Xerte offers the teacher/trainer a rich and varied content environment with minimal time and effort in authoring and delivery, using a simple template system.

Using Xerte encourages the development of rich media content with easy of embedding that content, flexibility of arranging content, the opportunity of embedded formative tests, also with our new 'connector' templates you can have non-linear pathways and conditional response content, etc

With richer and more varied content using Xerte for different learning styles, excellent accessibility and ease of use, the learner will be more engaged with the learning content.

If your IT team simply upgrades your previous installation to Xerte Toolkits 2.0 then you'll be able to go to the management panel, select any learning object, click on the Properties button and then the Project tab. There will be two check boxes labelled

[ ] Javascript (a.k.a. HTML5)

[ ] Flash

Click the top one - Javascript. Note the project url in the same panel. When you visit this url you will now see an HTML5 learning object.

Someone sent me a Xerte Toolkits learning object so that I could adapt it for my own learners. They emailed me a zip file. What do I do with it?

Log into your own Xerte installation and from the management panel click on the Workspace area then click the Properties button.

From here, click the Import tab then browse to the zip file and upload it. Once you have uploaded it to your own Xerte Toolkits installation follow the instructions in the FAQ above to ensure you have the HTML5 version working rather than the Flash version.

This isn't an exact science because it depends on screen resolution etc but here's a guideline:

Page type and dimensions (x,y – ie width/height in pixels)

Graphics - sound - 450 450
Column navigator - 2 cols - 300 x 300 / 3 cols - 230 230
Button navigator - 300 x 300
Tabbed navigator (text aligned top)
* small panel – 250 x 300
* medium panel 400x300
* large panel - 550x300
* full 700x300

Accordion navigator 4 panels
(4 panels gives 230 px height. Allow 20px height loss per additional panel – eg 6 panels max ht=230-40=190px)
* Small panels, no text 250x230
* Medium panels, no text – 400 x 230
* Large panels, no text – 550x230
* Full panel, no text – 700x230

Audio slideshow - 250x300
Morph image - 300x300 (automatically scaled)
Connector Hotspot image - 450 x 450 (image in textbox – 230x140 if no more than 1 line text). Won't rescale but will break box if too big.
Annotated diagram - 500x450
Drag and drop - 500x450
Hotspot image - 500x420
Quiz - 190x190
Interactive list - 300x300
Memory game - 100x130

Depending on the templates you choose you can create rich learning objects almost instantly. Have a look at some of the recipes.