Xerte
- About
- Tools & Terminology
- The Text pages
- The learning object icon properties
- The graphics and sound page
- XOT with Moodle pt 1
- XOT with Moodle pt 2
- XOT with Moodle pt 3
- Morphing Image page
- Exporting and re-editing Xerte LO’s
- Related links & resources
- Xerte & XOT community examples
- Community Reflections
- Student Reflections
- Customisations
About these Xerte resources and screencasts
I’ve been working independently and with TechDis and Nottingham University helping to develop, promote and support Xerte for quite a while now so it seemed appropriate to establish a dedicated Xerte page linking to various resources and examples etc.
I started to put some video tutorials together partly to support my f2f training sessions but also for the wider benefit of the Xerte community. The introduction and first episode in the series covers the Tools & Terminology, aimed at teaching staff rather than developers and introducing the various tools and terminology. The original collection of screencasts and other resources have been available for quite a while now but I plan to add a number of additions over the next few weeks and months so check back regularly.
If you’re interested in using my services for Xerte training, customisation, additional templates, learning object development please contact me via my contact page.
Tools & Terminology
The first episode in the Quick and Dirty Xerte series, aimed at teachers rather than developers and introducing the differences between the different tools in the Xerte suite as well as some of the key terminology…
The Text pages
An introduction to each of the page types available via the Insert – Text menu. This is aimed at teachers and those new to Xerte Online Toolkits….
The learning object icon properties
A tutorial covering the default and optional Xerte Online Toolkits icon properties including suggested changes to the default properties and why…
The Graphics and Sound page
An overview of the much used Graphics and Sound page…
Using XOT with Moodle part 3…
The third part in a 3 part series about using XOT with Moodle. This will cover the specifics of SCORM tracking with the Quiz page type
Coming soon…
Morphing Image page
An overview of the Morphing Image page…
Exporting and re-editing Xerte LO’s
A comprehensive demonstration of the powerfull exporting, re-editing and ’round trip authoring’ functionality built-in the the Xerte suite of tools…
Related links and other Resources
Other related links are:
My blog posts categorised as Xerte.
The Xerte homepage at the University of Nottingham https://nottingham.ac.uk/xerte
Example of the main XOT template page types
Xerte Technical mailing list at University of Nottingham Technical mailing list
Xerte for Teachers mailing list
My youtube channel https://mitchellmedia.co.uk/youtube
Community Reflections…
Student Reflections
A great video put together by Vikki Liogier, Souad Kouachi and students at Epping Forest College where Students are creating LO’s for their peers, presenting and then testing understanding and learning…
Customisations
These are examples of customisations I’ve provided for various organisations either as part of training sessions or contracted development work… (Note: This section is still being updated)
JISC Techdis ITQ in Accessible IT Practice
This includes a colour scheme and gradient to match the new JISC Techdis logo and to complement the ITQ in Accessible IT Practice Moodle
Birkbeck
As part of a day’s training a quick theme was created including converting the Birkbeck logo to .swf format.
MoLeNET
The MoLeNET Xerte installation introduced a lot of people to the benefits of Xerte Online Toolkits. The installation was branded to match the MoLeNET Moodle and MoLeNET logo.
Niace
Another theme to match and existing Moodle theme complete with logo appearing by default.
East Riding College
As part of a day’s training for staff new to XOT I created a theme matched to the college logo so that even LO’s created during the training were ready to go with appropriate branding.
Learning Apps
A green and black theme to match the company Moodle and other systems.
Mitchellmedia
During training I use a range of themes and styles to demonstrate the flexibility and extensibility.
QR Code
I developed a custom page type a few years back to automatically generate a short url and QR code. This is now part of the Notts download.
Textwall
For those using the https://textwall.co.uk service this is a page I developed to provide an optimised view of textwall message via the rss feed.
Bleeding image/Advanced image
Another page type I developed which is now part of the Notts download. This enables more flexible positioning of images which can ‘bleed’ off one or more edges of the stage.
Compare Answer
This has been a very popular page type in the Xerte installations I look after but isn’t part of the Notts download. The functionality includes automatically copying the question, student response and pre-prepared answer to the clipboard as well as a seprate compare answer results page.
