The Xerte projectSimple content authoring

The Xerte projectBest of breed accessibility

The Xerte projectA global open-source community

The Xerte Project aims to provide high quality free software to educators all over the world, and to build a global community of users and developers. We believe that simple things should be simple and that anything should be possible.

Ease of Use

Rapid content authoring for all levels of skill. Non-technical authors can assemble content using a comprehensive suite of templates. Web developers have access to JavaScript and CSS to create anything they like.
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Accessibility

Best of breed accessibility for interactive learning. Accessibility has been a cornerstone of Xerte since it's inception and we aim to provide the benchmark against which all other authoring tools are judged.
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A Global Community

We are a friendly and positive global community of users and developers working together to produce high quality tools for the creation of media rich, interactive and highly accessible elearning content.
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Millions of learners and tens of thousands of teachers and tutors have access to Xerte in hundreds of universities, colleges, schools and organisations all over the world. The Xerte community is growing.

The Xerte Project

Xerte is an award-winning suite of browser-based tools that allow anyone with a web browser to create interactive learning materials quickly and easily. Content can be delivered to all devices using standards compliant HTML5 and a responsive template can deliver material to both small screens and large desktop computers.

Xerte provides a suite of tools for creating rich, accessible interactive content. For many educators, effectively exploiting technology in their teaching requires overcoming a number of technical barriers. Xerte provides simple online tools that anyone can use to create effective interactive materials easily. Xerte is free and open-source software developed by a wonderful community.

Content Authoring

Xerte is a powerful suite of productivity tools for rapid elearning development. Content is assembled using a forms to populate a suite of templates. Authoring is collaborative, allowing subject matter experts, media specialists and developers to work together in the creation of rich and highly accessible interactive learning resources. Ease of use has always been at the heart of Xerte.
We aim to provide intuitive tools that allow rapid content creation without sacrificing the flexibility that more advanced users demand. Developers have all the tools they need to create sophisticated interactivity and new forms of learning.

An example of all the 'page types' in the XOT template can be found in this example.

Content Delivery

Xerte produces standards-compliant HTML5 that runs on all devices running a modern web-browser, allowing learning to access content whenever and wherever they choose. We have buit in the very best support for accessible and inclusive content - our content delivery platform is considered to be one of the best examples of accessible design for online learning and is considered a benchmark for the industry. Throughout the development of Xerte we have partnered with accessibility and inclusion specialists and worked directly with users with a variety of special needs to test that the features we have implemented work as well as they possibly can do. We take the view that highly accessible content is highly usable for everybody and accessible design benefits all of our users.

With collaborative content authoring for subject matter experts, media specialists, designers and developers, Xerte creates an efficient and effective workflow for multi-disciplinary teams.

Organise

Organise your projects in the Xerte workspace, share your work with others in your team and publish your completed materials to your learners. If you need to, you can export standalone zip files for deployment on any web server, and export SCORM compliant content packages for deployment in any compatible virtual learning environment or learning managment system.

Create

Create your content using the editor. Interactive materials are easily created using forms. Capture your own learning designs as templates for re-use. Choose from a number of themes, or create your own to customise the look and feel. Advanced developers have access to all the functionality they need to do anything they want with HTML, CSS and JavaScript.

Deliver

Deliver your content to any device using standards compliant HTML5. A responsive and highly accessible interface creates a quality user experience for your learners whenever they access learning, wherever they may be. Xerte collects some basic playback statistics directly - more advanced tracking can be achieved through SCORM or xAPI.

The Xerte Project is a positive and friendly open-source community project. Anyone can join the community, contribute to the project design and participate in the decision making process.

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The Xerte Project is proud to be a member of the Apereo Foundation. Membership reflects the ongoing growth of the community and maturity of the software and gives potential adopters the assurance that the project is sustainable and well-managed.

Drawing on its community of users and developers, Xerte is well established in the landscape of authoring tools and provides a powerful platform for innovation.

"As an open source tool Xerte is in a league of its own. I love that it is easy to use without extensive technological knowledge; the way it embraces the integration of other tools; the possibility to make it available to students; and the quick responses from the community email list.”

Bournemouth University

"My students love using Xerte, and I love the simplicity of preparing resources. We most particularly make use of the Categories question and the Transcript Reading feature. Thank you for providing this wonderful material resource.”

Let's Learn English

"Excellent tool which delivers online learning content in an accessible format for our learners.”

Adult Community Learning Essex

"Xerte is easy to use, output in HTML5. It got standardized templates with possibilities of embedding HTML. A lot interactive templates, more than a lot of expensive competitors Last but not least: Cheap / free.”

Deltion College, Netherlands

"I have used Xerte with students and graduate interns to develop resources for the public and for college students who are transitioning into university. I think it is fantastic, although of course there is potential for improvement.”

Glasgow Caledonian University

"I love Xerte, it's so cool! I use it for my ESOL classroom presentations on the Smartboard and have embedded some into our Blackboard VLE."

South Thames College

"Xerte is an online toolkit which is easy to use for our lecturers without programming skills."

UC Leuven Limburg

"Xerte has been used quite extensively here to produce skills development resources."

Birkbeck, University of London

"Very quick and easy to develop resources without needing to have great depth of technical knowledge"

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The Xerte projectSimple content authoring

The Xerte projectBest of breed accessibility

The Xerte projectA global open-source community

The Xerte Project aims to provide high quality free software to educators all over the world, and to build a global community of users and developers. We believe that simple things should be simple and that anything should be possible.

Ease of Use

Accessibility

A Global Community

Millions of learners and tens of thousands of teachers and tutors have access to Xerte in hundreds of universities, colleges, schools and organisations all over the world. The Xerte community is growing.

The Xerte Project

Content Authoring

Content Delivery

With collaborative content authoring for subject matter experts, media specialists, designers and developers, Xerte creates an efficient and effective workflow for multi-disciplinary teams.

Organise

Create

Deliver

The Xerte Project is a positive and friendly open-source community project. Anyone can join the community, contribute to the project design and participate in the decision making process.

Drawing on its community of users and developers, Xerte is well established in the landscape of authoring tools and provides a powerful platform for innovation.

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