Avallain Magnet Release 26

With Magnet Release 26, we are excited to give you early access to the beta version of Magnet Create.

This new, powerful and intuitive feature provides simplified authoring tools within the Avallain Magnet interface, enabling teachers to create their own relevant, high quality interactive lessons and courses.

With Magnet Create, teachers can easily create new lessons from scratch by adding as many activities as they like from the Activity Types menu. They can also import lessons from existing courses created with Magnet Create or published from Avallain Author. Furthermore, teachers will be able to publish, edit, and share their courses within their groups.

Read on to learn more!

If Magnet Create is available in your organisation, simply enable it on each institution. To do this:

In Magnet Administration, go to Institutions and select the institution where you want to enable Magnet Create.
Go to Additional Features and scroll down to Teacher Features. There, you will find the option “Teacher can create courses”.
Toggle on this option. Now, teachers within this institution can create their own courses with Magnet Create.

Watch below a quick demo about how to enable Magnet Create in your institutions:

After you have enabled Magnet Create in an institution, teachers can easily create new courses and set up their cover image, title, and description.

Afterwards, with simple clicks, teachers can create new lessons or add existing ones to their course, and divide the lessons by sections.

With Magnet Create, it is also possible to configure aspects of each lesson and activity, such as keywords and skills associated to the lesson, the name of the activity, and lesson options like Submit and Allow Retry.

To create a new course with Magnet Create, go to the Courses page. There, click on the tile called “Create new course”.
A new screen will open where you can add a cover image, name, and description to your course.
Below, you will see the Content area where you can find the sections of your course. Each section will contain lessons. You can create as many sections and lessons as you wish. You can also add lessons from other courses.
Remember to add a name to each section and lesson you add. This will help you and your students to better understand the structure of the course.

Watch below a quick demo of how to start creating a new course

Presentation: This activity type offers you a rich-text block to present non-scoring information to students. You can also add media blocks to the activity such as images, videos, and audio files.
File lesson: With this activity type, teachers can upload and add files in PDF format to the lesson.
Media lesson: Teachers can add single media files (images, videos, or audio files) and present it to students.
Single Choice Activity: In this activity, the student has to select the correct answer to a question from a list of options. Teachers can add several questions and media blocks that can be arranged according to the teacher’s preference.
Multiple Choice Activity: Similar to the Single Choice Activity, in this case, the student will have to choose all the correct answers to the question from the list of options.

You can add lessons from other courses to your new course. Simply follow these steps:

In the New Course page, go to the lesson where you want to add the lesson.
Click on “Add lessons”. A new screen will open where you can select from the available courses.
Select the course that contains the lesson you would like to add.
Open the respective section or unit of the course, and you will see all the lessons available.
Select one or more lessons by clicking the plus icon on each row. You can deselect a lesson by clicking the plus icon again.
You can go to other sections or units of the course and select more lessons. A counter at the top of the screen will tell you how many lessons have been selected so far.
When you are ready, simply click the “Add” button at the bottom of the screen, and done!
Your course now contains the lessons you selected to add.

Watch below a quick demo of how to add lessons to courses

It’s time to publish the course you created with Magnet Create!

The process is simple and will save you and your teachers a lot of time. But first, it’s important to mention that Magnet Create automatically saves every change you make to your course during the creation process. This way, you don’t have to worry about closing the draft course and losing your progress.

You can also preview your draft course before publishing it. For this, click the “Preview” button at the bottom of the page. A new window will open, showing your course in the way your students will see. You can even switch to tablet and mobile views to make sure your course will work well on different devices and screen dimensions.

Watch below a quick demo of how to preview your course in Magnet Create

Now that you have published your course, you can find it in the Courses page. From there, just follow these steps:

Click on the three dots in the course tile and select “Share” from the options. A new window will open where you can select the groups with which you want to share the course.
Click the “Share” button again, and you’re ready. You can add a message to the notification that the users of each group will receive after you share the course with them.

Watch below a quick demo of how to publish and share your course with Magnet Create

You can always edit a course that you created with Magnet Create. For this, go to the Courses page and click on the three dots in the course tile. Select “Edit” from the options and make the changes you need.

By clicking the same three dots in the course tile from the Courses page, you can also select “Duplicate as a draft”. This will create a copy of the course as a draft that you can edit as you wish.

Important: You can’t delete courses that have already been published. Only draft courses can be deleted.

Watch below a quick demo of how to edit and duplicate your course in Magnet Create

It’s important to remember that this is a beta version of Magnet Create. For this reason, we are offering you early access to try it out first-hand and start discovering all its benefits.

We will continue fine-tuning this tool in the following months, adding more activity types, options, and configuration features for you and your teachers.

To request your early access to Magnet Create, simply contact our Customer Success team using the button below or via Service Desk or the Live Chat.

Our team will take care of the necessary configuration and let you know as soon as Magnet Create is set up for you.

Table of Contents

Release 26

Create. Teach. Repeat.

With Magnet Release 26, we reach one of our most exciting milestones!

Enter Magnet Create (beta version), a powerful and intuitive authoring feature for teachers to create, publish and share their own interactive courses within their Magnet interface.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Table of Contents

Release 26

Create. Teach. Repeat.

With Magnet Release 26, we reach one of our most exciting milestones!Enter Magnet Create (beta version), a powerful and intuitive authoring feature for teachers to create, publish and share their own interactive courses within their Magnet interface.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

With Magnet Release 26, we reach one of our most exciting milestones!

Enter Magnet Create (beta version), a powerful and intuitive authoring feature for teachers to create, publish and share their own interactive courses within their Magnet interface.