[Xerte] Editing products of templates?
jventola at verizon.net
jventola at verizon.net
Mon Jul 14 19:29:19 BST 2008
Thanks for the offer. Before I mail you the file, I need to clear up something.
The test suite at the site you linked seems to be for Scorm 2004, whereas our WebCT is
only Scorm 1.02. Could that be the problem? Unfortunately, the wizard does not let me
choose the Scorm version. Is there a way to tell which version the wizard is packaging?
Another clear problem is firefox. I tried running some scorm packs I had uploaded and run
before within WebCT. In Firefox 3, even the one from eXe reported lack of content, though
it showed the table of contents. When I ran that from IE, it still worked fine.
I also discovered that when I tried to unzip my scorm locally, I could see the files, but it was
expecting a password. I'll have to see if all scorm zips are password protected, or only the
ones from that wizard.
Date sent: Mon, 14 Jul 2008 17:31:40 +0100
From: "Lockley Patrick" <Patrick.Lockley at nottingham.ac.uk>
Subject: RE: [Xerte] Editing products of templates?
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> Well the innards aren't my part of the world (I'm helping to extend the
> xerte template into an online xerte suite).
>
> I think you'd be ok cutting and pasting template xml, I wouldn't want to
> cut and paste normal xerte xml.
>
> Have you the scorm test suite?
>
> http://www.adlnet.gov/downloads/downloadPage.aspx?id=277
>
> I use that to test my packages. It's a bit fiddly but it tells you
> pretty quickly why they don't work.
>
> If it's a small zip (shall we say under 8 meg or so) email me and I can
> test (please don't email it to the list though).
>
> Cheers
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> jventola at verizon.net
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> Subject: RE: [Xerte] Editing products of templates?
>
> Thanks, Pat.
>
> That helps a lot. It sounds like merging is pretty tough at the
> moment--cutting and pasting xml sounds daunting since you have to keep
> the proper structure.
>
> My new problem is that the unit I prepared with the pages template and
> published as scorm will not load into WebCT. That could be a problem at
> the college, although I was able to load scorms that I made without
> using a wizard.
>
> Over the weekend I looked up xmlx and sawmill--Xerte has some intersting
> innards.
>
> Jim
>
>
> Date sent: Mon, 14 Jul 2008 14:48:15 +0100
> From: "Lockley Patrick"
> <Patrick.Lockley at nottingham.ac.uk>
> Subject: RE: [Xerte] Editing products of templates?
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>
> > Hello,
> >
> > Sorry for the delay on this one as it's more advanced than I'm used to
> > :)
> >
> > The RLT - Holds all the code and complicated actions to allow the xml
> > to work when ran in the player.
> > The XWD is a Xerte Wizard - this configures the page types of the
> > wizard The XML is the data made by using the template and wizard
> >
> > If you open the RLT, it will use the XML file to populate itself -
> > changes are saved then saved to the XML.
> >
> > The XML needs the other two parts to make sense of it. Xerte normally
> > opens and saves RLOs - but this is when you've not set up a template.
> >
> > If you want to do two different things (features wise) make two
> > templates (a basic file set is one RLT, one xwd and one initial XML -
> > only the XML will change as the user develops it).
> >
> > Merging across templates would involve cuting and pasting XML at the
> > moment.
> >
> > I'm not sure on the file types - an XTP is all the files a template
> > would need (it's a zip file renamed).
> >
> > Hope this helps (Julian will be back next week with no doubt a better
> > answer).
> >
> > Pat
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
> > [mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of
> > jventola at verizon.net
> > Sent: 11 July 2008 19:50
> > To: xerte at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
> > Subject: [Xerte] Editing products of templates?
> >
> > Executive Summary: After I make a lesson with a wizard (template?) how
>
> > do I edit it in full Xerte and merge it with another lesson?
> >
> > I finally got around to exploring the Xerte install folder and
> > discovered Wizard/pageTemplates.xtp. Wow. Wonderful. Where has this
> > been all week? With this wizard, I can do just about everything I
> > need including a quiz with individual feedback.
> > Brilliant.
> >
> > But I do not understand templates in Xerte. I need an overview.
> > Usually, you load a template and use it to make and save a new
> > document (as in Word) and the resulting doc is editable in the
> > application software. So I would have expected to end up with an rlo
>
> > file that I could then open in Xerte. But the template interface can
> > only save another template.
> > (That's bearable since I can just publish it or package it.) But, say
>
> > I want to change a propety like streaming or loop or play on the
> > sound. I cannot load the file into Xerte except as a template and
> > that template may not offer the option. If I close the template, I
> > see Xerte, but I do not have my lesson to edit--only the logic of the
> wizard.
> >
> > I haven't gotten around to models yet. Maybe that is how you do it?
> > And is that how you merge stuff created with one template into a
> > presentation begun with another? Suppose I had two templates, each of
>
> > which makes doing something I want in one lesson easy. How do I
> > manage that?
> >
> > Similarly, what are all the filetypes of Xerte? In the Xerte folder I
>
> > see ico files for rlo, rla, rlm, and rlt--not to mention xlm and xwd.
> > And the pageTemplate is an xtp file. Is this explained anywhere?
> >
> > Thanks again for the help.
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