Shirley Crawford 
E-Learning Teaching Mentor

(Room J453 Tel:external: 01726 226755 ext 2755)
Cornwall College - St Austell

 

Hi Shirley and all

Currently the Nottingham team are working through the 70 or so Xerte templates so that when they play they can play either as normal Xerte objects or as html5 objects. The advantage of the latter is that they will work on mobile devices, tablets and other things that don't currently support Flash.

 

So here are some examples:

Here's a traditional learning object in traditional Flash based Xerte - http://tinyurl.com/tdxert

This is what it looks like in the Xerte Editor (and always has done).

 

The new magic is that when I create any learning object now (or import an old one into our new experimental Xenith version) I get two urls produced  as below.

 

The first is the standard Flash version that will run on PCs and Macs (and iPads if you employ special measures).

 

The second link (here’s a short version – http://tinyurl.co/tdxen) will also run on PCs, Macs etc but will also run on iPads, iPods, Windows phones etc.

 

At the current stage of development there may be glitches depending on browser and phone permutations but the testing so far has been very encouraging.

 

The key thing to note is that the later versions of XOT have all this built in automatically so once your XOT installation is updated you’ll be authoring as usual but able to provide either Flash or html urls. Ultimately people won’t need the Flash one because the html5 one will be more flexible, accessible and ubiquitous.

 

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Sent: 27 November 2012 19:58
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Subject: Xerte update

 

We do not currently have our own install of Xerte but I am hoping that I might be able to get something sorted out after Christmas. 

 

I think it would be useful if Ron or someone could explain about what Xenith is in layman's terms as I do not have a clue what it is, also it would be useful to know what are the new features of the online templates.

 

Apologies if this has already been explained, if so I must have missed it.

 

Regards

 

Shirley

 

Shirley Crawford

E-Learning Teaching Mentor

(Room J453 Tel: external: 01726 226755 ext 2755) Cornwall College - St Austell