Aurora apps: describe it, and Aurora builds it

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AURORA APPS

What if you could just ask for the view?

A one-minute story of describing what you want to see and watching Aurora build it. It plays by itself. No sound.

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Aurora apps
  • Views: Available now
  • Study and interactive: Beta
  • Full apps: Early access

Describe it. Aurora builds it.

Ask for a view of your numbers, a game for tonight’s revision or an app for a lesson, and watch Aurora build it. Much of this is in EduMark today. Apps for anything else are next.

See what’s in EduMark today
Illustration. In Analytics, a staff member asks Aurora: “Compare on-time submission by cohort this term, with a weekly trend.” Aurora builds the view beside the chat from numbers they can already see: on-time submission for four cohorts, from 94% down to 71%, with a weekly trend. They ask “Make it a bar chart.” and Version 2 appears as a bar chart with an Undo button. Then they pin it to Home.
Already in EduMark today

Learners and staff already make things with Aurora.

No code and no waiting list. Study and the interactive tools are in Beta.

In Study, learners pick a course section they can open and choose how to learn it.

  • BetaStudy

    Flashcards

    Rate each card Again, Hard, Good or Easy. Hard ones come back. Can be made from quiz mistakes.

  • BetaStudy

    Quiz

    Five to fifteen questions, each with an explanation.

  • BetaStudy

    Concept map

    An outline and a map of how ideas link, then Fill the map to test yourself.

  • BetaStudy

    Game

    A learning game designed around the section.

  • BetaStudy

    Audio lesson

    Listen to the section as a short lesson.

  • BetaStudy

    Explainer video

    A narrated animation that explains the idea.

Also in Study
  • Explain it, at six levels
  • Revision sheet
  • Teach me, a guided lesson with checks
  • Fill the gaps
  • Teach it back, out loud or in writing
  • Interactive app
  • Slides
  • BetaCourse playerMake it interactiveA hands-on app for the lesson on screen, built live part by part.
  • BetaPracticeStuck in Practice?A mini app or short video that teaches the idea without giving the answer.
  • BetaAurora chat“Make me a game about…”Ask in the chat, or “explain this simply, then quiz me”, and a card builds it.
  • Available nowProgressMy progressDescribe a view of your own progress and Aurora makes it. Your own data only.
Watch one get made

A lesson becomes something to play with.

On any lesson, a learner presses Make it interactive. Aurora builds a hands-on app for what’s on screen, part by part, and they start playing with it as soon as it’s ready.

  1. Style
  2. Layout
  3. Controls
  4. Make it respond

Beta Course authors can build one for a lesson so every learner gets it.

Illustration. A learner on the lesson “Rating a risk” presses Make it interactive. Aurora builds “Risk rating explorer” part by part: Style, Layout, Controls, Make it respond. Then the learner plays it: two sliders set likelihood and severity, a 5 by 5 grid lights up the matching square, and the score reads 8, Medium.
Safe by design

Built to play with. Locked down where it counts.

  • Locked down, no internet

    Interactive apps run in a locked-down frame that can’t reach the internet.

  • Your permissions, always

    Views read numbers through the viewer’s own permissions. Nobody sees more than they already could.

  • Versions and Undo

    Every change to a view is a new version. Undo puts the last one back, and a change that fails restores the old one.

  • Learners see their own data

    My progress views show a learner their own progress and nothing else.

  • Teaches, never answers

    When a learner is stuck in Practice, the app or video explains the idea without giving the answer away.

  • Audio never stored

    In Teach it back, Aurora listens to a learner explain the idea out loud. The audio is never stored.

What’s next · Early access

Apps for anything your centre needs.

Full Aurora apps are in early access and opening to organisations in stages.

  • Early access

    Any screen your centre needs

    Describe it in the Aurora chat and Aurora builds the whole app beside the conversation.

  • Early access

    Apps that keep their own data

    Apps can save what people enter, inside your organisation.

  • Early access

    EduMark tools, with your approval

    Apps use the EduMark tools you approve, and still ask before sending or publishing.

  • Early access

    Wherever the work happens

    A page under Apps, a step in a course, or a card on Home.

  • Early access

    Learners’ own tools

    Learners build small tools for themselves that remember their work.

Apps and agents will work together. An Aurora agent will be able to hand its work to an app, so you see the result on a screen built for it. See Aurora agents

  • Marketplace to share apps between centres Coming soon
  • iPhone and Android apps Coming soon
  • Desktop app Coming soon

Questions about Aurora apps

What can Aurora build today?

Staff can ask Aurora for a view of their numbers in Analytics, add an app or Study block to a lesson, edit explainer videos, add diagrams and draft whole courses. Learners can turn any course section they can open into flashcards, a quiz, a concept map, a game, an audio lesson, a video and more, and press Make it interactive in the course player. Tutors can put an app on stage in EduMark Live. Study and the interactive tools are in Beta.

Are full Aurora apps available now?

Not yet. Apps for any screen your centre needs, with their own saved data and EduMark tools, are in early access and opening to organisations in stages. Views, Study and the interactive tools on this page are already in EduMark.

Can a view show numbers I’m not allowed to see?

No. A view reads numbers through the permissions of the person looking at it, so nobody sees more than they already could in EduMark. A learner’s My progress view only ever shows their own data.

What if a change makes my view worse?

Every change makes a new version. Press Undo to go back, and if a change fails, Aurora puts the old version back for you.

Can the apps reach the internet?

No. Interactive apps run in a locked-down frame with no internet access.

Will Aurora just give learners the answers?

No. When a learner is stuck in Practice, Aurora makes a mini app or short video that teaches the idea without giving the answer away.

Do I need to know how to code?

No. You describe what you want in plain words, and ask for changes the same way.

When do the marketplace and phone apps arrive?

They’re coming soon. Book a call and we’ll keep you posted.

See it build with your own courses.

Book a call and we’ll make a view, a study game and a lesson app from your material, live.

Meet Aurora

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