mAuthor

What is mAuthor?

mAuthor is a combination of a powerful authoring tool and a cloud-based eDevelopment platform dedicated to building highly interactive digital content and coordinating the workflow of the project teams involved in its creation.

The resulting electronic content is built to eLearning industry standards and supports everyone, desktops and mobile devices, making it perfect for modern technology-supported education.

INTERACTIVE TUTORIALS

Take a closer look at mAuthor's interactive tutorials. They can not only serve as a guide for new mAuthor users, but also as a general presentation of your design philosophy. If you've ever had trouble exploring mAuthor's vast resources, it's the best way to learn them.

The tutorials were made in a form of engaging and interactive classes built with mAuthor itself. Because these tutorials are fully interactive, you have hands-on control over the materials presented, and therefore acquire knowledge and skills at your own pace.

RESPONSIVE DESIGN CAPABILITIES

The new mAuthor feature allows you to create classes that display seamlessly across multiple devices and screen sizes. It's based on a rich set of features that allow you to optimize page layouts for display on computers, tablets, smartphones, and more. In addition, this feature allows you to control the display of the lesson in a vertical or horizontal screen orientation.

FULL CONTROL over the LAYOUT

Not only can you change the size and position of all page elements, but you can also completely redesign the page within each layout. Adding a new layout is very simple: each one gets its own CSS stylesheet with the initial properties of the "default" layout, which can be freely modified.

WCAG ACCESSIBILITY AND COMPLIANCE

We are pleased to announce that mAuthor is the first authoring tool capable of creating highly interactive yet truly ACCESSIBLE electronic content. It supports WCAG recommendations and offers extended support of its own native assistive technologies. Applied features can improve the accessibility of not only newly created content, but can be easily applied to existing courses.

DESCRIPTIONS AND AUDIO SUBTITLES

mAuthor allows you to add audio descriptions to videos, supporting visually impaired and blind users, without the need to edit the ready-made video files. Subtitles can also be easily added to videos and slideshows to make the content accessible to students with hearing impairments. All graphics can be provided with their text alternatives.

KEYBOARD NAVIGATION

mAuthor offers users to easily work with content just by using the keyboard. All commonly used mAuthor modules support keyboard accessibility. This allows students to navigate through the course, solve even complex activities, and check the results without using the mouse or touchscreen gestures.

SCREEN READING TECHNOLOGY

In addition to the new options for generic screen readers, mAuthor offers its own screen reading assistive technology integrated into the content created. This approach provides much better user experience and comfort compared to generic screen readers. The solution offers a speech synthesis of alternative texts applied to the visual elements, as well as support for various languages and mathematical formulas.

ADAPTIVE LEARNING

Thanks to the large number and variety of functional modules, mAuthor is the product best positioned to be used in projects that target highly interactive courses that incorporate Adaptive Learning design. It offers extensive resources for building educational courses by dynamically combining the content presented according to the results of individual assignments, exercises, or quizzes performed by a student.

ALTERNATIVE LEARNING PATHS

Starting with the completion of the initial test (i.e., initial assessment), the "adaptive mechanism" of mAuthor (Interactive Content Player) selects the appropriate path, offering exercises and presentations tailored to a specific student's current level of knowledge.

More about ADAPTIVE LEARNING

If you want to learn more about mAuthor's resources in this regard, encouraging you to visit the blog, where you can learn in detail what Adaptive Learning is.

BIG DATA ANALYTICS

The data collected during students' work with the electronic content created with mAuthor brings completely new opportunities, which are not available for the publication of traditional textbooks. It contains a large amount of information about the behavior of the particular student and especially the results obtained during the resolution of the interactive activities. All of this information is used to provide instant feedback to the student, but it is also collected in a general database that stores information from the results of all students.

INTELLIGENT ECONTENT

From now on, educational publishers get the powerful tool that allows them to really assess the quality of their materials. By analyzing the interaction of thousands of students with a given activity, they can see how difficult it is for students and take corrective actions to make it clearer and therefore more effective. Through regular analysis and improvement of all their electronic content elements, publishers can refine their new electronic "textbooks" and make them increasingly intelligent and reactive to different student behavior.

GOOGLE BigQuery

All data generated by mAuthor electronic content is stored in the Google BigQuery database, making it fully accessible by Google Data Studio and a variety of third-party tools (such as: Tableau, QlikView, Zoomdata) that allow publishers to perform thorough analysis and compelling visualizations of educationally relevant data. Effectively exploring these new possibilities allows textbook publishers to gradually shift from paper-based materials to highly intelligent, technology-based learning systems.

INTERACTIVE eCONTENT SAMPLES

Experience highly interactive electronic content samples created with mAuthor. You can access them from a desktop computer or any mobile device. See how other mAuthor users use a wide variety of activities, games, multimedia resources, simulations, educational films, animations, and more.

System Requirements:

CPU: 1.8 GHz dual core processor

RAM: 2 GB

HDD/SSD: 50 GB of free space on main drive

Operating system: Microsoft Windows 8 32-bit, Microsoft Windows 7 32-bit, and Microsoft Windows Vista 32-bit

Resolution: 1024×768

Supported Operating Systems

Mac OS X 10.5x (Leopard), Mac OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard), Mac OS X 10.7 (Lion), Mac OS X 10.7 (Mountain Lion), OS X 10.9 (Mavericks), and Mac OS X 10.10 (Yosemite)

Hardware requirements

Memory - 1 GB RAM and more

Free disk space - 50 MB

System type - 32-bit and 64-bit OS

- Android, iOS, iPad