[Xerte] Re: Questions about XERTE 3

[Julian Tenney]

If I was starting out with Xerte now, I would concentrate on Xerte Online Toolkits, which will give you a huge leg up in terms of getting a project up and running, and then add custom bespoke stuff to do the things that the templates don't do: then you can develop in js / css / html, you've got jQuery in there. Personally I can't justify flash based output: tablets and phones are just too big a part of the user runtime now. HTML / js / CSS with jQuery is very similar to the old xerte way of working anyway (but much better).

I liked Flex a lot: but found the changes between versions of the SDK very difficult to keep up with: I haven't followed it since it became an Apache project: it does appear to still have some life, but mailing list traffic has fallen off a cliff for Flex. Most people have moved away from it (though I think it is used most in large corporates where they have control over the user's environment.

From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk [mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Smith, Bradley
Sent: 02 December 2014 19:25
To: Xerte discussion list
Subject: [Xerte] Re: Questions about XERTE 3

Yes, Xerte3 is the development version. It has a lot of advantages over the current version of Xerte, most notably a really nice WYSIWYG editor, but I would not recommend using it unless you've accepted the risk of encountering a show-stopping bug that you will may have to troubleshoot and fix yourself. If you are, I'd say give it a try and submit your fixes on github! :) I'm just about to complete my first project in Xerte3, and aside from having to spend time hunting down some annoying bugs (plus one big one that seems to break SCORM output in Moodle, which fortunately I don't need), I like it.

If you stick to Xerte2 (which, just to be clear, is what you should do if you aren't a developer) my understanding is that unless you need to create custom learning object templates, you should use XOT, not Desktop. I could be wrong about that, but I'm pretty sure it's what I was told earlier on this list.

-Brad

From: rob <robb at interlin.nl<mailto:robb at interlin.nl>>
Reply-To: Xerte discussion list <xerte at lists.nottingham.ac.uk<mailto:xerte at lists.nottingham.ac.uk>>
Date: Tuesday, December 2, 2014 at 2:11 PM
To: Xerte discussion list <xerte at lists.nottingham.ac.uk<mailto:xerte at lists.nottingham.ac.uk>>
Subject: [Xerte] Re: Questions about XERTE 3

I only use Xerte online Toolkit and I think that is the right sollution for open content. XoT allows for shared work on the same learning objects.
Xerte 2.18 (and 3) are complete other applications than Xerte online Toolkit. And what I understand is that Xerte 3 is still a development version.

If you want to use an authoring tool for an organisation where multiple people need to be able to create learning objects, XoT is the best choice.

regards,
rob


On Dinsdag 2 December 2014 18:26 CET, Everton Coimbra de Araújo <evertoncoimbra at gmail.com<mailto:evertoncoimbra at gmail.com>> wrote:

Hello, my name is Everton and I am interested in making use of XERTE, however, have some doubts. Can anyone help me?

1. XERTE project is discontinued?
2. Is there a document or tutorial to assist in the use of version 3?
3. What is better to use: Online Toolkit or the Desktop?

Thank you
Everton

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