Showbie Labs is an experimental menu filled with features that you as teachers, parents and students can access, turn on, and trial within your individual accounts. Teachers are encouraged to submit feedback to us here at Showbie to let us know what's working well with these features, as well as what can be improved upon!

Your feedback on these experimental features helps us learn and guides our development. If features are added to Showbie, they may be fine-tuned or modified before being released. Testing periods may vary depending on each feature.

To access Showbie Labs:

Once you access Showbie Labs from within your profile, you will be presented with a menu full of features that our team is currently experimenting with! This menu frequently changes. Here, you can toggle off and on these features to your liking and try them out in your account when accessing via the iOS App. These features are turned off by default until you choose to toggle them on. Teachers also have the option to send in feedback about these experimental features directly from within the menu.

The Showbie app now includes a Calendar in the main navigation menu! Teachers and students can use the Calendar to view weekly and monthly assignment due dates, check details like class or subject, and jump straight to the assignment!

Whenever a teacher sets a due date for an assignment, it will automatically appear in the calendar, alongside a 'red dot,' with the due date. The calendar can be toggled on or off based on student and teacher preference in Showbie Labs.

External links shared in Showbie as instructions, resources, or activities now include a preview showing a snapshot of the linked content and its destination. Link Previews are generated automatically after copy and pasting a link. Link Previews can be turned on or off, based on teacher preference in Showbie Labs.

When enabled in Showbie Labs, voice notes created now include an automatic transcript with a timestamp that pop up alongside any audio-verbal content shared in Showbie. This makes it easy to view a text version of the feedback, instruction, or response and take the power of student and teacher voice even further!