I recently had a teacher inquire about having her students create an online magazine and what she could use to do it.  I had worked with an English teacher last year to create a Poetry magazine using Joomag.  It worked well, but we seemed to run into some issues in a virtual environment, however, overall the completed magazines were amazing! I do have to say that all the students did need an email to create an account to log in to the computer.  If you want to check out some other cool tools for a magazine project, check out this blog to create magazines or newspapers with your class: http://blueblots.com/design/websites-that-will-let-you-create-digital-magazines-and-newspapers/