eBook Publishing, Mobile Learning Solutions, LMS, Learning Analytics and DRM Solutions in Education- MagicBox

MagicBox^TM is a Cloud-based mobile learning platform used by K-12 publishers to create & distribute rich interactive eBooks and track learner’s progress through analytics dashboards.

The plethora of technology stacks, standards and browsers throw in an almost infinite combinations on which the world views and absorbs content. Our experience with making content work on diverse platforms makes Magic a competent platform developer in today’s world.

MagicBox^TM is packaged with an state of art conversion tool that converts PDF to high-fidelity, IDPF compliant, ePub3, at the click of a button. Additionally, MagicBox^TM has an in-house team of digital media resources that provides the best experience and enhance the content by adding interactivities, glossaries, inline videos, etc based on the customer requirement.

MagicBox^TM assessment engine provides the following capabilities:

Export individual student’s reports in xls, csv, pdf format
Ability to send individual student’s reports directly to parents
Collaboration between parents and teachers (real time feedback)Import existing questions items / assessments (QTI / pre-defined excel format) Create New Question Items and tag them to specific subjects, concepts / topics
Create adaptive assessments
Package assessment as standalone products for sale. Such assessments can be tagged along with online resources.Export the tests which can be used for paper based exams
Analytical Dashboards to provide usage and learning analytics.
Ready Assessment Item Banks

With the help of analytical data, MagicBox^TM helps educators capture student interaction with the platform & eBooks. This in turn helps informed decision making related to students progress.

MagicBox^TM provides learning analytics in the following areas:

Performance Analytics
Content Usage Analytics
Real-time decision making

In the Classroom environment, MagicBox^TM uses xAPI to store student data in an LRS (Learning Record Store) and captures every event that the student is experiencing. This includes time spent on reading eBook pages, number of pages turned/read, homework/assessments scores, and overview of the books read by students.

MagicBox^TM receives an amazingly high numbers of xAPI hits (more than 50,000 per minutes) in the classroom. As education institutions continue to use MagicBox^TM online and offline, meaningful data keeps generating. This empowers instructors, administrators, parents and students make better decisions for regarding, teaching, and learning.

Our state of art eReader works on all OS and platforms. It is designed to deliver content across disciplines, it is accessed by users on various mobile devices, desktops & Mac – both online and offline.

The eReader UI, navigation supports multiple themes.
It provides different types of annotations including bookmarks, highlights and notes.
The eReader supports rich media instruction delivery using interactives, audio and video in the content.
Our read-aloud integration leverages both studio and automated TTS engines and is available for both online and offline access.
The eReader is also integrated with 3rd party text to speech libraries like Readspeaker.
All the annotations created in an offline mode are synced with the central server as soon as the user is connected to the internet.

The eReader is loosely coupled with MagicBox^TM and can be deployed as a standalone solution as well.

Digital Rights Management (DRM) plays an important role in the management of licensing and authorized content distribution and restricts the consumers from duplicating or distributing purchased contents. DRM prevents copying, defines a time period in which the content can be accessed and restrict the number of devices on which the media can be installed.

Content Security is our prime focus. MagicBox^TM prevents content piracy and control who-access-what.

Content encryption using AES 256 encryption standard
License content to schools, teachers & individual users
Access codes to go with textbooks
Choose from variety of License types — User based, Device based or Domain based
Choose when the subscription begins & ends

MagicBox^TM has helped several publishers transform their print solution to Digital and Mobile. MagicBox^TM caters to the needs of K12, Higher Ed & Professional publishers to distribute their digital content for access in both an online and offline mode. Most of MagicBox^TM’s customers have seen reduced cost, improvement in learner’s engagement and other benefits.

MagicBox^TM facilitate learners with an app for Offline Learning. MagicBox^TM’s custom branded apps allow learners to:

Download eBooks
Read in an offline mode
Add annotations in offline mode and sync when online
Learn collaboratively
Access the content on iOS, Android, Mac, Windows & Chromebook devices

MagicBox^TM allows you to create content offerings as individual resources and collections. The authored content can be accessed on iOS, Android, Mac, Windows and Chromebook devices.

Magic’s eBook authoring tools enable enrichment of the static content by tagging resources as hyperlinks through Smart icons.

Our assessment authoring leverage technology enhanced Item templates. These templates can be configured for Questions, Media, Choices Feedback, Hints and other important data.

Following asset types can be added within the content: