joining us live now is jason wilmot, the head of education at canva. jason thanks for joining us. >> thank you for having me. yeah, let's start with the basics. >> canva is an australia based company that's been getting a lot of buzz here, and now it's getting of course, a half million new users across the uc system. what does it enable people to do? >> well, that's a great question. so canva is currently empowering over 50 million students and teachers across the globe to communicate in a visual world, right? it's all about communicating and creating and focusing on design, literacy and making sure that these students know how to communicate in this world of where all your consumption is done in a visual manner. >> interesting, because yeah, that's what a ux official said, that our world today is a visual one. we usually think for students like, oh, they could use chatgpt to write essays or, you know, for a staff member or a faculty to write evaluations. but what are some practical student uses for our ai powered digital canvas that you have? >> well,

we spoke with the head of education at canva, jason wilmot, earlier today on our getting answers show, and he discussed the opportune cities the platform will bring to institutions means you've got magic right in canva where you can actually take what you've written and make it more fun, make it more serious. >> so we're actually teaching students how to actually write in a different manner when they write what they want to write. >> you can watch live interviews like that one every weekday. on getting answers. that airs at 3 p.m. monday to friday here on abc7 and wherever you stream coming up here putting safety in san francisco in your hands a controversial measure will now let voters decide on police staffing levels. >> we'll explain how that works and a better more beautiful san jose. >> the plan to transform the downtown area into a gateway that's welcoming for locals and visitors at the top of the hour. the commute home on bart disrupted because of reports of a person on the tracks. transbay service was suspended just after 5 p.m. and passengers are being urged to find alternati