What they offer Flashcards

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What kind of platform transformation do they offer?

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Offers and analysis and then revised plan for immersive learning, elevated user experiences, and product strategy consulting.

Immersive learning- Practicing learning by doing. Uses VR and AR based content and gamified modes.

Elevated User Experience- creation of personal experiences by auditing the current user experience, conducting user interview and research, identifying gaps, planning and prototyping, then transforming platform.

Product Strategy Consulting- create a strategy that prioritizes adoption. Leveraging Magic’s experience and expertise to expedite the process.

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what does the student and teacher experience include?

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It includes:
Immersive learning- where they use accelerated engines to produce simulations and virtual labs. create augmented and virtual reality learning experiences, uses gamification.

Digital Assessments-used to track and measure student growth, gives feedback to students, makes assessments engaging through AI and advanced analytics. Uses the MagicBox assessment engine to deliver assessments seamlessly on multiple device.

Learning Analytics- offers consulting to show you the right metrics to analyze the business’ data, offers learning data management, includes learning dashboards for one central place to keep business data and insights, and uses data science experts to help analyze user behavior and creates better paths.

Immersive Learning- Practicing learning by doing. Uses VR and AR based content and gamified modes.

Elevate user experience- creation of personal experiences by auditing the current user experience, conducting user interview and research, identifying gaps, planning and prototyping, then transforming platform.

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what is an outcome centered content design?

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Provides a talented pool of people to help you write and design well researched educational content that is outcome-centered and promises efficiency in return.

Includes:
1. subject matter experts for writing
2. metadata writing
3. editorial and proofreading services
4. animated and engagement-building content
5. DEI compliance and representation
6. Localization and translation services.

Uses AI-assisted content design, alignment, and review. This helps deliver the best quality at a fast tracked pace and friendly cost.

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What is back to school readiness?

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Curriculum alignment- identifies grade, level, and standards.
Then helps you map out curriculum, decide on standards to use, and aligns the products to state standards.

Content and Platform Testing- works out any kinks and potential issues. Use of EazyTest is Magic’s in-house automation tool to make moving from manual to automated testing more easy and affordable.

Offers platform Scalability- completes a scalability analysis of current platform structure, develops cloud and scale consulting to manage the ebbs and vflows of the platform, and provides guidance on cloud migration.

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magic box

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Magic Box:

Eases the creation and Distribution of digital content for all publishing needs, while ensuring digital rights management and compliance with industry standards.

Offers the following:

  1. District and School Management
    Allowing publishers to provide unique login credentials for each school, which can then offer learners a
    personalized learning experience. Choose features to enable/disable for specific schools within a district,
    depending on unique considerations.
  2. Assessments
    Facilitating adaptive and personalized assignments, in addition to features such as real-time feedback,
    sending individual reports directly to parents and the like.
    Instant scoring of assessments with just a device with a camera.
    Scan and score handwritten responses for math problems
    Instant feedback to formulate learning paths
    Asynchronous individual and group video assignments
  3. Digital Rights & License Management
    We have designed the overall system to be totally secure so that all student data is accessible only with proper authentication and authorization.
    eBook (content) encryption using AES-256
    AWS – S3, signed URLs
    Amazon security standards, Amazon
    security groups for servers
    Servers behind AWS firewalls
    SSL for secure transactions
    Application runs on minimum database privileges
  4. Analytics and Reporting
    Robust analytics including performance analytic, content usage analytics, and learning behaviour allows
    schools, publishers and corporates to do real-time decision making.
  5. eReader for a smooth reading experience
    MagicBox’s eReader app allows both online and offline learning, promoting smooth reading experience,
    student engagement and learning content accessibility.
  6. ePub3 Integration
    Upload and convert your files to ePub3 – Publish the file so that it can be rendered in any standard ePub3
    compliant eReader – Enrich the content with audio, video and assessments
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Popular clients

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Clients: SMART Technologies
SAVVAS Learning Company
Learning A-Z
TippyTalk

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Popular Partners

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Partners:
Bongo
Open Stax
Credly
Google for Education

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What AI do you offer?

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IWC:
The IdeA11y Writing Companion is a non-invasive way to proofread, identify DEI biases, and optimize for accessibility as you write!

IWC is fully AI-equipped and understands underlying contexts and semantics of written text. These models set IWC apart as one of the first AI-based editing companions for Accessibility. It goes far beyond grammar and spelling fixes to help you build content that is born DEI and Accessibility compliant.
KEA
The Magic Learning Assistant
KEA helps with the quick and effective discovery of learning content.

Built as an AI assistant for learning, Kea manages 80% of productive communication with students. It is intelligent enough to coordinate their access to learning content and answer questions on projects due.

What’s more, it takes over the entire administrative duties that educators perform, leaving them more time to teach and get to know their student’s needs.

QuizAlly:
QuizA11y is a versatile quiz engine that can transform text from PDFs, DOCs, or PPTs into various WCAG 2.1-compliant accessible question formats.

Generate the following with ease:

multiple choice
true or false
short answer essays
fill-in-the-blank style questions.
Add content to create questions. Sync these outcomes with MagicBox or other industry-leading assessment tools to enable teachers to evaluate and grade questions.
Other AI offerings:
Content/code analysis
Learning curriculum design
Content transformation
Equitable and accessible
Nlp based automation
Adaptive assessments
Learning assistant

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What DEI services do you offer?

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DEI Consulting:
Leverage our expertise to define your DEI goals, create a strategy, execute fastidiously, and achieve your goals.

Business and user analysis to understand models and user profiling
Policy evaluation- analysis of current organization and customer policies and guidelines
Define goals, and work with stakeholders to map out goals on a timeline in a progress metric
Developing strategy and roadmap to meet goals

Digital Accessibility Solutions:
Create equitable and inclusive learning experiences by making your products accessible.
Get your content and platforms audited
Create a “born accessible” product or remediate an existing product to meet compliance
Compliance reports and documents are created to showcase your product’s compliance status to users and authorities
Use of Magic Ally, in house audit automation tool that reduces time and costs of audits. It improves the pace of outcomes, and it helps you meet compliance deadlines on time.
Expedites color contrast audits for accessibility
Bias Detection:
Don’t let bias, ableist language, insensitive content, and unfair representation creep into your content
Uses content analysis to identify potential problematic areas.
Uses Ai tool to run through and detect bias, insensitivity, and unfair representation
Offers mitigation strategies to eliminate the bias detected and put up protection for future content.

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What security Standards and Compliance do you offer?

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Accessibility Standards
Leverage our expertise in technology, education, and content to create accessible experiences that enhance learning for all
Accessibility Compliance Audit
Accessibility Design and Remediation
Create a “born accessible” product or remediate an existing product to ensure accessibility compliance.
Compliance Reports and Documents
Create documents like VPAT and ACR forms that showcase your product’s compliance status to buying authorities and users.
Use MagicA11y
MagicA11y is our in-house audit automation tool that reduces the time and cost of audits drastically.
IMS Global Standards
Magic is a contributing member at IMS Global.

Leverage our expertise to create products and platforms that comply with the latest standards.
Learning Tools Interoperability (LTI)
Connect your tools and applications with LMS, Learning Portals, and Learning Object Repositories securely using LTI
Question & Test Interoperability (QTI)
Save time and money in design, development, and delivery of assessments using QTI
Competencies and Academic Standards Exchange (CASE)
Transmit information about learning and educational competencies and skills using CASE
EPUB for Education
Create superior digital reading experiences for learners using ePubs

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What Product Strategy Consulting do you offer?

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Product Strategy Consulting
Create a strategy that prioritizes product adoption. Leverage our experience and expertise to improve the sell-through of your digital products.
Analyzing Current Product Strategy
Understanding the current product positioning and evaluating the product roadmap and backlogs.
User Interviews & Research
Speaking with users and other relevant stakeholders to understand their experience and expectations.
Defining Goals
Discussing your product plans and evaluating those in light of the information gathered to develop product goals.
Crafting and Executing New Strategy
Creating a product strategy that leverages our experience, your vision and applying them to improve adoption.

Integrations
Provide a seamless transition experience to your users by integrating your learning products with these third-party platforms using LTI integration standards.

LTI Integrations
Integrate your products and platforms seamlessly with the existing digital learning ecosystem at schools and universities.

Upgrade to the Latest LTI Standards
Stay compliant with the latest standards and upgrade your integrations to match those specifications.

Integration Consulting
Talk to our experts to understand the nuances of your integration issues and possible solutions.

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How do you build learning products?

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Build Engaging Learning Products
Translate your vision into reality by creating products that meet the desired learning objectives and enhance learning for everyone
Speed up the pace of product development and sharpen the outcomes. Our unique blend of responsible AI and in-house experts helps your team scale development, testing, security, and more.

Identifying learning objectives
Understanding the learning goals and objectives and mapping them to the learner’s grade and discipline.

Finalizing the product type
Determining the product type – video-based, interactive, text-based, assessment, or a combination – based on the learning analysis and your business goals.

Creating the right content
Developing content and curriculum that delivers what students and educators need in the most engaging and effective way.

Add Visual Appeal
Enrich the content with the use of engaging media in the forms of visuals, animations, audios, and effects.
Transform Legacy Products
Revamp your content formats and make your legacy products relevant for your users today. Create and execute a transformation plan that leverages the latest technology and puts your users front and center.

Understanding the Present and Envisioning the Future
Evaluating the product and content to understand what it offers, the technology used to build it, and its learning experience. Mapping these inputs to project the desired technology and learning experience.

Analyzing the Gaps
Identifying gaps between the current scenario and the desired future scenario and analyzing the deficits to get clarity on the transformation roadmap and prioritization.

Creating a Transformation Plan
Creating a transformation plan based on gaps identified, time and resources needed. The goal of the transformed product would be to improve learning experiences and help students learn better.

Transforming the Product
Executing the plan to ensure that you meet the goals set for transformation, budget, and resources. Enlisting the right team of technologists, SMEs, and Instructional Designers, among others, to achieve the right end product.

Align Standards
Aligning your products to these learning standards, helps your users teach and learn better while giving assurance to your buyers that you are a credible and trustworthy product provider.

Identifying the grade, discipline, and learning objectives of the product
Defining and determining the standards that apply to your product and curriculum.

Mapping your product’s distribution plan
Mapping your curriculum to specific standards is critical when you are looking to distribute your product in those regions.

Creating the alignment plan
Deciding the standards that your product needs to meet based on the information obtained from the previous steps.

Aligning the curriculum and learning products
Aligning your products to the right state, national, and discipline-specific standards so that they are accepted by the buyers and improve learning for all.

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what do you do with the learning platforms?

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Build Scalable Learning Platforms
Take advantage of the latest technology to craft robust platforms that provide a great experience on any browser or device.

Identifying goals and objectives
Understanding the business goals and the desired teaching and learning objectives for the users.

Understanding the target audience
Understanding the users and analyzing their behavior around learning and technology along with their usage patterns.

Developing platform architecture
Creating a robust architecture for the platform keeping the goals and the target audience in mind.

Engineering the platform
Using the latest technology and development methodology to craft the platform and the associated user experience.

Quality Engineering
Ensuring a seamless and glitch-free user experience. Quality engineering is integrated within the development cycle for optimal results.

Transform Archaic Platforms
Transform your legacy platforms seamlessly with Magic to meet your business goals and provide your users a superior experience.

Analyzing the existing platform
Understanding its current and historical usage, the tech stack used to build it, and the underlying architecture.

Identifying the gaps
Determining the functional, experiential, and technical gaps in the platform using stakeholder interviews and support tickets.

Creating a transformation plan
Developing a plan keeping in mind the business objectives, the desired learning outcomes, and the gaps identified.

Transforming the platform
Executing the plan to transform the legacy platform into a next-generation learning experience using the latest technologies.
Elevate the User Experience

Create personalized experiences for your learners and instructors so that they enjoy learning and feel engaged. This improves your product adoption and helps you stay ahead of the competition.

Auditing the Current User Experience
Performing in-depth research and analysis of how users interact and engage with your platform.

User Interviews and Research
Understanding the user’s journey, behavior, and expectations. Collecting qualitative and quantitative data.

Identifying Gaps
Analyzing the gaps between user expectations and the current experience. Creating a roadmap by prioritizing key elements.

Planning and Prototyping
Building a plan by creating desired user journeys and fine-tuning the final design.

Transforming the User Experience
Putting the plan into action and crafting experiences that wow users and keep them engaged.

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Magic Box

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The Complete EdTech Content Distribution Platform
Publish + Distribute +Monetize +Report

Improve Your Digital Product Adoption
Provide a superior user experience to learners, instructors, and administrators. MagicBox™ is intuitive to use and has tools that are designed for user success.
Grow Your Digital Revenues
Use digital rights management to support your business model and create new revenue streams by combining robust security with flexible use cases.
Go Global in a Matter of Weeks
No matter where your customers are, MagicBox will get you up and running in weeks while ensuring you are aligned with local regulations and privacy policies. All of this without burning a hole in your pocket.
Leverage Insights to Serve Your Users Better
Understand how customers engage with your products and use them. Get a peek into their behavior and leverage these insights to develop the right products for them.

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Magic Sync

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MagicSync
The Complete EdTech Integration Platform
Rostering Systems
LMSs
One-Click Single Sign-On
Simplify Your Sign-In Process
Eliminate the need to remember multiple passwords for your users. Provide a seamless single sign-on experience and enhance their engagement with your learning products.
Integrate with LMS and rostering tools
Integrate your products within the existing EdTech ecosystem. This reduces the steps needed to access your products and improves their adoption.
Make buyers comfortable
Buyers like it when your product has the ability to integrate with their existing ecosystem. It assures them a good experience and makes it comfortable for them to partner with you.
Unlock a broader user base
By integrating with users’ existing ecosystems, you make it easier for them to access your products. This allows more users to access your products and improves their learning experience.

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Podcast

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MagicAlly Live series
Strategies for Growing an Organizational Accessibility Practice
Shift Left: Designing with Accessibility in Mind
WCAG 2.2: Breaking Down Accessibility Barriers

Tech in EdTech Podcast
How big will the AI in the Education revolution get?
AI can create structured and individualized tutored experiences, allowing students to receive tailored explanations, ask questions, and deepen their understanding of various subjects.
AI can also play a vital role in talent discovery. By analyzing patterns and utilizing soft skills assessments, AI engines can predict the suitability of individuals for specific job roles or career opportunities.

Integrating DEI and SEL Initiatives into Mainstream Childhood Education
Representation, DEI (Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion), and Accessibility are important for creating diverse and authentic stories for children.
Content and technology should intersect to create a platform where students can easily switch between reading for pleasure and reading to learn.
Content and technology need to work together to create an amalgamated solution that appeals to the children’s learning styles and seasons of life.
The content needs to be accessible, and easily available to all learners, regardless of device or internet connectivity.
Making Game-Based Learning More Accessible and Inclusive
Inclusive game-based learning provides learning opportunities in a game for students to express themselves and share ideas and leverage the classroom community through technology to also celebrate those strengths.
For learning games, there should be more educators adopting games for learning at all age levels and grade levels.
Students should be given more autonomy to choose what they play, and how they learn, just the way they might choose a book or another kind of resource.
Educators should use a learning game as a jumping-off point, an experience for students to explore their own interests and demonstrate learning in ways that are important to them.
Accessibility and inclusion are only going to become more prominent. Ensuring UI and UX accessibility.
Can the user read this? Can the user see it? Can the user hear it? What kind of fine motor skills are required? Will different input devices be able to work with this? It’s about looking at all of those more tangible, practical aspects, and ensuring that they’re usable.