Features

Cymra provides an intuitive and user-friendly interface for not only the creation of digital learning resources and books, but also for the readers and consumers of these books. Discover some of our features in the list below. If you want information on how you can create your own books and digital learning resources, have a look at our Guide to Cymra for a more detailed overview.

Author

Are you a person looking for a platform to create and distribute knowledge? Cymra can offer ...

... a flexible solution for organising and structuring the contents of your books
... a a growing number of interactive content types
... support for uplading and displaying video
... the opportunity to attach a wide range of file formats to your content
... good support for writing mathematics in text
... a system with built-in support for different roles and access levels
... integration with your own, existing website

Readers

Readers and users of the resources you publish will be able to ...

... work independently on the content you create
... get immediate response on their performance
... use guides and assistance to improve their understanding of challenging topics
... get a simple overview of their own progression
... create study groups with other readers in the Cymra network
... communicate through direct messaging and live chat
... use mathematics in all forms of communication with ease

Sounds interesting? Why not give it a go? Its completely free, and the only thing you need is a good idea! Click here to sign up and get started on your first book.

Details

Guides

A guide is a nested collection of elements that the author believes will help the reader in developing the needed knowledge or understanding to complete an exercise. When a guide is started, the reader is guided through the nested list before he/she is brought back to repeat the first exercise.

Roles and access

Cymra supports a hierarchy of access levels to your book. You can add co-authors or editors to your book if you want to collaborate with others, or you can invite other people to become readers.

Content types

We have a range of different exercise that you can choose from when you add elements to your book. In addition to the different types of exercises, you can also choose to add simple text elements with our rich text editor or integrate your own video files.

Support for mathematics

Every form of content or communication within the Cymra platform has integrated support for in-text mathematics. You do not need to know TeX, MathML or any other language in order to add mathematical formulas or expressions in your content.

Integration with your own website

We will gladly help you integrating your Cymra book in your own website to avoid that students, course-members or other readers have to leave your domain to access your content.

Other file formats

You can attach files and documents to each content type in Cymra. This can be, for example, PDF-files, Word documents, spreadsheets or power point presentations.