Built By You

When you have ideas, we listen. All of our features and best ideas come from you, our educators.

Built by educators,
for teaching and learning.

We need you to help us continue to innovate and support online teaching and learning in the most effective, human ways possible. Join our community and be a part of even further transforming online learning with InSpace!

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H-D Breakout Room Assignments

Laurent Hébert-Dufresne from the University of Vermont suggested the option of randomly assigning numbers to participants to determine the breakout room they should go to first.

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Zolot’s Amphitheater Seating

Ken Zolot from MIT recommended that we use dynamic sizing to automatically adjust a participant’s circle when they “take a seat” for a presentation.

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Professor Hall’s Hand

Brian Hall of Champlain College helped us enhance our “raise hand” feature by adding animation that made it feel more authentic…and just a little bit more fun, too!

Two students smiling and looking at laptop screen in a student lounge.

The Gordon Toxicity Filter

Josh Gordon, Associate in Computer Science, Columbia University and Open source Deep Learning at Google suggested we use machine learning to identify toxic messages in the chat and warn the participants before they send it to others.

Contribute your ideas

Our InSpace educator community is always teeming with brilliant ideas, stories, and dreams about how to make teaching and learning better. We know you have experiences to share, and we’d love to hear what you have to say. What are your dreams for online learning? What do you wish InSpace could do? All of our developments are informed by people who care deeply about learning, and who take the time to share how they see our tools and spaces working even better. We hope you will contribute by sharing a story, a suggestion, or a dream that we can help bring to life!

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