This area covers a range of settings for the running of the Xerte installation, or Site. Most of the settings can be left in their default setting, and some only become useful if you specifically deploy certain features.
Note: Some of the options here are legacy ones that are no longer in use but have yet to be removed from the interface.
| Setting | Description |
| Register | This feature is planned but not yet operational. It provides the option of registering your installation with the Xerte project team. This is recommended if your nominated Xerte administrator wants to receive notifications about upcoming updates and/or critical bug fixes. |
| Site settings (HTML / images) | This displays information about the installation, including some areas that can be edited to personalise the site. There are also several 'pods' that let you edit the text displayed to users after login. |
| Server Settings | These settings can be left in their default state and will ensure safe running of the site. If the admin login details need updating this can be done here. Also, if you require for authors to be able to upload a media type that is not currently present in the MIME-type list, you can add this here. |
| RSS settings | These settings can be updated if the intention is for projects from the site to be shared via RSS feeds. |
| Path settings | These settings can be left in their default state and will ensure effective running of the site. |
| SQL query settings | These settings can be left in their default state and will ensure effective running of the site. |
| Error handling settings | No longer in use. |
| Authentication settings | This provides details on how users are authenticated when they log in. These are the available methods: Guest - for testing only LDAP - central storage of credentials (including Microsoft active directory) DB (database) - user management done manually inside the Xerte installation Static - fixed login in code, used for testing only Moodle - Authentication via Moodle. The Xerte installation needs to be in Moodle. SAML2 - used for Single Sign On (SSO) (uses an SSO protocol) OAuth2 - used for SSO (uses a different SSO protocol) |
| LDAP settings | Details are included to ensure LDAP connects correctly to authenticate users who log in via this method. These details will be provided by an Institution's IT department. |
| Xerte settings | These settings can be left in their default state and will ensure effective running of the site. |
| In this area you can provide the email address for system generated emails (such as when a lock file is released, and an author will receive a notification or when peer review is used, the 'peer' is sent an email to request their response). | |
| Language settings | This provides the ability to upload language packs to the site. The packs can be found on the xerte.org website. Once installed they allow the site to be viewed in that given language. If you are interested in updating a language pack, or creating a new language pack, please get in touch via the xerte.org website forum or by emailing info@xerte.org.uk. |
| xAPI settings | These settings provide the opportunity to set global xAPI permissions which connect the Xerte installation to an external Learning Record Store (LRS). Once an LRS account is set up, usually by your Xerte administrator or IT technical support, then the relevant endpoint, key and secret data can be added. This will then allow the option for user data from XOT projects to be tracked via dashboards embedded in Xerte. |
| Social Icon settings (prevent the use of cookies) | Social icons don't currently work in Bootstrap. The AddThis service needs replacing. In the bootstrap template, social icons can be used in the footer. These place cookies. To prevent this, you can indicate here for the entire installation whether these may be used. |
| LTI/Moodle settings (Not Tsugi/LTI) | No longer in use. |