This template comes with 2 commercial extensions for free: Shackslides and Shack Editorial Calendar.
Shack Slides
ShackSlides is the way to intensify your site with images that have style, are fully-responsive and have awesome effects.
We use Shackslides in the slideshow for the Novitas demo.
Documentation for Shack Slides
Shack Editorial Calendar
Shack Editorial Calendar is best editorial calendar for Joomla.
We use Shack Editorial Calendar in the Novitas Backend.