Empower your Teachers!

Avallain Magnet Release 16 provides you with a whole set of new features to empower your Teachers. Let them create groups and use the brand new Group Codes, equip them with teacher-only content, and allow them to register themselves.

With Magnet 16 you can unlock the full potential of your teachers, and they in turn will be able to create even better digital learning experiences for their students and your end users.

Star features to empower Teachers

Global Teacher View

Org Admins can now enable a new option at institution level called Global Teacher View. If enabled, it allows users with the role of a Teacher to view all users and groups in this specific institution. If disabled, users with the Teacher role can only see groups they have created or belong to, and only users that belong to those groups.

Enabled, this new feature can help you to either make sure Teacher roles have full viewing rights in a  particular institution, and consequently enabling them to view and do more – faster. Or, if disabled, you can support your Teachers to focus on what is relevant to them, and ensure data privacy. So regardless what your use case or setup is, Magnet has you covered!

Please note:

• By default, Global Teacher View is enabled.
• This only affects the Teacher role. It does not affect the Teacher Admin role, which continues to have full visibility of all users and groups in the specific institution.

How-to

In your Magnet Administration, when editing an Institution, you can easily toggle on and off Global Teacher View under the Additional Magnet Features.

Please contact our Customer Success Team via the Live Chat Support, if you have further questions.

Group creation

At institution level, Org Admins can now activate a new option called Teacher can create groups. If enabled, it allows users with the role of a Teacher to create their own groups and add users to it.

You can use this new feature to make your Teachers more independent of Teacher Admins, and give them more opportunities to organise themselves, their students, and their teaching. Or, in contrast, you can disable this option if you want to make sure that Teachers can’t create groups.

Please note:

• This only affects the Teacher role. It does not affect the Teacher Admin role, which continues to have full group creation and editing rights regardless.

How-to

In your Magnet Administration, when editing an Institution, you can easily toggle this new option on and off under the Additional Magnet Features.

Please contact our Customer Success Team via the Live Chat Support, if you have further questions.

Group codes

Magnet 16 brings another brand new feature for Teachers and Teacher Admins. When creating a new or editing an existing Group, teachers can now enable a group code. Students can then use this group code to join the group using the +-button on their dashboard. 

With this new features, teachers can enable their students to self-join groups, without requiring any intervention from a teacher. This can, for example, make the student onboarding process even faster and smoother.

In addition to that, our product design team further optimised the group creation and editing screen, as well as the group info panel. This will provide your end users with an even more intuitive user experience when working with groups in Magnet.

How-to

Group codes can easily be enabled by all teacher roles when creating or editing a group.

Please contact our Customer Success Team via the Live Chat Support, if you have further questions.

Teacher view

Student view

Content exclusive to Teachers

When editing a Learning Object (LO) in Avallain Author, you can now decide whether this LO should be accessible by Students and Teachers, or only by Teachers. 

This is a powerful new feature to add LOs and content to your courses that are only meant for Teachers, such as lesson plans or teacher instructions.

How-to

When editing an LO in Author, click on Metadata and then on Rights. Now you can select the role from the dropdown under Intended User Role.

Please don’t hesitate to contact our Customer Success Team via the Live Chat Support, if you have further questions.

Teacher registration

As an ORG Admin and at institution level, you can now enable a new option allowing users to self-register in the role of a Teacher. With this, you can further streamline the onboarding process for Teachers.

Please note:

• Enabling this option means that virtually anyone can register as a Teacher, including persons that may not actually be Teachers. That is why by default this option is always disabled, and please make sure to consider this point before enabling it.

How-to

In your Magnet Administration, when editing an Institution, you can easily toggle this new option on and off under the Additional Magnet Features.

Please contact our Customer Success Team via the Live Chat Support, if you have further questions.

Additional enhancements

Account activation link

Magnet Release 16 enables ORG Admins to easily access a copy of the account activation link of their pending end users. This is particularly helpful to assist end users that may not have received the initial account activation mail.

How-to

In your Magnet Administration, please click on the Users tab. Then, access a user’s details and find the activation link in a dropdown under Activation Support. Simply click on Copy activation link, and it will automatically be copied to your clipboard, ready to be pasted wherever you want.

Please contact our Customer Success Team via the Live Chat Support, if you have further questions.

Course cards in alphabetical order

On the Courses page, the course cards are now ordered left to right alphabetically. This allows an even clearer and more intuitive overview, for example when working with enumerations. However, as previously, the last course a user worked on will still be displayed prominently at the top, so that they can quickly jump in again.

Usernames in the Message Centre

In the Message Centre, the full usernames are now being displayed, instead of the initials only. This helps to easily keep a perfect overview, even if users share the same initials.