Advanced mathematics content demands more than standard digital authoring. Through its established collaboration with Wiris, Avallain continues to provide educational publishers with the specialist tools they need to create sophisticated STEM learning experiences in an efficient, scalable content production workflow.
Extending STEM Possibilities for Publishers through Avallain’s Collaboration with Wiris
St. Gallen, September 2026 – For several years, Wiris technology has been integrated into Avallain Author, our flexible, AI-powered authoring tool, helping educational publishers bring advanced mathematical notation and assessment into their digital learning products. As the collaboration continues to evolve, these capabilities are enabling content teams to create richer, more interactive STEM experiences while keeping specialist functionality within their existing authoring environment.
Through MathType and WirisQuizzes, publishers can incorporate complex mathematical notation, dynamic exercises and sophisticated assessment into digital learning materials alongside the wider range of content they create in Avallain Author.
Expanding the Possibilities for STEM Content
Creating high-quality digital STEM content requires specific technical and pedagogical considerations. Mathematical notation needs to be represented accurately, while assessments often need to accommodate answers and interactions that go far beyond traditional multiple-choice activities.
MathType enables authors to create and incorporate mathematical notation alongside other learning content, while WirisQuizzes extends these capabilities into assessment. Publishers and content teams can develop open-ended mathematical questions, interactive graphs and activities using dynamic variables, with automated grading and immediate learner feedback.
Together, these capabilities allow publishers to create more sophisticated STEM learning experiences within Avallain Author, moving beyond the digital reproduction of printed exercises towards more interactive and responsive forms of assessment.
As Jose Gómez, Strategic Partnerships Manager at Wiris, explains:
‘Partnering with Avallain allows us to bring more advanced STEM assessment into the digital learning experience. By integrating WirisQuizzes into Avallain, publishers and content creators can easily build interactive, automatically graded math activities, reducing hours of manual work while giving learners a much richer experience.’
Bringing Specialist STEM Tools Into the Authoring Workflow
MathType and WirisQuizzes are integrated within Avallain Author, allowing content teams to incorporate specialist mathematics functionality alongside the wider range of digital learning materials they create.
For publishers managing extensive catalogues, multiple subjects and increasingly diverse digital requirements, this means STEM content does not need to sit within a separate production process. Complex equations, mathematical assessment and interactive activities can form part of the same authoring environment used across their broader portfolio.
This gives publishers greater flexibility to expand their STEM offering while maintaining consistency, efficiency and scalability across digital content production.
Building on Several Years of Collaboration
The capabilities available today build on several years of collaboration between Avallain and Wiris, combining Avallain’s expertise in digital education technology with Wiris’ specialist knowledge of mathematical notation, interaction and assessment.
As publishers’ STEM requirements continue to evolve, the partnership continues to develop, bringing specialist functionality into an authoring environment designed to support complex digital education products at scale.
‘For educational publishers, broadening a digital portfolio means being able to support every subject with the depth it deserves. STEM is a perfect example: it requires specialist functionality, but it should not require a fragmented production process. Our long-standing collaboration with Wiris helps publishers bring advanced mathematics and assessment into a unified workflow, so they can scale innovation across their entire offering.’
Alexis Walter, Managing Director of Avallain
About Wiris
Wiris is a pioneering software development company founded over 25 years ago and headquartered in Barcelona, with an office in Long Beach, California. Dedicated to creating advanced STEM tools for the edtech, academic, scientific, and publishing communities, Wiris’s mission is to make people’s STEM work more meaningful by seamlessly integrating math and science tools into every learning environment.
Wiris offers three innovative products: MathType, the world’s leading math equation editor; WirisQuizzes, an advanced assessment engine for automated math grading and dynamic exercise creation; and Nubric, a math practice and assessment tool designed to engage students. You can find them in various Learning Management Systems (LMS), including Blackboard, BrightSpace, Canvas, and Moodle, as well as in the most popular office suites, such as Google Workspace and Microsoft Office.
For more than two decades, Avallain has enabled publishers, institutions and educators to create and deliver world-class digital education products and programmes. Our award-winning solutions include Avallain Author, an AI-powered authoring tool, Avallain Magnet, a peerless LMS with integrated AI, and TeacherMatic, a ready-to-use AI toolkit created for and refined by educators.
Our technology meets the highest standards with accessibility and human-centred design at its core. Through Avallain Intelligence, our framework for the responsible use of AI in education, we empower our clients to unlock AI’s full potential, applied ethically and safely. Avallain is ISO/IEC 27001:2022 and SOC 2 Type 2 certified and a participant in the United Nations Global Compact.
Creating high-quality digital learning content at scale requires efficient editorial workflows that support both productivity and human oversight. In the third session of Avallain’s Product Webinar Series, David Moxon and Stephen Madden explored how Avallain Author supports publishers, schools, institutions and digital learning providers in accelerating editorial production while creating interactive, responsive and accessible learning content across a wide range of educational contexts.
AI-Powered, Publisher-Grade and Human-Centred: Accelerating Editorial Authoring with Avallain Author
St. Gallen, August 2026 –In the third session of Avallain’s Product Webinar Series, ‘AI-Powered, Publisher-Grade and Human-Centred: Accelerating Editorial Authoring with Avallain Author’, David Moxon, Learning Technology Specialist and Content Developer, and Stephen Madden, Senior Business Development Manager, demonstrated how Avallain Author combines content creation and management with AI-powered capabilities to support efficient, publisher-grade editorial workflows.
Moderated by Giada Brisotto, Senior Marketing and Sales Operations Manager, the webinar explored how editorial teams can manage complex content projects, accelerate the creation of learning materials with AI and build highly interactive, responsive and accessible educational experiences for different sectors and learner needs.
Managing Content and Editorial Workflows in One Environment
The webinar opened with a live demonstration of Avallain Author from Stephen, who introduced the platform not only as a content creation tool, but also as a content management environment designed to support structured editorial production.
From the project dashboard, teams can gain an overview of the people working on a project, assigned tasks and different editorial roles. Roles can be configured with specific rights and permissions, helping organisations establish workflows that reflect the way their teams work.
Stephen also introduced the different areas available within a project, including Work Packages, Structures, the Media Library, Reports, Project Settings and Project Activities. Together, these capabilities provide a central environment for creating, organising and managing learning content throughout the production process.
Within Work Packages, teams can manage individual Learning Objects (LOs) and perform actions individually or in bulk, including publishing, copying, renaming and locking content. Metadata can also be added to learning activities, supporting richer analysis once learners begin interacting with the content by categorising it according to areas such as vocabulary, grammar or speaking.
By bringing content production and project management together, Avallain Author enables editorial teams to manage sophisticated digital learning projects without separating the creation process from the workflows surrounding it.
Accelerating Content Creation with AI While Keeping Humans in the Loop
Stephen then demonstrated GenAI in Avallain Author, showing how artificial intelligence can accelerate the first stages of content production without removing editorial control.
Starting with a simple prompt around small talk in a business context, he created a B1-level lesson for adult language learners. The learner profile allowed parameters such as age and CEFR level to be defined, while the author could choose the types of activities to generate and incorporate media where required.
For the demonstration, GenAI created four activities: an introductory presentation, a gap-fill exercise, a linking activity and a crossword. Within approximately a minute, the initial idea was transformed into a structured set of interactive learning activities ready for review and refinement.
Crucially, the workflow did not end with AI generation.
Stephen demonstrated how an editor could immediately review the generated material and make precise changes, whether to align terminology with an editorial style guide, reinforce previously introduced vocabulary or adapt the material to the requirements of a particular course.
This reflected one of the webinar’s central themes: AI can significantly accelerate drafting and production, but human editorial expertise remains essential. Rather than automatically publishing AI-generated material to learners, Avallain Author allows authors and editors to review, adapt and approve content before it reaches the learner.
The Q&A reinforced this approach. The speakers explained that generated content undergoes an initial check for harmful or highly inappropriate material, while editorial validation remains dependent on human review. This human-in-the-loop principle forms an important part of Avallain’s wider approach to the responsible use of AI in education.
Creating Interactive Learning Experiences Across Educational Contexts
David continued the live demonstration by showcasing the breadth of interactive learning content that can be created in Avallain Author.
With more than 50 Activity Types available, Avallain Author supports learning experiences designed for a wide variety of educational contexts rather than limiting authors to a small set of standard interactions.
For language learning, David demonstrated a Dialogue Recording activity in which learners can select a role within a conversation, listen to the other speaker and record their own responses. Once complete, learners can listen back to the entire dialogue, combining the original audio with their own recorded contributions.
He also demonstrated a Pronunciation activity that enables learners to record individual words and receive automated pronunciation feedback. Authors can adjust how feedback is presented and define the level at which pronunciation is considered successful, making the activity adaptable to different learner levels and objectives.
The demonstration then moved across other educational sectors. A K-12 activity used animated elements to help learners sequence the stages of the water cycle, while a STEM example showed how integration with WIRIS enables learners to work with sophisticated mathematical notation, equations and mathematical input.
For vocational learning, a Highlighting activity asked learners to identify different categories of safety information within a workplace procedure.
Together, the examples illustrated how a common authoring environment can support very different pedagogical requirements, from speaking practice and pronunciation to mathematics, sequencing and workplace training.
Responsive and Accessible Learning by Design
The webinar also highlighted how responsiveness and accessibility are embedded into the learning experiences created with Avallain Author.
During the demonstrations, attendees saw how content could be previewed across different device formats, including desktop, tablet and mobile. Activity Types adapt automatically to different screen sizes and, where necessary, can adjust their behaviour to provide an appropriate interaction for the device being used.
This means editorial teams do not need to create separate versions of the same learning activity for different devices.
David also highlighted accessibility across Avallain Author’s Activity Types, including support for screen readers and keyboard navigation. By incorporating these considerations into the content framework itself, publishers and educational organisations can create engaging digital materials while addressing accessibility requirements as an integral part of the production process.
From Digital Books to Richer Learning Experiences
The session concluded with a preview of Avallain Author’s Digital Book capabilities.
David demonstrated how existing PDF materials can be imported into Avallain Author and transformed into a Digital Book that retains the familiar book experience while introducing new layers of interactivity.
Learners can navigate the book, use annotation tools and interact with hotspots placed directly onto its pages. These hotspots can connect the book to interactive Learning Objects, video and audio content, external websites and other pages within the publication.
This approach enables publishers to build on existing book-based materials while connecting them with interactive digital learning experiences, bridging traditional publishing formats and richer course-based learning.
Digital Books and the wider Digital Book Experience will be explored in greater depth in the next session of Avallain’s Product Webinar Series.
Combining Editorial Efficiency with Human Expertise
The webinar demonstrated how Avallain Author brings together the different elements required for modern digital educational publishing: project and content management, AI-assisted creation, sophisticated interactivity, responsive delivery and accessibility.
AI can help editorial teams move rapidly from an initial idea to a first draft of structured learning content. A broad range of Activity Types allows those materials to be transformed into engaging experiences for language learning, K-12, STEM, vocational training and other educational contexts. At the same time, project management and editorial capabilities enable teams to organise, review and control content throughout production.
Most importantly, automation does not replace editorial judgement. Authors and editors remain responsible for reviewing generated content, applying their pedagogical and subject expertise and deciding when materials are ready to be published.
By combining AI-powered efficiency with publisher-grade workflows and human oversight, Avallain Author enables organisations to accelerate digital content production while maintaining the quality, flexibility and control required to create meaningful learning experiences at scale.
Watch the Webinar Recording
Watch the full webinar recording to see Avallain Author in action and discover how its project management, AI-powered content creation and interactive Activity Types can help editorial teams accelerate production while keeping human expertise at the centre of the authoring process.
Continue the Conversation in Our Next Webinar
Our Product Webinar Series continues with the next live session:
Digital Book Experience Courses: Seamlessly Connecting Traditional Books and Interactive Activities with Avallain Author and Avallain Magnet
Hosted by:
David Moxon, Learning Technology Specialist and Content Developer, Avallain
Stephen Madden, Senior Business Development Manager, Avallain
Moderated by:
Giada Brisotto, Senior Marketing and Sales Operations Manager, Avallain
🗓 Wednesday, 23 September 2026 🕒 14:00–14:30 BST | 15:00–15:30 CEST
Through more than two decades of close collaboration with publishers, we’ve seen how digital books have become the backbone of many successful product strategies. In this 30-minute live webinar, we will share innovative ways to enhance these offerings, both commercially and in ways that enrich the learner’s journey.
Go beyond simply delivering books online and expand them into an immersive learning experience with fully interactive activities connected to the book’s material. We will demonstrate how to enhance digital books with Avallain Author and Avallain Magnet. You’ll learn how to add interactive hotspots seamlessly connected to multimedia assets and learning exercises, develop a comprehensive course structure and provide an engaging Digital Book Experience (DBX) course for your learners.
We will guide you through the process of creating a Digital Book from PDF materials in Avallain Author. We’ll show you how to integrate interactive elements via hotspots, organise the DBX course with the Structure Tool and publish it to showcase the final learner experience in Avallain Magnet.
For more than two decades, Avallain has enabled publishers, institutions and educators to create and deliver world-class digital education products and programmes. Our award-winning solutions include Avallain Author, an AI-powered authoring tool, Avallain Magnet, a peerless LMS with integrated AI, and TeacherMatic, a ready-to-use AI toolkit created for and refined by educators.
Our technology meets the highest standards with accessibility and human-centred design at its core. Through Avallain Intelligence, our framework for the responsible use of AI in education, we empower our clients to unlock AI’s full potential, applied ethically and safely. Avallain is ISO/IEC 27001:2022 and SOC 2 Type 2 certified and a participant in the United Nations Global Compact.
As AI introduces new opportunities for content development, publishers, schools and institutions are also looking for efficient ways to manage, deliver and maintain those learning experiences at scale. In the first session of Avallain’s new monthly product webinar series, Stephen Madden and David Moxon explored how a seamlessly integrated ecosystem can help organisations connect content creation and learning delivery, bringing together the tools needed to support the entire learning lifecycle.
From Content Creation to Learning Delivery: A Seamlessly Integrated EdTech Ecosystem for the Age of AI
St. Gallen, June 2026 – In the first session of Avallain’s new product webinar series, ‘From Content Creation to Learning Delivery: A Seamlessly Integrated EdTech Ecosystem for the Age of AI’, Stephen Madden, Senior Business Development Manager, and David Moxon, Learning Technology Specialist and Content Developer, demonstrated how Avallain Author and Avallain Magnet work as a seamlessly integrated edtech ecosystem to support the entire digital learning lifecycle.
Moderated by Giada Brisotto, Senior Marketing and Sales Operations Manager, the session explored how publishers, schools and institutions can benefit from fully connected workflows for content creation, transformation, delivery and learner management. Attendees also gained insight into Avallain Intelligence, Avallain’s framework for the responsible implementation of AI in education and saw practical demonstrations of capabilities, including the Structure Tool, MosAIc and Avallain Magnet’s learner management capabilities.
A Connected Approach to Digital Learning
Stephen opened the session by exploring how AI is reshaping educational content development and why connected workflows are becoming increasingly important across the learning lifecycle.
Central to this discussion was Avallain Intelligence. Built on principles of ethics, safety and innovation, Avallain Intelligence supports the use of AI in ways that enhance educational outcomes while maintaining transparency, quality and human oversight.
The webinar demonstrated how this approach extends across the wider Avallain ecosystem, bringing together content creation, learning delivery and learner management within a connected environment designed to support publishers, schools and institutions.
Creating Interactive Learning Content with Avallain Author
The first live demonstration focused on Avallain Author and its flexible approach to digital content creation.
Stephen showcased how authors can create, edit and preview learning activities directly within the platform, allowing content teams to move quickly from development to review while maintaining full control over structure, design and pedagogy.
The demonstration highlighted a range of interactive activity types and showed how content can be updated efficiently as requirements evolve.
The session also introduced two approaches to AI-supported content creation. Stephen briefly highlighted GenAI, which can generate new content from prompts and will be explored in greater depth in a future webinar. He then demonstrated MosAIc, a capability designed to help organisations transform existing content into interactive digital learning experiences.
Using a sample anatomy PDF, Stephen showed how MosAIc can identify content within a document and convert it into interactive learning activities. A selected section of text was transformed into a gap-fill exercise, complete with answer options and supporting imagery drawn directly from the original source material.
The demonstration also highlighted an important consideration for publishers and institutions: the AI engine used within MosAIc does not train on customer content. Instead, content is processed solely to generate learning activities, helping organisations maintain control over proprietary and copyrighted materials.
From Content Creation to Learning Delivery
A key theme throughout the webinar was the seamless transition between content creation and learner delivery.
After creating content in Avallain Author, Stephen demonstrated how learning materials can move directly into Avallain Magnet, providing a connected workflow that links authoring and delivery within the same ecosystem.
This integration helps organisations maintain consistency across learning experiences while simplifying the process of publishing and managing content. Rather than treating authoring and delivery as separate stages, the webinar demonstrated how they can work together within a single workflow that supports the entire learning lifecycle.
Managing Learning with Avallain Magnet
David Moxon then introduced Avallain Magnet, demonstrating how learning programmes, users and institutions can be managed within a single platform.
The session explored a range of capabilities, including course administration, assignments, communication tools, learner feedback, progress tracking and reporting. Attendees saw how educators can support learners throughout their journey while maintaining visibility into participation, performance and outcomes.
David also demonstrated Magnet’s ability to support multiple independent institutions within a single environment. This enables educational providers to manage different organisational structures, audiences and commercial models from one platform while maintaining separation where required.
By combining learning delivery, communication and reporting within the same ecosystem, Magnet helps organisations create more connected and scalable digital learning experiences.
Supporting Responsible AI Adoption in Education
Throughout the webinar, Stephen emphasised that AI should enhance, rather than replace, educational expertise. Through Avallain Intelligence, Avallain takes a human-centred approach to AI implementation, combining innovation with ethical principles, transparency and safety.
As demonstrated through capabilities such as GenAI and MosAIc, AI can help accelerate content development and transformation workflows while ensuring educators, instructional designers and subject matter experts remain firmly in control of learning outcomes.
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Missed the live session or would like to revisit the discussion?
Watch the full webinar recording to discover how Avallain Author and Avallain Magnet work together to support the entire digital learning lifecycle, from content creation and transformation to learner delivery, engagement and management.
Continue the Conversation in Our Next Webinar
This session marked the first webinar in Avallain’s new product webinar series, which explores how educational organisations can create, deliver and manage meaningful digital learning experiences through a seamlessly integrated edtech ecosystem.
The next webinar, ‘Learning Outcomes That Matter: Delivering Impactful Teaching and Learning with Avallain Magnet’, will take a deeper look at Avallain Magnet, our peerless, AI-integrated LMS and how it supports the creation and delivery of interactive, impactful and highly personalised teaching and learning experiences.
This session will be hosted by Alina Sitnik, Customer Success Manager, and Stephen Madden, Senior Business Development Manager, and moderated by Giada Brisotto, Senior Marketing and Sales Operations Manager. We will explore how organisations can use Avallain Magnet to manage multiple institutional structures and commercial models from a single platform while delivering engaging learning experiences that adapt to evolving educational needs.
When?
Wednesday, 15th July
14:00 – 14:30 BST / 15:00 – 15:30 CEST
Discover how a flexible, scalable and fully integrated LMS can streamline your edtech ecosystem and support better learning outcomes.
For more than two decades, Avallain has enabled publishers, institutions and educators to create and deliver world-class digital education products and programmes. Our award-winning solutions include Avallain Author, an AI-powered authoring tool, Avallain Magnet, a peerless LMS with integrated AI, and TeacherMatic, a ready-to-use AI toolkit created for and refined by educators.
Our technology meets the highest standards with accessibility and human-centred design at its core. Through Avallain Intelligence, our framework for the responsible use of AI in education, we empower our clients to unlock AI’s full potential, applied ethically and safely. Avallain is ISO/IEC 27001:2022 and SOC 2 Type 2 certified and a participant in the United Nations Global Compact.
York Press, a long-established UK educational publisher with strong international reach, has selected Avallain Magnet to support the digital delivery of its educational programmes. The partnership strengthens York Press’s work with Ministries of Education, schools and institutional partners worldwide while enabling the publisher to extend its programmes internationally through scalable, high-quality digital learning delivery.
York Press Selects Avallain Magnet and Avallain Author to Support International Programme Delivery
St. Gallen, January 2026 – York Press has entered into a partnership with Avallain to use Avallain Magnet, our peerless and AI-integrated learning management system, as the digital learning platform for delivering its educational programmes across international markets.
A Publisher with Deep Roots and International Reach
Established in 1944, York Press has been active in educational publishing for more than 80 years. Headquartered in the UK, the company operates internationally across the public and private education sectors, with a strong track record of collaborating with institutional partners worldwide.
York Press focuses on the development of learner-centred materials for English Language Teaching and school education, aligning pedagogical quality with local curricula and educational priorities.
The company is also widely recognised for its long-term partnership with Pearson UK through the York Notes revision guides for English Language and Literature.
What Avallain Magnet Enables for Educational Publishers
Avallain Magnet is a powerful, customisable, end-to-end learning management system with AI-integrated technology. It enables publishers and education providers to deliver structured digital educational programmes while retaining control over content, pedagogy and learner experience.
Designed for deployment across institutions, regions and markets, Avallain Magnet provides the flexibility required to support different curricula, learner needs and delivery models. This makes it particularly suitable for international publishers such as York Press, which work with public-sector partners and operate across multiple geographies.
Supporting York Press’ Digital Strategy and Programme Expansion
Through the use of Avallain Magnet, York Press strengthens its ability to deliver programmes digitally to Ministries of Education and other institutional partners worldwide. The platform also supports the publisher’s plans to deliver programmes internationally and consistently across markets beyond any single region.
Avallain Magnet enables York Press to scale digital delivery efficiently while ensuring consistency, accessibility and quality across markets. This allows programmes developed for specific educational contexts to be adapted and delivered reliably in different countries and learning environments.
In addition to Avallain Magnet, York Press is also implementing Avallain Author, our flexible, AI-powered authoring tool. This allows York Press to create publisher-grade learning content at scale, enabling rich interactivity, pedagogical consistency and efficient content production. Content created in Avallain Author is seamlessly delivered through Avallain Magnet, supporting an integrated workflow from content creation to programme delivery.
‘York Press’s partnership with Avallain further enhances its ability to deliver high-quality educational resources and services worldwide by leveraging Avallain’s innovative digital learning platform’, says Habib Sayegh, CEO of York Press.
A Long-Term Collaboration with Strategic Impact
The partnership is the result of several years of discussion and collaboration and represents a significant step in York Press’s digital development. By combining York Press’s publishing expertise, international credibility and institutional relationships with Avallain Magnet’s digital delivery capabilities, the collaboration establishes a strong foundation for sustainable growth and global reach.
About York Press
Founded in 1944, York Press has been at the forefront of international education for over 80 years. As a family-owned and operated company, we take pride in our rich history and our commitment to excellent education. We use our deep understanding of the evolving educational landscape to continue to innovate and adapt to meet the needs of educators and learners worldwide. Our expertise spans both public and private education sectors, offering a comprehensive range of services to Ministries of Education and the private education sector worldwide.
About Avallain
For more than two decades, Avallain has enabled publishers, institutions and educators to create and deliver world-class digital education products and programmes. Our award-winning solutions include Avallain Author, an AI-powered authoring tool, Avallain Magnet, a peerless LMS with integrated AI, and TeacherMatic, a ready-to-use AI toolkit created for and refined by educators.
Our technology meets the highest standards with accessibility and human-centred design at its core. Through Avallain Intelligence, our framework for the responsible use of AI in education, we empower our clients to unlock AI’s full potential, applied ethically and safely. Avallain is ISO/IEC 27001:2022 and SOC 2 Type 2 certified and a participant in the United Nations Global Compact.
The Avallain Author Training and Certification Programme now contains a dedicated accessibility module, thereby extending its coverage to accessibility features within Avallain Author. It equips content creators with the knowledge to design truly inclusive learning materials for all students.
Accessible by Design: How the Avallain Author Training and Certification’s Accessibility Module Prepares Content Creators for the EAA Era
St. Gallen, July 2025 – The Avallain Author Training & Certification Programme is designed to equip publishing professionals, content service providers and individual authors with the skills to make the most of Avallain Author. A key component of this programme is the Accessibility module, a practical course that supports the creation of inclusive digital content aligned with international standards.
As the European Accessibility Act (EAA) comes into effect across the EU, education providers are navigating new compliance requirements and a broader shift toward equitable learning. This module enables content creators to respond confidently, building accessible materials that meet legal standards and support meaningful participation for all learners. It forms part of Avallain’s ongoing commitment to accessibility in digital education, grounded in our Inclusive Design Approach, as detailed in our article on how we design for accessibility.
Applying Built-In Accessibility with Confidence
The module guides participants through Avallain Author’s accessibility features and how to implement them in day-to-day workflows. These include:
Keyboard and screen reader compatibility, allowing navigation without a mouse.
AI-generated alt text for all images and illustrations.
AI-powered subtitles and transcripts for multimedia content.
Customisable layouts, including high contrast options and scalable fonts.
Accessibility controls flag non-compliant assets during content development.
By the end of the module, certified users can effectively apply these features and ensure that every piece of content aligns with WCAG 2.2 AA and is ready for any compliance audit.
Accessibility extends beyond layout and media to how learners interact with digital content. The Mercury Design Pack, which underpins Avallain Author Activity Types, plays a central role in ensuring that interactivity is inclusive by design.
The Accessibility module of the Avallain Author Training & Certification Programme teaches participants how to effectively use components within the Mercury Design Pack to deliver accessible, standards-aligned learning activities across a wide range of use cases.
Its accessibility-focused features include:
WCAG 2.2 AA compliance by default, covering everything from contrast ratios to focus indicators.
Keyboard-accessible components, enabling full navigation across interactive elements without a mouse.
Readable, scalable typography, optimised for users with dyslexia and other reading differences.
Consistent UX behaviours, reducing cognitive load and helping learners feel confident in navigating content.
Content creators can focus on the learning experience rather than retrofitting or troubleshooting because dozens of Activity Types built with Mercury have already been independently audited and validated for accessibility.
By mastering how to implement accessibility features in Mercury through the training module, authors, publishers and content service providers can deliver engaging and compliant interactive digital learning without extra production overhead.
Supporting Scalable, Inclusive Content Creation
The Accessibility module is designed to support content professionals in real-world production contexts:
Publishers can streamline accessibility across their catalogues and meet audit requirements efficiently.
Content service providers and agencies can deliver high-standard learning materials for clients with diverse compliance needs.
Individual authors gain structured guidance and official certification that demonstrates expertise in inclusive content development.
This module allows teams and individuals alike to integrate accessibility from the start, reducing rework, improving quality and ensuring every learner is supported.
AI for Accessibility: Research-Led Design
The module also reflects ongoing developments led by the Avallain Lab, which explores how AI can actively support inclusion in content creation. It is furtheraligned with Avallain Intelligence, our strategy for the ethical and responsible integration of AI in education.
This work includes:
Evaluating and refining features in collaboration with accessibility experts such as the Digital Accessibility Centre.
Integrating accessibility standards into development from the outset.
Enhancing authoring workflows with AI tools that generate alt text, subtitles and transcripts for multimedia assets.
This approach makes it easier for content creators to deliver compliant, high-quality learning materials with Avallain Author without needing external tools or specialised knowledge.
Responding to the EAA with Practical Tools and Training
The EAA sets a new bar for digital inclusion, and with it, a need for clear, actionable support for those creating educational content. The Accessibility module complements the Avallain Author Training and Certification Programme with resources to prepare for compliance while improving learner access and equity.
The module helps content creators to understand how to simplify accessibility work through guided training, built-in tools and reusable, validated components.
Join a Growing Community of Certified Teams and Individuals
Explore the Avallain Author Training and Certification Programme and join publishers, content service agencies and individual professionals who have already gained certification in using Avallain Author to create powerful, professional and accessible digital learning content.
About Avallain
At Avallain, we are on a mission to reshape the future of education through technology. We create customisable digital education solutions that empower educators and engage learners around the world. With a focus on accessibility and user-centred design, powered by AI and cutting-edge technology, we strive to make education engaging, effective and inclusive.
Richmond and Avallain have a long-standing partnership, collaborating to develop innovative e-learning content and deliver meaningful learning experiences through dynamic and intuitive platforms.
Richmond Expands Its Digital Ecosystem with the Launch of Richmond Studio, Powered by Avallain
St. Gallen, May 7, 2025— Richmond, part of the Santillana Group, provides an even more immersive and personalised experience for language teachers, managing staff and students with the launch of Richmond Studio.
Richmond Studio is the exclusive digital platform for both Richmond Solution and Richmond Pro — two comprehensive educational offerings from Richmond that support English Language Teaching (ELT) across K12 and Higher Education in Latin America. With over 750,000 students learning through Richmond Solution, Richmond has established itself as a regional leader in English language education. Richmond Pro, designed specifically for HigherEd, integrates Learning, Assessment, and Employability to equip students with the skills they need for academic and professional success. Richmond Studio brings both solutions to life through a powerful, customisable platform that centralises content, simplifies user experience, and fosters deeper engagement between teachers and students.
Avallain’s technology enables Richmond to create and deliver these effective online learning experiences. With Avallain Author, Richmond develops and manages multiple forms of ELT content, including interactive courses, eBooks, flipbooks, digital books (iRead), posters and multimedia-rich resources. All of these content types are also compatible with Richmond Studio. Teachers can tailor instruction and engage students more successfully.
Richmond Studio. Teacher Dashboard.
Combined with Avallain’s custom development services, this integrated solution facilitates efficient content distribution and provides a scalable, adaptable foundation for Richmond’s platform. This ensures that Richmond can expand its offerings across Latin America while maintaining a consistent, engaging user experience. The launch of Richmond Studio marks the next step in Richmond’s strategy, building on its established collaboration with Avallain to enhance ELT content creation and delivery.
“Our longstanding partnership with Avallain is built on shared values of innovation, quality, and educational impact. We fully trust their technology to support the evolution of our digital ecosystem. The launch of Richmond Studio represents a pivotal step in our strategy to deliver more effective and engaging language learning experiences, and we are confident in its potential to transform classrooms throughout Latin America.” – Esdras Taylor, Richmond Global Managing Director.
Richmond Studio. Student Activity.
Ethical AI in Education
Richmond has also benefitted from Avallain’s ethically developed AI solutions, in line with Avallain’s broader AI strategy, Avallain Intelligence.
Avallain Author provides both manual and AI-powered content creation. This includes auto-generated alt-text, keywords for images and transcripts and subtitles for video and audio files.
These and other AI features enhance the content creation process while ensuring the learning material is developed safely and responsibly. Teachers can deliver more impactful lessons without replacing human expertise, while students benefit from personalised yet safe learning experiences within Richmond Studio.
Looking to the future, Richmond Studio will soon introduce TeacherMatic, Avallain’s ready-to-go AI toolkit designed to reduce teachers’ workloads and enhance teaching by using generative AI to create flexible lesson plans, worksheets and quizzes.
Alexis Walter, Managing Director of Avallain, reinforces this commitment, stating, ‘Our long-standing relationship with Richmond has been built on trust and a shared commitment to delivering high-quality educational experiences. For over 20 years, we at Avallain have worked closely with publishers to deliver best-in-class solutions across the entire edtech value chain. As pioneers in edtech, we embrace AI responsibly through Avallain Intelligence, ensuring that AI enhances productivity while prioritising ethical practices. Crucially, the human element remains central.’
Richmond Studio. Teacher’s iRead Dashboard.
Advancing Digital Learning Together
With a collaboration spanning over a decade, Avallain has partnered with Richmond since the creation and launch of the Richmond Learning Platform (RLP), which has served as the foundation of Richmond Solution. RLP has provided a dynamic digital environment for English language learning across Latin America, delivering personalised learning paths, interactive tools, and real-time feedback — all within structures that are easy for teachers to set up and manage. Richmond Studio now represents the next step in this evolution: a more advanced and specialised platform designed to support Richmond’s strategic vision for both K12 and HigherEd through Richmond Solution and Richmond Pro.
One of the core strengths of Richmond Studio lies in its ability to generate meaningful evidence of student learning and measurable progress over time. Through integrated assessment tools, activity tracking, and advanced reporting features, educators gain actionable insights that support informed decision-making and personalised instruction. This data-driven approach ensures that teaching strategies are responsive and aligned with each student’s learning journey.
Avallain’s industry-leading authoring and platform solutions afford Richmond the flexibility to develop, adapt and distribute content efficiently. As a result, the company maintains the highest pedagogical and technological standards. Furthermore, Richmond Studio can deliver innovative, student-centric learning solutions that align with the latest educational needs.
This collaboration highlights Avallain’s ongoing commitment to working alongside leading education providers, continuously improving and supporting the creation of impactful online learning solutions that contribute to the future of education.
The launch of Richmond Studio represents a significant step forward in enhancing language learning for both teachers and students, providing a seamless, engaging and personalised experience. By combining Avallain’s technology with Richmond’s expertise in ELT content, this partnership is set to reshape language learning experiences in classrooms across Latin America and beyond.
About Richmond
Richmond, part of the Santillana Group, is a leading provider of English Language Teaching (ELT). With a strong foundation in academic excellence and a clear vision for innovation, Richmond offers a comprehensive suite of resources that support learners of all ages—from early education through to higher education.
At the heart of its offering is Richmond Solution, an advanced and comprehensive educational ecosystem designed to revolutionize English language teaching and learning across Latin America. Tailored to meet the diverse needs of students, educators, and institutions, Richmond Solution integrates high-quality content, innovative technology, and personalized support to foster effective and engaging language education.
At Avallain, we are on a mission to reshape the future of education through technology. We create customisable digital education solutions that empower educators and engage learners around the world. With a focus on accessibility and user-centred design, powered by AI and cutting-edge technology, we strive to make education engaging, effective and inclusive.
LANGUAGECERT bespoke test preparation materials crafted with Avallain Author.
PeopleCert collaborates with Avallain to create and deliver reliable, engaging test preparation content for LANGUAGECERT® portfolio
Lustmühle, October 24, 2024 – Digital education supplier Avallain today announces PeopleCert as its latest client. PeopleCert will be using Avallain Author, an AI-powered content creation and management solution, to design and deliver high-quality test preparation content for its LANGUAGECERT English Language assessments.
The LANGUAGECERT portfolio is dedicated to the assessment and certification of language skills globally, and by leveraging Avallain Author, PeopleCert can scale its reliable, accessible and engaging test preparation content.
Avallain Author is an intuitive, AI-powered content creation solution that supports publishers, institutions and schools with world-class authoring features, editorial workflows and project management. The solution has more than 45 activity types – some of them specifically honed for language learning – and over 200 configuration options that allow clients to build bespoke language training content tailored to their specific needs.
“We’re proud to partner with a respected organisation and a global brand like LANGUAGECERT. It’s an honour to work with such a renowned provider of language assessments and to contribute to their growing list of test preparation resources. With our world-class content solutions and our technical support and training, we’re confident that we can help advance their outcomes even further,” says Ian Johnstone, Vice President Partnerships at Avallain.
Avallain not only prides itself on its technically sophisticated solutions, but also on exceeding client expectations.
‘We’re delighted to be using Avallain’s innovative content authoring tool to enable us to craft robust test preparation resources that will support our test-takers”, says Marios Molfetas, Chief Languages Officer at PeopleCert.
This new collaboration with PeopleCert demonstrates Avallain’s growing influence in the language learning sphere, being a trusted provider for market leaders in impactful digital educational content.
Avallain is on a mission to reshape the future of education through technology. The company creates customisable digital education solutions that empower educators and engage learners around the world. With a focus on accessibility and user-centred design, powered by AI and cutting-edge technology, Avallain strives to make education engaging, effective and inclusive. Find out more at www.avallain.com.
About PeopleCert
PeopleCert is the global leader in the development of best practice frameworks and certifications, enhancing organizational efficiency and individual careers. Our products, including ITIL®, PRINCE2®, DEVOPS INSTITUTE®, and LANGUAGECERT®, benefit millions worldwide, spanning 82% of Fortune 500 and 800 government organizations. Through innovation, security, and superior customer experience, PeopleCert empowers people and organisations to achieve their potential.
The LANGUAGECERT portfolio includes high-quality, internationally recognised language exams that enhance the career, education and life opportunities of individuals worldwide. Approved by the UK Home Office, LANGUAGECERT delivers reliable and high-quality SELT exams covering all visa type requirements to live, work or study in the UK, whereas our exams are accepted worldwide as evidence of English language proficiency, in an ever-growing number of universities and organisations in over 100 countries.
Those recognised include dozens of independent freelance editors, writers and publishing professionals, along with the content team of Weblink Software, which becomes the first Avallain Author Certified Team. All trainees have completed an extensive six-hour self-study course and a certification module, which assesses both acquired knowledge and practical skills. Certified professionals and teams are able to demonstrate and promote their Avallain Author skills to the wider industry, opening up opportunities to work on the hundreds of projects delivered on Avallain Author each year by clients such as Oxford University Press, Pearson, Cambridge University Press, Santillana and Cengage.
Avallain Author has become the central digital content creation tool in the education industry. The new Training & Certification Programme ensures that content professionals — whether in-house or out-of-house — have an excellent foundation in the many capabilities of Avallain Author and are able to demonstrate their skills to colleagues, publishers and institutions. In addition, by certifying at least 5 team members and retaining their own Author licence, content service providers and publishers can now achieve Avallain Author Certified Team status. Weblink Software is the first to be recognised with a team certification.
“As a key provider of content creation services to the educational publishing industry, Weblink Software is delighted to become the very first Avallain Author Certified Team,” said Gavan Tanham, Chairman of Weblink Software. “Given the important role that Avallain Author plays in the industry, our team’s certification will allow us to provide and promote our services more widely, and assure our clients that their digital projects are in excellent hands.”
Many of the first content professionals to become certified are English Language Teaching specialists and can be found via an accreditations search in the ELT Publishing Professionals directory, developed in collaboration with Avallain.
Ignatz Heinz, President and Co-Founder of Avallain said: “We have always wanted to make our Avallain Author training available to all professionals and teams – in-house or out-of-house – and to provide certification so that they can demonstrate their capabilities. These first certifications offer our clients and their providers exciting new opportunities to work together in Avallain Author, secure in the knowledge that they have all the skills needed to create groundbreaking, powerful educational content. Congratulations to all!”
Avallain is an award-winning Swiss EdTEch and eLearning solutions provider that works with leading premium brands worldwide. The company’s mission is to unlock human potential through innovative technology-enhanced education and to enable its clients to create highly interactive e-Learning content solutions.
Weblink Software is a complete content service provider for the ELT industry, transforming print-based content for delivery in online platforms. Trusted by the biggest publishers and the first team to be certified by Avallain, Weblink provides a hassle-free and constructive workflow to create high-quality digital outcomes.
ELT Publishing Professionals is a dynamic online directory specialised in helping ELT and educational publishers hire freelancers with the right skills, experience and accreditations for their outsourced projects. ELTpp’s CPD programme includes input from Avallain, and together they have developed a filter for publishers to find Avallain-accredited freelancers.
Avallain Author was created over 15 years ago with the intention of establishing the most powerful and flexible digital authoring tool available to educational content creators. Over the years, it has evolved to be the central technology used by the industry, benefitting from real-world-use with educational publishers throughout the world.
Avallain Author now provides unrivalled support for diverse content formats, use-cases, workflows and modes of learning, resulting in more than 8.5 million interactive content items – all of them developed by our clients. The more it has been used by real content creators and deployed at scale, the more sophisticated Avallain Author has become.
An essential skillset for publishers, freelancers, and content service providers
To keep pace with the many developments in Avallain Author, Avallain has evolved its customer support and training, ensuring that clients are able to make the best use of the tool and achieve truly unique, vibrant and impactful learning experiences.
Given the many collaborations that happen in content creation, this training should be available to everyone, from in-house editorial staff, to authors, freelancers, and content service providers. And they should have a reliable and recognised way to demonstrate their Avallain Author knowledge and skills.
Welcome to the Avallain Author Training and Certification Programme.
This brand-new programme combines a 6-hour video-led training course and a 2-hour certification module. Everything is delivered on Avallain’s powerful learning platform, AvallainMagnet, meaning that the course can be completed in the trainee’s own time and on any device. It includes sandboxed access to Avallain Author itself, so that trainees can practise all they have learned and establish a lasting set of skills.
Trainees and teams that complete the training and pass the final test receive a digital certificate and badge that can be easily displayed on profiles, directories, and websites. This ensures that Avallain Author and Avallain Magnet clients are able quickly to identify skilled Author professionals and companies to help with their content programmes.
Dozens of professionals and a number of content service providers are already on their way to becoming Avallain Author certified, and upcoming cohorts are already scheduled, with seats still available.
Those interested in joining this unique programme can visit the registration page to find more information about how to get certified on one of the most powerful and popular authoring tools in the world.
Online courses help businesses and educational institutions make teaching and training more accessible for every kind of learner. But how do you create an effective one?
Online courses are made for a variety of reasons. People use them to learn new skills. Businesses use them to train their employees and provide certifications. Educational institutions use them to create new and engaging curriculum.
Because eLearning is so pervasive in today’s world, you might find yourself having to create an online course for the first time. That can be a daunting task, especially if you don’t have a background in education or instructional design. And it’s even tougher if you don’t have the right tool on your side for it.
We put together these essential steps to help instructors and trainers get on the right path.
6 Essential Steps to Creating an Online Course
Creating an effective online course takes time and planning. Here’s how to do it.
#1. Pick Your Topic
What’s your course going to be about?
There are a few ways you can go about answering these questions, but in general, you want to pick a topic that fits an organisational need and has enough information to warrant the creation of an entire course. You’ll also want to pick a topic that you’re passionate and knowledgeable about.
Depending on your situation, and who you are creating the course for, ask yourself questions like…
Does this topic need an entire course or to be an activity within a course?
What skills do learners need to succeed?
Does it fill a gap in your curriculum?
Will learners benefit from this topic being an online course?
Questions like these will help guide your thinking as you go about the initial planning stages.
#2. Start with Learning Outcomes in Mind
Next, before you do anything else, you need to consider what the learning outcomes should be for this course.
What do you want your learners to get from it?
What value do you want to bring them?
What value does this course bring your organisation?
These are critical questions that help focus your content, narrow down your audience, and gives your online course a purpose.
For example, if you have a goal for your learners to become experts in a topic, then you will need to have expert-level content and modules to guide them to that ideal state.
This also ensures that the right learners are taking your course. You don’t want complete beginners taking an expert-level course and vice versa.
#3. Write Your Content
Now it’s time to start creating the course!
Start by creating an outline. This outline will act as your curriculum and your overall course structure. Make sure that you have enough lessons and activities outlined that will last the duration of the course. Give your topics a logical order, making sure each topic seamlessly transitions to the one after.
Then you can start filling in the blanks of your outline by either creating new content. Or if you have applicable content that already exists, feel free to repurpose that existing content. That can save you time and money.
When writing out your content make sure that it’s always focused on your learners and the learning outcomes you set out.
This can also be where you create your assignments, quizzes, and tests.
#4. Produce and Edit Your Content
With the meat of your course content and structure finished, it’s time to gather and produce the multimedia elements of the course. With the right authoring software, it’s easy.
Gather all the assets you have, and if you find some gaps, then consider producing new elements like images and video.
Find where each element fits in your course and consider your media mix. It’s best practice to keep content types varied. Add games and interactive activities that will grab your learners’ attention. Consider how those activities will be scored, whether it’s automatically or manually. These elements help your online course stand out, and they also drive engagement. So, get creative!
#5. Share Your Online Course
Now that the course is finalised, it’s time to send it out to your learners. There are a lot of eLearning software packages out there that can help you do this, but these days, a dedicated, all-in-one Learning Management System is the best way to get your courses to your learners.
Through an LMS, you can easily publish, manage and distribute your courses, communicate with your learners, and offer immersive learning experiences to keep people engaged.
#6. Track Metrics and Constantly Iterate
Last but certainly not least, you’ll want to track engagement metrics on your online course.
Track statistics like…
How many people complete the course
How long it took them to complete the course
How well they did on assessments and quizzes
How much of the content did the watch, listen to, or read
These metrics will show you where your course can improve. If people are tuning out in certain places, then you know where you can work to improve your course so that your learners or trainees achieve the desired learning outcome.
Conclusion
By taking the time to think through these steps, you’ll create an online course that fully covers a topic and serves the needs of your learners and your organisation. eLearning software gives you the tools to create beautiful and engaging online courses that get results.
Ready to create effective online courses? Avallain can help.Contact us today and tell us about your needs.
