Teacher

Please see the Xerte Community website to find out more about the benefits of using Xerte Online Toolkits in your teaching.

Guide to Getting Started This guide includes an overview of the Xerte interface, details on how to create and edit projects and instructions for releasing the finished content to students.

An Author’s Guide to Accessibility This guide gives an overview of basic accessibility considerations, detailed information relating to the needs of users with a variety of specific needs and instructions for adding many of the recommended accessibility features to a Xerte project. The guidance covers both technical accessibility and pedagogical hints and tips.

Variables Guide This guide covers how to set up variables and use them in your projects. Variables can be used to add variety to the data that students are shown as the value of each variable is calculated (according to the parameters set by the author) when the project is viewed. For example, instead of including the sum 1 + 2 = 3, variables allow the sum a + b = c to use a variety of numbers.

Although several years old, the following 2013 guides by Jisc TechDis should be of use when you start using Xerte:

Creating Your First Learning Object In this tutorial we will begin to create a simple learning object containing some text, images and sound. In the process we will explore the basics of the Xerte Online Toolkits interface and the steps required to create and share your first learning object.

Assets for use with First Learning Object guide

Note: The Jisc TechDis sandpit no longer exists - you will need to use your own installation or an installation elsewhere.

Page Types Reference When creating or editing a project based on the Xerte Online Toolkit template, there are many page types to choose from. Although a preview and summary is provided within the project editor window itself, the more detailed summary and reference to each page type provided in this guide can serve as either an introduction to, or reminder of, what’s available and help us to choose which page type to use for a specific purpose.

Editing, Managing and Sharing Learning Objects: Part 1 This particular tutorial covers the basics of editing, managing and sharing existing learning objects using the Xerte Online Toolkits workspace.

Editing, Managing and Sharing Learning Objects: Part 2 This particular tutorial covers the more advanced aspects of editing, managing and sharing existing learning objects using the Xerte Online Toolkits workspace.

Using the Categories Page This tutorial covers the use of the Categories page type which allows you to add a ‘drag items to categories’ interaction extremely quickly and easily. The categories pages created are also fully accessible, enabling the drag and drop interaction to be navigated and completed by keyboard without the need for a mouse.

Using the Drag & Drop Page This tutorial covers the use of the Drag and Drop Labelling page type which allows you to create drag and drop interactions quickly and easily. The Drag and Drop interactions created are also fully accessible, enabling the drag and drop interaction to be navigated and completed by keyboard without the need for a mouse.

Assets for using Drag & Drop guide

Using the Image Hotspot Page This tutorial covers the use of the Hotspot Image page type which allows you to add hotspots to images quickly and easily. The Hotspot Image pages created are also fully accessible, enabling the Hotspot interaction to be navigated and completed by keyboard without the need for a mouse.

Assets for Image Hotspot guide

Using the Multiple Choice Question Page This tutorial covers the use of the Multiple Choice Question template which enables you to add a multiple choice question anywhere within your learning object. You can add one or more individual pages containing a single multiple-choice question. You can create a simple true/false or single correct answer question or a more complex question with multiple correct answers.

Using the Navigator Pages This tutorial covers the use of the various Navigators page types which provide different means of displaying information on the same page in smaller and/or separate chunks. This guide covers both the Column Page and the Tabbed Navigator however the other three navigators currently available are also created and used in a very similar way.

Assets for Navigator Pages guide

Using the Timeline / Matching Pairs Pages This tutorial covers the use of the Timeline/Matching Pairs page type which allows you to add a ‘drag items to correct sequence or to matching pairs’ interaction extremely quickly and easily. The Timeline or Matching Pairs pages created are also fully accessible, enabling the drag and drop interaction to be navigated and completed by keyboard without the need for a mouse.