author training and certification
Thank you for registering!
We are thrilled to welcome you to our Author Training and Certification program. To confirm your spot in the course, please check your email for further instructions, including the payment link and additional details.
Important Note: Once your payment is completed, it may take up to 15 minutes for your account to be activated. You will receive a welcome email containing all the necessary information about your course, including access instructions.
We look forward to helping you take the next step in your authoring journey!
Let’s build a world of learning, together
Choose the plan that suits your needs
Powerful and configurable end-to-end LMS with content creation tools and cutting-edge features to develop, enhance, deliver and analyse world class digital products, courses and programmes.
The most flexible and powerful authoring solution for interactive educational content, developed in partnership with leading publishers.
Magnet Professional
Ideal for publishers, institutions and edupreneurs serving up to 10,000 Magnet end-users per month.
Includes all Professional features
Full access to Avallain Author
3 seats in Avallain Author included
Unlimited number of projects in Avallain Author
All Activity Types (40+) included
4 fully-responsive and highly-configurable Design Packs Mercury, Mercury Vertical, Mercury Book, and Mercury Primary. Visit the FAQ section to learn more about Design Packs.
Full access to Avallain Magnet and all its features
Training, live chat and Service Desk support
New feature releases regularly (usually quarterly)
Magnet Education
Ideal for publishers, institutions, and edupreneurs serving more than 10,000 Magnet end-users per month.
Includes all Professional features
Everything included in Author Team
50 seats and 9 roles included
Dedicated cloud-based or on-premise hosting
Dedicated Production and Stage environments
Product Builder
Visibility of the Product Roadmap
Author Team
For small to medium teams
Ideal for publishers, institutions, content service providers and edupreneurs with small- to mid-sized editorial teams
3 seats included
All Activity Types (40+) included
Unlimited number of Projects, Work Packages and Learning Objects
Unlimited storage
4 fully-responsive, accessible and highly-configurable Design Packs Mercury, Mercury Vertical, Mercury Book, and Mercury Primary. Visit the FAQ section to learn more about Design Packs.
Shared cloud-based hosting
Training, live chat and Service Desk support
New feature releases regularly (usually quarterly)
Author Enterprise
For larger organizations
The perfect solution for publishers, institutions and content service providers with large editorial teams requiring custom hosting options, or looking to build native desktop and mobile apps.
Everything included in Author Team
50 seats and 9 roles included
Dedicated cloud-based or on-premise hosting
Dedicated Production and Stage environments
Product Builder
Visibility of the Product Roadmap
Dynamic Elements
Effortlessly create diverse layouts using customizable content blocks, allowing seamless integration of multimedia and data.
Intuitive Editing
Streamline your design process by dragging and dropping elements anywhere on the page, making editing a breeze.
Enhanced Visibility
Boost your site’s search engine rankings with built-in tools for optimizing content and meta tags.
Mobile-Friendly
Ensure your website looks stunning on all devices with automatic responsiveness, adapting to various screen sizes flawlessly.
Frequently asked questions about our pricing plans
Who is Magnet Professional best suited for?
Magnet Professional is the perfect plan for publishers, institutions, and edupreneurs who are looking for a powerful, configurable out-of-the-box LMS to deliver interactive courses to up to 10,000 Magnet end-users per month.
Magnet Professional offers powerful learning management, configuration, flexibility and integration with third-party solutions, without requiring commitment to a large minimum number of end-users per month. This plan allows you to adjust your business model to your needs, paying only for monthly Magnet end-users that have an active subscription to a product on your platform.
Who is Magnet Education for?
Magnet Education is ideal for publishers, institutions and edupreneurs that deliver their learning products to 10,000 Magnet end-users per month or more.
With Magnet Education, the price for end-users is greatly reduced. We recommend this plan where a commitment can be made to a minimum of 10,000 monthly Magnet end-users.
By selecting Magnet Education, you also have access to 15 seats in Avallain Author, compared to the three seats included in Magnet Professional, thus boosting the productivity of much larger content creation teams with the necessary workflow features.
How does Avallain Magnet define a chargeable end-user?
Avallain Magnet usage is billed as MAUA (Monthly Activated User Accounts), in the first week of the following month in arrears.
An Activated User Account is a User Account that has at least one active subscription to a product at any point in time in a given month. A User Account that has more than one active subscription to products still only counts as one Activated User Account in a given month.
The maximum (not total!) amount of MAUA reached in a given month determines the number of chargeable MAUA. With the MAUA system, Magnet end-users can be billed in cohorts. This way, you can increase cost-efficiency.
Can you describe a scenario that practically explains the difference between maximum and total amount of MAUA, as well as working with cohorts?
At the start of January, you give a first cohort of 1,000 Magnet end-users access to one or more products with a subscription validity of two weeks.
After the subscription has expired, all user accounts of the first cohort are deactivated, meaning they have no active subscription left to any of the products.
After the deactivation, you give a second cohort of 1,500 end users access to one or more products.
At the end of January, you have provided access to 2,500 Magnet end-users in total and reached 2,500 MAUA in total. However, you will only receive an invoice for the maximum amount of MAUA, minus 30 MAUA already included in the base price.
This means that Avallain Magnet offers great value as you effectively only pay for 1,470 instead of 2,500 Magnet end-users.
Who is Author Team best suited for?
Author Team is perfect for publishers, institutions, content service providers and edupreneurs with small- to mid-sized editorial teams who are looking for an authoring tool and CMS only, without an LMS. Author Team provides robustness and flexibility for small teams that want to create impressive learning content and publish with standard publishing types.
Who is Author Enterprise for?
Author Enterprise is the perfect solution for publishers, institutions and content service providers with large editorial teams, requiring custom hosting options, looking to build native desktop and mobile apps, or publish with custom publishing types.
With the Author Enterprise plan, you have access to enterprise publishing features like the Product Builder, dedicated stage and production environments, dedicated cloud-based or on-premise hosting, and access to the Product Roadmap.
What is an Activity Type?
In Avallain Author, an Activity Type refers to a specific interactive element or exercise that can be incorporated into educational content. Examples of Activity Types in Avallain Author include multiple-choice questions, drag-and-drop exercises, maths activities, free writing tasks, sorting exercises, and more.
These Activity Types are designed to engage learners and facilitate effective learning experiences by allowing them to interact with the content in a variety of ways. Each activity type has its unique features and functionalities catering to different learning objectives and styles.
Avallain Author pricing plans include all pre-built Activity Types, with more than 40 in total. Every plan also includes more than eight gamification Activity Types. With Author Enterprise, you can also request custom Activity Types for an additional fee.
What is a Design Pack?
Design Packs are collections of pre-defined design templates and styles applied to educational content for consistency and visual coherence across learning materials within the platform.
A Design Pack typically includes:
→ Layout templates: Pre-designed layouts with placeholders for text, images, videos, and interactive elements for a consistent structure throughout the content.
→ Colour schemes: Colour palettes that set the overall visual tone of the content, ensuring a cohesive look and feel.
→ Typography settings: Standardised font styles, sizes, and formatting options for readability and aesthetic appeal.
→ Graphic elements: Ready-to-use icons, borders, backgrounds, and other visual elements that enhance the presentation of content.
What are the benefits of using Design Packs?
By using Design Packs in Avallain Author, content creators can streamline the design process, maintain brand consistency, and focus more on crafting engaging and effective educational materials.
With our pre-built, fully responsive Mercury Design Pack, enabled by default in every Avallain Author plan, you don’t need to worry about designing or configuring different end-user interface layouts for different devices. You can create learning content immediately and publish it to your Magnet-powered LMS or any custom learning platform built on Avallain Unity’s infrastructure.
With Author Enterprise, you can request custom Design Packs for an additional fee. Furthermore, you can also configure a Design Pack yourself, but this process requires a high level of programming knowledge.
What is the Product Builder?
Product Builder is an exclusive feature of Author Enterprise plans that allows the creation of content delivery applications for various platforms, using content and structures produced from within Avallain Author. It is fully integrated with all the content creation features to allow seamless delivery of production-ready applications to the end users.
What is the Structure Tool?
Avallain Author allows you to organise Learning Objects and content from the Media Library hierarchically by intuitively creating a structure with the user-friendly Structure Tool. The structure you create can be instantly published to a Magnet-powered LMS, a platform built on Avallain Unity infrastructure, or in other software with the help of the Avallain Product Builder, to bundle individual content items into courses.
What is a Publishing Type?
Avallain Author can be configured to publish its content in a large variety of formats, supporting industry standards such as SCORM, xAPI / TinCan and QTI, making content produced with Avallain Author compatible with all learning management platforms supporting these standards.
Avallain Author comes with a set of default Publishing Types that can be further customised. It is also possible to create new Publishing Types either targeting different formats or different platforms when using seamless publishing.
Alexis Walter
Managing Director
Connect on LinkedIn
Carles Vidal
Business Director Avallain Lab
Connect on LinkedIn
Carlos Paramio
Director of Technology
Connect on LinkedIn
Corina Schmid-Maddalena
Head of HR
Connect on LinkedIn
Daniel Seuling
VP Client Relations and Marketing
Connect on LinkedIn
Ian Johnstone
VP Partnerships
Connect on LinkedIn
Ignatz Heinz
President and Co-Founder
Connect on LinkedIn
Kerry Houchen
Global Head of Business Development
Connect on LinkedIn
Mariví Martinez
Head of Business Administration
Connect on LinkedIn
Max Bondi
VP Products
Connect on LinkedIn
Miguel Michán
Head of Development
Connect on LinkedIn
Mike Wilson
Head of Product Management
Connect on LinkedIn
Monika Morawska
Chief Operating Officer
Connect on LinkedIn
Nadine Hartley
Head of Product Documentation
Connect on LinkedIn
Rahim Hirji
Executive VP
Connect on LinkedIn
Shkelqim Avdili
Silvia Curado
Head of Customer Success
Connect on LinkedIn
Ursula Suter
Executive Chairwoman and Co-Founder
Connect on LinkedIn
Frequently asked questions by content service providers
How can Avallain benefit content service providers?
Avallain Author is our product recommendation for content service providers. It offers the ability to create highly customised and interactive e-learning content for different types of audiences such as K-12, STEM, language training, vocational and corporate training students, and it is used by the publishers and institutions to which you routinely provide services.
Developed in partnership with many leading educational publishers, Avallain Author provides a proven, intuitive and collaborative environment for advanced learning content creation. Project managers, editors, and content creators — in-house or out-of-house — can manage projects, roles, and workflows, curate assets, apply all the necessary metadata and publish their content wherever needed.
Avallain Author has been designed for efficiency and honed by more than a decade of practical use at scale, having now delivered and managed millions of digital resources. It is an essential tool for you and the clients you serve.
What types of content can I create with Avallain Author?
Avallain Author empowers you to create a wide range of content for various audiences. You can make highly interactive lessons, quizzes, digital books, assessments, multimedia-rich courses and more by combining over 40 activity types and more than 200 configuration options.
With Avallain Author, you can easily incorporate multimedia elements like videos, images, audio, digital books, PDFs, animations, and embedded YouTube videos to improve the learning experience.
Aligned with Bloom’s Taxonomy, Avallain Author is perfectly suited to delivering targeted, outcomes-based educational experiences in all subject areas, including K12, STEM, language learning, corporate, and vocational training.
Avallain Author also includes subject-specific features and activity types such as dialogue recording, proofreading activities, pronunciation recognition and GeoGebra and WIRIS integration for advanced maths courses.
How suitable is Avallain Author for both novices and experienced content creators?
Avallain Author is a user-friendly platform that caters to both novices and experienced content creators. It offers advanced features to experienced users while being easy to use for beginners. Moreover, our platform provides a broad range of features that cater to different levels of skill.
In addition, we offer a unique Author Training and Certification programme that helps content creators make the most of everything Avallain Author has to offer.
Does Avallain Author support collaborative content creation?
Avallain Author is an advanced content management platform that provides a collaborative environment for users to work together efficiently on content development. The platform offers various features such as dedicated roles, project dashboards, task assignments, commenting features, and much more. These tools enable multiple users to work together seamlessly and effectively, streamlining the creation process from start to finish.
The project dashboard provides an overview of the entire project and allows users to track the progress of the project, making it easy to identify bottlenecks and take corrective actions. Project managers can refine the available activity types and options and further control the work of the team to improve efficiency. In summary, Avallain Author promotes creativity and collaboration while saving time and resources.
Is Avallain Author compatible with e-learning standards?
Yes! One of Avallain Author’s strengths lies in its compatibility with various e-learning standards, including an XML-based storage format and support for SCORM 1.2 and 2004, LTI, xAPI (TinCan), ePUB, HTML5, This compatibility means that you can create high-quality e-learning content that is compliant with industry standards and can be easily integrated into different Learning Management Systems (LMSs) such as Avallain Magnet, or indeed third party solutions.
How easy is it to publish learning content created in Avallain Author to Avallain learning platforms and third party solutions?
Avallain Author makes publishing your interactive educational content a breeze, allowing for easy and instant publication to Avallain Magnet or learning platforms built with the Avallain Unity architecture. Additionally, Avallain Author efficiently publishes content with full support for SCORM 1.2 and 2004, enabling you to make the most of your existing external learning platforms.
With the powerful and user-friendly Product Builder, exclusive to Author Enterprise, you can also create new software products as Windows, Mac, Linux, web-based, offline-accessible and even mobile apps.
Can content service providers request training and support to start using Avallain Author?
Absolutely! Every Avallain Author package comes with initial training and ongoing, timely support from our Customer Success Team.
Avallain Author provides you with a range of resources including the extensive Avallain Author User Guide, the Avallain Service Desk, direct chat support, an Ideas portal, additional training, a status page, release notes, newsletters and live webinars, to help you and your team get the most out of the platform.
Furthermore, content creators can take advantage of the Avallain Author Training & Certification Programme, which is exclusively designed to train and certify you in the use of Avallain Author. The programme includes more than 10 hours of video-led Author training delivered in Avallain Magnet, our all-in-one learning management system, practical tasks for hands-on experience, and a 3 to 4 hour hands-on certification module delivered in Avallain Author itself.
sdff
Dynamic Elements
Effortlessly create diverse layouts using customizable content blocks, allowing seamless integration of multimedia and data.
Intuitive Editing
Streamline your design process by dragging and dropping elements anywhere on the page, making editing a breeze.
Enhanced Visibility
Boost your site’s search engine rankings with built-in tools for optimizing content and meta tags.
Mobile-Friendly
Ensure your website looks stunning on all devices with automatic responsiveness, adapting to various screen sizes flawlessly.
Mobile-Friendly
Ensure your website looks stunning on all devices with automatic responsiveness, adapting to various screen sizes flawlessly.
Streamlined Website Creation Tool for Easy Development
Explore a variety of blocks and customization options for creating stunning websites effortlessly.
Streamlined Website Creation Tool for Easy Development
Explore a variety of blocks and customization options for creating stunning websites effortlessly.
