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On September 30, 2022, the Rubin team made several updates to our Emerge curriculum to assist with user experience.

See the patches listed below.

• Incorporated the Propel writing tool into Emerge so that students will no longer be directed to an external website when clicking on “PRACTICE WITH PROPEL”
• Added “Join a New Group” button to dashboard for students who have no access to courses upon creating accounts through single sign-on
• Tweaked the responsiveness of the left-side navigation menu so the submenu doesn’t freeze when users aren’t hovering over the unit name
• Fixed Badge Manager so the number badge recipients in an instructor’s group display properly
• Fixed an issue in which college students were unable to view the links to purchase Emerge access and enter in unique access codes
• Fixed an issue that prevented administrators from creating guest access codes
• Fixed an issue that prevented administrators from viewing certain pages via broken links

Many thanks to Subkit, a website dedicated to helping entrepreneurs grow and thrive, for a recent profile on our company and founder, Danny Rubin.

Check out the article here!

The Thomson Reuters Foundation quoted Rubin founder Danny Rubin this week on the topic of exclamation point usage as it relates to environmental research.

Check out the quote at the bottom of the article!

Oops. We mean…check out the quote at the bottom of the article.

Our thanks to Inside Businessand reporter Sandra Pennecke for a great write-up on the work we do with educators around the country to teach business communication skills.

Read the story here!

The Rubin team is hard at work in summer 2022 to create a brand-new learning environment for our Emerge curriculum starting in fall 2022. The goal is higher-quality lessons for college and career readiness.

This is a wholesale update in which we aim to improve site design, site navigation and the content inside the assignments themselves.

Changes include:

• Brighter colors
• More engaging site layout
• More short instructional videos
• Easier site navigation and simplified student instructions

“We knew this summer would be the right time to update our online program,” said Austin Makohon, software developer at Rubin and the project lead for the curriculum redesign. “We are excited to roll out a fresh, more intuitive design in the fall for both educators and students.”

See below for renderings of the new design.

Image 1: A cleaner, more modern sign-in screen which still features single sign-on capabilities for Gmail and Outlook.

Image 2: A revised unit page that lays out resources for specific topics (ex: Email Etiquette Advanced). All unit pages feature an overview video and drop-down sections with different instructional materials.

Image 3: A revised assignment page with an instructional video and simplified instructions with bad/good communication examples tucked inside a simple drop-down option.

Check out the article from “E-Jewish Philanthropy,” news publication covering the world of Jewish philanthropy, about how two NYC colleges have used Emerge, our signature online platform, to help students become better prepared for internship and job opportunities.

Here’s the central paragraph about the effectiveness of Emerge:

“Not only did students turn out – more than 50 of them – but the [Emerge] program also worked effectively to prepare them for the job market. The summer group was so successful we implemented a cohort for each semester of the 2020-2021 school year. Last semester alone, 25% of participants who completed the internship had full-time jobs or internships at its end. This is the kind of lasting communal impact that is possible when we work together to serve our students’ most pressing needs.”

See the full story here

We are proud to be the first-ever associate member of the National Business Education Association (NBEA).

NBEA, according to its website, is the “nation’s leading professional organization devoted exclusively to serving individuals and groups engaged in instruction, administration, research, and dissemination of information for and about business.”

The associate member program is a new offering through NBEA, and Rubin jumped at the opportunity to help educators strengthen how they teach communication skills for business careers.

Read about the announcement here!

We are happy to lend our expertise to a recent blog series from Stream.io, a leading provider of online notification tools.

Check out the Q&A with Danny Rubin, founder of Rubin, on the future of technology within the education space.

Q&A: How Edtech is Filling Student Learning Gaps