[Xerte] Re: Xerte 2.17 Glossary / relative links / css classes

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Thanks Jonathan! Sounds great.look forward to it. 

 

RonM2

 

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[mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Kemp Johnathan
Sent: Wednesday, March 21, 2012 2:31 AM
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Subject: [Xerte] Re: Xerte 2.17 Glossary / relative links / css classes

 

The connector pages are what were in page wizards known as "routed pages".

 

They will be available in both desktop and toolkits.

 

Every page will now have a new optional property called "Page ID". This will
be used as a unique identifier for that page for use by Connector pages.

 

The Connector pages provide "exit points" from the page, each of which can
have assigned to it a destination page ID. When the learner selects that
exit point they are taken to the page identified by the destination page ID
for that exit point.

 

The seven connector pages are

 

1.	Multiple Choice Question Connector - the exit points are alternative
answer options to the question.
2.	Hot spot image Connector - the exit points are the hot spots (These
hot spots can also be used for other actions such as displaying a video or
playing a sound.
3.	Tab Navigator Connector - which works similar to the standard tab
navigator page but includes the ability to add options like in an MCQ page,
which again have destination IDs associated with them
4.	Menu Connector - this is slightly different from the other
connectors in that it builds a list of links to pages automatically, you can
have all the pages in a project or you can specify a start page ID and an
end page "page ID" and it will then just list those pages that fall between
those to page IDs inclusive. It displays similar to the current menu option
in Toolkits.

5.	Plain text Connector in which you can add hyperlinks to text that
will link to other pages in the project based on their Page ID

6.	Redirector Connector - this is intended as an end of section page
e.g. You might use an MCQ connector to direct the learner to a sequence of
standard pages. At the end of the sequence you would use a Redirector
Connector page that displays text and an image if required with a button.
Click on the button and the learner is taken to the specified destination
Page ID, thus enabling the author to return the learner back to the main
flow of the project.
7.	Scenario Connector - this is a bit of a monster of a page. It is
designed to allow the creation of complex scenarios, by building a project
with many Scenario pages, each page representing one scene or situation in
the scenario. Each scene can have props in it. Both props and scene can have
actions associated with them. Actions can have conditions that define when
they are available and have outcomes that define what happens when an action
is taken. Outcomes range from incrementing or decrementing one of three
available scores, to changing the state of props (Carried, hidden, dropped
etc), to being taken to a different scenario page. Scores have maximum and
minimum values each of which if required can trigger an "end of scenario"
situation with display of the appropriate messaging.

The connector pages open up a tremendous amount of potential.

 

Kind regards

 

Johnathan

 

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