Developer

Xerte Online Toolkits is developed and maintained by a community of developers. If you want to join them, subscribe to the xerte-dev mailing list Joining the mailing list will give you a great idea of what’s currently going on, and a flavour of the fantastic community supporting the software.

The project’s source code is in a repository hosted on GitHub.

The Structure of Xerte Projects This overview looks at the main files involved in editing and playing a Xerte project. It is useful for understanding the structure of Xerte and which files you are likely to want to change.

How to Edit an Existing Page Type This guide demonstrates how to change the functionality of an existing page in the Xerte Online Toolkits template. It looks at how to make relatively superficial changes to way a page appears to students, as well as how to add new options to pages that can be added by the author via the editor.

How to Create a New Page Type This guide looks at how you can create a new page type that can be added to Xerte Online Toolkit projects. This involves creating both a wizard file, used by the editor, and a HTML page model, specifying how the page appears to the student.