PRODUCT OVERVIEW

Features List

Discover Genially’s key features and collaborative workspaces for building engaging click-to-explore experiences.

Genially platform

No-code interactions and animations

Transform static content into an interactive experience in a couple of clicks. Boost engagement, enhance learner understanding, and get better business results.

You choose what happens when a user clicks or hovers. Want a pop-up to open on the screen? No problem. A video to start playing? Easy. Confetti and music? We’ve got that too.

Hotspots & Labeling

Annotate images and provide contextual information with hover labels and tooltips.

Pop-up Windows

Break content down into bite-size chunks and layers. Choose a pre-built modal layout or design your own.

Voiceover and audio

Enhance the experience with narration, music, and sound effects. Upload an audio file, embed a live stream, or record a voiceover in Genially. 

Timed animations

Use timed sequences to highlight key points and tell compelling visual stories.

Click trigger effects

Reveal information step by step, and build engaging activities with hide, zoom, and other visual effects.

Branching

Build learning scenarios, choose-your-own-adventure games, and microsites with jump-to-page links and custom navigation.

Video

Make video tutorials and all-in-one content that users can explore without visiting other web pages. Upload a video or paste in a link to YouTube, Vimeo or Drive.

Rich media embeds

Embed live content from websites and apps directly in the page. Works with Google Maps, social media, online docs and more: just paste in the url or iframe code.

Combine interactions

Mix and match interactions and animations for powerful visual storytelling. Try any combination – like click-to-reveal, change color, and sound effects!

Drag and drop

Make any element draggable. Create puzzles, fill-in-the-blanks, timelines, and classification or matching exercises.

Full screen effects

A round of applause, hearts, fireworks … generate anticipation and celebrate progress with fun animations that burst across the page.

Game mechanics

Challenge and motivate learners with unlockable content, time-limited activities, randomizing elements, and built-in feedback loops.

User response

Interactive questions enable learners to respond to content and demonstrate their understanding as they go.

Paint

Use the draw-on-the-canvas tool to highlight points during a live presentation or enable learners to doodle ideas and connections on the screen.

Program content

Use the countdown widget and interactions to control when content becomes available and unlock activities at a set time.

Gamification features

The human brain is wired for challenge and reward, making gamified content more fun, memorable, and effective. 

Genially makes it easy to add game mechanics to any kind of material, from corporate training courses to marketing campaigns. Watch engagement climb and see tangible results.

Live games

Host interactive quizzes, team games, and training sessions with Live Results and a participant leaderboard.

Mission: Escape

We’re pioneers in the digital escape game format. Build an immersive and engaging story that challenges learners to find clues, crack codes, and solve challenges.

Race against the clock

Tick tock, tick tock. Raise the stakes with a countdown timer, stopwatch, and time limits for answering questions.

Try your luck

Keep learners on their toes with elements of chance and surprise. Use the image randomizer, dice, or coin flip to offer learners multiple paths and choices.

Quiz Builder

Use questions to evaluate learner comprehension, or check in with your users and customers. Genially’s powerful question and quizzing features make it easy to build:

Tests

Knowledge checks

Formative assessments

Surveys and polls

Scenario-based learning (SBL) activities

Forms

Data capture and research

Personalized product recommendations

12+ Question types and settings

True or False

Identify knowledge gaps and boost learner confidence with quick-fire questions. Elicit any binary answer like Yes/No or Agree/Disagree.

Multiple Choice

Encourage critical thinking and decision making with multiple answer and multiple choice questions (MCQs).

Open Response

Invite learners or readers to type their own answer. Prompt active reflection, and collect user data and feedback.

Sort

Ask learners to drag events, tasks, and concepts into the correct sequence or chronological order.

Select image

Use images to create matching and pairing quizzes, or object recognition and vocabulary tests.

Surveys and Polls

Measure opinions and collect votes. Activate Show Results to display live survey results when a user submits their answer.

Display peer responses

For asynchronous learning, use Live Results to show participants what their classmates or team members have answered.

Custom feedback

Thumbs up, Try again, The correct answer is …. Add custom messages to give learners instant feedback, hints, encouragement, or suggestions.

Remediation and self-correction

Give learners the chance to try again if they don’t get it right the first time. Or create summative assessments and closed tests to review later.

Custom paths

Choose what happens when users answer a question. Continue or jump to a specific page.

Time limit

Add a fun countdown timer to enhance focus, create a sense of urgency and replicate real life time pressures. 

Design options

Customize how questions look on the screen, with a choice of fonts, colors, and layouts.

Results and data of the questions

Analytics & Assessment

Engagement Analytics: See how your content is performing with live metrics on views, clicks, and interactions.

Learner Tracking: Monitor progress, pages visited, and activities completed by named individuals.

User ID: Identify responses by asking users, learners, or participants to enter a name or alias.

Easy reporting: Create reports using data captured in your forms and questions.

Export data: Download results in CSV format to connect to your analytics platforms.

AUDIENCE INTERACTION

Host live interactive sessions

Energize your training sessions, lessons, and team meetings with a live leaderboard and participant scoring. Create the content and host in Genially – no other platforms required.

Live quizzes and games

Interactive presentations

Icebreakers and warmups

Class revision

Competitions

Polls

Brainstorming

Live Results on screen

Participant Leaderboard

Instructor-led or asynchronous

Custom pathway 

Optional time limit

Celebratory Animations

Intuitive design tools

Drag-and-drop Editor 

Pre-built page layouts

Interactive charts & data visualization 

Import PowerPoint & Slides

Dynamic diagramming tools

Unlimited high resolution stock photos and GIFs

Color palettes

Image masks and filters

Resource Library: Vector graphics, hotspot markers, icons, and buttons

WYSIWYG: Preview how content will look

Layers: composite multiple elements

Upload images, 3D files, and media from your device 

Brand Kit

Brand Kit

Roll out consistently on-brand content quickly and easily.

Apply your colors, fonts, text styles and assets in one click

Team templates: Save time by building your own own bank of reusable designs

Brand templates: Generate and automatically update templates with your branding

AI Assistant

Save time on routine content creation tasks with the help of artificial intelligence.

AI text editing

Text editing

Check for mistakes, change the tone, and make text easier to read.

AI question generator

Question Generator

Stumped for ideas? Ask AI to suggest questions and answers for your quizzes.

AI translation assistant

Translation

Translate pages or entire documents with AI-powered translation. 100+ languages available.

AI image editing

Image editing

Remove the background from a photo or image. Quickly create cutouts to place on any background.

AA Accessibility

Design accessible content: Quickly add ALT text, link descriptions, and text hierarchy in the Accessibility tab.

Compatible with assistive technologies: Published Genially content is compatible with screen readers and keyboard navigation. 

Multi-modal: Facilitate user choice and adapt materials for diverse audiences by offering video, audio, text, and transcript options.

1,500+ pre-built templates

Build incredible interactive content in minutes with professional materials created by Genially’s team of Learning and Information Designers. Easy to customize, with interactions, animations and pre-set color palettes.

LIVE COLLABORATION

Team Workspace

Genially is a cloud-based platform built for diverse teams of all sizes. It’s easy to scale up and add members to your team workspace as you go.

Real-time co-editing

Changes saved automatically

Personal and shared spaces

Version & Activity History

Admin controls

Invite external guests for free

Easy to share and publish

Share link

Genially content can be viewed online from any device. No apps or downloads. Just share the url!

iFrame

Embed Genially content on any website or Learning Management System.

Present live

Hit the present button to present live in full screen mode.

Integrations

Add Genially content to Google Classroom, Microsoft Teams, social media and other platforms in one click.

HTML

Dodgy internet connection? Download in HTML to retain interactive features offline.

Download

Need another format? Download in interactive PDF, MP4 video, or JPG.

LMS-compatible 

SCORM

Download Genially content as a SCORM package, or use dynamic SCORM to sync changes in your LMS. 

LTI

Seamlessly connect to your LMS using Learning Tools Interoperability. Integrate Genially content into your courses without downloads or manual updates.

Standalone

Don’t use an LMS? With built-in learner tracking and engagement analytics, you can monitor student progress inside Genially.

Permissions and access controls

Domain restriction

Control where published content is shared by restricting embeds to a list of approved websites.

Optional web indexing

Allow search engines to find your content for SEO, or publish on a non-indexed url.

Permissions

Control which features and settings your team members can access.

Single Sign On

Secure and simple: enable users to sign in to Genially using your organization’s credentials.

FOR TEACHERS

Class Workspace: Develop students’ digital skills

When you sign up to Genially as a teacher, you automatically get a Class Workspace. It’s like a collaborative virtual classroom where you can work on interactive projects with your students. 

Invite students to the workplace for free

Unlimited student seats 

Foster creativity, teamwork, and digital design skills development

Create spaces for different classes and groups

Compatible with all 5 pillars of the EU’s Digital Competence Framework

Single Sign On

Student data safeguarding

Ferpa Coppa compliant

Genially is a safe online platform approved for use in schools. We meet the Education world’s gold standard in privacy protection: Ferpa Coppa. 

Class content is private

Content created by students in the Class Workspace can only be accessed via a link shared by the teacher. It’s not indexed by search engines.

K12 deletion policy

If a user under 18 is inactive on Genially for one year, we delete all of their personal information and data.

Teacher controls

Minors can join a workspace only when invited by their teacher, via a secure access code. Student seats have restricted permissions.

GDPR compliant

Genially stores data in the EEA and meets the world’s strongest regulations on the handling of personal data: the General Data Protection Regulation.

Military-grade TLS encryption

Data is encrypted with TLS 1.2 or higher in transit, and encrypted at rest with AES-256 bits.

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