October 5, 2026

Classes that know how long they run, and a term laid out at once

A class can now be given a length, so it shows as a time range and stays open until it really ends. A whole run of classes can be laid out while the course is being created rather than a date at a time. PowerPoint import now takes a deck at full picture quality and brings more of each slide across. And the panel that reports a recording says plainly whether it is ready and what to do when it isn't.

For teams running classes

Scheduling, recordings, and bringing in a PowerPoint you have already made.

Set how long a class runs
A session can carry a class length in hours and minutes. It reads as a time range wherever the class is shown, sits on the calendar at its real length rather than a flat hour, and keeps a student's waiting screen open for as long as the class actually runs. A class under way also stays editable until it ends, instead of closing to you the moment it starts. Leaving the length empty keeps the behaviour you have now.
Lay out a whole run of classes at once
When you create a course, a session can repeat — daily, weekly, monthly, or a pattern of your own. You choose the interval, the days of the week, whether the run ends after a number of classes or on a date, and any dates to skip, so a term that breaks for a holiday still goes in as one piece. What it produces are ordinary class sessions, grouped so you can see what the repeat did.
Import PowerPoint decks at full size
A PowerPoint of up to 500 MB now imports, up from 100 MB. That pays off after the import: every image that comes across becomes a deep-zoom image, and the larger the original, the closer a class can zoom. However large the deck, it opens for you to pick slides from in a couple of seconds, and a picture used on several slides is brought in once.
More of every slide arrives
Text typed inside a shape now comes across, keeping its words and its place on the slide; a picture used as a slide background arrives behind everything else; and an image pasted straight from the web comes in with the rest. Between those and the pictures and text boxes that already imported, most of what a teaching deck is made of now lands on the board — a diagram drawn out of boxes and arrows is the one thing still worth exporting as a picture first.
Know where a recording stands
The recording panel now gives one plain answer — ready, still processing, or needs attention — with a sentence saying what to do about it, and a step that never needed to run says so rather than looking like a failure. Where something can be restarted, there is one button to do it.

For teams running classes

Scheduling, recordings, and bringing in a PowerPoint you have already made.

Set how long a class runs

A session can carry a class length in hours and minutes. It reads as a time range wherever the class is shown, sits on the calendar at its real length rather than a flat hour, and keeps a student's waiting screen open for as long as the class actually runs. A class under way also stays editable until it ends, instead of closing to you the moment it starts. Leaving the length empty keeps the behaviour you have now.

Lay out a whole run of classes at once

When you create a course, a session can repeat — daily, weekly, monthly, or a pattern of your own. You choose the interval, the days of the week, whether the run ends after a number of classes or on a date, and any dates to skip, so a term that breaks for a holiday still goes in as one piece. What it produces are ordinary class sessions, grouped so you can see what the repeat did.

Import PowerPoint decks at full size

A PowerPoint of up to 500 MB now imports, up from 100 MB. That pays off after the import: every image that comes across becomes a deep-zoom image, and the larger the original, the closer a class can zoom. However large the deck, it opens for you to pick slides from in a couple of seconds, and a picture used on several slides is brought in once.