[Xerte] Re: XERTEFORTEACHERS Digest - 8 Jul 2013 to 9 Jul 2013 (#2013-71)

Smith, John J.J.Smith at gcu.ac.uk
Wed Jul 10 15:33:48 BST 2013


I agree with Julian about the voice...

Anyway, I've just tested in Mac Chrome and all media/sounds work as expected. Found a few interface bugs but these may be fixed now. What version is this?

Your /version.txt file reports it as Xerte Online Toolkits v1.9 (from SVN rev 601 http://code.google.com/p/xerteonlinetoolkits) if this is really the case then you should probably upgrade to the latest v2.0 install from the community site...

Regards,

John Smith
Learning Technologist
School of Health & Life Sciences
Glasgow Caledonian University


-----Original Message-----
From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk [mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Julian Tenney
Sent: Wednesday, July 10, 2013 2:56 PM
To: Xerte discussion list; ian.hall at eastdurham.ac.uk
Subject: [Xerte] Re: XERTEFORTEACHERS Digest - 8 Jul 2013 to 9 Jul 2013 (#2013-71)

Take it or leave it, but the piece would be much improved with a real human voice, especially if you're aiming this at potential students

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From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk [mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Alistair McNaught
Sent: 10 July 2013 14:42
To: ian.hall at eastdurham.ac.uk
Cc: xerte at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
Subject: [Xerte] Re: XERTEFORTEACHERS Digest - 8 Jul 2013 to 9 Jul 2013 (#2013-71)

http://xerte.eastdurham.ac.uk/play.php?template_id=71

Hi Ian and all
There are definitely some cross browser issues on the LO link you provided (above)

FireFox v 13.0.1
Every page works well - videos, interactivities and everything else.

Opera 12.1.5
Every page works well - videos, interactivities and everything else.

IE v10
Slide 5 (clickable map) didn't work
Slide 9 to 14 and slide 24 had voices only - no images or text showing.
The videos all worked.

Google Chrome
Blank white screen - couldn't get anything to show.

As I understand it FireFox and Opera are the most standards compliant browsers which might explain why they work so well. Not sure what the issues are with IE and Chrome though - unfortunately they are probably the most popular browsers for many.

Alistair




-----Original Message-----
From: A list to facilitate and support teachers using Xerte Online Toolkits [mailto:XERTEFORTEACHERS at JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On Behalf Of Hall, Ian
Sent: 10 July 2013 14:00
To: XERTEFORTEACHERS at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
Subject: Re: XERTEFORTEACHERS Digest - 8 Jul 2013 to 9 Jul 2013 (#2013-71)

Hi,

We were presenting a CPD event on Xerte to college staff yesterday. Two You-tube videos embedded within the HTML 5 presentation appeared blank similarly an interactive map with hotspots added. When we switched the document to Flash everything was as normal (we lost a little formatting on one page).

We use IE 9 at college.

Last night I played the HTML 5 Learning Object within Chrome and it worked fine.

Can anyone offer any solutions as we are looking to add an "Induction" Learning Object to our VLE in September to support the student induction programme?

Thanks

Ian
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-----Original Message-----
From: A list to facilitate and support teachers using Xerte Online Toolkits [mailto:XERTEFORTEACHERS at JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On Behalf Of Alistair McNaught
Sent: 10 July 2013 11:18
To: XERTEFORTEACHERS at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
Subject: Re: XERTEFORTEACHERS Digest - 8 Jul 2013 to 9 Jul 2013 (#2013-71)

Would it be possible to find from the college which browser / version they have? It would be interesting to find out  - especially if you can't replicate it at home.

A

-----Original Message-----
From: A list to facilitate and support teachers using Xerte Online Toolkits [mailto:XERTEFORTEACHERS at JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On Behalf Of Barbara Nance
Sent: 10 July 2013 09:38
To: XERTEFORTEACHERS at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
Subject: Re: XERTEFORTEACHERS Digest - 8 Jul 2013 to 9 Jul 2013 (#2013-71)

HI
Many thanks everyone

Will try with some other browsers next time I am in the college, it was the very first page which was a straight forward image/text page [Advanced Media Image]with no additional HTML or otherscript.
It opens fine on my ipad ditto open my home computer on several browsers so it must be something to do with computer setting at the college I was at.... but unless I can identify what the problem is am going to need to use Flash for  demos elsewhere which is not ideal. Creating two versions is not really ideal either although is one option.

Many thanks
Barbara


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Sent: 10 July 2013 00:01
To: XERTEFORTEACHERS at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
Subject: XERTEFORTEACHERS Digest - 8 Jul 2013 to 9 Jul 2013 (#2013-71)

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Topics of the day:

  1. XERTEFORTEACHERS query (3)
  2. XERTEFORTEACHERS Digest - 5 Jul 2013 to 8 Jul 2013 (#2013-70)

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Date:    Tue, 9 Jul 2013 08:04:53 +0000
From:    Alistair McNaught <Alistair.McNaught at HEACADEMY.AC.UK>
Subject: Re: XERTEFORTEACHERS query

I've experienced this on a few occasions with the Chrome browser but bizarrely it almost always works if I refresh after a few minutes.
The only other thing that can cause problems is if you add bits of code in the text field - I was doing a demo page to show what Maths formulae look like and sound like to a blind person but the code I cut and pasted into the text field got misinterpreted by Xerte as code to execute!

Alistair



-----Original Message-----
From: A list to facilitate and support teachers using Xerte Online Toolkits [mailto:XERTEFORTEACHERS at JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On Behalf Of Barbara Nance
Sent: 05 July 2013 17:46
To: XERTEFORTEACHERS at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
Subject: XERTEFORTEACHERS query

Hi
Has any one had the same issue with Xerte HTML5 version - having decided to use it instead of the Flash option (you can not just switch between the two, as the images layout goes all over the place) and went to demo at a local college. I had not used the URL or embed link at home.

However when using either the  URL  or Embed code, to show the activity, while the first screen showed on the screen initially it did so very briefly and then presented a white screen and no object. Has any one come-across this already and apologies if this has already been discussed.

I have not tried it on my ipad/iphaone as yet

Many thanks
Barbara
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Date:    Tue, 9 Jul 2013 08:18:56 +0000
From:    Bardell Jason <jason.bardell at KENT.FIRE-UK.ORG>
Subject: Re: XERTEFORTEACHERS query

Hi Barbara

We had something similar, it seems to be around the embedded page. Ours went black and we were unable to navigate past this page. It turns out the embedded code we used from YouTube needed cleaning up and we had to change page type to YouTube Video page. I have created a LO in 1.8 but when I toggle to HTML 5 in 2.0 the embedded webpage doesn’t display correctly (only header section visible), which reminds me I need to play with that LO today. Good luck with the embedded page, hope you get it sorted.

Jason Bardell  | Kent Fire & Rescue Service


-----Original Message-----
From: A list to facilitate and support teachers using Xerte Online Toolkits [mailto:XERTEFORTEACHERS at JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On Behalf Of Alistair McNaught
Sent: 09 July 2013 09:05
To: XERTEFORTEACHERS at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
Subject: Re: XERTEFORTEACHERS query

I've experienced this on a few occasions with the Chrome browser but bizarrely it almost always works if I refresh after a few minutes.
The only other thing that can cause problems is if you add bits of code in the text field - I was doing a demo page to show what Maths formulae look like and sound like to a blind person but the code I cut and pasted into the text field got misinterpreted by Xerte as code to execute!

Alistair



-----Original Message-----
From: A list to facilitate and support teachers using Xerte Online Toolkits [mailto:XERTEFORTEACHERS at JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On Behalf Of Barbara Nance
Sent: 05 July 2013 17:46
To: XERTEFORTEACHERS at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
Subject: XERTEFORTEACHERS query

Hi
Has any one had the same issue with Xerte HTML5 version - having decided to use it instead of the Flash option (you can not just switch between the two, as the images layout goes all over the place) and went to demo at a local college. I had not used the URL or embed link at home.

However when using either the  URL  or Embed code, to show the activity, while the first screen showed on the screen initially it did so very briefly and then presented a white screen and no object. Has any one come-across this already and apologies if this has already been discussed.

I have not tried it on my ipad/iphaone as yet

Many thanks
Barbara
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Date:    Tue, 9 Jul 2013 09:59:49 +0100
From:    Ron Mitchell <ronm at MITCHELLMEDIA.CO.UK>
Subject: Re: XERTEFORTEACHERS query

Barbara
Without a URL it's difficult to help/advise.
Ron

-----Original Message-----
From: A list to facilitate and support teachers using Xerte Online Toolkits [mailto:XERTEFORTEACHERS at JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On Behalf Of Bardell Jason
Sent: 09 July 2013 09:19
To: XERTEFORTEACHERS at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
Subject: Re: XERTEFORTEACHERS query

Hi Barbara

We had something similar, it seems to be around the embedded page. Ours went black and we were unable to navigate past this page. It turns out the embedded code we used from YouTube needed cleaning up and we had to change page type to YouTube Video page. I have created a LO in 1.8 but when I toggle to HTML 5 in 2.0 the embedded webpage doesn’t display correctly (only header section visible), which reminds me I need to play with that LO today. Good luck with the embedded page, hope you get it sorted.

Jason Bardell  | Kent Fire & Rescue Service


-----Original Message-----
From: A list to facilitate and support teachers using Xerte Online Toolkits [mailto:XERTEFORTEACHERS at JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On Behalf Of Alistair McNaught
Sent: 09 July 2013 09:05
To: XERTEFORTEACHERS at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
Subject: Re: XERTEFORTEACHERS query

I've experienced this on a few occasions with the Chrome browser but bizarrely it almost always works if I refresh after a few minutes.
The only other thing that can cause problems is if you add bits of code in the text field - I was doing a demo page to show what Maths formulae look like and sound like to a blind person but the code I cut and pasted into the text field got misinterpreted by Xerte as code to execute!

Alistair



-----Original Message-----
From: A list to facilitate and support teachers using Xerte Online Toolkits [mailto:XERTEFORTEACHERS at JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On Behalf Of Barbara Nance
Sent: 05 July 2013 17:46
To: XERTEFORTEACHERS at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
Subject: XERTEFORTEACHERS query

Hi
Has any one had the same issue with Xerte HTML5 version - having decided to use it instead of the Flash option (you can not just switch between the two, as the images layout goes all over the place) and went to demo at a local college. I had not used the URL or embed link at home.

However when using either the  URL  or Embed code, to show the activity, while the first screen showed on the screen initially it did so very briefly and then presented a white screen and no object. Has any one come-across this already and apologies if this has already been discussed.

I have not tried it on my ipad/iphaone as yet

Many thanks
Barbara
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Date:    Tue, 9 Jul 2013 12:20:46 +0100
From:    Barbara Nance <bjnance at GMAIL.COM>
Subject: Re: XERTEFORTEACHERS Digest - 5 Jul 2013 to 8 Jul 2013 (#2013-70)

Hi
Yes been made public and can be viewed in flash version Cheers Barbara



On 9 Jul 2013, at 00:02, XERTEFORTEACHERS automatic digest system <LISTSERV at JISCMAIL.AC.UK> wrote:

> There is 1 message totaling 28 lines in this issue.
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> Topics of the day:
>
>  1. XERTEFORTEACHERS query
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> Date:    Mon, 8 Jul 2013 09:52:35 +0100
> From:    Julian Tenney <Julian.Tenney at NOTTINGHAM.AC.UK>
> Subject: Re: XERTEFORTEACHERS query
>
> What's the URL you're trying to hit? Have you published the project, and made it public?
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: A list to facilitate and support teachers using Xerte Online
> Toolkits [mailto:XERTEFORTEACHERS at JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On Behalf Of Barbara
> Nance
> Sent: 05 July 2013 17:46
> To: XERTEFORTEACHERS at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> Subject: XERTEFORTEACHERS query
>
> Hi
> Has any one had the same issue with Xerte HTML5 version - having decided to use it instead of the Flash option (you can not just switch between the two, as the images layout goes all over the place) and went to demo at a local college. I had not used the URL or embed link at home.
>
> However when using either the  URL  or Embed code, to show the activity, while the first screen showed on the screen initially it did so very briefly and then presented a white screen and no object. Has any one come-across this already and apologies if this has already been discussed.
>
> I have not tried it on my ipad/iphaone as yet
>
> Many thanks
> Barbara
>
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>
> End of XERTEFORTEACHERS Digest - 5 Jul 2013 to 8 Jul 2013 (#2013-70)
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