PostsShibboleth 2.x authentication is now available for all users of Magic Studio Pro. For those unfamiliar with it, the Shibboleth System is a standards based, open source software package for web single sign-on – find out more about it here.
Administration of Shibboleth for the education sector is provided by the UK Access Management Federation, supported by [...]
Product Updates
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Magic Studio and Shibboleth 2.x
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New Magic release today
By the end of today Magic Studio will have a new look home page and personal dashboard that greatly improves the experience for users. Our team has also been working on a host of new features that make drag and drop interactives more flexible and improve the navigational flow of the whole service. Specific items [...]
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New Bridgeman Education Channel
Bridgeman Education have released a sample of their content for use in Magic Studio. The new channel includes a selection of images from their huge collection and has been bundled into specific areas such as Worship, Florence Nightingale, Gunpowder Plot, the Victorians, Egypt, the Vikings and Knights, Castles and Dragons.
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New licencing model for Magic Studio
We’ve introduced a new licencing model for all versions of Magic Studio. We’ve done this to make it easier for anyone who is publishing content to be able to licence their own material for re-use by others and also to improve ease of use when you are using third party content and need to respect [...]
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Magic Studio is growing, we need to upgrade our servers!
Magic Studio is growing – both in terms of users and content that will soon be available to our users. To ensure that our service remains of the highest possible standard, we are upgrading our servers tomorrow night (Wednesday 15th October) from 6pm to 10pm (B.S.T.). You may not be able to access Magic Studio [...]
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Setting out our (API) stall
There’s a buzz at the moment about API’s and the growing demand for openness to satisfy the demand for the creative re-use of digital assets.
Of course, we are big fans of open API’s. They are incredibly useful because they allow systems to interface with each other, and when used over the web they have he [...] -
Rich Text Editing
Rich Text Editing has been extended from Featurette and added to text fields in Image Explorer and Timeline. This means you can now use basic formatting such as bold, italic, underline and bullet points in text in your interactives.
We’ve also added URL linking, so you can link your text and interactives to relevant websites [...] -
Timeline Product Updates
Hi everyone. Although its the summer holidays we’ve been working on making some more improvements to Timeline (plus rich text editing – see a different post on that).
First we’ve added BC/AD functionality. That means timelines can now go as far back in time using BC dates as you need. All you need [...] -
Multiple Labels for Drag ‘n Drop
We’ve added a new feature to the Drag ‘n’ Drop tool which enables authors to use the same label on more than one hotspot.
During authoring you can use a previously created label to place on a new hotspot – either from a list of text labels or by choosing the same image from your content [...] -
Hotspot Display Options for Image Explorer
We’ve added a new feature which enables authors to set different levels of visibility to hotspots to Image Explorers.
You can now choose from Invisible, Low, Medium (default) and High – click on the Settings button to choose your Hotspot Display option.
This feature means that as an author you can decide how easy it is for [...]
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