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The 2024 summer release

The noteworthy new features from our 2024 summer release.

Privacy & Security

Anonymous attribution, no sign-up required

Enjoy personalized but anonymous contributions on Padlet without creating an account.

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Editable thumbnails

Add custom thumbnails to webpage links on your padlet.

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AI-powered Teaching Assistant

When you use an AI recipe, Teaching Assistant will help you improve and modify your padlet board.

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Product Featured

Introducing Padlet Sandbox: Digital Canvas and Jamboard Alternative

Whiteboard, create lessons, and design activities using drawing, writing, and media.

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Introducing gradebook and grade passback

Grade student posts from your padlet and sync grades to your LMS.

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Text-to-speech attachment

Talk for me lets you add AI-generated audio to your posts in over 40 languages.

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Automate your padlet

Schedule your padlet to freeze or unfreeze up to a year in advance.

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Improvements to Safety Net: auto-moderation for media comments

We’ll automatically block inappropriate image, video, and audio comments so you can collaborate safely

Add videos to comments

Add videos to comments

Comment with a video for better discussions, language practice, and feedback.

Auto-captions for video and audio uploads

Auto-captions for video and audio uploads

When you upload a video or audio to Padlet, we will automatically transcribe it and add captions.

Using Padlet as a Flip alternative

Using Padlet as a Flip alternative

Try Padlet as an alternative to Microsoft Flip. Record and upload videos, easily share your board, and leave comments.

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The 2024 spring release

The noteworthy new features from our 2024 spring release.

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Add images to comments

Comment with an image to facilitate collaboration, communicate ideas, or share funny memes.

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AI-guided discussion boards

Co-create an engaging discussion board with AI.

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Major updates to accessibility

Focusable disabled buttons, optional keyboard shortcuts, “Skip to content” link, and much more.

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Auto-remake links

Share a link that automatically generates a remake of your padlet

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Number, date, single-select, and button fields

New ways to collect and organize posted content on Padlet.

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Privacy & Security

Improvements to Safety Net: auto-moderation for images and video

Safety Net will automatically block unwanted images and videos.

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Upgraded attachment picker

Our new attachment picker has better buttons, shows previews faster, and looks prettier.

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The 2024 winter release

The noteworthy new features from our 2024 winter release.

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Template gallery

Browse over 250 templates in an organized, searchable gallery.

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A summary of the season’s engineering improvements

Here’s everything we worked on this season to make sure Padlet operates as smoothly as possible.

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1EdTech Data Privacy and LTI certification

Padlet has achieved 1Edtech certification for Data Privacy and LTI.

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Translated templates

All 254 templates are translated into all 42 languages supported by Padlet.