LectaMe spring update 2026: collaboration, animations and student modes

The spring update of LectaMe focuses on three things that teachers in higher education and vocational education have asked for in recent months: collaborating on a lesson, presenting more dynamically and giving students more control over their learning path. Below, for each improvement, the problem, the solution and the impact.

1. Co-presenting: colleague invitations with slide comments

Problem: teachers who deliver a module together with a colleague section or a guest lecturer had to copy lessons back and forth or coordinate via screen sharing.

Solution: every presentation now has a Invite colleague button in the editor. The invited teacher sees the same presentation in his or her dashboard, can edit slides and leave slide‑level comments that remain as a bubble next to the slide until resolved.

Impact: two teachers can prepare one higher‑education tutorial in a single shared version, without copy conflicts and with inline feedback per slide.

2. Animations and slide transitions in the editor

Problem: presentations looked static compared with PowerPoint and held students’ attention less well in a 90‑minute lecture.

Solution: every element on a slide (text, image, shape) can now receive one of four animation types: fade, slide, zoom and scale. At slide level, three transitions are available: cut, fade and slide. Animations start on click or automatically after a configurable delay.

Impact: pedagogically strong sequencing – for example, showing the question first, then revealing the answer after discussion – is now one click instead of a separate slide.

3. Three student modes: reading, practicing, summarising

Problem: students who review the lesson afterwards did not want to see the same linear slides repeatedly, but to practice purposefully or get a short summary.

Solution: in the student view there are three tabs:

1. Read - the slides as a scrollable article, including images and layered explanations.
2. Practice - only the quiz and interaction elements, with immediate feedback.
3. Summarise - three lengths: short (key concepts), medium (per topic) and long (with examples), generated from the slide content.

Impact: students with 20 minutes before a test choose the short summary; students who really want to practice choose the practice mode. Teachers see per mode how often a student has gone through the lesson.

4. Improved PowerPoint import

Problem: existing .pptx files often contain matching questions, bullet lists and notes that were lost in the first import version.

Solution: the PPTX import now recognises match interactions as interactive elements, retains bullet points at slide level and imports speaker notes as slide notes in the editor.

Impact: teachers who have worked for years in PowerPoint no longer lose content and can start adding LectaMe‑specific interaction immediately.

5. Mollie payments for Pro and Team

Problem: activating subscriptions has so far been done via manual invoicing.

Solution: Pro (250 credits/month, €18.14) and Team (per seat, €12.09) are instantly activatable via Mollie – iDEAL, credit card or bank transfer.

Impact: a teacher or training coordinator switches within a minute from the free 10‑credits tier to a paid subscription, without a quotation process.

What’s still on the roadmap?

• Extension of team analytics with response times per quiz question.
• Translation of the generated summaries into English, German, French and Spanish (already available in the UI).
• A guided tour for new teachers in the editor.

Generate a complete lesson with these new features via /presentations/new. Questions or feedback? Respond in the forum or email to feedback@lectame.com.