[Xerte] Altering Stage Size

[Garry Lunn]

Hi Pat,
I have over 200 hours of e-learning content to repurpose into Exerte and
this requires collaboration between teams. It would be far easier for us
to set the stage of the Online toolkit to 1018,682 rather than export
individual projects. Do you know what files need to be changed?


Many thanks, Garry

Team Leader: E-learning Development and Support
Technology, Innovation and Development
Birmingham City University

-----Original Message-----
From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
[mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Patrick
Lockley
Sent: 22 July 2009 10:42
To: Xerte discussion list
Subject: RE: [Xerte] Altering Stage Size

I think it looks for RLT's still on import.

Note that the method I suggested wouldn't allow for it working if
imported back in. You can export a version, change the stage size and
then host it somewhere else (you'll need to modify the HTML in
index.html as well).

If you want to change all your templates to be the new size you can, but
you'll also need to change a lot of HTML on the site itself. So I would
suggest the approach above.

Pat

-----Original Message-----
From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
[mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Garry Lunn
Sent: 22 July 2009 10:37
To: Xerte discussion list
Subject: RE: [Xerte] Altering Stage Size

Hi Patrick,
I work with Jeremy and he posted this question on my behalf.

I've had limited success using this technique but failed on the
importing of the zip or RLO file. Here's what I did.

1. Created a new project in Xerte Online toolkit.
2. While the project was highlighted, I selected the "properties" button
and the "Export" tab.
3. Clicked the "Export SCORM" link and saved the zip package to my hard
drive.
4. Unzipped the package and double clicked the "learningobject.rlo".
5. In the desktop version of Xerte I added the stage size and set it to
1018,682.
6. Viewed the project and the stage size had changed to the desired
settings.
7. Saved the project and Zipped the entire project using ZipCentral. 
8. Using Xerte Online toolkit, selected "workspace" folder and clicked
the "Properties" button and then the import tab.
9. I tried to import the zip package but an error message appeared,
"File transfer has failed.****Only Xerte templates are currently
imported."
10. So I tried to import the "learningobject.rlo" file but this failed
too.

Where am I going wrong?

Regards, Garry

Team Leader: E-learning Development and Support
Technology, Innovation and Development
Birmingham City University

From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
[mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Patrick
Lockley
Sent: 21 July 2009 16:57
To: Xerte discussion list
Subject: RE: [Xerte] Altering Stage Size

As an experiment try creating an RLO with your content in, exporting it
from toolkits, opening it in desktop xerte, closing the template window,
then looking on the learning object node for the stage size. 

That might do it.

From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
[mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Jeremy
Hopkins
Sent: 21 July 2009 16:54
To: xerte at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
Subject: [Xerte] Altering Stage Size

Hello All,

We have been trying to import some content from another application, it
is flash based, wrapped up in a scorm package.
One of the issues we have is that this content requires a stage area of
893 x 620, but Xerte defaults at 800 x 600.

Can anyone tell me whether this can be altered?

Is it as simple as creating a new template / theme, or is there more to
it than that?

Thanks
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