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><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 1:41 AM, Julian Tenney <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:Julian.Tenney@nottingham.ac.uk">Julian.Tenney@nottingham.ac.uk</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<p><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">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></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);"> </span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">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></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);"> </span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">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></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);"> </span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">Probably best not to mess with the underlying .rlt file
until you've figured a bit more out – this is quite advanced Xerte.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);"> </span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">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></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);"> </span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">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></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">J</span></p>
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[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></p>
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<p style="margin-left: 36pt;">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">
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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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