Created by a team at Nottingham University, Xerte is a piece of open source software that can be used as an alternative to creating lessons in Moodle. The software is freely available to download at the Nottingham University website.
Xerte takes the Moodle lesson a stage further, providing a dynamic multimedia learning experience. Time invested early on produces rich pages with a wide variety of templates including drag-and-drop quizzes and image hot spots.
If the Moodle lesson whetted your appetite then take the bait and download Xerte onto your machine. It will be a rewarding journey. A once hidden gem is now an important tool being employed effectively by more and more educators.
Full installation of Xerte Online Toolkits on a server requires administrator's permissions. That may require some negotiation so a logical first step would be to install the latest Xerte download from the Nottingham University website onto a standalone machine. After creating some learning...