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Comparison: new & classic lesson editor

This overview highlights the main differences between the new lesson editor and the classic lesson editor

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To offer an improved and more complete way of creating and teaching interactive lessons, we've introduced a new version of our lesson editor. In the lesson editor you're editing your lessons and its your starting point when teaching a lesson.

The new version of the lesson editor has loads of new and improved functionalities to better create, edit, and teach your lessons. Next to additional (interactive) functionalities, the interface had an update, the performance is improved, and existing functionalities are upgraded as well.

While there are still functionalities being added to the new lesson editor, the overview below shows the current availability of functionalities that are available in the new lesson editor.

Interactive slides

Feature

New editor

Classic editor

Fill in the blanks

Answer by category

Sorting

Multiple choice (formerly quiz question)

Open question

Word Cloud (formerly Mind Map)

Poll

Video

Drag and drop

🚧 Work in progress

Picture question

Informative slides

Feature

New editor

Classic editor

PowerPoint import & edit

Blank slide

Image slide

Video slide

Hyperlink slide (adding links on slide)

Components

Feature

New editor

Classic editor

Text

Image

Hotspot

Video

Spinner

Shape (formerly symbol)

Timer

Formula

Table

Audio

Traffic light

Teach mode

Feature

New editor

Classic editor

Slide navigation

Teacher view: Separate screen for slides & notes

Instant spinner usage

Jump to slide

Close for participation

Student overview

Move images on slide

Make annotations/drawings

Show student ranking

AI assistant

Feature

New editor

Classic editor

Create lesson structure with an image

Create lesson structure with a prompt

Create lesson structure with long-text format

Create multiple choice based on slide content

Create complete quiz

Rewrite texts

Summarise texts

Translate texts

Create images

Create debate topics

Create glossary

Create lesson summary

Share lessons

Feature

New editor

Classic editor

Share lesson in shared folder

Co-edit a lesson in real time

Share lesson with link

Export lesson to PDF

Share lesson with class

🚧 Work in progress

Share lesson via Somtoday

Share lesson via Google Classroom

Share lesson via Canvas

General

Feature

New editor

Classic editor

Select and drag multiple components

Components snap to advanced gridlines

Image cropping

Add notes

View reports of your lesson

Animated bullet lists

🚧 Work in progress

Create a test from your lesson

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