Thank You from the Slate Team

A week ago, a LinkedIn post introducing Slate's import feature found its way to the instructional design and eLearning development community. It wasn't paid for or planned. The response caught us off guard, in the best way. We heard from course creators across the industry who want to own their content and use modern tools to build it.

We want to say thank you. To everyone who shared the post, left a comment, signed up, sent feedback, or simply gave us a few minutes of their attention: we appreciate it more than we can properly express.

We have been listening

Since that post went out, we have spent most of our time doing two things: talking to creators from the community, and shipping improvements based on what we heard.

Here is what went live this week:

• Note block: A new callout block with four design variants (accent, bordered, filled, and minimal) for highlighting important information in your lessons.
• LESSON.md import: Write lessons in Markdown using any text editor or AI tool, then import them directly into Slate. The format supports nearly every block type and is available on all plans, including Free. Full spec at docs.slatebuilder.io/lesson-md.
• WAV file fix: A community member reported that their .wav file wouldn't upload. It turns out there are multiple types of .wav encoding, and we weren't accepting all of them. We learned something new, and it's fixed.
• Two new languages: Welsh and Portuguese (European), bringing Slate to 12 supported translation languages.

We have also finished testing our Canva app, which converts Canva presentations into interactive, trackable eLearning courses. It has been submitted to Canva for marketplace approval.

What this means

We are a small team and we are not going to pretend otherwise. But small means fast. When someone reports an issue or requests a feature, it does not disappear into a backlog.

If you have feedback or ideas, our feedback page is always open.

Thank you for finding us. We are going to keep building.