August 20, 2026

A rebuilt platform, with classes unchanged

The platform has been rebuilt. The parts of a class you spend your time in, the artwork, moving between looking together and looking on your own, and watching a class back afterwards, work the way they always have. Nearly everything around them is new and it is quicker to move around.

A live class filling a browser window. Seurat's Group of Figures — figures seated and standing on sunlit grass under trees, a woman in white at the right — fills the screen. The instructor's video sits in the top left corner and four student tiles showing initials run along the top, one with a raised hand, beside a red recording dot. Narrow toolbars run down both edges, and along the bottom a Focus and Explore switch sits above a strip of numbered board thumbnails. — A class under way. The object takes the screen, with the class along the top and the rest of the session's boards in the strip below. The switch above the strip is the one that shapes a class: on Focus everyone is looking at the same thing, and on Explore the object is yours to move around.

In a class

What you'll notice while taking a class, or watching one back.

A better wait before class
The screen you land on before a class begins has been rebuilt. A work from the Barnes collection now sits on the stage in full depth, so you can pan and zoom into it while you wait — the time before class becomes time to practice deep looking. Your camera preview, device checks and chat sit alongside it.
Zoom into a gallery, not just around it
Classes that use 360° images could always be turned to look around the room. Now they can be zoomed as well.
The conversation is there when you arrive
Chat now loads its full history the moment you join, and survives a page refresh — so arriving late, or reloading because something looked stuck, no longer costs you what was said.
Two instructors can point at once
In a class taught by two people, each instructor has their own pointer. They can draw attention to different parts of the same object at the same time, and one putting theirs away leaves the other's where it is.
Stay with a detail for as long as you want
When you are watching a class back and look on your own, you are normally returned to following along after a few seconds. You can now lock the replay in "Explore" and stay where you are until you choose to follow the class again.
Better on a phone or tablet
Both the class and the replay screens have been rebuilt for a phone. In a class your controls gather into one bar across the top — microphone, camera, raised hand, and a menu holding chat and the rest of the room. Watching a class back, they stay out of the way until you tap, so the artwork has the whole screen. Either way you move around a board with familiar gestures: drag to pan, pinch or double-tap to zoom.
A class. Everything you need is in the bar across the top, and the count on the menu tells you how much has been said in chat while you were looking. Tapping the ⓘ in the corner names the work on screen.
The same class afterwards. The controls stay hidden until you tap, so an object you are looking at properly has the screen to itself. Following means you are seeing what the instructor showed; move the object yourself and you take over until you tap back.

For teams running classes

Changes for the people building presentations and running sessions.

Build a presentation in fewer steps
Select several slides at once to duplicate or delete them together, drag to reorder — a whole selection at a time — add a slide wherever you want it rather than only at the end, and see the whole thing at once in a grid. New presentations now open with a choice of how to begin.
A session laid out in the new grid view. Each panel is one part of the class, and dragging them changes the order it runs in.
Find anything from anywhere
Press Ctrl+K, or ⌘K, to jump straight to a page, a course, or a guide.
Redesigned course pages
Your next class sits at the top, an at-a-glance panel shows the state of every session's recording, and the recordings themselves are laid out more clearly.
A course as the person running it sees it. The next class sits at the top with everything needed to start it, and the panel on the left summarises how the course's recordings are doing without opening any of them.
A calendar of your classes
The dashboard now shows your sessions as a calendar as well as a list.
Organization settings
Your organization's details, branding, and member list in one place.

In a class

What you'll notice while taking a class, or watching one back.

A better wait before class

The screen you land on before a class begins has been rebuilt. A work from the Barnes collection now sits on the stage in full depth, so you can pan and zoom into it while you wait — the time before class becomes time to practice deep looking. Your camera preview, device checks and chat sit alongside it.

Zoom into a gallery, not just around it

Classes that use 360° images could always be turned to look around the room. Now they can be zoomed as well.

The conversation is there when you arrive

Chat now loads its full history the moment you join, and survives a page refresh — so arriving late, or reloading because something looked stuck, no longer costs you what was said.

Two instructors can point at once

In a class taught by two people, each instructor has their own pointer. They can draw attention to different parts of the same object at the same time, and one putting theirs away leaves the other's where it is.

Stay with a detail for as long as you want

When you are watching a class back and look on your own, you are normally returned to following along after a few seconds. You can now lock the replay in "Explore" and stay where you are until you choose to follow the class again.

Better on a phone or tablet

Both the class and the replay screens have been rebuilt for a phone. In a class your controls gather into one bar across the top — microphone, camera, raised hand, and a menu holding chat and the rest of the room. Watching a class back, they stay out of the way until you tap, so the artwork has the whole screen. Either way you move around a board with familiar gestures: drag to pan, pinch or double-tap to zoom.

A live class open in a phone browser, held upright. Van Gogh's portrait of the postman Joseph Roulin fills the screen, zoomed in close on his face and cap. A bar across the top right holds a muted microphone, a switched-off camera, a raised hand, and a menu badged with three unread chat messages. A panel along the bottom gives the painting's artist, title and date, and the viewer's own tile sits in the corner. — A class. Everything you need is in the bar across the top, and the count on the menu tells you how much has been said in chat while you were looking. Tapping the ⓘ in the corner names the work on screen.

A recorded class open in a phone browser, held upright. A painting fills the screen, zoomed close on yellow and black brushwork. The instructor's video sits in the top right corner, a chapter list and a menu beside it, and a label reading Following in the top left. Along the bottom are a progress bar, the time elapsed and remaining, and five round buttons: previous chapter, back fifteen seconds, play, forward fifteen seconds, next chapter. — The same class afterwards. The controls stay hidden until you tap, so an object you are looking at properly has the screen to itself. Following means you are seeing what the instructor showed; move the object yourself and you take over until you tap back.

For teams running classes

Changes for the people building presentations and running sessions.

Build a presentation in fewer steps

Select several slides at once to duplicate or delete them together, drag to reorder — a whole selection at a time — add a slide wherever you want it rather than only at the end, and see the whole thing at once in a grid. New presentations now open with a choice of how to begin.

The presentation editor. Seurat's A Sunday on La Grande Jatte fills the screen, with a dark card in the lower left giving its title, artist and date alongside a note about looking at the edges where colors meet. Along the bottom, a grid of seven numbered panels — Group of Figures, About Seurat, Room 1, Models (Poseuses), Timeline, Sunday on La Grande Jatte and Summary — with the sixth outlined as the one being edited. — A session laid out in the new grid view. Each panel is one part of the class, and dragging them changes the order it runs in.

Find anything from anywhere

Press Ctrl+K, or ⌘K, to jump straight to a page, a course, or a guide.

Redesigned course pages

Your next class sits at the top, an at-a-glance panel shows the state of every session's recording, and the recordings themselves are laid out more clearly.

A course page titled Close Looking with six sessions. On the left, a Course Information panel and an At a glance panel reading 3 recordings ready, 0 processing and 0 failed. On the right, the next class is picked out at the top with a Start or join this meeting button, above the two sessions scheduled after it. — A course as the person running it sees it. The next class sits at the top with everything needed to start it, and the panel on the left summarises how the course's recordings are doing without opening any of them.

A calendar of your classes

The dashboard now shows your sessions as a calendar as well as a list.

Organization settings

Your organization's details, branding, and member list in one place.