Supporting e-learning
As a learning technologist you are likely to find yourself advising course teams on how to make more efficient use of time and resources.
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As a learning technologist you are likely to find yourself advising course teams on how to make more efficient use of time and resources.
Features of Xerte that help support learners with concentration difficulties include:
* a range of rich media can be used in different ways to help engage learners
* interactive pages engage kinaesthetic learners
Xerte has several page types that can accommodate video clips, making it ideal for adding sign language video to clarify tasks and content. Many page types lend themselves to visually rich learning materials and the Navigator pages encourage content authors to break up dense text to manageable chunks. JISC TechDIs is currently involved in a project with City Lit in London to create Deaf friendly e-safety resources for adult deaf learners.
Xerte has very good keyboard accessibility with all features and functions accessible by tab, space bar and arrow keys.
Different browsers may behave differently with different pages so if you find a problem we've not yet spotted please report it to the Accessibility part of the forum.
Xerte is designed to be as accessible as possible to end users and many Xerte page types are accessible to screenreader users but it varies with the page type, the screenreader and the device the objects are viewed on.
Most page types are compatible with screenreader technologies.
Xerte offers many benefits for learners with dyslexia these include:
* text to speech (TTS) compatibility with free and commercial TTS software.
* a range of colour and font options
* a wide range of page types designed for use with rich media