Documentation

Introduction
Interactive Tutorials
Overview
Frequently Asked Questions
Supported operating systems and browsers
Managing your company
- Dashboard
- Company details
- Managing projects
- Generate Screens
- Backup
- Managing publications
- Manage access rights
- Managing workflow (Kanban)
- Extended metadata
- Support
- External Platform Integration
Creating a new presentation
- Managing metadata
- Font size selection
- Style of the lesson
- Fixed or changeable page size
Managing lessons
- Lesson details
Managing assets
- Updating assets
- Uploading assets
- Video and Audio file formats
- Online resources
- Downloading assets
- Asset Repository
Page management
- Navigation pages and Commons
- Page Navigation Styling
- Header and Footer
- Adding and deleting pages, changing pages order
- Copying pages between presentations
- Changing page size
- Splitting pages
- Page names
- Adding template pages
- Subset of pages
- Merging lessons
- Custom page loader
- Pop-up
Working with templates
- Creating and managing templates
- Private templates
- Public templates
- Updating templates - Replacing templates
- Template CSS classes
- Using external fonts
- Error loading template
CSS class and inline CSS styles
Creating responsive layouts
- Managing Layouts
- Layouts view and basic operations on the multi-layout page
- CSS Stylesheets and Inline CSS in responsive layouts
- Previewing and displaying lessons
- Adding pages from template
- Copying pages between lessons
Creating Accessible Content
- CSS Classes
- Headings
- Alternative texts
- Finding missing alternative texts
- Videos
- Language definition
- Keyboard navigation mode
- Dedicated screen reader
- Keyboard and TTS Modules
- Autofill function (TTS)
- Adding missing TTS modules
- Sorting the modules
- Sort function (TTS)
- Speech text dictionary
- Editing default TTS titles
Adaptive Learning
- Adaptive Learning Editor
- Navigation in the Adaptive Lesson
- Reporting Pages
- Testing The Adaptive Lesson
Printing
- Examples of lessons with digital and print layers
- Printing methods and modes
- Print mode in mAuthor
Content output
- SCORM packages
- Experience API (TinCan)
- Off-line playback
- Add mAuthor lesson to the epub3 book
- Player versions
- Course management
Working with modules
- Working with keyboard navigation
- Inserting modules
- Defining the module's size and position
- Nesting of addons/modules
- Grouping modules
- Favourites
- Grid
- Rulers
- Snapping
- Changing modules' order
- Blocking modules
- Showing/Hiding Modules
- Selecting and editing the modules' style
- Copying modules between pages
- Copying modules between presentations
- Relative layouts
- Content preview
- Drag&Drop and Click&Click module manipulation
- Activity scoring
- Redo & Undo commands
- Iframe animation controlled by Advanced Connector
- Additional classes
- Mutation Observer
Using jQuery
- jQuery Library
Saving user's result
Modules description
- Activities
- Games
  - Board Game
  - Catch
  - Crossword
  - Dice
  - Hangman
  - Magic Boxes
  - Maze
  - Memo Game
  - Puzzle
  - Quiz
  - Shooting Range
  - Sudoku
- Reporting
- Navigation
- Media
  - 3D Viewer
  - Animation
  - Audio
  - Audio Playlist
  - Coloring
  - Drawing
  - Edge Animation
  - Editable Window
  - Flash Cards
  - Glossary
  - Heading
  - Iframe
  - Image
  - Image Viewer
  - Image Viewer Button Controlled
  - IWB Toolbar
  - Layered Image
  - Line
  - LottiePlayer
  - Media Recorder
  - Model Viewer 3D
  - MultiAudio
  - Scoreboard
  - Shape
  - Shape Tracing
  - Slideshow
  - Standard Shapes
  - SVG
  - Swiffy Animation
  - TextAudio
  - Video
  - Vimeo
  - YouTube
  - Zoom Image
  - Zoom
- Scripting
- LearnPen
- CSS z-Indexes list
Math expressions
Private addons' development
- Creating addons
- Sharing the addons
- Addon CSS Guide
- Addon Presenter
- Addon Documentation
- Addon Model
- Player services
- Available JavaScript Libraries
- Addon Scripting
- Sample addon
- Addon-Events
Version control
Player development
- Requirements
- Build process
- Create addon
- Embedding the player
Exporting Lessons
- SCORM 2004
- SCORM 1.2
- xAPI
- Importing Lessons
- HTML5/Offline
Content localisation
- Localisation editor
- Audio narrations
Importing InDesign XML files

Modules description

mAuthor has many modules so to make it easier, they have been divided into certain categories:

Activities
Games
Reporting
Navigation
Media
Scripting
LearnPen

Main properties available for the modules

Property name	Description
ID	The module's ID.
Layout	Left or Right, Top or Bottom.
Left	The number of pixels from the left side.
Top	The number of pixels from the top.
Width	The width of the module in pixels.
Height	The height of the module in pixels.
Right	The number of pixels from the right.
Bottom	The number of pixels from the bottom.
Is Visible	Enables to hide or show the module.
Omit in keyboard navigation*	If marked, this module will be skipped when using keyboard navigation (this field has no effect on TTS-enabled navigation).
Omit in TTS**	If marked, this module will be skipped when using the Autofill button available in the Configuration property of the Text To Speech module.
TTS Title**	The title will be copied into the Title field for this module, listed in the Configuration property of the Text To Speech module after using the Autofill button.
Enable tabindex	The module can be navigated to via the keyboard's Tab key.

* Please note that this property is available only for the modules supporting the keyboard navigation.
** Please note that this property is available only for the modules supporting the TTS.

A style for each module type can be defined and edited by selecting its global CSS class for the whole presentation. It is highly recommended to define one CSS class for all modules of the same type in order to avoid any possible format inaccuracies.