Delight your students with Shorthand

Increase engagement and get better results for your students with stunning digital resources.

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The world's leading brands trust Shorthand

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  • University of Queensland logo
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  • Boston university logo
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Simply beautiful educational resources

With Shorthand, anyone on your team can create stunning, visually immersive educational resources that can be accessed on any device.

  • With simple ‘drag and drop’ media uploads and section ordering, it’s truly simple to build a Shorthand story.
  • Get started immediately with our wide range of built-in templates.
  • Add media and create stunning scroll-based image transitions with our Scrollmation and Reveal story sections.

Create content at scale

Shorthand provides a collaborative workspace, which means you can invite everyone involved in creating your educational resources.

  • Use granular permission controls to grant access to those who need it.
  • With full version control, keep track of any changes made in the Shorthand editor.
  • Get started quickly with free webinars and onboarding support from our expert Customer Success team.
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Accessible by everyone

Move away from PDFs, slide-decks, and locked-down textbooks. Create resources that can be accessed and enjoyed by all your students — even those using screen readers.

  • Shorthand stories automatically work on all screen sizes, with in-app guidance on how to optimise your media.
  • Check content on all screen sizes prior to publication with Shorthand’s preview feature.
  • Add your third-party analytics tool and get real data on how your educational resources performs.

Measure engagement

Easily find out which teaching resources are having an impact — and which aren’t — with Shorthand’s built-in analytics.

  • Get a Shorthand-specific view of how your content is performing, without the noise of third-party analytics platforms.
  • Track views, time-on-page, and story completions for desktop and mobile.
  • On applicable plans, have your third-party analytics code or tag manager added to your theme.
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Check out these immersive educational stories — built with Shorthand

University of Cambridge

University of Cambridge

University of Utah Health

University of Utah Health

University of Queensland

University of Queensland

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Our Shorthand stories are performing on every metric that we've been measuring ourselves on. The targets and stretch targets have been met on all our content.

Andrew Youngson, Communications Insight Manager, Imperial College London

There is nothing to fear with Shorthand. There’s no mystery to it. The ease of use and its intuitiveness are why people love it.

Stuart Roberts, Head of Communications, University of Cambridge

Learn more about higher education publishing with Shorthand

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How Imperial College London uses Shorthand

How Imperial College London uses Shorthand

Ready to try the immersive content platform used by the University of Houston, the University of Queensland, and the University of Cambridge?

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