:28:35,560 --> 00:28:39,440 the video will automatically get get added into a post, you know, 527 00:28:39,440 --> 00:28:44,560 multiple videos if you want. We recently have launched, you 528 00:28:44,560 --> 00:28:48,360 know, transcription of videos so that it'll automatically 529 00:28:48,360 --> 00:28:53,560 transcribe your language into a text that you can also edit. 530 00:28:54,640 --> 00:28:58,840 We are supporting most languages now, so you can speak in foreign 531 00:28:58,840 --> 00:29:00,560 languages. I mean, this is kind of becoming 532 00:29:00,560 --> 00:29:03,640 A use case for us where foreign languages courses are using us 533 00:29:04,400 --> 00:29:07,800 to have the students speak in various languages and kind of 534 00:29:07,800 --> 00:29:09,760 actually also see the transcription of that. 535 00:29:09,880 --> 00:29:15,200 Those videos automatically done other things like attachments 536 00:29:15,200 --> 00:29:17,400 and all you can imagine different types of attachments. 537 00:29:17,400 --> 00:29:21,600 Emojis drawings is a big kind of factor for us like for various 538 00:29:21,600 --> 00:29:24,560 like engineering type of STEM courses, as you can imagine, 539 00:29:25,080 --> 00:29:28,080 let's say I just uploaded this picture, I can just immediately 540 00:29:28,080 --> 00:29:32,400 click on it and I can say, you know, I can start drawing it. 541 00:29:32,400 --> 00:29:35,920 So I'm going to create a little shovel here if you know this is 542 00:29:35,920 --> 00:29:39,360 special for us. I didn't need to do the last 543 00:29:39,360 --> 00:29:44,040 part of that. So I can go back. 544 00:29:44,040 --> 00:29:45,920 Yeah, this is a little shovel right now. 545 00:29:46,840 --> 00:29:50,000 So with that I can just save it. It goes right there. 546 00:29:50,240 --> 00:29:53,160 So you see this is how the feature works. 547 00:29:54,320 --> 00:29:58,000 Other things, you know how you mentioned polling, quite popular 548 00:29:58,000 --> 00:30:01,960 for us, so you can post something and ask feedback right 549 00:30:01,960 --> 00:30:05,640 there in the poll and you can do all sorts of configuration, how 550 00:30:05,640 --> 00:30:08,440 the poll will appear, whether you will see the results. 551 00:30:08,440 --> 00:30:11,600 Before the user votes, After the user votes, never show the 552 00:30:11,600 --> 00:30:14,400 results. Timing, whether you want to give 553 00:30:14,400 --> 00:30:18,040 the students or you know whoever you're posting that like a week, 554 00:30:18,040 --> 00:30:21,320 maybe a day, maybe unlimited different configurations 555 00:30:21,320 --> 00:30:23,920 available and it becomes easy way for the instruct, you know, 556 00:30:23,920 --> 00:30:25,960 for everybody to kind of react to one another. 557 00:30:26,880 --> 00:30:29,880 The final thing I'll show very quickly is our other kind of 558 00:30:29,880 --> 00:30:32,680 advanced functionalities. You can create tables like you 559 00:30:32,680 --> 00:30:37,560 have tablet view you can imagine for getting feedback from 560 00:30:37,560 --> 00:30:39,840 students you can want you may want to kind of you know make 561 00:30:39,840 --> 00:30:44,120 information easily accessible. You can face links you know I'm 562 00:30:44,160 --> 00:30:47,080 just going to show you I have a website open here so I'm just 563 00:30:47,080 --> 00:30:50,960 going to show you quickly how that works so I can just paste 564 00:30:50,960 --> 00:30:53,360 it a link here. What it does is that it 565 00:30:53,360 --> 00:30:57,120 automatically pulls in a snippet of that article in the below so 566 00:30:57,120 --> 00:30:59,520 that you get to see what the article is all about. 567 00:31:00,640 --> 00:31:04,880 You can you know I'm just going to paste some code and show you 568 00:31:04,880 --> 00:31:07,960 like you know if you're in a STEM course, you can essentially 569 00:31:07,960 --> 00:31:12,880 go in there and select a code block and this is Python as you 570 00:31:12,880 --> 00:31:17,320 know if you're in analytics you know Python is a very popular 571 00:31:17,320 --> 00:31:22,360 language and if you do that you know the code can, the code gets 572 00:31:23,200 --> 00:31:26,560 pretty much kind of so shown here. 573 00:31:27,120 --> 00:31:29,920 Sorry it just got deleted but yeah you can imagine it can be 574 00:31:29,920 --> 00:31:31,040 done. So there are various other 575 00:31:31,040 --> 00:31:34,240 functions, a lot of you know, a lot of like formatting options 576 00:31:34,240 --> 00:31:37,680 available and things like that. So you get a picture what what 577 00:31:37,680 --> 00:31:40,720 this does, it kind of you can create pretty pretty kind of 578 00:31:40,720 --> 00:31:42,360 comprehensive posts and comments. 579 00:31:42,920 --> 00:31:45,800 And right below here what you're seeing here is that our point 580 00:31:45,800 --> 00:31:48,440 system. So what the point system does is 581 00:31:48,440 --> 00:31:52,240 that it automatically tracks participation in a certain way 582 00:31:53,000 --> 00:31:58,320 and we also create incentives for our learners to share, you 583 00:31:58,320 --> 00:32:00,680 know interact in a certain way that drives certain kind of 584 00:32:00,680 --> 00:32:03,000 engagement. So you saw that graph before 585 00:32:03,000 --> 00:32:05,520 where we are encouraging students to talk to one another. 586 00:32:06,160 --> 00:32:08,720 So here as you can see, like you want 40 points for creating a 587 00:32:08,720 --> 00:32:11,160 new post. If you meet a certain word 588 00:32:11,160 --> 00:32:15,000 count, you get 240 points. And then if you attach the 589 00:32:15,000 --> 00:32:18,120 video, you have 75 points. So we are incentivizing students 590 00:32:18,120 --> 00:32:22,400 to actually be more proactive and attach videos so that the 591 00:32:22,600 --> 00:32:24,800 post could be a lot more interesting for the peer group. 592 00:32:25,520 --> 00:32:29,320 And these are all customizable. So what we do for our 593 00:32:29,320 --> 00:32:33,440 instructors is we have an AI engine that looks at thousands 594 00:32:33,440 --> 00:32:36,280 and thousands of communities to understand what kind of point 595 00:32:36,280 --> 00:32:39,160 system is going to try the best results for the students. 596 00:32:39,160 --> 00:32:41,960 So we have a default setting that is AI driven. 597 00:32:42,360 --> 00:32:45,480 The instructors have the ability to go in there and kind of 598 00:32:45,520 --> 00:32:48,920 customize the points whenever they want. 599 00:32:49,600 --> 00:32:52,120 And this is on the right side. You see the little widget here 600 00:32:52,120 --> 00:32:55,200 which shows you the points and it has a lot of details here in 601 00:32:55,200 --> 00:32:58,280 terms of how the points work. You know you have a 602 00:32:58,280 --> 00:33:01,280 participation log like how you're earning those points, 603 00:33:02,320 --> 00:33:04,840 earning point settings. This kind of shows you how the 604 00:33:05,280 --> 00:33:07,960 points work like your participation points. 605 00:33:08,400 --> 00:33:11,360 Then you what you call a social points where you want points 606 00:33:11,360 --> 00:33:14,480 because other students are interacting with your content, 607 00:33:14,480 --> 00:33:17,640 which kind of is important for us to create that peer-to-peer 608 00:33:17,640 --> 00:33:20,640 learning environment. And finally we have what we call 609 00:33:20,640 --> 00:33:23,480 is accolades with the instructors or the admins can 610 00:33:23,480 --> 00:33:29,160 give and these are the accolades where you can design these act 611 00:33:29,160 --> 00:33:32,520 lists, these also points, but these are to highlight kind of 612 00:33:32,520 --> 00:33:34,800 different types of content that you want to highlight in your 613 00:33:34,800 --> 00:33:37,280 community. So you know these are different 614 00:33:37,280 --> 00:33:39,680 examples of that. I mean you know, like great 615 00:33:39,680 --> 00:33:42,600 questions, cool attachment, helpful and many other things. 616 00:33:42,600 --> 00:33:45,600 So, so this kind of gives you a sense about how we're kind of 617 00:33:45,600 --> 00:33:48,360 driving different types of engagement in the platform. 618 00:33:48,360 --> 00:33:50,440 So let me take a pause here. Holly, I don't know if you have 619 00:33:50,440 --> 00:33:53,560 any thoughts because you have used the platform in any of 620 00:33:53,560 --> 00:33:59,120 these features. I definitely do and I I know 621 00:33:59,120 --> 00:34:02,680 you're saying a lot about the the points and here I'll come 622 00:34:02,680 --> 00:34:04,240 back on camera. I just wanted to give you the 623 00:34:04,240 --> 00:34:07,720 stage. So the point saying you can set 624 00:34:07,720 --> 00:34:10,800 up again that's really easy. You can set it up how you want 625 00:34:10,800 --> 00:34:15,000 it to be set up in terms of the the gamification of the content 626 00:34:15,000 --> 00:34:18,159 and information and it it slides right back to the gradebook. 627 00:34:18,199 --> 00:34:22,320 Like Chinook was saying, there's really no, you know, unless you 628 00:34:22,320 --> 00:34:25,040 have to modify things at at certain points and. 629 00:34:25,639 --> 00:34:27,120 For the students. But it's really easy. 630 00:34:27,120 --> 00:34:29,920 It just passes right back to your grade book and again, 631 00:34:29,920 --> 00:34:33,120 you're not spending hours and hours grading discussion boards. 632 00:34:33,480 --> 00:34:37,199 And what I really like is I, as the instructor get to decide how 633 00:34:37,199 --> 00:34:39,199 the points are distributed and what those look like. 634 00:34:39,520 --> 00:34:41,560 Obviously, Yellow Dig does a great job of giving you 635 00:34:41,560 --> 00:34:46,679 suggestions of how to distribute those points so that from, you 636 00:34:46,679 --> 00:34:49,440 know, in setting it up. Again, from that perspective, 637 00:34:49,440 --> 00:34:51,360 it's super intuitive and it just walks you right through. 638 00:34:53,120 --> 00:34:55,320 And you can add different accolades, you can add different 639 00:34:55,320 --> 00:34:59,520 types of topics that are maybe frequently discussed in your 640 00:34:59,520 --> 00:35:03,800 course using hashtags. It's just it's it's very much 641 00:35:04,280 --> 00:35:05,480 like what we do in the real world. 642 00:35:05,480 --> 00:35:08,880 It mimics things we do every day when we're out on LinkedIn, 643 00:35:08,880 --> 00:35:10,640 around on Facebook, out on the socials. 644 00:35:11,000 --> 00:35:14,040 And it's just something that you can just pick right up and 645 00:35:14,400 --> 00:35:18,800 start, Yeah, no, yeah, thanks for that. 646 00:35:18,800 --> 00:35:22,400 And yeah, we we try to make it very simple for our instructors 647 00:35:22,400 --> 00:35:25,880 to get going and and and you know one of the questions we 648 00:35:25,880 --> 00:35:28,880 sometimes get is that given there is so much of engagement 649 00:35:28,880 --> 00:35:32,160 that is happening in our platform, what's the role of the 650 00:35:32,160 --> 00:35:34,640 instructor? You know, the big role is of 651 00:35:34,640 --> 00:35:37,640 course to set up the the point system and create the incentive 652 00:35:37,640 --> 00:35:39,840 structure. But after that, what instructors 653 00:35:39,840 --> 00:35:43,960 do is they'll come into yellow, dig, you know, once a day or a 654 00:35:43,960 --> 00:35:47,520 few times a week and look at content that is bubbling up. 655 00:35:47,520 --> 00:35:50,480 Like on the right side you will see trending topics, trending 656 00:35:50,480 --> 00:35:53,200 hashtags. Right now it's there's no data 657 00:35:53,200 --> 00:35:54,560 here. But once it's in action, you 658 00:35:54,560 --> 00:35:57,120 will see those kind of things that are popping up and you get 659 00:35:57,120 --> 00:35:58,880 a sense of what your students are talking about. 660 00:35:59,400 --> 00:36:02,040 And what the instructors will go is that look at the high quality 661 00:36:02,040 --> 00:36:04,160 content just like in Facebook and elsewhere you kind of 662 00:36:04,160 --> 00:36:07,560 interact with your students, you'll do that and and and then 663 00:36:07,560 --> 00:36:09,360 kind of take some of these examples into the real 664 00:36:09,360 --> 00:36:12,080 classroom. And and we do have functionality 665 00:36:12,080 --> 00:36:14,520 in the platform to make sure that if somebody posts 666 00:36:14,520 --> 00:36:17,040 something, you know inappropriate that gets flagged 667 00:36:17,040 --> 00:36:19,360 very quickly. So our we have what we call a 668 00:36:19,360 --> 00:36:23,680 social governance in the platform where students can flag 669 00:36:23,840 --> 00:36:26,960 poster comments if they find something offensive or something 670 00:36:26,960 --> 00:36:29,240 that is not useful. And that will get taken off the 671 00:36:29,240 --> 00:36:32,680 community and immediately move to the instructor queue. 672 00:36:33,320 --> 00:36:36,360 We have other tools for the instructors such as taking back 673 00:36:36,360 --> 00:36:38,800 points if they said something which does not should not earn 674 00:36:38,800 --> 00:36:41,280 points. And then we have like word 675 00:36:41,280 --> 00:36:43,840 blocking by which you cannot post certain words in the 676 00:36:43,840 --> 00:36:51,040 platform as well as we are working on some AI driven like 677 00:36:51,080 --> 00:36:55,520 artificial intelligence driven moderation in the platform for 678 00:36:55,520 --> 00:36:59,120 institutions that have thousands and thousands of users who are 679 00:36:59,120 --> 00:37:01,440 creating a lot of content. So that we automatically will 680 00:37:01,440 --> 00:37:04,440 help the institutions kind of navigate that any sort of 681 00:37:04,440 --> 00:37:07,600 administration using AI. So that's kind of in the that's 682 00:37:07,600 --> 00:37:09,320 coming hopefully by the end of the year. 683 00:37:10,240 --> 00:37:13,960 So I think that this the main point here is that as Holly you 684 00:37:13,960 --> 00:37:16,200 were saying as we're trying to make it very easy for the 685 00:37:16,200 --> 00:37:20,680 institutions so that they can manage you know a huge, I mean 686 00:37:20,680 --> 00:37:24,960 pretty big implementation of this platform with limited you 687 00:37:25,000 --> 00:37:29,480 know in house administration effort so that it can kind of 688 00:37:29,480 --> 00:37:31,000 almost can go on on autobiot mode. 689 00:37:32,360 --> 00:37:35,360 Yeah, it it. I can't, I can't stress enough 690 00:37:35,360 --> 00:37:37,280 how easy it was. I think that's that was my 691 00:37:37,280 --> 00:37:39,960 favorite part. And also like as an instructor, 692 00:37:39,960 --> 00:37:43,000 you can go in and take the certification course that you 693 00:37:43,000 --> 00:37:45,400 all have and you've been doing and that's free. 694 00:37:45,400 --> 00:37:49,200 You don't have to pay for it. I'm going to put a link to that 695 00:37:49,200 --> 00:37:50,840 in the chat and in the show notes. 696 00:37:51,560 --> 00:37:52,960 The Yellow Dig certification course. 697 00:37:52,960 --> 00:37:56,040 I went through it. It taught me a lot about how to 698 00:37:56,040 --> 00:37:59,560 manage the platform but also how to use it successfully as an 699 00:37:59,560 --> 00:38:02,320 instructor. So you definitely need to go 700 00:38:02,320 --> 00:38:05,160 check that out and get get a certification. 701 00:38:05,480 --> 00:38:09,480 I mean, everybody loves the nice micro credential to add to their 702 00:38:09,480 --> 00:38:12,400 profile or to their resume. So go out there and get the 703 00:38:12,400 --> 00:38:14,760 Yellow Dig one. Yeah. 704 00:38:14,760 --> 00:38:18,080 And it just takes an R So you know, if you are interested, 705 00:38:18,080 --> 00:38:19,440 you're going to learn about the platform. 706 00:38:20,320 --> 00:38:23,280 Yeah, that probably is the kind of fastest way to kind of see 707 00:38:23,280 --> 00:38:27,720 how the platform might help you. And I just pulled up a few other 708 00:38:27,720 --> 00:38:29,120 things. Ollie is that there's a lot of 709 00:38:29,120 --> 00:38:33,680 data that we collect in the platform and we try to show that 710 00:38:33,840 --> 00:38:37,920 into the platform for our administrators as well as the 711 00:38:37,920 --> 00:38:41,720 data is available through APIs. Many of our partners are 712 00:38:41,760 --> 00:38:44,760 leveraging the API to pull the data and do their own analytics 713 00:38:44,760 --> 00:38:49,120 on top of what we are providing. But inside the platform, you 714 00:38:49,120 --> 00:38:52,200 know this data that you're looking at, this is a graph, the 715 00:38:52,200 --> 00:38:54,800 network graph that I kind of showed you in the beginning in 716 00:38:54,800 --> 00:38:58,920 the presentation here. You get to see the interactions 717 00:38:58,920 --> 00:39:02,560 like and if you are sitting in those large, big classes and you 718 00:39:02,560 --> 00:39:04,680 know watching the students to see what they're doing, it's 719 00:39:04,680 --> 00:39:07,000 very hard to know who's talking to whom and how much. 720 00:39:07,000 --> 00:39:10,840 And here you will actually get to see how these interactions 721 00:39:10,840 --> 00:39:14,160 are actually developing over time and find those tools like 722 00:39:14,160 --> 00:39:18,000 for example, this particular student, you know he is not 723 00:39:18,000 --> 00:39:20,440 engaging with anybody and he hasn't been this platform for a 724 00:39:20,440 --> 00:39:23,760 long time. So this data is available to you 725 00:39:23,800 --> 00:39:26,120 and you can use this data to kind of reach out to that 726 00:39:26,120 --> 00:39:27,440 student saying, hey, what's going on. 727 00:39:27,440 --> 00:39:29,720 And you haven't really interacted with in this platform 728 00:39:29,720 --> 00:39:32,560 for like a long time. And you not only get to see that 729 00:39:32,560 --> 00:39:35,440 you have this tablet view, you get to see like you can 730 00:39:35,440 --> 00:39:40,080 literally can drill down and see which student is more active in 731 00:39:40,080 --> 00:39:43,720 terms of number of connections. You can look at like how when is 732 00:39:43,720 --> 00:39:45,960 the last time they came. So these are the students who 733 00:39:45,960 --> 00:39:48,360 never connected, but these are the students. 734 00:39:48,360 --> 00:39:50,280 You know, this is a demo board, which is why it's so old. 735 00:39:50,280 --> 00:39:52,400 But you will get to see the level of engagement that's 736 00:39:52,400 --> 00:39:55,160 happening so that you can reach out to the students. 737 00:39:55,160 --> 00:39:57,960 And we also do kind of nudge notifications from our platform, 738 00:39:57,960 --> 00:39:59,720 so you don't have to do it. We can actually help 739 00:39:59,960 --> 00:40:01,840 automatically send those notifications. 740 00:40:02,240 --> 00:40:04,760 But but this kind of gives you an additional layer of data. 741 00:40:05,640 --> 00:40:08,000 We have something called community health where we are, 742 00:40:08,040 --> 00:40:11,440 we do a lot of benchmarking for the instructors and the 743 00:40:11,440 --> 00:40:15,040 administration for them to understand how the networks are 744 00:40:15,040 --> 00:40:17,560 growing. You know, number of post 745 00:40:17,560 --> 00:40:21,160 comments, conversation ratio, which is a big factor for us in 746 00:40:21,160 --> 00:40:24,280 terms of how office students are commenting on each other's 747 00:40:24,280 --> 00:40:27,280 posts, which is an important indicator for us. 748 00:40:27,880 --> 00:40:30,880 We do topical analysis like which topics are getting engaged 749 00:40:30,880 --> 00:40:33,480 and which are not getting engaged, so that you get to see 750 00:40:33,480 --> 00:40:36,600 where the focus needs to be in terms of driving more 751 00:40:36,600 --> 00:40:39,160 engagement. You get to look at the data by 752 00:40:39,160 --> 00:40:41,640 students to see which students are more engaged versus not 753 00:40:41,680 --> 00:40:46,240 engaged and also by which topic. You have health checks, which is 754 00:40:46,240 --> 00:40:51,720 an automatic kind of AI driven health check to tell you where 755 00:40:51,720 --> 00:40:54,800 things can improve so that you know of course you will have a 756 00:40:54,800 --> 00:40:57,560 gut feeling, but this will also help you to kind of understand 757 00:40:57,560 --> 00:40:59,760 what's really happening behind the scenes. 758 00:41:00,680 --> 00:41:03,880 So we kind of have a best practices checklist and if those 759 00:41:03,880 --> 00:41:07,200 checklists are being met, it automatically check for it and 760 00:41:07,200 --> 00:41:10,280 then also give you some of the scores that I talked about like 761 00:41:10,280 --> 00:41:12,640 sharing, listening and interacting scores. 762 00:41:13,640 --> 00:41:16,000 Sharing is pretty obvious. We get to see that who's 763 00:41:16,000 --> 00:41:18,040 sharing. But listening is the viewing 764 00:41:18,040 --> 00:41:20,040 side of things. You may have students who are 765 00:41:20,040 --> 00:41:22,440 not sharing, but they're actually quite reading content, 766 00:41:22,440 --> 00:41:25,760 which is a good sign. So you get to see that data as 767 00:41:25,760 --> 00:41:27,880 well as interacting off and they're kind of talking to one 768 00:41:27,880 --> 00:41:30,200 another. And you can compare that data 769 00:41:30,200 --> 00:41:33,960 with your own institutions or globally just to get a sense 770 00:41:33,960 --> 00:41:37,080 about how things are going. So a lot of other data 771 00:41:37,080 --> 00:41:39,080 available. Where can you go wrong? 772 00:41:39,080 --> 00:41:43,640 Every time I hear you talk about this, I just like I learned 773 00:41:43,640 --> 00:41:46,560 something new. And I love the community health 774 00:41:46,560 --> 00:41:49,720 section because especially like there's some weeks where the 775 00:41:49,720 --> 00:41:52,960 students just, they're not talkative, they're not talking 776 00:41:52,960 --> 00:41:55,720 with each other and you need to know and intervene in those 777 00:41:55,720 --> 00:42:00,480 certain situations, you know, making sure that it they are 778 00:42:00,480 --> 00:42:03,000 active. But also like the community 779 00:42:03,000 --> 00:42:04,720 health also indicates other things. 780 00:42:04,720 --> 00:42:07,880 I know we haven't really talked about like SCL, the Social. 781 00:42:08,360 --> 00:42:11,720 Emotional learning aspect of this and making sure people are 782 00:42:11,720 --> 00:42:15,320 OK like you when you showed that example about the intimidation 783 00:42:15,320 --> 00:42:19,040 or just that imposter syndrome, like it really lends itself to 784 00:42:19,080 --> 00:42:23,000 other aspects that you may not, you know like I teach completely 785 00:42:23,000 --> 00:42:27,360 online so I don't get to see them besides on a screen if 786 00:42:27,360 --> 00:42:30,560 that. So this platform really allows 787 00:42:30,560 --> 00:42:32,360 you to connect in that way as well. 788 00:42:34,000 --> 00:42:36,520 Yeah. So that's a great example. 789 00:42:36,520 --> 00:42:38,560 And I think especially for online classes, I mean that 790 00:42:38,560 --> 00:42:40,480 makes a lot of sense. And even if you're finding on 791 00:42:40,480 --> 00:42:43,880 ground classes students are, especially after COVID, I mean, 792 00:42:43,960 --> 00:42:46,800 you know, it's it's harder for students to actually make those 793 00:42:46,800 --> 00:42:50,040 connections and a lot of students are not on campus. 794 00:42:50,040 --> 00:42:53,120 So they are looking for a lot more flexible or hybrid 795 00:42:53,120 --> 00:42:57,000 opportunities to learn. So in that environment, you 796 00:42:57,000 --> 00:42:59,000 know, it doesn't matter where the student is, maybe in the 797 00:42:59,000 --> 00:43:00,560 classroom, may not be in the classroom. 798 00:43:00,560 --> 00:43:03,440 They have one place so that they can interact with the instructor 799 00:43:03,440 --> 00:43:07,320 and the rest of the peer group. So especially after COVID, we've 800 00:43:07,320 --> 00:43:10,600 seen in a lot of schools which have come back to in person 801 00:43:10,600 --> 00:43:15,160 learning are leveraging Yellow Day as a way to maintain that 802 00:43:15,160 --> 00:43:18,040 glue so that students are not just going to feel that they're 803 00:43:18,040 --> 00:43:21,960 like, you know, out of the loop. So yeah, green. 100, Yeah. 804 00:43:21,960 --> 00:43:24,000 I mean, you know, I think the best way as kind of, Holly you 805 00:43:24,000 --> 00:43:27,600 mentioned, I mean we kind of stop sharing for a second, You 806 00:43:27,600 --> 00:43:30,560 know, the best way to learn about the tool is, of course 807 00:43:30,560 --> 00:43:36,000 there are various functionalities is, you know, if 808 00:43:36,000 --> 00:43:38,560 you're interested in our website, we have a link to the 809 00:43:38,720 --> 00:43:41,320 instructor certification course that will probably give you a 810 00:43:41,640 --> 00:43:43,680 really good understanding of what the tool does and how it 811 00:43:43,680 --> 00:43:47,040 works. If not, of course, you know, you 812 00:43:47,040 --> 00:43:48,840 can reach out to us. I mean, there's a link in our 813 00:43:48,840 --> 00:43:52,760 website where you can reach out to us to kind of see a demo. 814 00:43:52,760 --> 00:43:56,320 If you're interested, we do monthly webinars. 815 00:43:56,320 --> 00:43:58,640 You can join those and ask questions. 816 00:43:59,240 --> 00:44:02,600 We have a section in the website where we have case studies with 817 00:44:02,600 --> 00:44:05,840 our partners who have adopted us and kind of. 818 00:44:06,880 --> 00:44:10,320 Like the three-point O stuff? Yeah, it's good stuff. 819 00:44:10,440 --> 00:44:14,240 Yeah, well, I mean that's yeah, we we we have been holding those 820 00:44:14,240 --> 00:44:17,000 conferences also now where we are inviting our partners. 821 00:44:17,000 --> 00:44:20,120 We had a, we had over 25 universities join us in the last 822 00:44:20,120 --> 00:44:22,680 conference and kind of share their experience with the 823 00:44:22,680 --> 00:44:25,280 platform. So and one of the things, Holly, 824 00:44:25,280 --> 00:44:29,240 we are doing is we are trying to bring our clients and 825 00:44:29,240 --> 00:44:31,160 prospective clients. So anybody who is interested in 826 00:44:31,160 --> 00:44:33,600 this topic kind of together and have those conversations about 827 00:44:33,600 --> 00:44:38,200 engagement, I think I see that as a way for us to be able to 828 00:44:38,200 --> 00:44:41,840 kind of be helpful and and and kind of have these conversations 829 00:44:41,840 --> 00:44:44,080 about what's really going to help the students engage and be 830 00:44:44,080 --> 00:44:46,920 successful. Absolutely. 831 00:44:46,920 --> 00:44:49,920 And I think, you know, we did have a question in the chat and 832 00:44:49,920 --> 00:44:53,160 Bri answered it, but there was a question about so you can have 833 00:44:53,160 --> 00:44:57,320 an accolade for citations and that could be worth like 75 834 00:44:57,320 --> 00:44:59,600 points. So when they're doing something, 835 00:44:59,680 --> 00:45:01,480 you maybe you're teaching APAI guess. 836 00:45:02,160 --> 00:45:04,720 Is what this person is asking. And you can have an accolade for 837 00:45:04,720 --> 00:45:07,440 somebody who does it right or does it well the first time. 838 00:45:08,120 --> 00:45:11,880 Yeah, that's a great idea. That's a yeah, that's awesome. 839 00:45:12,160 --> 00:45:16,160 Yeah, that's a great idea. And I feel like these tools, the 840 00:45:16,160 --> 00:45:19,320 way that you built them, sometimes people take them like 841 00:45:19,320 --> 00:45:21,720 for example, the citations example, they take them to a 842 00:45:21,720 --> 00:45:24,720 different level and you're like, wow, that's a really great idea. 843 00:45:24,720 --> 00:45:28,000 So you have you had any like quick examples that you can 844 00:45:28,000 --> 00:45:30,200 share before we go into the QA part of like? 845 00:45:31,120 --> 00:45:34,040 This is what I designed Yellow Dig for, but then I see people 846 00:45:34,040 --> 00:45:35,480 doing it with this. Like you said, you're in the 847 00:45:35,480 --> 00:45:37,600 corporate space now. So I'm very interested to hear 848 00:45:37,600 --> 00:45:40,840 how that's going and what people are using Yellow Dig for in the 849 00:45:40,840 --> 00:45:44,000 corporate space because I was blind or someone just higher 850 00:45:44,000 --> 00:45:46,320 education. But obviously this tool can be 851 00:45:46,320 --> 00:45:49,680 used across different sectors. Yeah, no. 852 00:45:49,680 --> 00:45:52,880 So I I one thing I would say the broad comment I'll say is that 853 00:45:52,880 --> 00:45:57,120 what we are finding is the Yellow Dig is the technology 854 00:45:57,120 --> 00:45:58,920 platform and the students is on top. 855 00:45:58,920 --> 00:46:03,720 There is a middle layer in terms of innovation where instructors 856 00:46:03,720 --> 00:46:07,160 can use us as a way to Crowdsource content as you said 857 00:46:07,160 --> 00:46:09,920 is a big use case. We see instructors are doing 858 00:46:09,960 --> 00:46:13,560 case studies on our platform where they are having students 859 00:46:13,560 --> 00:46:15,400 to kind of take different roles. Sometimes you can actually 860 00:46:15,400 --> 00:46:17,280 change your role in yellow date, you can go anonymous. 861 00:46:17,280 --> 00:46:21,000 So you can have a case study just being anonymous and really 862 00:46:21,000 --> 00:46:24,840 have get into the content in a very interesting way. 863 00:46:24,880 --> 00:46:26,400 Accolades is a very interesting way. 864 00:46:26,400 --> 00:46:27,800 We are seeing a lot of innovation there. 865 00:46:27,840 --> 00:46:31,440 How people are using accolades, the point system AI does that, 866 00:46:31,440 --> 00:46:34,000 but of course you can edit that point system based on what you 867 00:46:34,000 --> 00:46:36,800 want to incentivize. If you want to incentivize more 868 00:46:36,800 --> 00:46:40,520 commenting, you can actually have much higher weightage for 869 00:46:40,520 --> 00:46:42,840 commenting and you can change those weightage in our platform. 870 00:46:43,680 --> 00:46:47,280 So the way I see this is that you know we will always learn 871 00:46:47,280 --> 00:46:49,840 from our instructors how they're using it and then we are 872 00:46:49,840 --> 00:46:52,360 building features and functionalities around it to 873 00:46:52,360 --> 00:46:56,000 provide more and more width of what's possible. 874 00:46:57,800 --> 00:47:00,120 So yeah, I mean I mean I think that's how been our approach. 875 00:47:00,120 --> 00:47:03,120 You know I think we we we're hoping to kind of continue to 876 00:47:03,120 --> 00:47:05,600 build a platform in ways where we see value and of course the 877 00:47:05,600 --> 00:47:08,920 data also speaks to a lot, you know so how the, yeah how the 878 00:47:08,920 --> 00:47:10,040 engagement is actually depending on. 879 00:47:10,840 --> 00:47:13,960 Yeah, 100%. And Bree did put a link in the 880 00:47:13,960 --> 00:47:16,400 chat and I will go on the show notes as well to get the 881 00:47:16,400 --> 00:47:19,080 recordings from the conference and then also your plans. 882 00:47:19,440 --> 00:47:22,680 I love it how when we first started talking there was one 883 00:47:23,040 --> 00:47:26,520 kind of area you were focused on and now there's three different 884 00:47:26,520 --> 00:47:28,600 things. So you're really connecting you 885 00:47:28,600 --> 00:47:33,320 know to like the life cycle or the the the whole life cycle of 886 00:47:33,320 --> 00:47:34,680 like what a learner goes through. 887 00:47:35,040 --> 00:47:37,680 And I think it's it's so important that we're not just 888 00:47:37,680 --> 00:47:39,960 like. Putting in a tool that doesn't 889 00:47:39,960 --> 00:47:43,000 connect them with like career resources or where to where to 890 00:47:43,000 --> 00:47:48,120 step next in in their future. Because taking one class is just 891 00:47:48,400 --> 00:47:50,160 like if you're you're in that one class. 892 00:47:50,160 --> 00:47:52,920 But if you can connect it across and that's really what programs 893 00:47:52,920 --> 00:47:56,880 are supposed to do, you got it. That's a win. 894 00:47:56,880 --> 00:48:00,640 Win for sure, Yeah. The first year is such an 895 00:48:00,640 --> 00:48:03,840 important time of the school, you know, just to be making sure 896 00:48:03,840 --> 00:48:07,080 the students have those sense of belonging in the first year. 897 00:48:08,920 --> 00:48:13,280 When so you're talking about the, there's another comment in 898 00:48:13,280 --> 00:48:15,760 the chat, so talking about the AI components. 899 00:48:16,040 --> 00:48:18,480 So when you're bringing in those components, like what kind of 900 00:48:18,480 --> 00:48:21,600 things are, are they going, is it going to be doing? 901 00:48:24,000 --> 00:48:27,760 Jennifer suggested she said checking things for like 902 00:48:27,760 --> 00:48:30,080 citations, accessibility, and other ends that might be on the 903 00:48:30,080 --> 00:48:33,920 rubric for the question or you know, what the the topic at hand 904 00:48:33,920 --> 00:48:37,080 is. So can you give us a little bit 905 00:48:37,080 --> 00:48:39,760 more insight, don't share. I know this is the question 906 00:48:39,760 --> 00:48:42,240 where I say tell us about the future, but don't violate any 907 00:48:42,240 --> 00:48:47,560 NDA agreements. Well, I mean, you know, I'm 908 00:48:48,000 --> 00:48:51,160 coming up. Yeah, AI is a very important 909 00:48:51,160 --> 00:48:53,720 topic for us. As you can imagine, there's so 910 00:48:53,720 --> 00:48:56,960 many changes happening with AI and there was a very interesting 911 00:48:57,960 --> 00:49:02,000 research that was done in one of our partners in University of 912 00:49:02,000 --> 00:49:05,480 Illinois where they looked at use of AI which is specifically 913 00:49:05,480 --> 00:49:08,200 Gen. AI or generative AI where 914 00:49:08,360 --> 00:49:12,400 students are going to use Gen. AI and especially for prompted 915 00:49:12,560 --> 00:49:15,200 assignments or prompted discussions, you can pretty much 916 00:49:15,200 --> 00:49:17,960 take that prompt and go to Gen. AI like chat GPD and get an 917 00:49:17,960 --> 00:49:21,720 answer and post it back. So there were a lot of concerns 918 00:49:21,720 --> 00:49:25,640 around is that's going to drive more cheating or you know what 919 00:49:25,640 --> 00:49:27,840 not. But the real question they asked 920 00:49:27,840 --> 00:49:29,800 is that what happens in engagement, right. 921 00:49:29,800 --> 00:49:33,560 So if students are using Gen. AI as a way to create content or 922 00:49:33,560 --> 00:49:36,640 the instructors are using that, what happens to student to 923 00:49:36,640 --> 00:49:40,640 student engagement? And they compare that in a group 924 00:49:40,640 --> 00:49:42,000 of class. They broke the class into two 925 00:49:42,000 --> 00:49:44,120 groups and students knew that. They kind of actually told the 926 00:49:44,120 --> 00:49:48,120 students what their objective was, which is around looking at 927 00:49:48,240 --> 00:49:50,880 the engagement levels using Gen. AI and not using Gen. 928 00:49:50,880 --> 00:49:53,680 AI, which is where they use the other day, primarily when the 929 00:49:53,680 --> 00:49:55,800 students are creating their own content and sharing with one 930 00:49:55,800 --> 00:49:58,760 another. I think what they found was that 931 00:49:58,800 --> 00:50:01,880 you know with Gen. AI the the content is a little 932 00:50:01,880 --> 00:50:05,200 more longer, they're writing nicer, but the engagement is 933 00:50:05,200 --> 00:50:11,240 lesser because you know there is something about when students 934 00:50:11,240 --> 00:50:13,160 are a lot more authentic and they're actually kind of 935 00:50:13,160 --> 00:50:15,200 engaging in organic conversation. 936 00:50:15,240 --> 00:50:17,640 It's more likely students will actually engage with the 937 00:50:17,640 --> 00:50:21,360 content, whereas in Gen. AI you know, it's less engaging. 938 00:50:21,360 --> 00:50:24,160 So that the insight from that paper that came out, which is 939 00:50:24,160 --> 00:50:27,720 kind of something, you know, I wrote a blog, blog post on is I 940 00:50:27,720 --> 00:50:29,680 think we've got to be careful about how we are using AI 941 00:50:29,800 --> 00:50:32,760 because AI is kind of fun way of creating content because. 942 00:50:32,920 --> 00:50:35,400 But the reality is that if we create a lot of AI driven 943 00:50:35,400 --> 00:50:38,800 content, we also should be ready for the future where engagement 944 00:50:38,800 --> 00:50:41,520 might fall. And if engagement is an 945 00:50:41,520 --> 00:50:45,440 important factor in education because that drives learning, is 946 00:50:45,440 --> 00:50:48,840 that the right future for us? So do we want to really use Gen. 947 00:50:48,840 --> 00:50:52,120 AI for content creation now? There's some places we want to 948 00:50:52,440 --> 00:50:54,520 of course, but we have to be cognizant, right. 949 00:50:54,520 --> 00:50:57,520 So that's yeah be. Intentional about it? 950 00:50:58,000 --> 00:51:02,280 Yeah, exactly. So, so I think that that is one 951 00:51:02,280 --> 00:51:04,760 kind of thing that came out of the paper, which is something, 952 00:51:04,760 --> 00:51:07,000 you know, we had internal discussions around the other 953 00:51:07,000 --> 00:51:09,200 side of AI. Where we are focusing on is to 954 00:51:09,200 --> 00:51:14,440 use AI to make it easier for instructors and admins to manage 955 00:51:14,560 --> 00:51:18,800 through engagement. Where one example I gave you is 956 00:51:18,800 --> 00:51:21,880 that the point system is AI driven in our platform. 957 00:51:21,880 --> 00:51:24,960 So that every time an instructor starts using Yellow Day, they 958 00:51:24,960 --> 00:51:27,160 don't have to kind of really wonder that OK, how many points 959 00:51:27,160 --> 00:51:29,720 I could give for post, how many for comments, how many for 960 00:51:29,720 --> 00:51:33,320 reactions. We have analyzed the data across 961 00:51:33,440 --> 00:51:35,800 you know, thousands and thousands of use cases and 962 00:51:35,960 --> 00:51:38,800 implementations to be able to come to the point that OK, this 963 00:51:38,800 --> 00:51:42,840 is the this is the best configuration for the points for 964 00:51:42,840 --> 00:51:45,880 the best, you know, health of the community and that kind of 965 00:51:45,880 --> 00:51:48,280 has helped us a lot. So those are the areas that 966 00:51:48,280 --> 00:51:52,880 that's one example of that. Another example is, you know we 967 00:51:52,880 --> 00:51:56,360 are looking at, you know maybe AI could be a way to summarize 968 00:51:56,360 --> 00:51:58,200 content, right. So if you look at a lot of 969 00:51:58,200 --> 00:52:00,400 content, a lot of discussions, can we otherwise that 970 00:52:00,720 --> 00:52:02,640 information. If I just want to get a snapshot 971 00:52:02,640 --> 00:52:04,920 of it, AI could be very good for that. 972 00:52:06,760 --> 00:52:10,800 We we are hesitant to put AI as a mechanism to interact with the 973 00:52:10,800 --> 00:52:12,400 students. I know there are AI tools where 974 00:52:12,400 --> 00:52:14,120 you can go and actually interact with AI. 975 00:52:15,120 --> 00:52:21,160 I think, you know, tutoring, there's a good example where AI 976 00:52:21,160 --> 00:52:23,640 could be a good personal tutor, so you can ask questions, get 977 00:52:23,640 --> 00:52:26,600 answers. But but we are hesitant to kind 978 00:52:26,600 --> 00:52:29,720 of really make that as a central part of Yellow Dig because what 979 00:52:29,720 --> 00:52:32,720 really drives Yellow Dig is this organic engagement with students 980 00:52:32,720 --> 00:52:36,480 in a human to human way. And if you take that out, it 981 00:52:36,480 --> 00:52:38,440 kind of loses its flavor. So. 982 00:52:38,640 --> 00:52:41,800 So we want to kind of definitely the company focus on the human 983 00:52:41,800 --> 00:52:45,840 to human part of it and use AI as an enabler of that engagement 984 00:52:45,880 --> 00:52:48,960 without compromising this kind of interaction that happens. 985 00:52:48,960 --> 00:52:51,040 I like that a lot. I like that a lot. 986 00:52:51,040 --> 00:52:53,160 That's another reason I love Yellow Dig. 987 00:52:55,600 --> 00:53:01,400 I don't see any other questions in the chat, but I do want to 988 00:53:01,400 --> 00:53:03,800 ask one final thing before we let you go. 989 00:53:04,360 --> 00:53:07,240 I definitely want to. We want to know like you know 990 00:53:07,240 --> 00:53:10,040 what we you have the AI coming in the future. 991 00:53:10,480 --> 00:53:13,600 What are you most excited about? That's up and coming for Yellow 992 00:53:13,640 --> 00:53:15,640 Dig. You've you've expanded quite a 993 00:53:15,640 --> 00:53:17,840 bit. You have a wonderful team, your 994 00:53:17,840 --> 00:53:20,120 team stays with you. So that says a lot about your 995 00:53:20,120 --> 00:53:21,880 company and culture. So I want to say. 996 00:53:22,360 --> 00:53:24,320 Yellow Dig is a really great place to work. 997 00:53:24,320 --> 00:53:26,680 If there's ever an opening you need to go check out the careers 998 00:53:26,680 --> 00:53:29,480 page because they're awesome. But what are you most excited 999 00:53:29,480 --> 00:53:32,040 about with with this tool and what the future holds? 1000 00:53:34,360 --> 00:53:38,840 No, I I think, I mean from a kind of as a company point of 1001 00:53:38,840 --> 00:53:40,440 view. I think the biggest excitement 1002 00:53:40,440 --> 00:53:43,680 for me personally, and I know many members of our team share 1003 00:53:43,680 --> 00:53:46,760 the same excitement is to be able to reimagine learning. 1004 00:53:48,400 --> 00:53:52,040 You know, one of the challenges and I've talked a lot about it, 1005 00:53:52,040 --> 00:53:57,160 is that we kind of sometimes go with this assumption that you 1006 00:53:57,160 --> 00:53:59,880 know, the the innovation in learning is going to happen 1007 00:53:59,960 --> 00:54:03,840 through better content creation or better, you know, kind of 1008 00:54:03,840 --> 00:54:06,880 creating more opportunities or making it cheaper, which is all 1009 00:54:06,880 --> 00:54:09,640 good. But I think fundamentally in 1010 00:54:09,640 --> 00:54:12,640 this day and age, we really have to think about how to engage the 1011 00:54:12,640 --> 00:54:16,320 students in a way that is actually joyful for them and 1012 00:54:16,320 --> 00:54:19,520 natural for them And and there is a lot of push in that and 1013 00:54:19,520 --> 00:54:21,400 that's kind of the all the partners that we're working with 1014 00:54:21,400 --> 00:54:23,680 this kind of believes in that kind of a philosophy. 1015 00:54:23,680 --> 00:54:26,880 So we are kind of seeing that grow but I think but that's 1016 00:54:26,880 --> 00:54:29,440 still a small portion of the universe that we are in. 1017 00:54:29,800 --> 00:54:32,600 If you imagine we are working at 150 universities, that's great 1018 00:54:32,760 --> 00:54:35,320 our our growth is happening. But I think there is like 1019 00:54:35,320 --> 00:54:38,160 thousands of thousands of universities and and I do 1020 00:54:38,160 --> 00:54:41,800 believe that in that environment where the instructor is of 1021 00:54:41,800 --> 00:54:45,800 course providing the content and guiding the conversation and the 1022 00:54:45,800 --> 00:54:48,000 the learning process. But the students can also kind 1023 00:54:48,000 --> 00:54:53,160 of use each other to be able to create that level of you know, 1024 00:54:53,160 --> 00:54:56,120 belonging and engagement that drives much better learning 1025 00:54:56,160 --> 00:54:57,480 outcome. Not only better mental health 1026 00:54:57,480 --> 00:55:00,320 because that's also a factor in that but true learning outcomes 1027 00:55:00,320 --> 00:55:03,160 are much better in in that where students are more agency. 1028 00:55:04,040 --> 00:55:06,840 That is a philosophy we are going under as we build a 1029 00:55:06,840 --> 00:55:10,200 company and we are adding tools and adding technology to kind of 1030 00:55:10,240 --> 00:55:12,920 create that environment. So that's why I call it Yellow 1031 00:55:12,920 --> 00:55:17,120 Dig is an education company more than anything else from a tool 1032 00:55:17,120 --> 00:55:19,160 point of view. From our technology point of 1033 00:55:19,160 --> 00:55:23,120 view, what we are trying to do now is to kind of create it to 1034 00:55:23,120 --> 00:55:27,280 be a safe environment, meaning it is safe and easy for the 1035 00:55:27,280 --> 00:55:30,640 instructors to launch Yellowdig in any type of course, of any 1036 00:55:30,640 --> 00:55:33,800 size of any duration of any learning model. 1037 00:55:33,920 --> 00:55:38,160 So we are kind of adding more functionality around it and 1038 00:55:38,160 --> 00:55:40,640 we're also trying to do a lot more work in the back end to be 1039 00:55:40,640 --> 00:55:43,160 able to implement Yellowdig in a variety of ways. 1040 00:55:43,160 --> 00:55:48,040 So meaning to give an example is you know when we are working 1041 00:55:48,040 --> 00:55:51,280 with a school let's say with a four year like undergrad program 1042 00:55:51,280 --> 00:55:53,800 or a two year degree program, they implement the yelting in a 1043 00:55:53,800 --> 00:55:55,240 certain way and manage it a certain way. 1044 00:55:55,240 --> 00:55:57,920 Where we are now also launching into like certification courses 1045 00:55:57,920 --> 00:56:01,560 where it's a one year, one month program where yelting will be 1046 00:56:01,560 --> 00:56:04,440 used in one month. So in that environment kind of 1047 00:56:04,440 --> 00:56:06,840 being able to launch in a certain way so that the learners 1048 00:56:06,840 --> 00:56:09,720 can get that engagement within one month is a slightly 1049 00:56:09,720 --> 00:56:11,560 different problem for us. So we are kind of looking at 1050 00:56:11,560 --> 00:56:15,000 that as a functionality. We're also adding you know like 1051 00:56:15,320 --> 00:56:19,560 we we just launched the the video transcription which was a 1052 00:56:19,800 --> 00:56:23,280 request for us where you can we love accessibility so. 1053 00:56:23,280 --> 00:56:25,040 Thank you. Yeah. 1054 00:56:26,040 --> 00:56:27,320 It's wonderful that that's a big. 1055 00:56:27,840 --> 00:56:29,760 That's a that was a big one that came out. 1056 00:56:30,120 --> 00:56:33,480 We also are kind of also we just launched another functionality 1057 00:56:33,480 --> 00:56:36,640 where we are going to show like roster management where students 1058 00:56:36,640 --> 00:56:40,680 are, let's say you are in a class of 100 students and like 5 1059 00:56:40,680 --> 00:56:42,680 students drop out because of our part. 1060 00:56:43,000 --> 00:56:45,520 You need to make sure those five students lose access in yellow 1061 00:56:45,520 --> 00:56:48,680 dig that used to be a manual process, but now we're actually 1062 00:56:48,680 --> 00:56:51,280 showing in the platform which five students are actually have 1063 00:56:51,280 --> 00:56:55,800 dropped off from LMS. So that data is easily 1064 00:56:55,800 --> 00:56:57,440 available. So yeah, there's a lot of those 1065 00:56:57,440 --> 00:57:00,400 things, a lot of in the details. We're going to leverage the AI 1066 00:57:00,520 --> 00:57:04,880 but cautiously I would say that has been the plan for us. 1067 00:57:05,800 --> 00:57:09,600 So I love the I train, but we want to be cautious how we are 1068 00:57:09,600 --> 00:57:11,680 implementing that. Yes, yes, we all do. 1069 00:57:12,120 --> 00:57:14,040 We're. All like we wanna be the first 1070 00:57:14,040 --> 00:57:17,320 thing, introduce this or introduce that. 1071 00:57:17,320 --> 00:57:19,920 But again, you do have to rethink that caution and also be 1072 00:57:19,920 --> 00:57:22,000 intentional when your approach would you do. 1073 00:57:22,560 --> 00:57:26,200 Well I can't thank you enough for coming on live and showing 1074 00:57:26,200 --> 00:57:27,280 us all the things. Yellow Dig. 1075 00:57:27,360 --> 00:57:29,880 I learned new stuff this time that I I'm not teaching this 1076 00:57:29,880 --> 00:57:31,440 semester but I'm teaching next semester. 1077 00:57:31,440 --> 00:57:34,280 So I'm definitely going to implement some new things and 1078 00:57:34,280 --> 00:57:37,680 we're going to have everything in the show notes about where to 1079 00:57:37,680 --> 00:57:40,600 find yellow dig. The pricing plans were to 1080 00:57:40,600 --> 00:57:43,240 connect with your team and and talk to everybody. 1081 00:57:43,440 --> 00:57:45,960 And I know you've been around that some conferences recently 1082 00:57:45,960 --> 00:57:47,800 because the fall conferences that are happening. 1083 00:57:47,800 --> 00:57:50,720 So you know, if you see Yellow Dig, go up and have a 1084 00:57:50,720 --> 00:57:53,840 conversation. Awesome. 1085 00:57:53,840 --> 00:57:54,920 Yeah. Thanks so much, Holly. 1086 00:57:54,920 --> 00:57:57,800 Thanks for always. It's a fun experience to work, 1087 00:57:57,800 --> 00:58:00,680 be with you and great to be here. 1088 00:58:00,680 --> 00:58:03,240 And if anybody has more questions, you can definitely 1089 00:58:03,240 --> 00:58:06,360 find us out. Awesome. 1090 00:58:06,360 --> 00:58:09,360 Well, thank you. Thank you.