Documentation

Introduction
Interactive Tutorials
Video Tutorials
- Part 1 - Introduction to mAuthor's interface
- Part 2 - How to insert and manage modules
- Part 3 - How to build a Choice Activity
- Part 4 - How to build an Ordering activity
Overview
Frequently Asked Questions
Supported browsers
Managing your company
- Dashboard
- Company details
- Managing projects
- Backup
- Managing publications
- Adding new user accounts
- Managing access rights
- Managing workflow (Kanban)
- Extended metadata
- Support
Creating a new presentation
- Managing metadata
- Font size selection
- Page size definition
- Fixed or changeable page size
Managing lessons
- Lesson details
Managing assets
- Updating assets
- Uploading assets
- Browsing assets
- File formats
- Online resources
Page management
- Navigation pages and Commons
- Page Navigation Styling
- Header and Footer
- Adding and deleting pages, changing pages order
- Copying pages between presentations
- Changing page size
- Splitting pages
- Page names
- Adding template pages
- Subset of pages
- Merging lessons
- Custom page loader
Working with templates
- Creating and managing templates
- Private templates
- Public templates
- Updating templates - Replacing templates
- Template CSS classes
- Using external fonts
CSS class and inline CSS styles
Creating responsive layouts
- Managing Layouts
- Layouts view and basic operations on the multi-layout page
- CSS Stylesheets and Inline CSS in responsive layouts
- Previewing and displaying lessons
- Adding pages from template
- Copying pages between lessons
Creating Accessible Content
- CSS Classes
- Headings
- Alternative texts
- Finding missing alternative texts
- Videos
- Language definition
- Keyboard navigation mode
- Dedicated screen reader
- Autofill function (TTS)
- Adding missing TTS modules
- Sorting the modules
- Sort function (TTS)
- Copying the Speech texts from a template
Adaptive Learning
- Adaptive Learning Editor
- Navigation in the Adaptive Lesson
- Reporting Pages
- Testing The Adaptive Lesson
Printing (beta)
- Marking elements that should be included in the printout
- Supported modules
- Print preview
- Generating a printout by the mCourser user
Content output
- SCORM packages
- Experience API (TinCan)
- Off-line playback
- Add mAuthor lesson to the epub3 book
- Player versions
- Course management
Working with modules
- Working with keyboard navigation
- Inserting modules
- Defining the module's size and position
- Grouping modules
- Favourites
- Grid
- Rulers
- Snapping
- Changing modules' order
- Blocking modules
- Showing/Hiding Modules
- Selecting and editing the modules' style
- Copying modules between pages
- Relative layouts
- Content preview
- Drag&Drop and Click&Click module manipulation
- Activity scoring
- Redo & Undo commands
- Iframe animation controlled by Advanced Connector
Using jQuery
- jQuery Library
Saving user's result
Modules description
- Activities
- Games
  - Board Game
  - Catch
  - Crossword
  - Dice
  - Hangman
  - Magic Boxes
  - Maze
  - Memo Game
  - Puzzle
  - Quiz
  - Shooting Range
  - Sudoku
- Reporting
- Navigation
- Media
  - 3D Viewer
  - Animation
  - Audio
  - Coloring
  - Drawing
  - Edge Animation
  - Flash Cards
  - Glossary
  - Iframe
  - Image
  - Image Viewer
  - Image Viewer Button Controlled
  - IWB Toolbar
  - Layered Image
  - Line
  - Media Recorder
  - MultiAudio
  - Pop-up
  - Shape
  - Slideshow
  - Standard Shapes
  - SVG
  - Swiffy Animation
  - TextAudio
  - Video
  - YouTube
  - Zoom Image
  - Heading
- Scripting
- LearnPen
- CSS z-Indexes list
Version control
Math expressions
Addons' development
- Creating addons
- Sharing the addons
- Addon Presenter
- Addon CSS Guide
- Addon Documentation
- Addon Model
- Player services
- Available JavaScript Libraries
- Addon Scripting
- Addon-Events
- Sample addon
Player development
- Requirements
- Build process
- Create addon
- Embedding the player
Exporting Lessons
- SCORM 1.2
- xAPI
- Importing Lessons
- HTML5/Offline
- SCORM 2004
Content localisation
- Localisation editor
- Audio narrations
Importing InDesign XML files

External Link Button

Description

External Link Button allows users to open a new window/tab with external resources when the button is clicked.

Properties

Property name	Description
URI	Location of external resource
Title	Title displayed inside the addon
Image	Image displayed inside the addon. This property allows online resources. Find out more »

Supported commands

Command name	Params	Description
show	---	Shows the addon
hide	---	Hides the addon

CSS classes

Class name	Description
external-link-button-wrapper	DIV surrounding the button element. The button element is a child of this element
external-link-button-element	The element's base class
external-link-button-image	Class for the image (IMG) element
external-link-button-title	Class for the text (SPAN) element

Note: The link is an ordinary <a href=""> element and the <a> tag is located between external-link-button-wrapper and external-link-button-element layers.

Demo presentation

Demo presentation contains examples of how to use the External Link Button addon.