mAuthor Reviews

Its easy for use but it is defecult to use for customization edit special needs

This is ab beautiful software and will be the most software will used in 2023

The strengths of this software are the ease of use by people who have little or no knowledge of programming, the great diversity of modules that allow diversifying the tasks proposed to the students, and the consistency between the various modules that allow a fast evolution and learning to work with the tool.

There is almost nothing that I am not satisfied with, but maybe if they could enrich the example modules with all the possibilities of interaction with the powerful advanced connector module it would help us more!

the wide variety of modules and activities that can be performed

How inaccurate it is when assembling some modules.

I really like the variety of activity modules : we do not feel limited in our creativity. The support service is great, always quick to respond and very helpful.

Sometimes the ease of use is not there. The editor is a quite heavy product to handle, and not as smooth as i would like it to be. As a designer, I necessarily compare it to design software (like Figma or Sketch) since it uses the same principles of layers and artboards, and it's not that easy to use.

Easy to use because of its template, the support team are also nice and fast to response.

Some functions specially in math subject are sometimes an issue.

It is really easy to use and you can get professional contents done with it. It is very easy to start with as it doesn't need installation. It allows you to export to standard formats which it is really interesting and necessary. It has a really good documentation and examples to start with.

The most difficult for me it is its own semi-code language. But really you don't neet to know it to get good results.

I really like the multitude of options and flexibility and capability of the editing environment as well as configuration of the custom activity types. The template customization and approach mean that a high level of consistency is possible for developing large scale enrichment content, which we do all the time.

There is a little but of a technical learning curve to overcome to get the greatest value from the editor but once covered, it is possible to deliver almost any concept that can be thought of in terms of interactvity.

It offers, by far, most options for customization. For less complex pages it is easy to use (though for work with more complex materials, or customized templates users need to be very careful about how some modules or scripts might affect the whole product).

It would be great if more pages could be selected and copied to different lessons. In some cases, when the pages are long, mAuthor needs a few seconds to respond and when changing one measure it affects the other (shortening height of a module shortens its width, but only sometimes). It is very difficult to create responsive pages. Pages need to be created in multiple resolutions to achieve somewhat responsive screens.

A variety of existing modules. Flexible properties for each module. Support team is excellent. Learnetic is able to create new customized courses for our specific needs.

There is a bit of a learning curve because the writer must have a little knowledge of scripting.

The ability to meet all the needs of the educational community

The complexity of the feature set requires training time in abundance.

Basically the flexibility and the possibility offer by the product and the transparency of the development done with an easy access to the code details and a really nice documentation. Eventually to update some of the old example from the documentation access could be nice :) Having a direct view of the editor works as a company admin can be very nice too (currrently we have it by a specific request), but to have a simple dashboard who give details of how many time our editor spend in one lesson, one project, one activity or even in preview mode can be very interesting for internal challenging and to be hable to identify easily where our editor have difficulties

One of the biggest issue we are facing internally is the capacity to have non-technical user to go on the software to create content, i think it's pretty much the same issue with mInstructor, that is supposed to be the software for the teacher, but except if we have a total "geek" teacher profile most of them are lost. Plus adding a template library to give to our integrator the capacity to pick a page from template from a template divided by categorie will be nice for them.

The diverse module offerings and template settings in mAuthor allow the seamless integration of original and shared assets for a professional e-Learning product.

Most of the modules are set up for intuitive novice use because they don't require a lot of back-end coding. However, there are a few modules where knowing scripting can help optimize the features.

mAuthor is very easy to use tool for creating e-textbooks. It gives you plenty combinations to create you own and different products. With the same tool you can create completely different products. If you involve designers it is unlimited.

One textbook needs to be separated in chapters otherwise it takes you a lot of time. That is not problematic at NatScience textbooks but at Languages when you need to switch from chapter to chapter during the lesson, it is problematic.

- huge variety of features, including custom add-on's - reliability in terms of quality and reaction time to rapidly evolving edutech technologies - excellent technical support (human to human)

- the lack of voice recognition, for which there seems be a lot of demand from the market

My team needed a ready to use solution for development of digital textbooks. So far it has been very easy to use, we like the drag and drop system, that it has a lot of options, it's open for customization and logical to work with.

There are some functions that would make day-to-day work in the software easier. Like an option to select multiple pages at once, to work with assets independently (download as package or similar) and alignment options. Also, sometimes lesson export takes a lot of time.

Easy to use with a wide variety of templates and interaction types already built into the authoring tool. We also appreciate that, for the most part, you can develop the content in mAuthor and it will render responsive content for multiple device configurations.

We don't have any significant complaints. I think it would be interesting to make a 'free' version of mAuthor available for a teacher community which would allow educators to create and exchange 'Teacher Created Material' with each other. This ad hoc community of developers could then grow the overall exposure of users to mAuthor, but also can be tapped by commercial publishers as new content developers.