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.

Skyrocket your eLearning business with Magnet 15!

Deliver brand new learning experiences with the new Design Package Mercury Vertical, benefit from automatic email reminders for assignments, and make the most out of the latest SSO functionality per institution.

And it doesn’t stop here: Take a sneak peek at Magnet’s upcoming eCommerce feature and integration with Shopify, one of the world’s leading eCommerce solutions.

Brand new Design Package Mercury Vertical

Avallain Magnet further expands the possibilities of user experience with the new design package in Avallain Author, your seamlessly connected online authoring tool.

Mercury Vertical enables your learners to scroll through all activities in a Learning Object (LO) top to bottom, which makes it particularly useful for mobile-first learning experiences.

Please note: You will have access to the new design package by the end of June. If you want to use Mercury Vertical and can’t find it in your projects in Avallain Author, please get in touch with our Customer Success team using the Live Chat.

New email reminder to students with assignments pending of submission

Students that have submitted all LOs but have not submitted the assignment yet receive a reminder per email.

Magnet Release 15 introduces an automatic email notification, which will be sent to students when they finish all the LOs included on an assignment but forget to submit the assignment for review. 

This new feature allows teachers to rely on Avallain Magnet to keep students updated on pending submissions needed to complete their assignments and, consequently, to receive feedback and continue with their learning progress. 

ORG Admins can find the new email template – named assignment_submit_reminder – in Mail Templates in the Platform Settings menu. This feature will be enabled by Avallain on all organisations as part of this release, so no further actions are required. 

New option to enable Google and Apple SSO on each institution

In Avallain Magnet Release 15, ORG Admins can now turn on or off the Single Sign-On (SSO) option for Apple and Google accounts per institution. 

This way, you gain even more options to set up your institutions individually, supporting you to allow seamless and simple registration workflows for your end users as well as addressing specific client requirements. When editing an Institution, Org Admins can find this new option in the “Institution Details” under the section called “Additional Magnet Features”.  

Note: It is still possible to control such settings at the organisation level by going to Platform Settings and entering the Settings options under Magnet Administration. 

Watch how to enable and disable SSO on institution level

Sneak peek 

Avallain Magnet eCommerce!

One of the most anticipated features is about to arrive in Avallain Magnet, and we want to share a sneak peek before the official launch.

You will soon be able to easily and securely integrate a Shopify shop with Avallain Magnet, and sell online courses that will be automatically added to each end user’s account. In addition, each institution will have direct access to the Shopify catalogue from the Courses dashboard.

Skyrocket your online sales and business growth with this feature that opens the door to countless additional commercial models. Also, it marks the start of a series of integrations with powerful external applications that you will soon see available on Avallain Magnet. 

We will keep you informed about the imminent launch of Avallain Magnet’s eCommerce feature, and provide documentation and training on how to implement it securely and swiftly. Stay tuned!

Watch a preview of Avallain Magnet eCommerce with Shopify

Level-up the potential of human-centred teaching and learning.

Discover highly anticipated features such as the powerful new Assignments and manual feedback on non-manually marked exercises.

Star Feature

Brand-new Assignments

Brand-new user interface design

Avallain Magnet Release 14 introduces Assignments, one of the most anticipated features with great potential to take teaching to a new level of engagement and management. 

ORG Admins can easily enable this new feature by going to Courses in Magnet Administration, click on Edit on the relevant course and, in the Course components section, turn the new Assignments toggle on (it is off by default). 

Note: When you enable Assignments in the Course Components section of a course, the Assignments tab will be visible to teachers and students for this course in all your institutions. For more information, refer to the User Guide.

Watch the tutorial: How to enable Assignments

How does it work?

The Assignments feature allows Teachers and Teacher Admins to create specific assignments for selected students or groups containing lessons from a particular course, as well as external files such as videos, PDFs, presentations, audio, and images. 

Students will be notified when a new assignment is waiting for them to solve or when the assignment has changed and, when they have completed it, Teachers and Teacher Admins will be able to review it and give feedback.  

Teachers will find all assignments conveniently organised in cards in the Assignments tab, which can be easily located on each course page. Currently, There are three possible stages of an Assignment.

• Active: When the due date is still pending and some students have not completed all the required content.
• Completed: When all students have completed the assignment or when the due date is reached (even if there are still students who have not submitted).
• Upcoming: When the assignment has a start date in the future. They can be seen by teachers but are not visible to students.

For each learner, there are three possible statuses:

• Not started: The learner has not opened the assignment.
• In progress: The student has opened the assignment.
• Submitted: The student has submitted the assignment.

To further enhance the efficient allocation of assignments and teaching management, Assignments can: 

• have a scheduled start date on which they are automatically activated for students
• be activated immediately by Teachers and Teacher Admins
• have a scheduled due date when they are marked as completed (even if students did not submit them on time)
• be completed automatically if all students have submitted them before the due date

Watch the quick tour around Assignments

Important

Teachers and Teacher Admins subscribed to a course will be able to see all assignments from all other teachers in the same course. For more information, refer to the User Guide.

TEACHING & LEARNING

Manual feedback extended to all exercises

To further increase the possibilities in the evaluation and teaching process, Avallain Magnet Release 14 extends manual feedback to all exercises within a course, regardless of whether they are manually marked or not. 

Teachers and Teacher Admins will be able to provide manual feedback from the feedback panel, either in text or audio format, to all exercises completed by students.

Students will receive a notification when a Teacher or Teacher Admin has left manual feedback for them, in the same way as is currently the case for manually marked exercises. For more information, refer to the User Guide.

Watch how to submit manual feedback on non-manually marked exercises

PLATFORM SETTINGS

New Organisation Time Zone Setting

With Avallain Magnet Release 14 it is possible to set a default time zone for the entire organisation in Magnet Administration. 

Usually, when ORG Admins adjust subscription dates, assignment dates, or token expiry dates and duration, the date and time entered is according to the time zone selected for each institution. 

Now, it is also possible to set a default time zone for your organisation instead of specifying one for each institution. With this new feature, you can apply the organisation’s time zone to the institution of your choice from the Institution Details screen.

To specify the default organisation time zone, just go to Platform settings > Settings in Magnet Administration, locate the key “organisation_timezone” and click Edit from the More menu. Then, easily select the time zone you wish to use for your organisation from the dropdown menu. For more information, refer to the User Guide.

Watch how to set up the organisation time zone in Magnet Administration

Important

For the frontend environment, the time zone will be displayed according to the time zone of each user’s computer or device. Remember that you can overwrite this organisation time zone by simply selecting a specific time zone in the Institution settings. 

For more information, refer to the User Guide.

Release 13

Own every corner of your learning platform with custom background images on the login page, personalised UI primary and secondary colours, new custom Course Feedback Screens, the new Magnet Administration Dashboard, and much more. 

Star Feature

Brand-new white labelling functionalities

Avallain Magnet Release 13 comes with a set of highly anticipated and exciting white-labelling features, giving ORG Admins further greater possibilities to fully personalise institutions’ brand and personality. 

Customisable login page background image

Avallain Magnet Release 13 further extends the power of personalisation, adding an exciting new feature to set up a background image to the login page of your institutions. 

Following our high standards of usability, you can set up the background image of the login page easily and quickly from the Edit Institution page in Magnet Administration. 

Along with this new feature, you can always select between two layout options, either with a single login field, or with an additional customisable area to add text, images, video files, and even HTML-based content. 

With full responsiveness implemented, and even the option to add a gradient effect to the background image, this function elevates the already flexible white-labelling capabilities of Avallain Magnet to a new level, allowing you to offer truly personalised experiences to your users, from the very first moment, even before logging in. 

Personalised primary and secondary accent colours in the UI

It is now possible to easily and intuitively customise the primary and secondary accent colours of your platform’s UI. 

You can quickly apply these changes directly from the Institutions page in Magnet Administration, either when creating a new institution, or editing an existing one in the Design Customisations section. Also, with the new interface, you can instantly preview all changes, visualising exactly how the interface will look for your users. 

Note: For a better and further streamlined experience customising your institutions, the header and footer colours have been aligned under one colour choice. 

For any of your institutions where the header and footer have different colours, as part of this release, we have applied the header colour automatically to the footer.

Also, the font colour in these areas has been configured so it switches automatically between dark and light, according to the header and footer colour.

In case of further questions about how to make the most out of this new functionality, please do not hesitate to contact Customer Success via the Live Chat Widget.  

Platform Customisation

Brand-new custom Course Feedback Screens for Adaptive Courses

We continue expanding the possibilities to fully personalise your users’ teaching and learning experiences, with a new addition to the recently launched Adaptive Courses. Now, ORG Admins can easily create custom course feedback screens to show up depending on the results obtained by each learner after completing an activity. 

To start using this new feature, ORG Admins just have to go to Platform Settings in Magnet Administration, and select Feedback Screens from the dropdown menu. Then, a title, a description, and even an illustration can be added to the feedback screen, either selecting from the predefined options or uploading a new image file. 

Another advantage of this feature is that ORG Admins can create a translated version of each feedback screen to be assigned to the correspondent language previously added to the platform. 

Also, with full syntax support, the message on each feedback screen can contain fully personalised elements such as the learner’s name and current level in the course, the folder and course average scores, and the name of the course. 

To learn more about how to use syntax in custom course feedback pages, as well other useful tips to make the most out of this powerful new feature, please consult the user guide.

Note: The new custom course feedback screens are part of the configurability of the Magnet Course Player, and have no impact on the content or any other feedback-type screens configured in the content itself. 

Enabling and disabling Course components 

Avallain Magnet Release 13 gives ORG Admins the power to enable or disable the displaying of Course components. A Course component is a part of the general course interface that is displayed to the learner or the teacher. 

There are three main course components in Avallain Magnet: Gradebook, Course content, and Table of contents. This new feature easily allows ORG Admins to configure which course components will be shown for learners and teachers independently, by switching the intuitively designed toggles located in the Course Edit settings.

With this addition to the already highly customisable interface, we provide ORG Admins with a very handful tool to configure learning experiences according to their needs and those of their users. 

For example, disabling the Gradebook in the Student view is really useful when ORG Admins are managing placement tests, and they need to prevent learners from seeing their results immediately.

Reports and analytics

New Magnet Administration Dashboard

Avallain Magnet Release 13 introduces a completely new section called Dashboard as the first page of Magnet Administration. Here you will find very useful information about your platform’s operation, with interactive and configurable data. 

With this highly intuitive and user-friendly designed dashboard, ORG Admins will be able to easily obtain relevant information about: 

• Quick Announcements about upcoming releases and updates to the platform, reminders of important events, and more 
• Total monthly billable users per month, with a filter to quickly review previous months’ data 
• Total number of new active users in the month, broken down by institution 
• Billable users listed by each institution of the organisation in the current month
• News from Avallain, with useful information and links to relevant content about how to make the most out of Avallain Magnet 

New Metrics page in Magnet Administration

A new page called Metrics has been added to Magnet Administration, where ORG Admins can obtain rich data about their platform’s operation and performance, from an interactive and visually engaging interface. 

All metrics are downloadable by clicking on the small download icon, located in the top right corner of each data box. Data can be easily exported in .csv, .xlsx, and .json formats for better compatibility and management. 

With the new Metrics page, ORG Admins can obtain real-time data about: 

• Total users count 
• Users count per role (Student, Teacher, and Teacher Admin) 
• Registered number of users by country, according to their profile and submitted data to Magnet Administration
• Active and pending users per institution
• New users per month
• Total users per course

Teaching and training

New Reset Course option

In Avallain Magnet Release 13 Teacher Admins can reset an entire course for a specific learner directly from the User Panel in the Users area. This way, we enable a quicker process to reset the learner’s progress and previously submitted answers in a course. 

It is as simple as going to the Users Panel and selecting the learner you want to reset the course to. Then, in the user’s detail panel to the left, in the Courses section, from the dropdown list you can easily and immediately reset the desired course.

This feature is especially useful when, for example, a learner needs to start over, or the teacher considers it necessary for the learner to retake a course.

Note: Resetting a course deletes all user’s data (course progress, answers submitted, and scores) for that course.

Release 12

Design groundbreaking digital learning experiences with highly personalised learning paths – automatically generated based on individual user input, thanks to the new adaptive course feature.

Latest Features

Powerful new adaptive course feature

Avallain Magnet Release 12 introduces a groundbreaking feature in eLearning, taking the potential for personalisation of learning experiences to an even higher level than ever before. 

Thanks to the extensive development of a powerful set of tools, Avallain Magnet Release 12 enables you to create sophisticated adaptive learning paths. With this new feature, you can deliver courses which automatically and individually adapt according to the input of a user as they take the course. 

For example, a simple language placement test may adapt if the user scores very well for a certain level of question and forward the user to a harder group of questions. Alternatively, if the student doesn’t reach a certain score, they could be forwarded to a simpler set of questions to better determine strengths and weaknesses.

Another example of adaptivity could be in a story-type scenario whereby a user is forwarded to the next ‘chapter’ of the story according to a response given in the previous lesson. 

Avallain Magnet provides you with no less than 4 different events, such as “User starts this course” or “User completes all contents”, and 6 different consequent actions, ranging from giving users access to all contents in a specific folder, to start a folder again, to set a user’s level, and more. With this you can provide your audiences with learning experiences that reach an unmatched level of engagement and motivation.

In order to provide Organisation Admins (ORG Admins) with an intuitive process to efficiently build adaptive learning paths, we have integrated all the new functionality within your Magnet Administration under the same principles of usability and agility of work that it has always used. 

In this way, ORG Admins can easily create and edit special rules to be applied to each properly structured course, with which users will seamlessly experience all the learning customisation power of adaptive courses. 

This means that ORG Admins can simply choose “Adaptive” as a new option for Course Progression, and then configure special rules for each module in this course. In order to learn all about it, please make sure to watch the webinar of this release, contact our Customer Success team via the Live Chat widget, or refer to the User Guide. When you search for “Adaptive” in the User Guide, you will find a comprehensive step-by-step guide. So that you can design exactly the adaptive learning paths that you want for your target audiences.

New direct link to the student’s gradebook from the Users page

As of Avallain Magnet Release 12, and in order to further facilitate navigation within the interface for Teachers and Teacher Admins, it is now possible to jump directly from the Users page to a student’s gradebook. 

In the User panel, in the section called Courses, you can now easily find a direct link to the corresponding gradebook for each course, further streamlining the user experience for Teachers and Teacher Admins. 

New Course and Contents reports

In addition to the information available on student performance in each course and content, neatly displayed on the platform, ORG Admins can now download reports in CSV format at course and content level, in the same way as at institution level. In this way, such data can be conveniently accessed and processed outside the platform, should it be needed for learning management processes.

To do this, a new option can be found in Magnet Administration, in the Reports option in the side menu. Conveniently, as with institutions reports, a filter can be used to quickly and easily locate the course from which the report is to be obtained. 

These new types of reports enable ORG Admins to see more detailed information regarding individual courses in their organisation. The reports include precise data of each student such as the user name, email, time taken to complete the course in seconds, and even more specific data like the maximum number of points available for the LO or the activity, and the number of points obtained by the user. 

Release 11

Experience the ultimate level of agility, control and efficiency with the new Avallain Switcher, new seamless access to institutions for Organisation Admins, voice recognition compatible activities, and a new function to reset activities directly from the Markbook. 

Latest Features

Avallain Switcher and single sign-on (SSO) authentication scheme

Avallain Magnet Release 11 breaks down the barriers of multiple instances with the implementation of the Avallain Switcher and the single sign-on authentication scheme. 

This new feature enables Organisation Admins with an intuitive and efficient navigation across Magnet Administration and the frontend environment from a single session, taking the platform management experience to a new level of streamlining never seen before. 

Now, thanks to the new Avallain Switcher in the top left corner, both Magnet Administration and the frontend environment are one click away, exponentially increasing the speed and smoothness of the workflow for Organisation Admins. 

With this tool, they now can manage all stages of digital learning, from managing users, courses, products and more, to reviewing course performance and the user interface in real time, all from a single session.

Note: This function will be further expanded in the near future, allowing direct access also to Avallain Author in the same session, offering a seamless central operational experience of all digital learning management tasks. Stay tuned!

Organisation Admins now can access institutions as Teacher Admins

With Avallain Magnet Release 11 and in combination with the brand-new Avallain Switcher, Organisation Admins now also have access to the frontend environment of a selected institution in the role of Teacher Admins. 

This new feature further streamlines product management by giving Organisation Admins seamless and quick access to the frontend environment to, for example, participate in the teaching process by evaluating students and reviewing grades as any other Teacher Admin. Also, this new access easily provides them with greater insight into the end-user experience and the performance of courses from their audiences’ perspective.

To carry out this process, it is as simple as following the steps below:

• In Magnet Administration, go to Users and open the desired user details panel. There, assign an institution to the Organisation Admin just the same way you would proceed with other roles. This also applies when you create a new user with the role of Organisation Admin.
• After this step is done, the Organisation Admin can either use the new Avallain Switcher and move across Magnet Administration and the frontend environment, or go to the login page of the frontend environment and use the same credentials as for Magnet Administration. 

Note:  With this new feature, Organisation Admins no longer need to create an additional user with the Teacher Admin role to access the frontend instance of their platform.

Teacher Admins now can reset activities in Avallain Magnet 

With Avallain Magnet Release 11, Teacher Admins gain the ability to reset directly from the Markbook the activities that have been taken by students. With this new feature we further extend the possibilities for Teacher Admins to manage users efficiently by providing a quick and simple process to reset the exercises performed by a student. 

This functionality is especially useful in cases where students are required to perform an activity again without having the previous result recorded, either to re-evaluate their performance or to review the subject without having the previous answers entered. 

This way, the Teacher Admin can carry out the restart of the exercise without the need to resort to the Organisation Admin to do so, exponentially increasing the efficiency of the workflow.

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Full support of voice recognition activities

Avallain Magnet Release 11 introduces a long-awaited feature, now offering full support for voice recognition to be implemented in activities. 

In this way, Avallain Magnet further extends the capabilities of creating interactive learning content, thanks to its full integration with Avallain Author. 

With the implementation of this new type of learning activity, users can experience a new level of interactiveness with engaging exercises like, for example, selecting one of a number of choices by recording an audio, so the exercise automatically evaluates the input with voice recognition, transcribing the recorded audio and comparing it to the correct answer.  

Note: To successfully implement this new feature, please contact the Customer Success team for further guidance.

Release 10

Superior engagement and further personalised learning experiences with the new Microsoft Teams integration, skills translations synchronisation, course sequential progression, and more.

Latest feature

Full integration with Avallain Magnet

Avallain Magnet Release 10 introduces Microsoft Teams and BigBlueButton as new video conferencing options, joining Zoom to continue providing organisations with robust and reliable alternatives for virtual meetings.

In the case of Microsoft Teams, organisations can set up their account as the standard video conferencing method for all of their institutions. Alternatively, individual institutions can use their own Microsoft Teams accounts if they wish. 

Also, in line with our strive to integrate the best tools available for digital learning, Avallain Magnet Release 10 includes BigBlueButton as a new default video conferencing application, available to all clients. 

These new applications provide organisations with extended alternatives to select and implement their preferred video conferencing tool, giving Avallain Magnet users easy access to reliable third-party video conferencing for enhanced and more personalised communication between teachers and learners.

Note: Please contact the Customer Success Team to successfully set up this configuration in your Magnet Administration.

How-to setup

New single URL addresses for organisations

From now on, Organisation Admins will access Magnet Administration using the same URL as for the frontend environment. 

This way, in order to log in to Magnet Administration, it will only be necessary to add “/admin” at the end of the platform’s frontend URL. 

Both the username and the password to access Magnet Administration will continue to work in the same way as they did when logging in via the previous URL.

Note: An individual message has been sent to your organisation with all the details about this new way to access Magnet Administration. If you haven’t received this message yet, please don’t hesitate on contacting our Customer Success Team. 

How-to access

New course progression and sequential locking option

Organisations will now have the option to configure courses which will only enable subsequent modules when the previous module has been completed. 

Learners will be able to see all modules in the Content screen, but will only be able to access those that are enabled, while the rest will be locked until they complete the corresponding previous module.

With this new feature, organisations gain greater control over the learning sequence they wish courses to be in, giving them greater learning management capabilities.

Note: By default, all existing and new courses will appear as unlocked. 

New course progression

New Open and Restricted Institutional Subscriptions

Avallain Magnet Release 10 includes a new option to manage institutional subscriptions, categorising them as Open and Restricted. 

Institutional subscriptions defined as Open will provide access to all users within an institution to the products associated to that subscription. On the other hand, institutional subscriptions defined as Restricted will be assigned by Teacher Admins and Teachers via Groups, providing access to the subscription products only to users that belong to the selected Group. 

With this new option, Organisation Admins gain even greater control over their business model as well as the way they manage access to each institution’s products and courses.

Note: In order to simplify the implementation of this new feature for our customers, all institutional subscriptions that have already been created will be categorised as Restricted by default.

New Open and Restricted Institutional Subscriptions

New User Billing Status categorisation

Avallain Magnet Release 10 introduces a new user categorisation, which makes it easier to identify their billing status. This increases the efficiency of product and user management as well as the detailed handling of profiles according to their current status, further enhancing the control over your business. 

The new categories that can be used are: 

• Guest: Any active user who has never had a subscription in the past and does not currently have any subscription.
• Alumni: Any active user who has previously had a subscription but currently has none.
• Billable: Any user with at least one active subscription to a product at any time in a given month, which has not expired nor is a free trial.
• Suspended: Any user who is reported as inactive on Magnet Administration. 

New User Billing Status categorisation

Skills translations synchronisation

With Avallain Magnet Release 10, organisations can now also manage the translation of Skills in coordination with the Language Switch feature. 

This way, we further enhance organisations’ capabilities to take their digital learning strategies to a global level, with yet more tools to deliver personalised learning, as well as a refined user experience, in the language of each target audience.

Skill translations synchronisation

Teacher Viewer role is now called Teacher

In order to further simplify the categorisation of users in Avallain Magnet, the role previously labelled as Teacher Viewer will now be called Teacher, while the Teacher Admin role will remain under the same term.

This change will be reflected both in Magnet Administration and in the frontend interface, however, it will not affect the permissions granted to that role.

Teacher Admins and Teachers can now see subscriptions displaying on User’s details panel

In order to provide a more efficient user management experience and with a focus on empowering the advantages of dedicated roles, Teacher Admins and Teachers now can see the list of product subscriptions assigned to the corresponding user in the User details panel in Avallain Magnet.

User panel

Email confirmation of new subscriptions for teachers and learners

With Avallain Magnet Release 10, when a subscription is assigned to users via Groups, they will receive an email, with the details of the subscription and confirming the access they have gained to the subscription. 

Release 8

Multilingual learning platforms, specific learning feedback, and more!

Latest Features

Language Switch

Avallain Magnet 8 includes a new language switch functionality in order to launch truly global learning platforms. Organisations can now enable or disable this option for each institution and, when enabled, teachers and students can easily and seamlessly switch languages via their institution login and My Profile pages.

Avallain Magnet 8 currently includes English and German options, and admins can create as well as implement their own translation files via Translations in Platform Settings.

Language switch

Specific, quality learning feedback for students

Now Teacher Admins and Group owners can designate other teachers in the same group as responsible to mark content submitted by students. This can be managed in the edit mode of the group panel. By default, the owner of a group is assigned as the marker of that group. 

Teachers with permission to mark content will receive notifications via the Teacher Dashboard, the Course page or the Message Center. They can then not only give a manual score for this particular lesson, but also add specific feedback in written form in order to further contribute to the learners’ individual development.

Students will receive a notification when their work has been marked so that they can conveniently check the individual feedback submitted by the teacher. 

Marking group

Release 7

Level-up your learning platform with new customisations and user management functions!

Latest Features

Redesigned Magnet Administration

Avallain Magnet 7 introduces a redesigned Magnet Administration in order to make your platform management processes even more intuitive – and powerful. Among the most important enhancements are:

• More intuitive and modern user interface design
• New arrangement of options such as Platform Settings for a better management experience
• Clean up of legacy fields no longer in use
• Extended filtering and sorting of users, courses, products, and more

Further personalise headers and footers

The colours of the footer and header of your Learning Platforms can now be customised. Simply choose whichever colour scheme you want for the background. The font colour will be automatically defined as either black or white, depending on the background colour. In other words: You are able to select the background colour in accordance with your Corporate Identity and Avallain Magnet 7 will define the font colour to make sure the text is easily readable.

Define Learning Objects via Skills

Avallain Magnet 7 includes a new feature to define and categorise Learning Objects via sets of Skills. This intuitively provides teachers and learners with more individual information about progress and scores, according to the skills they’ve been working on. In addition to that, using Skills will also allow to build even more personalised learning journeys.

Avallain Magnet 7 currently features three sets of Skills:

• Core competencies
• Career skills
• Language competencies

For more details about how to implement this feature, you can refer to the User Guide. 

Find students more easily and quickly in the Markbook

Avallain Magnet 7 now offers teachers the ability to search with just a few clicks in the Markbook for specific user names, filter users by groups, by user status or sort them by user name and pending grades.

Refer users to your social media accounts

The Organisation Admin can now visit the Institution customisation page to add more social media links to the footer.

In addition to LinkedIn and Twitter, which were already available, these are the new options:

• Facebook
• Instagram
• YouTube

Release 6

Unleash your digital learning strategy with powerful structuring and seamless publishing from Avallain Author!

Latest Features

Powerful Structuring and Seamless Publishing

With the arrival of Avallain Magnet 6, course publishing has never been easier.

Create structures of any complexity in Avallain Author’s intuitive Structure Tool and then, at the click of a button, publish them instantly, with all of their LOs, to Avallain Magnet. You can publish either to an existing course, or to a brand new one.

Avallain Magnet 6 further streamlines your publishing, enabling you to focus on creating the very best educational content and ultimately, deliver remarkable products, even faster.

→ Available on November 17th

Token Subscription Start & End Dates

You can now set a start and end date for token batches generated in the Magnet CMS, giving you even more control over your digital learning strategy. This new feature allows you easily to decide when learners should gain access to a course, and when this access must come to an end.

Now, courses that have not yet started will be visible to learners from their dashboard in an inactive state, with the start date displayed to inform them when it will become active.

This is a highly effective way to increase learner engagement and at the same time, give you much greater control over both your business model and the lifecycle of your learning content.

Magnet Messaging

With its new messaging toolset, Avallain Magnet 6 brings the learning conversation to life.

Magnet Messaging enables your teachers, trainers and learners to chat with each other about lessons and learning tasks without leaving your learning platform. For example, teachers and trainers can send messages to each other to coordinate their work, and send reminders or information to learners about their courses, new assignments and their performance.

With Magnet Messaging, communication is seamless and easy, and it all happens instantly.