News, tips and tricks

New version numbers for mozaBook
Now you can identify easily whether you have the most updated mozaBook. The versions from now on follow the school year format. So the current mozaBook is 2023.1. The year 2023 in the version is linked to the 2022/2023 school year, therefore the next version update (planned for August), will be labelled mozaBook 2024.1.
 

Full download or Update?
When you start your mozaBook for the first time after the new version is available, it will prompt you to choose from these options: Full download, Update, Later. 

• Later is very straightforward, by choosing Later, you will keep your current version running and postpone any updates for a later time.
• Choosing Update will install the latest/new version of those components that are currently installed within your mozaBook space on the given device and will fetch and install any further component updates from the mozaWeb server later, when and if needed.
• A Full download will download the new version completely, which includes the full installer package as well as any side packages that might be needed later. 

If you typically use mozaBook on a device that has an active internet connection, we recommend choosing Update and letting any additional updates be installed on the go. However, if you also use mozaBook in an offline environment, we highly recommend choosing Full download, so that any components can be installed later even without an active internet connection.

Smaller mozaBook software updates and fixes are available from the login and publication selection screen of mozaBook, as well - please check regularly and install available updates for the most seamless user experience. 

New content type and new category next to tools and games: Quizzes
New logical and mathematical quizzes are included in both mozaBook and mozaWeb. They challenge students to think critically and logically, helping them to develop their problem-solving skills. It promotes active learning, encourages practice and reviews, and provides motivation and engagement.

Besides the pedagogical added value of this new content type it’s also important to mention that due to being a fully graphical, text-exclusive content type, it is language-independent. Many of them can be used even at the KG level.

Within a quiz users have to choose the correct option from several ones, mark it, and after highlighting the correct solution, the quiz will automatically move on to the next question. Generally, there is no time limit, if there is, it counts down from the first touch.

On mozaWeb the quizzes are organized into different groups: 

• Kindergarten workbook
• Lower grades mathematics
• Match
• Logic
• Visual arts
• General

On mozaWeb, quizzes have their own datasheet which lists the suggested level, related quizzes and shows screenshots of the quiz elements. 

In mozaBook the quizzes are added to the >tools< as a separate tab.

• Example  Grade 7-13: Analytic geometry
• Example Grade 0-6 (Kindergarten workbooks): Find the way

mozaBook is now available in 46 languages
We are pleased to have more and more teacher and student users from new countries. In order to support their teaching and learning experiences new Kyrgyz and Uzbek languages are added to the system. Try out the interfaces and the interactive content in these new languages.

Erase without changing the function
Now you can simply grab a physical eraser and start erasing drawings on the touchscreen. mozaBook will automatically recognize your gesture and change the function from pen to eraser. It is so easy.

Easy access to Background settings from >templates< within the Media Library in mozaBook
The background settings of an exercise book such as Ruling, Theme, Binding, Texture, Layout, and Background color can be changed by opening Media Library → Templates → Background

New types of templates have been introduced in our previous update. It includes pre-set and pre-designed exercise book templates with flow charts, lists, and image pages among others.

Binding and margin arrangement
The arrangement of the margin and binding of an exercise book are opposite to each other, from now on binding is on the right side of the horizontal exercise book.

Localization for Bulgarian Grammar
A new Bulgarian line alignment (6:6:5)  is added to the page properties: Ruling. But as we mentioned above, now you can change the Ruling from the Media Library as well.

Image editor update - recoloring SVG images

Have you ever wanted to recolor an image for an exercise or for an illustration for an exercise book? Now you can with just a couple of clicks. Vector images (SVG) can be from now on recolored. A collection of different vector images are available within the thematic image gallery (Media Library → Source: Gallery) or alternatively, users can import their own SVG files.

Upon inserting a vector image into the exercise book, do a long click and select “Recolour vector image” from the drop-down menu. Then you can easily select the new colors for your image.

Other updates:

• When resizing an object, the object's size is displayed.
• When recording a screen capture video of a screen part, the size of the recording rectangle is displayed.
• Idle users are logged out after a while and their name in mozaBook turns to red indicating that they have to log back again (mozaBook → User)
• Deleted exercise books are stored for 1 month before being permanently deleted.
• Opening HTML5 content can be placed on the tab for more comfortable usage. (So far it always opened in a new window, now it is possible to add them to a tab.)
• If Geogebra is installed on the user’s device the inserted GeoGebra elements will open with GeoGebra, alternatively the GGB files open through the browser in an online viewer.

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Make your voice heard!

We are pleased to hear your suggestions! We are constantly looking for feedback to optimize and improve mozaBook. In case you have any problems or suggestions, do not hesitate to contact our developers directly, using the inbuilt mozaBook feedback feature 

Please watch this video to know how to send feedback in mozaBook (errors, bugs, improvement suggestions or just simply praise our amazing developers :) ):

Let’s make learning fun!

We are very excited and proud to announce that our mozaik3D application is now also available in Meta’s Oculus app store for users with a Quest, a Quest 2 or a Meta Quest Pro VR device. 

If you liked our previous educational 3D applications designed for iOS and Android smart devices, you will love this one!

Our 3D scenes have been designed mainly for students and have also been very popular among teachers to make their lectures more self-explanatory, more visual and engaging. Mozaik 3D contents provide a unique help for learning at home in a playful and enjoyable manner. The interactive educational scenes related to history, technology, physics, mathematics, biology, chemistry, geography and visual arts will turn learning into an adventure, now with a full native VR experience.

We continue to extend the list of supported VR brands, device models as well as the 3D scenes made available in our VR application, so stay tuned for further exciting news soon.

Download the mozaik3D application from the Oculus store to explore our educational 3D scenes on your Quest VR device: https://www.oculus.com/experiences/quest/5873610999369808/

• Supported Controllers: Touch Controllers
• Supported Devices: Quest, Quest 2, Meta Quest Pro
• Internet connection: Required for usage

We are very happy to share with you, we exhibit at BETT for the 10th time in 2023! 

What a journey! 

Throughout this decade we have met so many new people, opportunities, and ideas from all over the world. Plus, as a cherry on top, how could we celebrate better our anniversary than by being selected as a BETT Awards finalist with our newest application cadaVR!

Come and visit us this year again at our stand SG31!Let’s go down Memory Lane with some pictures from BETT!

2015 - A very cheerful team

2016 - Our stand got bigger each year...

2018 - What an elegant group!

2019 -  Ready to show you around in mozaWorld

2020 - Not only the stand but team got bigger in 2020! (...little did we know that the world is going to change very soon)

2022 - After two years of keeping our distance and isolating ourselves we were ready to get back on the BETT-track!

Let's meet us in March again! :) 

As one of the final opportunities of 2022 to show how Mozaik Education and our products can help transform education for the better, we were honoured to participate in a conference, organised and hosted by one of our partners in Turkey, Bekdata. The purpose of the one-day event in Istanbul, themed “Digital Transformation and Sustainability in Education” was to present and explain how Bekdata and their local partner network are able to support teachers, students and educational institutions to develop a sustainable and future-proof hardware and software ecosystem for more effective, more engaging and more quality-oriented education. 

This conference was the first of its kind since the coronavirus pandemic in Turkey. It brought together more than 100 headmasters of the most prestigious schools in Turkey as well as professionals and decision-makers from digital education and technology fields. 

A wide range of topics was discussed and presented from digitalisation in private schools to augmented reality usage for education. Mozaik Education for its part presented the concept of how one can build a bridge between traditional and digital education and also, how mozaBook, mozaWeb and our very extensive Mozaik Media Library can be a fundamental element in all this, based on our unique experience in the field. 

Discussions with several institutions represented at the event have already started, and we are absolutely determined to see our joint efforts materialised very soon in those schools - and to see a lot more of them join this journey. 

We thank Bekdata and Mr. Bekir Gül personally for their hospitality and the opportunity to participate in such an event. 

Mozaik Education was one of the few selected edTech companies to participate and exhibit at the Hungarian national stand in Amsterdam, at the EDUtech_Europe 2022 event this October. 

EDUtech has a long history of successful exhibitions around the world, however, after the virtual format last year, it was the first time that an in-person education conference was organized under the brand. During the 2 exhibition days, the RAI Amsterdam event hall welcomed 6000+ visitors, including education experts, decision makers and professionals from the edTech industry, all of them trying to get inspired by the thoughts of around 300 speakers as well as exploring the solutions and services demonstrated by the 100 exhibitors.

Mozaik Education was represented at the Hungarian national stand by our Business Development Director, Dr. Ildikó Török. She had a busy 2 days switching roles between demonstrating all the relevant features and contents of our educational presentation software, mozaBook and some minutes later managing a business discussion with potential B2B partners. We are happy to conclude that on both tracks it was a success. We thank the Hungarian Export Promotion Agency (HEPA) for supporting Hungarian edTech companies and making it possible for Mozaik to participate at EDUtech Amsterdam. The event was also a great opportunity to engage more with Western-European edTech markets. We are sure to be back!

BETT Brasil is the largest Education and Technology Exhibiton in Latin America and a satellite event of BETT London. We are happy to report that mozaBook was represented by our local partner Cosmoted. The theme was  “School management and innovation in learning: how to deal with the challenges?” It was held in an unprecedented way: in a hybrid format, with online events and with in-person participation as well directly from the Events Center in Recife-PE.
In this format, the questions of the participants present could b displayed on the panels for the speakers to answer during the congresses via a QR code that appeared on the back of the credentials. More than a thousand interactions were recorded in the eight panels of the event, more than a thousand responses in the polls, more than 150 commented questions, and more than 150 visitation guides, totaling more than 3 thousand connections to the Jornada Bett app by the more than 300 participants of the event.
Mozaik Education's digital educational products were represented by COSMOTED – Technology & Education, Cosmoted is an official distributor in Brazil that registers establising partnerships with teachers from public and private schools in cities in the states of São Paulo, Minas Gerais, Santa Catarina, Paraná, Rio Grande do Sul, Alagoas, Bahia, Pernambuco and Amazonas, and they are in a special partnership with BenQ Brasil.  We work hard together with them to bring innovative, excellent intarctive content with 3D scene to Brazil.