In 2014 the developer team explored the question of sustainability, and after carefully weighing up all the options, the software was put forward and accepted for incubation by the Apereo Foundation in September 2014.
The Xerte Online Toolkits project is now in the final stages of incubation for the Apereo Foundation. As part of this process, the Xerte Team provided a webinar about the project.
Click here to view the webinar.
As a result of the Jisc TechDis service closing the TechDis Sandpit will no longer exist.
The TechDis sandpit has played an important role in providing practitioners with the power to demonstrate potential and persuade IT teams to install toolkits on local servers.
The Xerte Project has been accepted as an incubating project at The Apereo Foundation (https://www.apereo.org/). Julian Tenney from the Nottingham University wrote this...
Xerte toolkits is a powerful free tool with which you can create interactive, mobile-friendly content with high accessibility. However, it needs to be installed on your server by someone with technical skills before ordinary teaching staff can use it.
Xerte has long enjoyed a reputation for creating accessible content but now the drop down colour, font buttons and speech buttons have disappeared some people ask "Is it less accessible than it was". It's actually much more accessible than before (as explained below) but for the worriers there is good news..