[Xerte] Re: FW: exporting from sandpit and importing to our own XOT installation

[Alistair McNaught]

Hi Ray
As a non-technical person myself I'd make the distinction that Toolkits IS easy to use for people with very modest technical skills but installing it requires someone with more advanced technical skills - as indeed would be expected with any server based installation.
The way to learn more as an end user is probably to play on the JISC TechDis sandpit at www.techdisplayxerte.info<http://www.techdisplayxerte.info> and once you are confident it is the tool for you then get your  technical manager person to install it, using this list for backup.

Alistair



From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk [mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Ray Tolley
Sent: 19 January 2012 12:26
To: 'Xerte discussion list'
Subject: [Xerte] Re: FW: exporting from sandpit and importing to our own XOT installation

Alistair, thanks for reminding me.  I posted the following some time ago and only got one blunt reply,

"Sirs,

I've been trying for several days to learn more of Xerte.  I have followed the demos on your site and signed up to the list but so far have not had a reply.

I want to explore the Xerte toolkit with the hope of developing materials for mainstream education.

I was so impressed with the blurb about Xerte so have tried to install on a local PC.  Everything appears to download and extract, but when I follow the instruction as below:

"In a web browser, go to : http://localhost/xertetoolkits/setup/ and click on the for XAMPP people button."

I get the error message, 'Page not found'.  Should I have configured something for 'localhost'?  Will any such configuration disrupt the normal functioning of my PC?

I am reasonably confident in html but do not know php etc.

Am I missing something obvious or is this tool not as easy as the blurb suggests?

Regards,

Ray Tolley
Maximise ICT Ltd
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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: 19 January 2012 12:11
To: Xerte discussion list
Subject: [Xerte] FW: exporting from sandpit and importing to our own XOT installation

Hi all
I picked this up from teacher list but it more properly belongs in here so any ideas? I'll ask Oli to ensure he's subscribed in here to pick up the answers.

A

From: A list to facilitate and support teachers using Xerte Online Toolkits [mailto:XERTEFORTEACHERS at JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On Behalf Of Oliver Haslam
Sent: 19 January 2012 12:05
To: XERTEFORTEACHERS at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
Subject: exporting from sandpit and importing to our own XOT installation

Hi

We finally have our own installation of XOT and I'd like to transfer the LOs I've made in the sandpit to our own version of XOT. But I'm having a few problems. Any help would be very gratefully received!

I can export from the sandpit as a straightforward "zip export" without any problems. And I can import the .zip into our own version of XOT okay but when I try to play the newly imported LO I get an error message saying "ERROR: The file modules/Xerte/parent_t" and it won't play.

So I tried to export from the sandpit in different formats to see if that works. When I try to export as a "Zip (local) export" or as a "SCORM + metadata export" I am immediately logged out of the sandpit and taken to the login page:  http://xerte5.techdis.palepurple.co.uk/

I can export from the sandpit as a "Scorm export" but when I try to import the .zip into our own XOT I get a message saying "Upload checkFile transfer has failed.****Only Xerte templates are currently imported." And can go no further.

Perhaps our version of XOT is not installed/configured correctly? But it seems the sandpit is not happy either...

Any suggestions?

Oli

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