[Xerte] Re: New to Xerte - Online toolkits vs Xerte 3.0

[Patrick Lockley]

Hi Martyn,

Xerte online toolkits uses solely the template feature of Xerte 2 to allow users to create materials online easily (or hopefully easily).

Developers can use Xerte 2 desktop to make new templates which can then be uploaded into XOT and used.

XOT also could support other templates from outside Xerte, as it has a modular structure.

Xerte 3 doesn't have any template functionality yet (it is still under development) but I think it remains a "developer tool".

I'm never one to assume other people's abilities, but Nottingham have had a lot of academic use of the Online Toolkits, but also allowing  people to use Xerte desktop if they feel confident in doing so.

Hope this helps. Please feel free to ask further questions.

Pat
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From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk [xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Lynch M (LCSS) [mlynch at glam.ac.uk]
Sent: Thursday, April 07, 2011 11:58 AM
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Subject: [Xerte] New to Xerte - Online toolkits vs Xerte 3.0

We're dipping our toe in the Xerte pool..

I intend to run a pilot in our University of Xerte and I'd like some advice.
I'd like to get a better understanding of the difference between the Xerte online Toolkit and Xerte 3 and typical usage scenarios around each tool.

I'm looking for a tool to provide all academic staff with a way of creating learning objects and deploying them in learning material (Blackboard, powerpoint, whatever)
I've arranged for an install of Xerte online toolkit and I imagine this is how most of our academic staff would go about creating learning objects. What can Xerte 3 do that online can't (and vice versa) and do they work together and if so how?

Thanks


Martin Lynch
Team leader Multimedia Services
University of Glamorgan
01443 483764
mlynch at glam.ac.uk



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