New lesson editor VS. classic lesson editor

As described in our blog post, the new lesson editor is currently still in Beta phase as we continue to improve and add functionalities. Read about the differences in the new lesson editor compared to the classic lesson editor and what additional functionalities are available.

The most notable upgrades that are available in the new lesson editor are:

One of the major upgrades in the new lesson editor is the possibility to import an existing Powerpoint file and edit this in LessonUp. Make your Powerpoint interactive and edit the look and feeling to make a personal lesson. Read all about the possibilities in this article.
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With the new lesson editor, we have adapted modern ways of user interfaces to make sure you are able to create lessons in an intuitive and familiar way.
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Grab texts, images, or other components on your slide and arrange them wherever you want. With support of improved gridlines, you will be able to position your components more accurately and "snap" them to a line.
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Select any combination of components on your slide, like texts, images, or hotspots. With the selection of your components, you are able to move and rearrange them on your slide. Also, it's possible to resize all your selected components at once. Especially with a selection of images, or hotspots, this will save you additional clicks and actions.

Regardless of your slide layout, you can now edit and delete any of the texts and images on your slide. While you need to switch to a specific layout in the classic lesson editor, you have full flexibility in the new lesson editor to adjust slides to your needs.
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Looking at the interface of the screen you use to edit your slides, we've made a few changes in the new lesson editor. First and foremost, the main menu at the top of the screen is removed. Since you are editing your lesson, you get full focus on your slides and its settings. By using more white-space, clear menus, and improved thumbnails of your slides you have more focus on viewing and editing your slides.

The possibility to toggle the sidebar with settings on and off contributes to this idea. You can use the quick actions for making and viewing changes directly in your slide. Whenever you want to make more changes you can enable the sidebar and hide it again if you want full focus on your slide again.

Other improvements include the use of icons for components to directly add them to your slide. This makes it easy to add them with less clicks compared to the classic lesson editor. For the settings of your lesson, to set the duration, school type, subject, level, and year, there is a settings icon next to the title of your lesson. Using this icon also saves space, compared to the "options" button in the classic lesson editor.

Part of the improved user experience is the way slides and components can be edited. There are 2 main improvements for editing your slides and components.
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When you have a slide, or a component, selected you will see a sidebar on the right side of your screen. You can enable the sidebar by using the settings icon on the right of your screen. Hiding the sidebar is able to click on the cross icon in the top right corner of the sidebar. You can also directly view/hide the sidebar by clicking on the settings icon that appears in the quick actions above any component, when you select a component.

This sidebar contains all settings that are available for your slide or component, grouped by category. Different components have different settings and categories. Read more details about all settings per component: Text, Image, and Hotspot.
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When you click on any component on your slide a small bar with quick actions will appear. Depending on the position of the component, the quick actions will appear above or below the component. Using these quick actions, you're also able to directly make changes to the styling of your component. For example, when you select text you can easily adjust the font-size, colour, and styling for your text without having to use any menus or sidebar.
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The new lesson editor offers some improvements to personalise your lessons with custom options. Custom options that are available:

Within the new lesson editor, you are able to collaborate and edit lessons together with your colleagues. If you both have access to the same lesson in the same shared folder, you can open the lesson and edit simultaneously.

In your lesson, you will see an indicator of the other person, or multiple people, that are active in the same lesson at the same time. This works similar to working together in

Witthe An important aspect of managing and creating your lesson material is sharing it with your colleagues. LessonUp already covers this by sharing lessons directly with your colleagues or in shared folders. One thing that might occur every now and then is when two teachers are (trying) editing the same lesson at the same time. Currently, using the classic lesson editor, you don't see any indication whether someone is making any changes to the lesson you are viewing/editing.

With the new lesson editor, you are able to see who is viewing or editing the same lesson as you have opened. You also see any changes that the other person is making in real-time. Just like working in a shared document from Microsoft or Google, you see what the other person is changing.

This opens up possibilities for collaborating on the same lesson at the same time or helps you to get in touch with the other person whenever you want to align on any changes.

The list below indicates what functionalities are currently available in for the new lesson editor and how this compares to the classic lesson editor. Note that not every single feature on a detail-level is listed, only the most notable features. Some features have a link to a separate Help Center article where you can find more information about the respective feature.
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