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color:#1F497D'>It’s text only here, but if you use Xerte in it’s raw form, it
ought to b easy enough to have a dag and drop activity that lets you sort
different types of latex into different groups.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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xerte-bounces@lists.nottingham.ac.uk [mailto:xerte-bounces@lists.nottingham.ac.uk]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Robert Fant<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Friday, January 16, 2009 1:20 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> Xerte discussion list<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [Xerte] More Questions<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:
12.0pt;margin-left:36.0pt'>Hey Thanks Julian,<br>
<br>
I apologize for asking such a primitive question. I don't know how
I missed that in my readings.<br>
Nonetheless, I got it going and it works just like you said.<br>
<br>
Hopefully this next question will not be so trivial.<br>
I just created a "categorizing" activity, works great. <br>
As I understand it, all "item" entries are stored in the XML
file. Is it possible for the items to be LaTeX code/images (or any
image type)? Or are we limited only to text here?<br>
I would guess that the answer to this will apply to all of the different
activity entries.<br>
<br>
Again, than you for your patience,<br>
<br>
Robert<br>
<br>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'>On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 1:41 AM,
Julian Tenney <<a href="mailto:Julian.Tenney@nottingham.ac.uk">Julian.Tenney@nottingham.ac.uk</a>>
wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p style='margin-left:36.0pt'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D'>Fire
up Xerte. Go to the templates menu, choose the pageTemplates option there. Let
it create a new project or you. Once it's done, you should be faced with the
wizard screen, and the insert menu in the top left. This allows you to add
pages to the project.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style='margin-left:36.0pt'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D'> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style='margin-left:36.0pt'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D'>This
is the way to use Xerte if you want to create content quickly,using predefined
templates – no need to script anything. You can create cutom pages by loading
up flash movies which do things not available in the other page types.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style='margin-left:36.0pt'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D'> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style='margin-left:36.0pt'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D'>The
file type for this type of project is .rlt. When Xerte opens an .rlt file it
automatically opens the wizard interface. Underneath that is the normal Xerte
dev environment – if you close the wizard you will return to it. To fire up the
wizard again by doule clicking the Learning Object icon (which now has a little
cog wheel on it, indicating this is a data-driven piece).</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style='margin-left:36.0pt'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D'> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style='margin-left:36.0pt'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D'>Probably
best not to mess with the underlying .rlt file until you've figured a bit
more out – this is quite advanced Xerte.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style='margin-left:36.0pt'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D'> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style='margin-left:36.0pt'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D'>The
wizard interface allows you to edit an xml file (template.xml) which contains
your content. At runtime this file is loaded up, and the logic in the .rlt uses
the data in this file to construct the piece dynamically, based on the data it
finds in there.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style='margin-left:36.0pt'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D'> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style='margin-left:36.0pt'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D'>If
you've jumped straight into the quiz templates tutorial, and haven't written
any code before you'll have a lot of further questions – just shout, but be
aware this is quite advanced stuff, and you should defintitely learn some
coding first. Work through the getting started bit of the help file, that
should help quite a bit,</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p style='margin-left:36.0pt'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D'>J</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style='margin-left:36.0pt'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D'> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
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lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt'> <a
href="mailto:xerte-bounces@lists.nottingham.ac.uk" target="_blank">xerte-bounces@lists.nottingham.ac.uk</a>
[mailto:<a href="mailto:xerte-bounces@lists.nottingham.ac.uk" target="_blank">xerte-bounces@lists.nottingham.ac.uk</a>]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Robert Fant<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Friday, January 16, 2009 3:12 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> Xerte discussion list<br>
<b>Subject:</b> [Xerte] More Questions</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p style='margin-left:72.0pt'>First, thank all of you (<b>Julian, John, and
Patrick</b>), for your quick, informative responses.<br>
I feel much better but have a LONG way to go.<br>
<br>
I have actually created a couple of pages with some trivial (scrolling) text
boxes, math symbols, and a graphic, (must start somewhere, right).
Working through the quiz tutorial in the help menu, now. My programming
/ scripting skills are minimal, so this is going to be tough.<br>
<br>
QUESTION(S): I got on John's online site and saw that one can
"Insert" various templates from a drop-down list, (inter-activities,
media, navigators, etc.). I don't seem to have all of this
available with the desktop version. What am I missing?
Do I need to install these templates? However, as I look through
the directory where Xerte is installed, I can see what appears to be folders
with a lot of this stuff available. I'm guessing I just don't
understand how to implement any of them.<br>
The "template" directory in the help file just <b>seems</b> to only
disect and explain the various xml files.<br clear=all>
<br>
I suppose this is enough for now. I've been at this all day.<br>
<br>
Thanks in advance for your help and expertise,<br>
<br>
<br>
-- <br>
Robert Fant<br>
Mathematics Instructor<br>
Technology Integration Enthusiast<br>
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<a href="mailto:rfantster@gmail.com" target="_blank">rfantster@gmail.com</a><br>
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